Peripheral vascular disease assessment in the lower limb: a review of current and emerging non-invasive diagnostic methods

E Shabani Varaki, GD Gargiulo, S Penkala… - Biomedical engineering …, 2018 - Springer
Background Worldwide, at least 200 million people are affected by peripheral vascular
diseases (PVDs), including peripheral arterial disease (PAD), chronic venous insufficiency …

A state-of-the-art review on coronary artery border segmentation algorithms for intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) images

P Arora, P Singh, A Girdhar, R Vijayvergiya - … Engineering and Technology, 2023 - Springer
Intravascular Ultrasound images (IVUS) is a useful guide for medical practitioners to identify
the vascular status of coronary arteries in human beings. IVUS is a unique intracoronary …

Learning physical properties in complex visual scenes: An intelligent machine for perceiving blood flow dynamics from static CT angiography imaging

Z Gao, X Wang, S Sun, D Wu, J Bai, Y Yin, X Liu… - Neural Networks, 2020 - Elsevier
Humans perceive physical properties such as motion and elastic force by observing objects
in visual scenes. Recent research has proven that computers are capable of inferring …

Privileged modality distillation for vessel border detection in intracoronary imaging

Z Gao, J Chung, M Abdelrazek, S Leung… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intracoronary imaging is a crucial imaging technology in coronary disease diagnosis as it
visualizes the internal tissue morphologies of coronary arteries. Vessel border detection in …

Automatic inspection machine for maize kernels based on deep convolutional neural networks

C Ni, D Wang, R Vinson, M Holmes, Y Tao - Biosystems engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Design a dual-camera based synchronised maize inspection machine.•Applied
an improved background removal method.•Propose a K-means-guided curvature method to …

Boundary delineation of MRI images for lumbar spinal stenosis detection through semantic segmentation using deep neural networks

AS Al-Kafri, S Sudirman, A Hussain, D Al-Jumeily… - IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a methodology to aid clinicians in performing lumbar spinal stenosis detection
through semantic segmentation and delineation of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) …

Convolutional networks for the segmentation of intravascular ultrasound images: Evaluation on a multicenter dataset

H Du, L Ling, W Yu, P Wu, Y Yang, M Chu… - Computer Methods and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background and objective The delineation of the lumen contour and external elastic lamina
(EEL) in intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) images is crucial for the quantitative analysis of …

Glioma segmentation with a unified algorithm in multimodal MRI images

Q Li, Z Gao, Q Wang, J Xia, H Zhang, H Zhang… - IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To achieve the better segmentation performance, we propose a unified algorithm for
automatic glioma segmentation. In this paper, we first use spatial fuzzy c-mean clustering to …

Yanbao: a mobile app using the measurement of clinical parameters for glaucoma screening

F Guo, Y Mai, X Zhao, X Duan, Z Fan, B Zou… - IEEE Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness worldwide, and vision loss from
glaucoma cannot be reversed. To remedy this issue, in this paper, a user-friendly mobile …

Distraction-aware hierarchical learning for vascular structure segmentation in intravascular ultrasound images

W Zhong, H Zhang, Z Gao, WK Hau, G Yang… - … Medical Imaging and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Vascular structure segmentation in intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) images plays an
important role in pre-procedural evaluation of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) …