English
Related papers

Related papers: Biopsym : a learning environment for transrectal u…

200 papers

This paper is a brief update on developments in the BioDynaMo project, a new platform for computer simulations for biological research. We will discuss the new capabilities of the simulator, important new concepts simulation methodology as…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Leonard Johard , Lukas Breitwieser , Alberto Di Meglio , Marco Manca , Manuel Mazzara , Max Talanov

In order to bridge the gap between Deep Learning researchers and medical professionals we develop a very accessible free prototype system which can be used by medical professionals to understand the reality of Deep Learning tools for chest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Joseph Paul Cohen , Paul Bertin , Vincent Frappier

Despite renewed awareness of the importance of articulation, it remains a challenge for instructors to handle the pronunciation needs of language learners. There are relatively scarce pedagogical tools for pronunciation teaching and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-15 M. Hamed Mozaffari , Won-Sook Lee

Freehand 3D ultrasound (US) imaging using conventional 2D probes offers flexibility and accessibility for diverse clinical applications but faces challenges in accurate probe pose estimation. Traditional methods depend on costly tracking…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Yameng Zhang , Dianye Huang , Max Q. -H. Meng , Nassir Navab , Zhongliang Jiang

A large body of previous machine learning methods for ultrasound-based prostate cancer detection classify small regions of interest (ROIs) of ultrasound signals that lie within a larger needle trace corresponding to a prostate tissue biopsy…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-06 Mahdi Gilany , Paul Wilson , Andrea Perera-Ortega , Amoon Jamzad , Minh Nguyen Nhat To , Fahimeh Fooladgar , Brian Wodlinger , Purang Abolmaesumi , Parvin Mousavi

Microbiomes are a vital part of the human body, engaging in tasks like food digestion and immune defense. Their structure and function must be understood in order to promote host health and facilitate swift recovery during disease. Due to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Simon Burbach , Maria Maleshkova , Florian Centler , Tanja Joan Schmidt

Prostate Cancer (PCa) is a prevalent disease among men, and multi-parametric MRIs offer a non-invasive method for its detection. While MRI-based deep learning solutions have shown promise in supporting PCa diagnosis, acquiring sufficient…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-04 Meng Zhou , Amoon Jamzad , Jason Izard , Alexandre Menard , Robert Siemens , Parvin Mousavi

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an increasingly important tool for the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer. However, interpretation of MRI suffers from high inter-observer variability across radiologists, thereby contributing to…

Ultrasonography is a vital component of modern clinical care, with handheld probes routinely used for diagnostic imaging and procedural guidance. However, handheld ultrasound imaging is limited by factors such as the partial-cross-sectional…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-02-04 David C. Garrett , Jinhua Xu , Yousuf Aborahama , Geng Ku , Konstantin Maslov , Lihong V. Wang

The aim of this work is to implement a simple freehand ultrasound (US) probe calibration technique. This will enable us to visualize US image data during surgical procedures using augmented reality. The performance of the system was…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-15 Yogesh Langhe , Katrin Skerl , Adrien Bartoli

During brain tumour resection, localising cancerous tissue and delineating healthy and pathological borders is challenging, even for experienced neurosurgeons and neuroradiologists. Intraoperative imaging is commonly employed for…

Endovascular surgical tool reconstruction represents an important factor in advancing endovascular tool navigation, which is an important step in endovascular surgery. However, the lack of publicly available datasets significantly restricts…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Tudor Jianu , Baoru Huang , Hoan Nguyen , Binod Bhattarai , Tuong Do , Erman Tjiputra , Quang Tran , Pierre Berthet-Rayne , Ngan Le , Sebastiano Fichera , Anh Nguyen

The prognosis for patients with epithelial ovarian cancer remains dismal despite improvements in survival for other cancers. Treatment involves multiple lines of chemotherapy and becomes increasingly heterogeneous after first-line therapy.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Brian Murphy , Mustafa Nasir-Moin , Grace von Oiste , Viola Chen , Howard A Riina , Douglas Kondziolka , Eric K Oermann

In this paper, we describe a dataset relating to cellular and physical conditions of patients who are operated upon to remove colorectal tumours. This data provides a unique insight into immunological status at the point of tumour removal,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Chris Roadknight , Uwe Aickelin , Guoping Qiu , John Scholefield , Lindy Durrant

Ultrasound (US) imaging is widely used in diagnosing and staging abdominal diseases due to its lack of non-ionizing radiation and prevalent availability. However, significant inter-operator variability and inconsistent image acquisition…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Yordanka Velikova , Mohammad Farid Azampour , Walter Simson , Marco Esposito , Nassir Navab

Auditory and visual signals usually present together and correlate with each other, not only in natural environments but also in clinical settings. However, the audio-visual modelling in the latter case can be more challenging, due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Jianbo Jiao , Mohammad Alsharid , Lior Drukker , Aris T. Papageorghiou , Andrew Zisserman , J. Alison Noble

Pathologists find tedious to examine the status of the sentinel lymph node on a large number of pathological scans. The examination process of such lymph node which encompasses metastasized cancer cells is histopathologically organized.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Amit Kumar Jaiswal , Ivan Panshin , Dimitrij Shulkin , Nagender Aneja , Samuel Abramov

We present a novel preprocessing and prediction pipeline for the classification of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that takes advantage of the information rich complex valued k-Space. Using a publicly available MRI raw dataset with 312…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 M. Rempe , F. Hörst , C. Seibold , B. Hadaschik , M. Schlimbach , J. Egger , K. Kröninger , F. Breuer , M. Blaimer , J. Kleesiek

Modern deep learning algorithms geared towards clinical adaption rely on a significant amount of high fidelity labeled data. Low-resource settings pose challenges like acquiring high fidelity data and becomes the bottleneck for developing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-23 Szu-Yeu Hu , Shuhang Wang , Wei-Hung Weng , JingChao Wang , XiaoHong Wang , Arinc Ozturk , Qian Li , Viksit Kumar , Anthony E. Samir

Microscopic examination of tissues or histopathology is one of the diagnostic procedures for detecting colorectal cancer. The pathologist involved in such an examination usually identifies tissue type based on texture analysis, especially…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-06 Srinath Jayachandran , Ashlin Ghosh