Nuclear Medicine

The Utilization of Robotic Pets in Dementia Care.

BACKGROUND: Behavioral problems may affect individuals with dementia, increasing the cost and burden...

Role of Artificial Intelligence Techniques (Automatic Classifiers) in Molecular Imaging Modalities in Neurodegenerative Diseases.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a very active Computer Science research field aiming to develop syst...

Novel SPECT Technologies and Approaches in Cardiac Imaging.

Recent novel approaches in myocardial perfusion single photon emission CT (SPECT) have been facilita...

Threshold of Dopamine D2/3 Receptor Occupancy for Hyperprolactinemia in Older Patients With Schizophrenia.

OBJECTIVE: Although hyperprolactinemia carries a long-term risk of morbidity, the threshold of dopam...

A pet-type robot Artificial Intelligence Robot-assisted therapy for a patient with schizophrenia.

[A Case of a-Fetoprotein Producing Gastric Cancer with Lymph Node Recurrence after Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection].

A 70-year-old man underwent endoscopic submucosal dissection(ESD)for 2 early-stage gastric cancers i...

[SERUM THYROGLOBULIN LEVELS AND ESTIMATED IODINE INTAKE IN ADULTS EXPOSED TO IODINE‑DILUTED DESALINATED DRINKING WATER].

AIMS: The aim of this study was to describe thyroglobulin levels and iodine intake estimations in a ...

Navigation of a robot-integrated fluorescence laparoscope in preoperative SPECT/CT and intraoperative freehand SPECT imaging data: a phantom study.

Robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery is becoming an established technique for prostatectomy and is in...

Automated detection of pulmonary nodules in PET/CT images: Ensemble false-positive reduction using a convolutional neural network technique.

PURPOSE: Automated detection of solitary pulmonary nodules using positron emission tomography (PET) ...

Robotic pet therapy in long-term care.

Combined fuzzy logic and random walker algorithm for PET image tumor delineation.

PURPOSE: The random walk (RW) technique serves as a powerful tool for PET tumor delineation, which t...

Feature-Motivated Simplified Adaptive PCNN-Based Medical Image Fusion Algorithm in NSST Domain.

Multimodality medical image fusion plays a vital role in diagnosis, treatment planning, and follow-u...

Alzheimer's Disease Brain Areas: The Machine Learning Support for Blind Localization.

The analysis of positron emission tomography (PET) scan image is challenging due to a high level of ...

Automatic anatomy recognition in whole-body PET/CT images.

PURPOSE: Whole-body positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) has become a standard ...

Thyroid gland volume of schoolchildren in the North of Iran: Comparison with other studies.

BACKGROUND: Few studies have shown the limitation of the World Health Organization (WHO)/ Internatio...

[Comparison Study of Left Ventricular Function Assessment by 18F-FDG PET, Gated SPECT and 2D-Echocardiography in Patients with Myocardial Infarction].

The aim of this study is to analyze the concordance between EDV, ESV and LVEF values derived from 18...

SPEQTACLE: An automated generalized fuzzy C-means algorithm for tumor delineation in PET.

PURPOSE: Accurate tumor delineation in positron emission tomography (PET) images is crucial in oncol...

Prognostic Value of FDG-PET, Based on the Revised Response Criteria, in Patients with Malignant Lymphoma: A Comparison with CT/MRI Evaluations, Based on the International Working Group/Cotswolds Meeting Criteria.

OBJECTIVES: Post-treatment evaluations by CT/MRI (based on the International Working Group/Cotswolds...