Medical & biological engineering & computing
Mar 20, 2020
X-ray images play an important role in providing physicians with satisfactory information correlated to fractures and diseases; unfortunately, most of these images suffer from low contrast and poor quality. Thus, enhancement of the image will increas...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Mar 10, 2020
Fully Convolutional Networks (FCNs) have emerged as powerful segmentation models but are usually designed manually, which requires extensive time and can result in large and complex architectures. There is a growing interest to automatically design e...
Computerized medical imaging and graphics : the official journal of the Computerized Medical Imaging Society
Mar 5, 2020
Medical image segmentation is one of the most crucial issues in medical image processing and analysis. In general, segmentation of the various structures in medical images is performed for the further image analyzes such as quantification, assessment...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Feb 28, 2020
In this article, a content-aware specular reflection suppression scheme was developed based on adaptive image inpainting and neural network for endoscopic images. To decrease the impact of specular reflection on visual quality, the proposed scheme co...
RoFo : Fortschritte auf dem Gebiete der Rontgenstrahlen und der Nuklearmedizin
Feb 20, 2020
PURPOSE:  Sudden unilateral peripheral vestibular deficit is mostly termed vestibular neuritis (VN), even if its cause or the exact location of the lesion remains unclear. Thus, therapy is mostly symptomatic. We aimed to prove if there is peripheral ...
Computerized medical imaging and graphics : the official journal of the Computerized Medical Imaging Society
Feb 6, 2020
Cardiac bi-ventricle segmentation (BVS) is an essential task for assessing cardiac indices, such as the ejection fraction and volume of the left ventricle (LV) and right ventricle (RV). However, BVS is extremely challenging due to the high variabilit...
To improve image quality and CT number accuracy of fast-scan low-dose cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) through a deep-learning convolutional neural network (CNN) methodology for head-and-neck (HN) radiotherapy. Fifty-five paired CBCT and CT image...
Computerized medical imaging and graphics : the official journal of the Computerized Medical Imaging Society
Jan 24, 2020
Barrett cancer is a treatable disease when detected at an early stage. However, current screening protocols are often not effective at finding the disease early. Volumetric Laser Endomicroscopy (VLE) is a promising new imaging tool for finding dyspla...
Deep learning based methods have improved the estimation of tissue microstructure from diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) scans acquired with a reduced number of diffusion gradients. These methods learn the mapping from diffusion signals in ...
Computerized medical imaging and graphics : the official journal of the Computerized Medical Imaging Society
Jan 3, 2020
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can assist in both functional and structural analysis of the heart, but due to hardware and physical limitations, high-resolution MRI scans is time consuming and peak signal-to-noise ...