Pancreatic cancer continues to be one of the deadliest malignancies and is the third leading cause of cancer-related mortality in the United States. Based on several models, it is projected to become the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths ...
Zhonghua wai ke za zhi [Chinese journal of surgery]
Jul 1, 2020
To investigate the effectiveness of an enhanced CT automatic recognition system based on Faster R-CNN for pancreatic cancer and its clinical value. In this study, 4 024 enhanced CT imaging sequences of 315 patients with pancreatic cancer from Janua...
BACKGROUND: The diagnostic performance of CT for pancreatic cancer is interpreter-dependent, and approximately 40% of tumours smaller than 2 cm evade detection. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown promise in image analysis, but the networ...
Clinical and translational gastroenterology
Apr 1, 2020
OBJECTIVES: We lack reliable methods for identifying patients with chronic pancreatitis (CP) at increased risk for pancreatic cancer. We aimed to identify radiographic parameters associated with pancreatic cancer in this population.
BACKGROUND: Early diagnosis and accurate staging are important to improve the cure rate and prognosis for pancreatic cancer. This study was performed to develop an automatic and accurate imaging processing technique system, allowing this system to re...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Dec 1, 2019
This patient was a 96-year-old woman. She was referred to our hospital with abdominal pain and vomiting. The levels of the tumor markers CEA and CA19-9 were elevated, at 39.47 ng/mL and 918.5 U/mL, respectively. She was diagnosed with peritonitis wit...
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