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Echocardiographic image multi-structure segmentation using Cardiac-SegNet.

Medical physics
PURPOSE: Cardiac boundary segmentation of echocardiographic images is important for cardiac function assessment and disease diagnosis. However, it is challenging to segment cardiac ventricles due to the low contrast-to-noise ratio and speckle noise o...

An end-to-end-trainable iterative network architecture for accelerated radial multi-coil 2D cine MR image reconstruction.

Medical physics
PURPOSE: Iterative convolutional neural networks (CNNs) which resemble unrolled learned iterative schemes have shown to consistently deliver state-of-the-art results for image reconstruction problems across different imaging modalities. However, beca...

Exploring the predictive value of additional peritumoral regions based on deep learning and radiomics: A multicenter study.

Medical physics
PURPOSE: The present study assessed the predictive value of peritumoral regions on three tumor tasks, and further explored the influence of peritumors with different sizes.

A Cascade-SEME network for COVID-19 detection in chest x-ray images.

Medical physics
PURPOSE: The worldwide spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus poses unprecedented challenges to medical resources and infection prevention and control measures around the world. In this case, a rapid and effective detection method for COVID-19 can not only r...

In vivo evaluation of angulated needle-guide template for MRI-guided transperineal prostate biopsy.

Medical physics
PURPOSE: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided transperineal prostate biopsy has been practiced since the early 2000s. The technique often suffers from targeting error due to deviation of the needle as a result of physical interaction between the n...

AAPM Task Group 264: The safe clinical implementation of MLC tracking in radiotherapy.

Medical physics
The era of real-time radiotherapy is upon us. Robotic and gimbaled linac tracking are clinically established technologies with the clinical realization of couch tracking in development. Multileaf collimators (MLCs) are a standard equipment for most c...

Two-stage deep learning model for fully automated pancreas segmentation on computed tomography: Comparison with intra-reader and inter-reader reliability at full and reduced radiation dose on an external dataset.

Medical physics
PURPOSE: To develop a two-stage three-dimensional (3D) convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for fully automated volumetric segmentation of pancreas on computed tomography (CT) and to further evaluate its performance in the context of intra-reader and...

Radiation dose calculation in 3D heterogeneous media using artificial neural networks.

Medical physics
PURPOSE: External beam radiotherapy (EBRT) treatment planning requires a fast and accurate method of calculating the dose delivered by a clinical treatment plan. However, existing methods of calculating dose distributions have limitations. Monte Carl...

Abnormal lung quantification in chest CT images of COVID-19 patients with deep learning and its application to severity prediction.

Medical physics
OBJECTIVE: Computed tomography (CT) provides rich diagnosis and severity information of COVID-19 in clinical practice. However, there is no computerized tool to automatically delineate COVID-19 infection regions in chest CT scans for quantitative ass...

Automatic liver segmentation using 3D convolutional neural networks with a hybrid loss function.

Medical physics
PURPOSE: Automatic liver segmentation from abdominal computed tomography (CT) images is a fundamental task in computer-assisted liver surgery programs. Many liver segmentation algorithms are very sensitive to fuzzy boundaries and heterogeneous pathol...