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Automatic segmentation of multi-sequence (multi-modal) cardiac MR (CMR) images plays a significant role in diagnosis and management for a variety of cardiac diseases. However, the performance of relevant algorithms is significantly affected…

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Precise ischemic lesion segmentation plays an essential role in improving diagnosis and treatment planning for ischemic stroke, one of the prevalent diseases with the highest mortality rate. While numerous deep neural network approaches…

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Quantitative assessment of left ventricle (LV) function from cine MRI has significant diagnostic and prognostic value for cardiovascular disease patients. The temporal movement of LV provides essential information on the…

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Microvascular networks are challenging to model because these structures are currently near the diffraction limit for most advanced three-dimensional imaging modalities, including confocal and light sheet microscopy. This makes semantic…

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Segmentation of cardiac structures is one of the fundamental steps to estimate volumetric indices of the heart. This step is still performed semi-automatically in clinical routine, and is thus prone to inter- and intra-observer variability.…

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The ability to map left ventricle (LV) myocardial motion using computed tomography angiography (CTA) is essential to diagnosing cardiovascular conditions and guiding interventional procedures. Due to their inherent locality, conventional…

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Applying artificial intelligence techniques in medical imaging is one of the most promising areas in medicine. However, most of the recent success in this area highly relies on large amounts of carefully annotated data, whereas annotating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Dong Wang , Yuan Zhang , Kexin Zhang , Liwei Wang

Recent studies have confirmed cardiovascular diseases remain responsible for highest death toll amongst non-communicable diseases. Accurate left ventricular (LV) volume estimation is critical for valid diagnosis and management of various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 F. Terhag , P. Knechtges , A. Basermann , R. Tempone

In the United States, heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women, accounting for 610,000 deaths each year [1]. Physicians use Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans to take images of the heart in order to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Ehab Abdelmaguid , Jolene Huang , Sanjay Kenchareddy , Disha Singla , Laura Wilke , Mai H. Nguyen , Ilkay Altintas

Deep-learning (DL)-based methods have shown significant promise in denoising myocardial perfusion SPECT images acquired at low dose. For clinical application of these methods, evaluation on clinical tasks is crucial. Typically, these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-02 Md Ashequr Rahman , Zitong Yu , Barry A. Siegel , Abhinav K. Jha

The segmentation of the left ventricle (LV) from CINE MRI images is essential to infer important clinical parameters. Typically, machine learning algorithms for automated LV segmentation use annotated contours from only two cardiac phases,…

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Imaging the bio-impedance distribution of the brain can provide initial diagnosis of acute stroke. This paper presents a compact and non-radiative tomographic modality, i.e. multi-frequency Electromagnetic Tomography (mfEMT), for the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 Jinxi Xiang , Yonggui Dong , Yunjie Yang

Myocardial perfusion imaging using single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), or myocardial perfusion SPECT (MPS) is a widely used clinical imaging modality for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease. Current clinical protocols…

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Purpose: This study addresses the challenge of extended SPECT imaging duration under low-count conditions, as encountered in Lu-177 SPECT imaging, by developing a self-supervised learning approach to synthesize skipped SPECT projection…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-28 Zongyu Li , Yixuan Jia , Xiaojian Xu , Jason Hu , Jeffrey A. Fessler , Yuni K. Dewaraja

Myocardial characterization is essential for patients with myocardial infarction and other myocardial diseases, and the assessment is often performed using cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) sequences. In this study, we propose a fully…

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Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods are popular since they can address situations with limited annotated data by directly utilising the underlying data distribution. However, the adoption of such methods is not explored enough in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-01 Joseph Geo Benjamin , Mothilal Asokan , Amna Alhosani , Hussain Alasmawi , Werner Gerhard Diehl , Leanne Bricker , Karthik Nandakumar , Mohammad Yaqub

Automated segmentation of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) plays a pivotal role in efficiently assessing cardiac function, offering rapid clinical evaluations that benefit both healthcare practitioners and patients. While recent research…

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Semi-supervised image classification has shown substantial progress in learning from limited labeled data, but recent advances remain largely untested for clinical applications. Motivated by the urgent need to improve timely diagnosis of…

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Four-dimensional (4D) left ventricular myocardial velocity mapping (MVM) is a cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) technique that allows assessment of cardiac motion in three orthogonal directions. Accurate and reproducible delineation of the…

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