Journal of X-ray science and technology
Jan 1, 2020
The automatic classification of breast cancer pathological images has important clinical application value. However, to develop the classification algorithm using the artificially extracted image features faces several challenges including the requir...
Journal of X-ray science and technology
Jan 1, 2020
PURPOSE: Segmentation of magnetic resonance images (MRI) of the left ventricle (LV) plays a key role in quantifying the volumetric functions of the heart, such as the area, volume, and ejection fraction. Traditionally, LV segmentation is performed ma...
Journal of X-ray science and technology
Jan 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: To develop and test a novel method for automatic quantification of hepatic steatosis in histologic images based on the deep learning scheme designed to predict the fat ratio directly, which aims to improve accuracy in diagnosis of non-alco...
Journal of X-ray science and technology
Jan 1, 2019
BACKGROUND: X-ray imaging is a crucial and ubiquitous tool for detecting threats to transport security, but interpretation of the images presents a logistical bottleneck. Recent advances in Deep Learning image classification offer hope of improving t...
Journal of X-ray science and technology
Jan 1, 2019
BACKGROUND: Segmentation of prostate from magnetic resonance images (MRI) is a critical process for guiding prostate puncture and biopsy. Currently, the best results are obtained by Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). However, challenges still exist ...
Journal of X-ray science and technology
Jan 1, 2019
BACKGROUND: Breast cancer has the highest cancer prevalence rate among the women worldwide. Early detection of breast cancer is crucial for successful treatment and reducing cancer mortality rate. However, tumor detection of breast ultrasound (US) im...
Journal of X-ray science and technology
Jan 1, 2019
BACKGROUND: Deep learning has made spectacular achievements in analysing natural images, but it faces challenges for medical applications partly due to inadequate images.
Journal of X-ray science and technology
Jan 1, 2019
BACKGROUND: Spectral computed tomography (CT) has the capability to resolve the energy levels of incident photons, which has the potential to distinguish different material compositions. Although material decomposition methods based on x-ray attenuat...
Journal of X-ray science and technology
Jan 1, 2019
Recently, low-dose computed tomography (CT) has become highly desirable due to the increasing attention paid to the potential risks of excessive radiation of the regular dose CT. However, ensuring image quality while reducing the radiation dose in th...
Journal of X-ray science and technology
Jan 1, 2019
BACKGROUND: For sparse and limited angle projection Computed Tomography (CT), the reconstructed image usually suffers from considerable artifacts due to undersampled data.