PURPOSE: Dual-energy CT (DECT) has been increasingly used in imaging applications because of its capability for material differentiation. However, material decomposition suffers from magnified noise from two CT images of independent scans, leading to...
Deep networks have set the state-of-the-art in most image analysis tasks by replacing handcrafted features with learned convolution filters within end-to-end trainable architectures. Still, the specifications of a convolutional network are subject to...
OBJECTIVES: Nerve-sparing radical hysterectomy has been implemented in order to reduce pelvic floor dysfunctions in women undergoing radical surgery for cervical cancer. Here, we aimed to investigate if the adoption of laparoscopic surgery impacts on...
Pesticide biochemistry and physiology
Nov 20, 2018
Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae), a globally invasive species complex that causes serious damage to field crops, has developed resistance to imidacloprid and many other pesticides. Insect detoxify to pesticides may partially depend...
OBJECTIVE: Obstetricians mainly use ultrasound imaging for fetal biometric measurements. However, such measurements are cumbersome. Hence, there is urgent need for automatic biometric estimation. Automated analysis of ultrasound images is complicated...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Oct 5, 2018
Ultrasound electrode displacement elastography (EDE) has demonstrated the potential to monitor ablated regions in human patients after minimally invasive microwave ablation procedures. Displacement estimation for EDE is commonly plagued by decorrelat...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Sep 10, 2018
Deformable registration has been one of the pillars of biomedical image computing. Conventional approaches refer to the definition of a similarity criterion that, once endowed with a deformation model and a smoothness constraint, determines the optim...
European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging
Aug 30, 2018
PURPOSE: To evaluate the feasibility and diagnostic performance of F-FDG PET/CT-guided biopsy of abdominal and pelvic lesions with automated robotic arm (ARA) assistance.
In portable, 3-D, and ultra-fast ultrasound imaging systems, there is an increasing demand for the reconstruction of high-quality images from a limited number of radio-frequency (RF) measurements due to receiver (Rx) or transmit (Xmit) event sub-samp...
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have revolutionized medical image analysis over the past few years. The U-Net architecture is one of the most well-known CNN architectures for semantic segmentation and has achieved remarkable successes in many di...