Diagnostics,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
14(9), P. 952 - 952
Published: April 30, 2024
We
present
a
deep
learning
(DL)
network-based
approach
for
detecting
and
semantically
segmenting
two
specific
types
of
tuberculosis
(TB)
lesions
in
chest
X-ray
(CXR)
images.
In
the
proposed
method,
we
use
basic
U-Net
model
its
enhanced
versions
to
detect,
classify,
segment
TB
CXR
The
architectures
used
this
study
are
U-Net,
Attention
U-Net++,
pyramid
spatial
pooling
(PSP)
which
optimized
compared
based
on
test
results
each
find
best
parameters.
Finally,
four
ensemble
approaches
combine
top
five
models
further
improve
lesion
classification
segmentation
results.
training
stage,
data
augmentation
preprocessing
methods
increase
number
strength
features
images,
respectively.
Our
dataset
consists
110
training,
14
validation,
98
experimental
show
that
achieves
maximum
mean
intersection-over-union
(MIoU)
0.70,
precision
rate
0.88,
recall
0.75,
F1-score
0.81,
an
accuracy
1.0,
all
better
than
those
only
using
single-network
model.
method
can
be
by
clinicians
as
diagnostic
tool
assisting
examination
European Respiratory Review,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
32(168), P. 220259 - 220259
Published: June 7, 2023
Background
Deep
learning
(DL),
a
subset
of
artificial
intelligence
(AI),
has
been
applied
to
pneumothorax
diagnosis
aid
physician
diagnosis,
but
no
meta-analysis
performed.
Methods
A
search
multiple
electronic
databases
through
September
2022
was
performed
identify
studies
that
DL
for
using
imaging.
Meta-analysis
via
hierarchical
model
calculate
the
summary
area
under
curve
(AUC)
and
pooled
sensitivity
specificity
both
physicians
Risk
bias
assessed
modified
Prediction
Model
Study
Bias
Assessment
Tool.
Results
In
56
63
primary
studies,
identified
from
chest
radiography.
The
total
AUC
0.97
(95%
CI
0.96–0.98)
physicians.
84%
79–89%)
85%
73–92%)
96%
94–98%)
98%
95–99%)
More
than
half
original
(57%)
had
high
risk
bias.
Conclusions
Our
review
found
diagnostic
performance
models
similar
physicians,
although
majority
Further
AI
research
is
needed.
Deleted Journal,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
37(4), P. 1652 - 1663
Published: March 14, 2024
Radiology
narrative
reports
often
describe
characteristics
of
a
patient's
disease,
including
its
location,
size,
and
shape.
Motivated
by
the
recent
success
multimodal
learning,
we
hypothesized
that
this
descriptive
text
could
guide
medical
image
analysis
algorithms.
We
proposed
novel
vision-language
model,
ConTEXTual
Net,
for
task
pneumothorax
segmentation
on
chest
radiographs.
Net
extracts
language
features
from
physician-generated
free-form
radiology
using
pre-trained
model.
then
introduced
cross-attention
between
intermediate
embeddings
an
encoder-decoder
convolutional
neural
network
to
enable
guidance
analysis.
was
trained
CANDID-PTX
dataset
consisting
3196
positive
cases
with
annotations
6
different
physicians
as
well
clinical
reports.
Using
cross-validation,
achieved
Dice
score
0.716±0.016,
which
similar
degree
inter-reader
variability
(0.712±0.044)
computed
subset
data.
It
outperformed
vision-only
models
(Swin
UNETR:
0.670±0.015,
ResNet50
U-Net:
0.677±0.015,
GLoRIA:
0.686±0.014,
nnUNet
0.694±0.016)
competing
model
(LAVT:
0.706±0.009).
Ablation
studies
confirmed
it
information
led
performance
gains.
Additionally,
show
certain
augmentation
methods
degraded
Net's
breaking
image-text
concordance.
also
evaluated
effects
activation
functions
in
module,
highlighting
efficacy
our
chosen
architectural
design.
Diagnostics,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
12(11), P. 2765 - 2765
Published: Nov. 11, 2022
There
have
been
major
developments
in
deep
learning
computer
vision
since
the
2010s.
