Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Oct 19, 2020
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Deep learning enables tremendous progress in medical image analysis. One driving force of this progress are open-source frameworks like TensorFlow and PyTorch. However, these frameworks rarely address issues specific to the ...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Oct 15, 2020
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: An accurate segmentation of lung nodules in computed tomography images is a crucial step for the physical characterization of the tumour. Being often completely manually accomplished, nodule segmentation turns to be a tediou...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Oct 3, 2020
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Deep learning techniques are the state-of-the-art approach to solve image classification problems in biomedicine; however, they require the acquisition and annotation of a considerable volume of images. In addition, using d...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Sep 28, 2020
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Deep learning techniques are instrumental in developing network models that aid in the early diagnosis of life-threatening diseases. To screen and diagnose the retinal fundus and coronary blood vessel disorders, the most imp...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Sep 24, 2020
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Virus identification in electron microscopy (EM) images is considered as one of the front-line method in pathogen diagnosis and re-emerging infectious agents. However, the existing methods either focused on the detection of ...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Sep 20, 2020
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia that can seriously affect a person's ability to perform daily activities. Estimates indicate that AD may rank third as a cause of death for older people, after hea...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Sep 16, 2020
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 prevention and control constantly affects lives worldwide. In this paper, household medical products were analyzed using fuzzy logic. Considering the household anti-epidemic status, economic and environmental benefits, the ad...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Sep 16, 2020
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Retinal imaging has two major modalities, traditional fundus photography (TFP) and ultra-widefield fundus photography (UWFP). This study demonstrates the feasibility of a state-of-the-art deep learning-based domain transfer ...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Sep 15, 2020
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: The term 'obesity' refers to excessive body fat, and it is a chronic disease associated with various complications. Although a range of techniques for body fat estimation have been developed to assess obesity, they are typic...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Sep 15, 2020
BACKGROUND AND AIM: deep learning algorithms have not been successfully used for the left ventricle (LV) detection in echocardiographic images due to overfitting and vanishing gradient descent problem. This research aims to increase accuracy and impr...
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