Abdominal radiology (New York)
Jul 6, 2021
PURPOSE: Hydronephrosis is the dilation of the pelvicalyceal system due to the urine flow obstruction in one or both kidneys. Conventionally, renal pelvis anterior-posterior diameter (APD) was used for quantifying hydronephrosis in medical images (e....
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)
Jul 6, 2021
PURPOSE: Fetal biometric measurements face a number of challenges, including the presence of speckle, limited soft-tissue contrast and difficulties in the presence of low amniotic fluid. This work proposes a convolutional neural network for automatic...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Jul 5, 2021
PURPOSE: We present the validation of PROST, a robotic device for prostate biopsy. PROST is designed to minimize human error by introducing some autonomy in the execution of the key steps of the procedure, i.e., target selection, image fusion and nee...
Ultrasound in medicine & biology
Jul 1, 2021
Carotid ultrasound measurement of total plaque area (TPA) provides a method for quantifying carotid plaque burden and monitoring changes in carotid atherosclerosis in response to medical treatment. Plaque boundary segmentation is required to generate...
Computers in biology and medicine
Jul 1, 2021
Ultrasound imaging is a patient-friendly and robust technique for studying physiological and pathological muscles. An automatic deep learning (DL) system for the analysis of ultrasound images could be useful to support an expert operator, allowing th...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Jun 29, 2021
As being radiation-free, portable, and capable of repetitive use, ultrasonography is playing an important role in diagnosing and evaluating the COVID-19 Pneumonia (PN) in this epidemic. By virtue of lung ultrasound scores (LUSS), lung ultrasound (LUS...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Jun 29, 2021
Segmentation and mutant classification of high-frequency ultrasound (HFU) mouse embryo brain ventricle (BV) and body images can provide valuable information for developmental biologists. However, manual segmentation and identification of BV and body ...
Ultrasonic imaging
Jun 28, 2021
Needle visualization in the ultrasound image is essential to successfully perform the ultrasound-guided core needle biopsy. Automatic needle detection can significantly reduce the procedure time, false-negative rate, and highly improve the diagnosis....
Medical image analysis
Jun 22, 2021
Segmentation of ovary and follicles from 3D ultrasound (US) is the crucial technique of measurement tools for female infertility diagnosis. Since manual segmentation is time-consuming and operator-dependent, an accurate and fast segmentation method i...
Medical & biological engineering & computing
Jun 22, 2021
Concentric tube robot (CTR) is an efficient approach for minimally invasive surgery (MIS) and diagnosis due to its small size and high dexterity. To manipulate the robot accurately and safely inside the human body, tip position and shape information ...