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Accurate lung cancer risk prediction remains challenging due to substantial variability across patient populations and clinical settings -- no single model performs best for all cohorts. To address this, we propose a personalized lung…

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Accurate survival prediction in head and neck cancer (HNC) is essential for guiding clinical decision-making and optimizing treatment strategies. Traditional models, such as Cox proportional hazards, have been widely used but are limited in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Aiman Farooq , Utkarsh Sharma , Deepak Mishra

Colorectal liver metastases (CLM) significantly impact colon cancer patients, influencing survival based on systemic chemotherapy response. Traditional methods like tumor grading scores (e.g., tumor regression grade - TRG) for prognosis…

Volumetric images from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) provide invaluable information in preoperative staging of rectal cancer. Above all, accurate preoperative discrimination between T2 and T3 stages is arguably both the most challenging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-14 Joohyung Lee , Jieun Oh , Inkyu Shin , You-sung Kim , Dae Kyung Sohn , Tae-sung Kim , In So Kweon

During the first wave of COVID-19, hospitals were overwhelmed with the high number of admitted patients. An accurate prediction of the most likely individual disease progression can improve the planning of limited resources and finding the…

Lung cancer has a high rate of recurrence in early-stage patients. Predicting the post-surgical recurrence in lung cancer patients has traditionally been approached using single modality information of genomics or radiology images. We…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-07 Vaishnavi Subramanian , Minh N. Do , Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood

In recent years, volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) has been becoming a more and more important radiation technique widely used in clinical application for cancer treatment. One of the key problems in VMAT is treatment plan…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-01-06 Yu Yang , Bin Dong , Zaiwen Wen

Accurate targeting is critical for the effectiveness of transcranial focused ultrasound (tFUS) neuromodulation. While CT provides accurate skull acoustic properties, its ionizing radiation and poor soft tissue contrast limit clinical…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Hengyu Gao , Shaodong Ding , Ziyang Liu , Jiefu Zhang , Bolun Li , Zhiwu An , Li Wang , Jing Jing , Tao Liu , Yubo Fan , Zhongtao Hu

Proton computed tomography (pCT) is a novel medical imaging modality for mapping the distribution of proton relative stopping power (RSP) in medical objects of interest. Compared to conventional X-ray computed tomography, where range…

Artificial intelligence-based radiation therapy (RT) planning has the potential to reduce planning time and inter-planner variability, improving efficiency and consistency in clinical workflows. Most existing automated approaches rely on…

Purpose; The purpose of this study is to classify glial tumors into grade II, III and IV categories noninvasively by application of machine learning to multi-modal MRI features in comparison with volumetric analysis. Methods; We…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-16 Sevcan Turk , Kaya Oguz , Mehmet Orman , Emre Caliskan , Yesim Ertan , Erkin Ozgiray , Taner Akalin , Ashok Srinivasan , Omer Kitis

Rectal cancer is one of the most common diseases and a major cause of mortality. For deciding rectal cancer treatment plans, T-staging is important. However, evaluating the index from preoperative MRI images requires high radiologists'…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-11 Saeko Sasuga , Akira Kudo , Yoshiro Kitamura , Satoshi Iizuka , Edgar Simo-Serra , Atsushi Hamabe , Masayuki Ishii , Ichiro Takemasa

Techniques for preclinical intensity modulated radiation therapy are being developed to improve translation by replicating the clinical paradigm. This study presents the first treatment planning comparison between small animal IMRT…

Magnetic resonance (MR)-guided radiation therapy (RT) is enhancing head and neck cancer (HNC) treatment through superior soft tissue contrast and longitudinal imaging capabilities. However, manual tumor segmentation remains a significant…

Recent research has explored using neural networks to reconstruct undersampled magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data. Because of the complexity of the artifacts in the reconstructed images, there is a need to develop task-based approaches…

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Both radiographic (Rad) imaging, such as multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging, and digital pathology (Path) images captured from tissue samples are currently acquired as standard clinical practice for glioblastoma tumors. Both these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-20 Saima Rathore , Muhammad A. Iftikhar , Metin N. Gurcan , Zissimos Mourelatos

Visual robot navigation within large-scale, semi-structured environments deals with various challenges such as computation intensive path planning algorithms or insufficient knowledge about traversable spaces. Moreover, many…

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We propose a noninvasive and dispersive framework for estimating the spatially nonuniform conductivity of brain tumors using MR images. The method consists of two components: (i) voxel-wise assignment of tumor conductivity based on…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-09-19 Yoshiki Kubota , Yosuke Nagata , Manabu Tamura , Akimasa Hirata

This paper presents a new technique for the virtual reality (VR) visu-alization of complex volume images obtained from computer tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) by combining three-dimensional (3D) mesh processing and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Iva Vasic , Roberto Pierdicca , Emanuele Frontoni , Bata Vasic

Particle physics simulations are the cornerstone of nuclear engineering applications. Among them radiotherapy (RT) is crucial for society, with 50% of cancer patients receiving radiation treatments. For the most precise targeting of tumors,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Oscar Pastor-Serrano , Zoltán Perkó