European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging
Jul 14, 2020
BACKGROUND: The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an emerging worldwide threat to public health. While chest computed tomography (CT) plays an indispensable role in its diagnosis, the quantification and localization of lesions cannot be ac...
European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging
Jun 17, 2020
PURPOSE: To evaluate the performance of deep learning (DL) classifiers in discriminating normal and abnormal F-FACBC (fluciclovine, Axumin®) PET scans based on the presence of tumor recurrence and/or metastases in patients with prostate cancer (PC) a...
European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging
Jun 13, 2020
PURPOSE: We aimed to evaluate the performance of deep learning-based generalization of ultra-low-count amyloid PET/MRI enhancement when applied to studies acquired with different scanning hardware and protocols.
European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging
May 11, 2020
PURPOSE: Estimation of accurate attenuation maps for whole-body positron emission tomography (PET) imaging in simultaneous PET-MRI systems is a challenging problem as it affects the quantitative nature of the modality. In this study, we aimed to impr...
European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging
Apr 20, 2020
PURPOSE: In selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT), an accurate total liver segmentation is required for activity prescription and absorbed dose calculation. Our goal was to investigate the feasibility of using automatic liver segmentation based...
European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging
Mar 26, 2020
PURPOSE: Attenuation correction using CT transmission scanning increases the accuracy of single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and enables quantitative analysis. Current existing SPECT-only systems normally do not support transmission sc...
European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging
Jan 7, 2020
PURPOSE: Basal/acetazolamide brain perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) has been used to evaluate functional hemodynamics in patients with carotid artery stenosis. We aimed to develop a deep learning model as a support system ...
European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging
Dec 6, 2019
PURPOSE: Although most deep learning (DL) studies have reported excellent classification accuracy, these studies usually target typical Alzheimer's disease (AD) and normal cognition (NC) for which conventional visual assessment performs well. A clini...
European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging
Nov 25, 2019
PURPOSE: Although functional brain imaging has been used for the early and objective assessment of cognitive dysfunction, there is a lack of generalized image-based biomarker which can evaluate individual's cognitive dysfunction in various disorders....