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
Proper training of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) requires annotated training datasets oflarge size, which are not currently available in CT colonography (CTC). In this paper, we propose a well-designed framework to address the challenging prob...
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
Diabetic Macular Edema (DME) is a severe eye disease that can lead to irreversible blindness if it is left untreated. DME diagnosis still relies on manual evaluation from opthalmologists, thus the process is time consuming and diagnosis may be subjec...
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 microvessels measured using two-photon microscopy has been studied in the literature with limited success due to uneven intensities associated with optical imaging and shadowing effects. In this work, we address this problem using a c...
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
Tumor histopathology is a crucial step in cancer diagnosis which involves visual inspection of imaging data to detect the presence of tumor cells among healthy tissues. This manual process can be time-consuming, error-prone, and influenced by the exp...
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
Despite several technological advances in the past years, the vast majority of microscopy examinations continue to be performed in a very laborious, time-consuming manner, requiring highly experienced personnel to spend several hours to visually exam...
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
Hormone receptor status in breast carcinoma is determined primarily to identify patients who may benefit from hormonal therapy. Estrogen receptor (ER) is one of the hormone receptor positive factors which have been recognized as a marker for which wo...
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
Investigating the link between mitochondrial function and its physical structure is a hot topic in neurobiology research. With the rapid development of Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), we can look closely into the fine mitochondrial structure with...
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
Aberration in tissue architecture is an essential index for cancer diagnosis and tumor grading. Therefore, extracting features of aberrant phenotypes and classification of the histology tissue can provide a model for computer-aided pathology (CAP). 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 an automated procedure to determine the presence of cardiomegaly on chest X-ray image based on deep learning. The proposed algorithm CardioXNet uses deep learning methods U-NET and cardiothoracic ratio for diagnosis of cardi...
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
Coronary artery lumen delineation, to localize and grade stenosis, is an important but tedious and challenging task for coronary heart disease evaluation. Deep learning has recently been successful applied to many applications, including medical imag...