BACKGROUND: There is interest in using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to analyze medical imaging to provide computer-aided diagnosis (CAD). Recent work has suggested that image classification CNNs may not generalize to new data as well as previ...
Computerized medical imaging and graphics : the official journal of the Computerized Medical Imaging Society
Nov 3, 2018
Computed tomography (CT)-based screening on lung cancer mortality is poised to make lung nodule management a growing public health problem. Biopsy and pathologic analysis of suspicious nodules is necessary to ensure accurate diagnosis and appropriate...
The first CT scanners in the early 1970s already used iterative reconstruction algorithms; however, lack of computational power prevented their clinical use. In fact, it took until 2009 for the first iterative reconstruction algorithms to come commer...
Journal of cardiovascular computed tomography
Oct 26, 2018
BACKGROUND: The influence of computed tomography (CT) reconstruction algorithms on the performance of machine-learning-based CT-derived fractional flow reserve (CT-FFR) has not been investigated. CT-FFR values and processing time of two reconstructio...
Radiation exposure and the associated risk of cancer for patients in computed tomography (CT) scans have been major clinical concerns. The radiation exposure can be reduced effectively via lowering the x-ray tube current (mA). However, this strategy ...
Coronary artery centerline extraction in cardiac CT angiography (CCTA) images is a prerequisite for evaluation of stenoses and atherosclerotic plaque. In this work, we propose an algorithm that extracts coronary artery centerlines in CCTA using a con...
Journal of cardiovascular computed tomography
Oct 21, 2018
BACKGROUND: To determine whether machine learning with histogram analysis of coronary CT angiography (CCTA) yields higher diagnostic performance for coronary plaque characterization than the conventional cut-off method using the median CT number.
We propose a novel airway segmentation method in volumetric chest computed tomography (CT) and evaluate its performance on multiple datasets. The segmentation is performed voxel-by-voxel by a 2.5D convolutional neural net (2.5D CNN) trained in a supe...
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