BACKGROUND: A potential alternative treatment to surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome is to inject enzymes into the transverse carpal ligament to decrease its stiffness and alleviate pressure off the median nerve. An accurate injection is needed for de...
Ingestible robotic capsules with locomotion capabilities and on-board sampling mechanism have great potential for non-invasive diagnostic and interventional use in the gastrointestinal tract. Real-time tracking of capsule location and operational sta...
In robot-assisted ultrasound-guided needle biopsy, it is essential to conduct calibration of the ultrasound probe and to perform hand-eye calibration of the robot in order to establish a link between intra-operatively acquired ultrasound images and r...
Recently, researchers have introduced Transformer into medical image segmentation networks to encode long-range dependency, which makes up for the deficiencies of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in global context modeling, and thus improves segm...
Supervised deep learning techniques have been very popular in medical imaging for various tasks of classification, segmentation, and object detection. However, they require a large number of labelled data which is expensive and requires many hours of...
OBJECTIVES: To develop and validate a deep learning (DL) model based on quantitative analysis of contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) images that predicts early recurrence (ER) after thermal ablation (TA) of colorectal cancer liver metastasis (CRLM).
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Nov 24, 2022
Accurate quantification of cardiac valve regurgitation jets is fundamental for guiding treatment. Cardiac ultrasound is the preferred diagnostic tool, but current methods for measuring the regurgitant volume (RVol) are limited by low accuracy and hig...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Nov 24, 2022
Conventionally, ultrasound (US) diagnosis is performed using hand-held rigid probes. Such devices are difficult to be used for long-term monitoring because they need to be continuously pressed against the body to remove the air between the probe and ...
OBJECTIVES: To establish a breast lesion risk stratification system using ultrasound images to predict breast malignancy and assess Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) categories simultaneously.