PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to develop a deep learning (DL) method for producing four-dimensional computed tomography (4DCT) ventilation imaging and to evaluate the accuracy of the DL-based ventilation imaging against single-photon emission...
Computational and mathematical methods in medicine
Jan 24, 2020
Visual effects of medical image have a great impact on clinical assistant diagnosis. At present, medical image fusion has become a powerful means of clinical application. The traditional medical image fusion methods have the problem of poor fusion re...
OBJECTIVE: To assess the classification performance between Parkinson's disease (PD) and normal control (NC) when semi-quantitative indicators and shape features obtained on dopamine transporter (DAT) single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Jan 16, 2020
INTRODUCTION: Coronary artery disease (CAD) is still one of the primary causes of death in the developed countries. Stress single-photon emission computed tomography is used to evaluate myocardial perfusion and ventricular function in patients with s...
European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging
Jan 7, 2020
PURPOSE: Basal/acetazolamide brain perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) has been used to evaluate functional hemodynamics in patients with carotid artery stenosis. We aimed to develop a deep learning model as a support system ...
Physica medica : PM : an international journal devoted to the applications of physics to medicine and biology : official journal of the Italian Association of Biomedical Physics (AIFB)
Jan 7, 2020
PURPOSE: It is vital to appropriately power clinical trials towards discovery of novel disease-modifying therapies for Parkinson's disease (PD). Thus, it is critical to improve prediction of outcome in PD patients.
Journal of medical imaging and radiation sciences
Oct 3, 2019
BACKGROUND: Our previous work with iodine meta-iodobenzylguanidine (I-mIBG) radionuclide imaging among patients with cardiomyopathy reported limitations associated with the prognostic power of global parameters derived from planar imaging [1]. Employ...
European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging
Aug 31, 2019
PURPOSE: This study investigated the potential of deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) for automatic classification of FP-CIT SPECT in multi-site or multi-camera settings with variable image characteristics.
Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
Jul 15, 2019
Untethered small-scale robots have great potential for biomedical applications. However, critical barriers to effective translation of these miniaturized machines into clinical practice exist. High resolution tracking and imaging in vivo is one of th...
OBJECTIVES: To provide an automated classification method for degenerative parkinsonian syndromes (PS) based on semiquantitative I-FP-CIT SPECT striatal indices and support-vector-machine (SVM) analysis.