Deep
has
contributed
to
a
wealth
of
data
medical
image
processing,
and
semantic
segmentation
is
salient
technique
this
field.
This
study
retrospectively
reviews
recent
studies
on
application
for
tasks
imaging
proposes
potential
directions
future
development,
including
model
augmentation
dataset
creation.
The
strengths
deficiencies
models
augmentation,
as
well
their
segmentation,
were
analyzed.
Fully
convolutional
network
led
creation
U-Net
its
derivatives.
Another
noteworthy
DeepLab.
Regarding
due
low
volume
images,
most
focus
means
increase
data.
Generative
adversarial
networks
(GAN)
via
learning.
Despite
increasing
types
datasets,
there
still
deficiency
datasets
specific
problems,
which
should
be
improved
moving
forward.
Considering
ongoing
research
processing
practical
clinical
problems
must
addressed
ensure
that
results
are
properly
applied.
PeerJ Computer Science,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
10, P. e1754 - e1754
Published: Jan. 2, 2024
According
to
the
Ten
Leading
Causes
of
Death
Statistics
Report
by
Ministry
Health
and
Welfare
in
2021,
cancer
ranks
as
leading
cause
mortality.
Among
them,
pleomorphic
glioblastoma
is
a
common
type
brain
cancer.
Brain
often
occurs
with
unclear
boundaries
from
normal
tissue,
necessitating
assistance
experienced
doctors
distinguish
tumors
before
surgical
resection
avoid
damaging
critical
neural
structures.
In
recent
years,
advancement
deep
learning
(DL)
technology,
artificial
intelligence
(AI)
plays
vital
role
disease
diagnosis,
especially
field
image
segmentation.
This
technology
can
aid
locating
measuring
tumors,
while
significantly
reducing
manpower
time
costs.
Currently,
U-Net
one
primary
segmentation
techniques.
It
utilizes
skip
connections
combine
high-level
low-level
feature
information,
significant
improvements
accuracy.
To
further
enhance
model’s
performance,
this
study
explores
feasibility
using
EfficientNetV2
an
encoder
combination
U-net.
Experimental
results
indicate
that
employing
together
U-net
improve
Dice
score
(loss
=
0.0866,
accuracy
0.9977,
similarity
coefficient
(DSC)
0.9133).
Sensors,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
22(14), P. 5429 - 5429
Published: July 20, 2022
Liver
cancer
is
a
life-threatening
illness
and
one
of
the
fastest-growing
types
in
world.
Consequently,
early
detection
liver
leads
to
lower
mortality
rates.
This
work
aims
build
model
that
will
help
clinicians
determine
type
tumor
when
it
occurs
within
region
by
analyzing
images
tissue
taken
from
biopsy
this
tumor.
Working
stage
requires
effort,
time,
accumulated
experience
must
be
possessed
expert
whether
malignant
needs
treatment.
Thus,
histology
can
make
use
obtain
an
initial
diagnosis.
study
propose
deep
learning
using
convolutional
neural
networks
(CNNs),
which
are
able
transfer
knowledge
pre-trained
global
models
decant
into
single
diagnose
tumors
CT
scans.
we
obtained
hybrid
capable
detecting
The
best
results
research
reached
accuracy
0.995,
precision
value
0.864,
recall
0.979,
higher
than
those
other
models.
It
worth
noting
was
tested
on
limited
set
data
gave
good
results.
used
as
aid
support
decisions
specialists
field
save
their
efforts.
In
addition,
saves
effort
time
incurred
treatment
specialists,
especially
during
periodic
examination
campaigns
every
year.
Frontiers in Plant Science,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
14
Published: Jan. 12, 2024
Pubescence
is
an
important
phenotypic
trait
observed
in
both
vegetative
and
generative
plant
organs.
Pubescent
plants
demonstrate
increased
resistance
to
various
environmental
stresses
such
as
drought,
low
temperatures,
pests.
It
serves
a
significant
morphological
marker
aids
selecting
stress-resistant
cultivars,
particularly
wheat.
