Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
Jul 29, 2020
To date, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has infected millions of people worldwide. Ultrasound plays an indispensable role in the diagnosis, monitoring, and follow-up of patients with COVID-19. In this study, we used a robotic tele-echography sys...
Computational intelligence and neuroscience
Jul 29, 2020
Ultrasonography is widely used in the clinical diagnosis of thyroid nodules. Ultrasound images of thyroid nodules have different appearances, interior features, and blurred borders that are difficult for a physician to diagnose into malignant or beni...
Computer methods in biomechanics and biomedical engineering
Jul 22, 2020
Plaque vulnerability prediction is of great importance in cardiovascular research. In vivo follow-up intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) coronary plaque data were acquired from nine patients to construct fluid-structure interaction models to obtain plaqu...
Computerized medical imaging and graphics : the official journal of the Computerized Medical Imaging Society
Jul 22, 2020
The application of ultrasound (US) imaging in orthopedic surgery has always been a research direction. However, the various problems of US imaging hinder the development of computer assisted orthopedic surgery guided by US. US bone segmentation has b...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Jul 20, 2020
PURPOSE: This paper addresses the detection of the clinical target volume (CTV) in transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) image-guided intraoperative for permanent prostate brachytherapy. Developing a robust and automatic method to detect the CTV on intraoper...
Improving the quality of image-guided radiation therapy requires the tracking of respiratory motion in ultrasound sequences. However, the low signal-to-noise ratio and the artifacts in ultrasound images make it difficult to track targets accurately a...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Jul 11, 2020
PURPOSE: Real-time, two (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound (US) has been investigated as a potential alternative to fluoroscopy imaging in various surgical and non-surgical orthopedic procedures. However, low signal to noise ratio, imaging ar...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Jul 11, 2020
PURPOSE: To achieve accurate image segmentation, which is the first critical step in medical image analysis and interventions, using deep neural networks seems a promising approach provided sufficiently large and diverse annotated data from experts. ...
BACKGROUND: Traditional methods for cardiopulmonary assessment of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pose risks to both patients and examiners. This necessitates a remote examination of such patients without sacrificing information qua...