BACKGROUND: The alteration of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in hematologic neoplasms is a poor prognostic marker. The characteristics of CSF are usually analyzed by flow cytometry or cytology. However, paucicellular CSF samples (≤5 cells/dL) can sometime...
OBJECTIVE: Standard MRI protocols lack a quantitative sequence that can be used to evaluate shunt-treated patients with a history of hydrocephalus. The objective of this study was to investigate the use of phase-contrast MRI (PC-MRI), a quantitative ...
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
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Combined intravenous and local intrathecal administration of meropenem in patients after craniotomy is widely used to treat intracranial infections. However, the optimal dosing regimen of meropenem has not been investigated, posing a risk to treatmen...
BACKGROUND: For the segmentation of medical imaging data, a multitude of precise but very specific algorithms exist. In previous studies, we investigated the possibility of segmenting MRI data to determine cerebrospinal fluid and brain volume using a...
OBJECTIVES: To verify the reliability of the volumes automatically segmented using a new artificial intelligence (AI)-based application and evaluate changes in the brain and CSF volume with healthy aging.
Analyses of complex behaviors of Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) have become increasingly important in diseases diagnosis. The changes of the phase-contrast magnetic resonance imaging (PC-MRI) signal formed by the velocity of flowing CSF are represented as...
Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)-based pathogen or biochemical testing is the standard approach for clinical diagnosis of various meningitis. However, misdiagnosis and missed diagnosis always occur due to the shortages of unusual clinical manifestations and...
PURPOSE: To obtain high-resolution velocity fields of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and cerebral blood flow by applying a physics-guided neural network (div-mDCSRN-Flow) to 4D flow MRI.
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a significant predictor of the early progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and can serve as an important indicator of disease progression. However, many existing methods focus mainly on the image when processing b...
BACKGROUND: Infant brain tissue segmentation from MRI data is a critical task in medical imaging, particularly challenging due to the evolving nature of tissue contrasts in the early months of life. The difficulty increases as gray matter (GM) and wh...