International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
May 15, 2024
PURPOSE: Ultrasound (US) imaging, while advantageous for its radiation-free nature, is challenging to interpret due to only partially visible organs and a lack of complete 3D information. While performing US-based diagnosis or investigation, medical ...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
May 13, 2024
PURPOSE: Automated prostate disease classification on multi-parametric MRI has recently shown promising results with the use of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The vision transformer (ViT) is a convolutional free architecture which only exploit...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
May 8, 2024
PURPOSE: In surgical image segmentation, a major challenge is the extensive time and resources required to gather large-scale annotated datasets. Given the scarcity of annotated data in this field, our work aims to develop a model that achieves compe...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
May 5, 2024
PURPOSE: Deep learning-based analysis of micro-ultrasound images to detect cancerous lesions is a promising tool for improving prostate cancer (PCa) diagnosis. An ideal model should confidently identify cancer while responding with appropriate uncert...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Apr 30, 2024
PURPOSE: Surgical action triplet recognition is a clinically significant yet challenging task. It provides surgeons with detailed information about surgical scenarios, thereby facilitating clinical decision-making. However, the high similarity among ...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Apr 27, 2024
PURPOSE: Understanding surgical scenes is crucial for computer-assisted surgery systems to provide intelligent assistance functionality. One way of achieving this is via scene segmentation using machine learning (ML). However, such ML models require ...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Apr 20, 2024
PURPOSE: Preventing positive margins is essential for ensuring favorable patient outcomes following breast-conserving surgery (BCS). Deep learning has the potential to enable this by automatically contouring the tumor and guiding resection in real ti...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Apr 10, 2024
PURPOSE: The standard of care for prostate cancer (PCa) diagnosis is the histopathological analysis of tissue samples obtained via transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) guided biopsy. Models built with deep neural networks (DNNs) hold the potential for direc...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Apr 4, 2024
PURPOSE: Three-dimensional (3D) preoperative planning has become the gold standard for orthopedic surgeries, primarily relying on CT-reconstructed 3D models. However, in contrast to standing radiographs, a CT scan is not part of the standard protocol...