Journal of digital imaging
Aug 1, 2018
Mammographic breast density has been established as an independent risk marker for developing breast cancer. Breast density assessment is a routine clinical need in breast cancer screening and current standard is using the Breast Imaging and Reportin...
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
Jul 15, 2018
SUMMARY: Artificial intelligence tools are gaining more and more ground each year in bioinformatics. Learning algorithms can be taught for specific tasks by using the existing enormous biological databases, and the resulting models can be used for th...
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
Early detection and discrimination of cardiac arrhythmia, atrial fibrillation (AF) in particular, is essential for timely intervention to improve patient outcomes. In this work, an algorithm was developed to classify ECG records as normal, AF, other ...
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
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common health issue, not only in developed countries but also in developing ones. AF can lead to strokes, heart failures, and even death if it is not diagnosed and treated on time, therefore automatic detection of AF 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, 2018
Segmentation of retinal anatomical features such as optic nerve head (ONH) and optic cup, the brightest area in the center of ONH which is devoid of neural elements, is a prerequisite for computer-aided diagnosis and follow-up of glaucoma. The ONH se...
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
Convolutional neural networks have been widely used for identifying diabetic retinopathy on color fundus images. For such application, we proposed a novel framework for the convolutional neural network architecture by embedding a preprocessing layer ...
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 presents a novel two-stage vessel segmentation framework applied to retinal fundus images. In the first stage a convolutional neural network (CNN) is used to correlate an image patch with a corresponding groundtruth reduced using Totally R...
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
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a global health challenge. Accurate and fast automatic detection of hematoma in the brain is essential for TBI diagnosis and treatment. In this study, we developed a fully automated system to detect and segment hematom...
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
Accurate, robust, and fast delineation of the clinical target volume (CTV) for the use in radiotherapy of rectal cancer (RC) is highly sought-after. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have proven themselves very effective in various segmentation ta...