Colorectal polyps are known to be potential precursors to colorectal cancer, which is one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths on a global scale. Early detection and prevention of colorectal cancer is primarily enabled through manual screen...
A method is proposed and evaluated to model large and inconvenient phase space files used in Monte Carlo simulations by a compact generative adversarial network (GAN). The GAN is trained based on a phase space dataset to create a neural network, call...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Oct 22, 2019
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Cardiac perfusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with first pass dynamic contrast enhancement (DCE) is a useful tool to identify perfusion defects in myocardial tissues. Automatic segmentation of the myocardium can lead to...
PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE(S): Online proton range/dose verification based on measurements of proton-induced positron emitters is a promising strategy for quality assurance in proton therapy. Because of the nonlinear correlation between the dose distribution ...
We propose an ensemble of multilayer feedforward neural networks to estimate the 3D position of photoelectric interactions in monolithic detectors. The ensemble is trained with data generated from optical Monte Carlo simulations only. The originality...
Dual-tracer positron emission tomography (PET) is a promising technique to measure the distribution of two tracers in the body by a single scan, which can improve the clinical accuracy of disease diagnosis and can also serve as a research tool for sc...
PURPOSE: Radiation doses accumulated during very complicated image-guided x-ray procedures have the potential to cause stochastic, but also deterministic effects, such as skin rashes or even hair loss. To monitor and reduce radiation-related risks to...
Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine
Jul 19, 2019
Scintillation camera images contain a large amount of Poisson noise. We have investigated whether noise can be removed in whole-body bone scans using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) trained with sets of noisy and noiseless images obtained by Mon...
Feature selection is an important initial step of exploratory analysis in biomedical studies. Its main objective is to eliminate the covariates that are uncorrelated with the outcome. For highly correlated covariates, traditional feature selection me...
OBJECTIVES: The conceptus dose during diagnostic imaging procedures for pregnant patients raises health concerns owing to the high radiosensitivity of the developing embryo/fetus. The aim of this work is to develop a methodology for automated constru...
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