Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is one of the leading causes of vision loss in adults and is one of the detrimental side effects of the mass prevalence of Diabetes Mellitus (DM). It is crucial to have an efficient screening method for early diagnosis of DR...
This work proposes a novel technique called Enhanced JAYA (EJAYA) assisted Q-Learning for the classification of pulmonary diseases, such as pneumonia and tuberculosis (TB) sub-classes using chest x-ray images. The work introduces Fuzzy lattices forma...
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Aug 30, 2024
Target volumes for radiotherapy are usually contoured manually, which can be time-consuming and prone to inter- and intra-observer variability. Automatic contouring by convolutional neural networks (CNN) can be fast and consistent but may produce unr...
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Aug 27, 2024
Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD), also known as Devic disease, is an autoimmune central nervous system disorder in humans that commonly causes inflammatory demyelination in the optic nerves and spinal cord. Inflammation in the optic ner...
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Aug 23, 2024
Investigating U-Net model robustness in medical image synthesis against adversarial perturbations, this study introduces RobMedNAS, a neural architecture search strategy for identifying resilient U-Net configurations. Through retrospective analysis o...
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Aug 19, 2024
Dynamic 2-[18F] fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography (dFDG-PET) for human brain imaging has considerable clinical potential, yet its utilization remains limited. A key challenge in the quantitative analysis of dFDG-PET is characteriz...
The prevalence of vision impairment is increasing at an alarming rate. The goal of the study was to create an automated method that uses optical coherence tomography (OCT) to classify retinal disorders into four categories: choroidal neovascularizati...
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Jun 28, 2024
Presently, close to two million patients globally succumb to gastrointestinal reflux diseases (GERD). Video endoscopy represents cutting-edge technology in medical imaging, facilitating the diagnosis of various gastrointestinal ailments including sto...
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Jun 25, 2024
Medical physicists routinely perform quality assurance on digital detection systems, part of which involves the testing of flat panel detectors. Flat panels may degrade over time as an increasing number of individual detector elements begin to malfun...
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Jun 18, 2024
Recent advancements in computational intelligence, deep learning, and computer-aided detection have had a significant impact on the field of medical imaging. The task of image segmentation, which involves accurately interpreting and identifying the c...