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
High-resolution diffusion imaging with submillimeter isotropic voxels requires long scan times that are usually clinically impractical. Even with those long scans, the image quality can still suffer from low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and severe geo...
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 the absence of duplicate high-dose CT data, it is challenging to restore high-quality images based on deep learning with only low-dose CT (LDCT) data. When different reconstruction algorithms and settings are adopted to prepare high-quality images...
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
Smart health is quickly boosted by technological advancements: smart sensors, body sensor network, internet of medical things and big data. Vast amounts of smart health big data from ubiquitous sensors pose unprecedented challenges to the security an...
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
Prediction of disability progression in multiple sclerosis patients is a critical component of their management. In particular, one challenge is to identify and characterize a patient profile who may benefit of efficient treatments. However, it is no...
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
Semantic segmentation is an important step for hand and object tracking as subsequent tracking algorithms depend heavily on the accuracy of the segmented hand and object. However, current methods for hand and object segmentation are limited in the nu...
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
Based on an image dataset of 88 in-vivo dental images taken with an intra-oral camera, we show that a Deep Learning model (Mask R-CNN) can detect and classify dental caries on occlusal surfaces across the whole 7-class ICDAS (International Caries Det...
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
Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a noninvasive and non-radiative medical imaging technique based on detecting the inhomogeneous electrical properties of the tissue. The inverse problem of EIT is a highly nonlinear ill-posed problem, which is ...
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
Tracking of medical devices can be used in diverse situations, e.g., training as well as image guidance for surgery and surgery planning. Therefore, position and orientation of a device, for instance, an ultrasound probe, need to be identified as pre...
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
Histopathology images contain essential information for medical diagnosis and prognosis of cancerous disease. Segmentation of glands in histopathology images is a primary step for analysis and diagnosis of an unhealthy patient. Due to the widespread ...
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
Three dimensional visualization of vascular structures can assist clinicians in preoperative planning, intra-operative guidance, and post-operative decision-making. The goal of this work is to provide an automatic, accurate and fast method for brain ...