Mathematical biosciences and engineering : MBE
Jul 12, 2019
Pediatricians and pediatric endocrinologists utilize Bone Age Assessment (BAA) for in-vestigations pertaining to genetic disorders, hormonal complications and abnormalities in the skeletal system maturity of children. Conventional methods dating back...
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Jul 1, 2019
Wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) is a swallowable device used for screening different parts of the human digestive system. Automatic WCE image analysis methods reduce the duration of the screening procedure and alleviate the burden of manual screenin...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Cytological samples provide useful data for cancer diagnostics but their visual analysis under a microscope is tedious and time-consuming. Moreover, some scientific tests indicate that various pathologists can classify the same sample differently or ...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Traditional image segmentation algorithms operate by iteratively working over an image, as if refining a segmentation until a stopping criterion is met. Deep learning has replaced traditional approaches, achieving state-of-the-art performance in many...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
In this work, fully automatic binary segmentation of GBMs (glioblastoma multiforme) in 2D magnetic resonance images is presented using a convolutional neural network trained exclusively on synthetic data. The precise segmentation of brain tumors is o...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Placental assessment through routine obstetrical ultrasound is often limited to documenting its location and ruling out placenta previa. However, many obstetrical complications originate from abnormal focal or global placental development. Technical ...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Delineation of alveolar bone aids the diagnosis and treatment of periodontal diseases. In current practice, conventional 2D radiography and 3D cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) imaging are used as the non-invasive approaches to image and delineate...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is an emerging noninvasive imaging modality combining the advantages of ultrasound imaging and optical imaging. Image reconstruction is an essential topic in photoacoustic imaging, which is unfortunately an ill-posed probl...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Neural systems are complicated networks connected by a large number of neurons through gap junctions and synapse. At present, for electron microscopy connectomics research, neuron structure recognition algorithms mostly focus on synapses, dendrites, ...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Low-dose CT imaging is a valid approach to reduce patients' exposure to X-ray radiation. However, reducing X-ray current increases noise and artifacts in the reconstructed CT images. Deep neural networks have been successfully employed to remove nois...