European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging
Feb 11, 2025
PURPOSE: This study aims to develop and validate a deep learning framework designed to eliminate the second CT scan of dual-tracer total-body PET/CT imaging.
European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging
Feb 7, 2025
OBJECTIVE: Long-axial field-of-view (LAFOV) positron emission tomography (PET) systems allow higher sensitivity, with an increased number of detected lines of response induced by a larger angle of acceptance. However this extended angle increases the...
European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging
Feb 6, 2025
PURPOSE: To address the challenges of verifying MR-based attenuation correction (MRAC) in PET/MR due to CT positional mismatches and alignment issues, this study utilized a flatbed insert and arms-down positioning during PET/CT scans to achieve preci...
European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging
Feb 5, 2025
INTRODUCTION: Providing tools for comprehensively evaluating scintigraphy images could enhance transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM) diagnosis. This study aims to automatically detect and score ATTR-CM in total body scintigraphy images using...
European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging
Jan 29, 2025
PURPOSE: Advancements of deep learning in medical imaging are often constrained by the limited availability of large, annotated datasets, resulting in underperforming models when deployed under real-world conditions. This study investigated a generat...
European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging
Jan 27, 2025
PURPOSE: To develop and validate a prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) PET/CT based multimodal deep learning model for predicting pathological lymph node invasion (LNI) in prostate cancer (PCa) patients identified as candidates for extended pel...
European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging
Jan 23, 2025
PURPOSE: The potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) in enhancing a variety of natural language tasks in clinical fields includes medical imaging reporting. This pilot study examines the efficacy of a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) LLM system...
European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging
Jan 17, 2025
PURPOSE: Radiomics-based machine learning (ML) models of amino acid positron emission tomography (PET) images have shown efficiency in glioma prediction tasks. However, their clinical impact on physician interpretation remains limited. This study inv...
European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging
Dec 23, 2024
PURPOSE: Extranodal natural killer/T-cell lymphoma (ENKTCL) is an hematologic malignancy with prognostic heterogeneity. We aimed to develop and validate DeepENKTCL, an interpretable deep learning prediction system for prognosis risk stratification in...
European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging
Dec 17, 2024
PURPOSE: Prolonged scanning durations are one of the primary barriers to the widespread clinical adoption of dynamic Positron Emission Tomography (PET). In this paper, we developed a deep learning algorithm that capable of predicting dynamic images f...