Schizophrenia bulletin
Aug 20, 2018
BACKGROUND: The variability of responses to plasticity-inducing repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) challenges its successful application in psychiatric care. No objective means currently exists to individually predict the patients' r...
Der Nervenarzt
Aug 1, 2018
The differential diagnosis of atypical dementia remains difficult. The use of positron emission tomography (PET) still represents the gold standard for imaging diagnostics. According to the current evidence, however, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) ...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
Delineation of lung tumor from adjacent tissue from a series of magnetic resonance images (MRI) poses many difficulties due to the image similarities of the region of interest and surrounding area as well as the influence of respiration. However, acc...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
This paper addresses issues of brain tumor, glioma, grading from multi-sensor images. Different types of scanners (or sensors) like enhanced T1-MRI, T2-MRI and FLAIR, show different contrast and are sensitive to different brain tissues and fluid regi...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a common psychiatric illness. Automatically classifying depression severity using audio analysis can help clinical management decisions during Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) treatment of MDD patients. Leveraging the l...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
Machine learning approaches for image analysis require large amounts of training imaging data. As an alternative, the use of realistic synthetic data reduces the high cost associated to medical image acquisition, as well as avoiding confidentiality a...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
In this paper, we present the work achieved to define the robotic functionalities of interest for percutaneous procedures as performed in interventional radiology. Our contributions are twofold. First, a detailed task analysis is performed with workf...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
The age of a subject can be estimated from the brain MR image by evaluating morphological changes in healthy aging. We consider using two-types of local features to estimate the age from T1-weighted images: handcrafted and automatically extracted fea...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
Alzheimer's disease (AD), a progressive brain disorder, is the most common neurodegenerative disease in older adults. There is a need for brain structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) biomarkers to help assess AD progression and intervention effe...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
Recent efforts use state-of-the-art Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) to gain insight into neuroscience. A limitation of these works is that the used generic RNNs lack biophysical meaning, making the interpretation of the results in a neuroscience cont...