In
wheat,
pubescence
visible
on
leaves,
leaf
sheath,
glumes
nodes.
Regarding
glumes,
the
presence
of
plays
pivotal
role
its
classification.
supplements
other
spike
characteristics,
aiding
distinguishing
between
different
varieties
within
wheat
species.
The
determination
typically
involves
visual
analysis
by
expert.
However,
methods
without
use
binocular
loupe
tend
be
subjective,
while
employing
additional
equipment
labor-intensive.
This
paper
proposes
integrated
approach
determine
glume
images
captured
under
laboratory
conditions
using
digital
camera
convolutional
neural
networks.
PeerJ Computer Science,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
8, P. e873 - e873
Published: Feb. 16, 2022
Ultrasound
imaging
has
been
recognized
as
a
powerful
tool
in
clinical
diagnosis.
Nonetheless,
the
presence
of
speckle
noise
degrades
signal-to-noise
ultrasound
images.
Various
denoising
algorithms
cannot
fully
reduce
and
retain
image
features
well
for
imaging.
The
application
deep
learning
attracted
more
attention
recent
years.In
article,
we
propose
generative
adversarial
network
with
residual
dense
connectivity
weighted
joint
loss
(GAN-RW)
to
avoid
limitations
traditional
surpass
most
advanced
performance
denoising.
is
based
on
U-Net
architecture
which
includes
four
encoder
decoder
modules.
Each
modules
replaced
BN
remove
noise.
discriminator
applies
series
convolutional
layers
identify
differences
between
translated
images
desired
modality.
In
training
processes,
introduce
function
consisting
sum
L1
function,
binary
cross-entropy
logit
perceptual
function.We
split
experiments
into
two
parts.
First,
were
performed
Berkeley
segmentation
(BSD68)
datasets
corrupted
by
simulated
speckle.
Compared
eight
existing
algorithms,
GAN-RW
achieved
despeckling
terms
peak
ratio
(PSNR),
structural
similarity
(SSIM),
subjective
visual
effect.
When
level
was
15,
average
value
increased
approximately
3.58%
1.23%
PSNR
SSIM,
respectively.
25,
3.08%
1.84%
50,
1.32%
1.98%
Secondly,
lymph
nodes,
foetal
head,
brachial
plexus.
proposed
method
shows
higher
effect
when
verifying
end,
through
statistical
analysis,
highest
mean
rank
Friedman
test.
TURKISH JOURNAL OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING & COMPUTER SCIENCES,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
31(6), P. 1006 - 1020
Published: Oct. 7, 2023
Segmentation
of
lung
regions
is
key
importance
for
the
automatic
analysis
Chest
X-Ray
(CXR)
images,
which
have
a
vital
role
in
detection
various
pulmonary
diseases.
Precise
identification
basic
prerequisite
disease
diagnosis
and
treatment
planning.
However,
achieving
precise
segmentation
poses
significant
challenges
due
to
factors
such
as
variations
anatomical
shape
size,
presence
strong
edges
at
rib
cage
clavicle,
overlapping
structures
resulting
from
diverse
Although
commonly
considered
de-facto
standard
medical
image
segmentation,
convolutional
UNet
architecture
its
variants
fall
short
addressing
these
challenges,
primarily
limited
ability
model
long-range
dependencies
between
features.
While
vision
transformers
equipped
with
self-attention
mechanisms
excel
capturing
relationships,
either
coarse-grained
global
or
fine-grained
local
typically
adopted
tasks
on
high-resolution
images
alleviate
quadratic
computational
cost
expense
performance
loss.
This
paper
introduces
focal
modulation
(FMN-UNet)
enhance
by
effectively
aggregating
relations
reasonable
cost.
FMN-UNet
first
encodes
CXR
via
encoder
suppress
background
extract
latent
feature
maps
relatively
modest
resolution.
then
leverages
attention
contextual
relationships
across
images.
These
are
convolutionally
decoded
produce
masks.
The
compared
against
state-of-the-art
methods
three
public
datasets
(JSRT,
Montgomery,
Shenzhen).
Experiments
each
dataset
demonstrate
superior
baselines.