BACKGROUND: The treatment of locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC) is moving towards total neoadjuvant therapy and potential organ preservation. Of particular interest are predictors of pathological complete response (pCR) that can guide personalized...
Journal of imaging informatics in medicine
Mar 5, 2024
The utilization of advanced intraoral scanners to acquire 3D dental models has gained significant popularity in the fields of dentistry and orthodontics. Accurate segmentation and labeling of teeth on digitized 3D dental surface models are crucial fo...
Quantifying healthy and degraded inner tissues in plants is of great interest in agronomy, for example, to assess plant health and quality and monitor physiological traits or diseases. However, detecting functional and degraded plant tissues in-vivo ...
Photodiagnosis and photodynamic therapy
Feb 28, 2024
BACKGROUND: Portwine stain (PWS) birthmarks are congenital vascular malformations. The quantification of PWS area is an important step in lesion classification and treatment evaluation.
Journal of computer assisted tomography
Feb 27, 2024
OBJECTIVE: The preoperative prediction of the overall survival (OS) status of patients with head and neck cancer (HNC) is significant value for their individualized treatment and prognosis. This study aims to evaluate the impact of adding 3D deep lea...
Three-dimensional image-guided surgical (3D-IGS) systems for minimally invasive partial nephrectomy (MIPN) can potentially improve the efficiency and accuracy of intraoperative anatomical localization and tumor resection. This review seeks to analyz...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Feb 25, 2024
PURPOSE: Patient-specific biomechanical models of the knee joint can effectively aid in understanding the reasons for pathologies and improve diagnostic methods and treatment procedures. For deeper research of knee diseases, the development of biomec...
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of deep learning (DL) reconstruction in enhancing image quality and nerve conspicuity in LSP MRN using DESS sequences. Additionally, a geometric image combination (GIC) method to improve DESS signals' combination was...
Cardiovascular engineering and technology
Feb 22, 2024
PURPOSE: Aorta segmentation is extremely useful in clinical practice, allowing the diagnosis of numerous pathologies, such as dissections, aneurysms and occlusive disease. In such cases, image segmentation is prerequisite for applying diagnostic algo...