Physical and engineering sciences in medicine
Jul 30, 2024
Gamma Knife radiosurgery (GKRS) is a well-established technique in radiation therapy (RT) for treating small-size brain tumors. It administers highly concentrated doses during each treatment fraction, with even minor dose errors posing a significant ...
Physical and engineering sciences in medicine
Jul 2, 2024
Recognizing user intention in reach-to-grasp motions is a critical challenge in rehabilitation engineering. To address this, a Machine Learning (ML) algorithm based on the Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) was developed for identifying motor actions usi...
Physical and engineering sciences in medicine
Jun 26, 2024
Particle (proton, carbon ion, or others) radiotherapy for ocular tumors is highly dependent on precise dose distribution, and any misalignment can result in severe complications. The proposed eye positioning and tracking system (EPTS) was designed to...
Physical and engineering sciences in medicine
Jun 20, 2024
The ECG is a crucial tool in the medical field for recording the heartbeat signal over time, aiding in the identification of various cardiac diseases. Commonly, the interpretation of ECGs necessitates specialized knowledge. However, this paper explor...
Physical and engineering sciences in medicine
Jun 17, 2024
This study aimed to evaluate the impact of radiation dose and focal spot size on the image quality of super-resolution deep-learning reconstruction (SR-DLR) in comparison with iterative reconstruction (IR) and normal-resolution DLR (NR-DLR) algorithm...
Physical and engineering sciences in medicine
Jun 11, 2024
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive and incurable neurologi-cal disorder with a rising mortality rate, worsened by error-prone, time-intensive, and expensive clinical diagnosis methods. Automatic AD detection methods using hand-crafted Electroe...
Physical and engineering sciences in medicine
May 21, 2024
Surgical excision is the most effective treatment of skin carcinomas (basal cell carcinoma or squamous cell carcinoma). Preoperative assessment of tumoral margins plays a decisive role for a successful result. The aim of this work was to evaluate the...
Physical and engineering sciences in medicine
May 2, 2024
To predict endoleaks after thoracic endovascular aneurysm repair (TEVAR) we submitted patient characteristics and vessel features observed on pre- operative computed tomography angiography (CTA) to machine-learning. We evaluated 1-year follow-up CT s...
Physical and engineering sciences in medicine
Apr 23, 2024
Schizophrenia (SZ) has been acknowledged as a highly intricate mental disorder for a long time. In fact, individuals with SZ experience a blurred line between fantasy and reality, leading to a lack of awareness about their condition, which can pose s...
Physical and engineering sciences in medicine
Apr 22, 2024
We proposed a deep learning approach to classify various error types in daily VMAT treatment of head and neck cancer patients based on EPID dosimetry, which could provide additional information to support clinical decisions for adaptive planning. 146...