Virtual clinical trials in medical imaging: a review

E Abadi, WP Segars, BMW Tsui… - Journal of Medical …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The accelerating complexity and variety of medical imaging devices and methods have
outpaced the ability to evaluate and optimize their design and clinical use. This is a …

Real‐time estimation of patient‐specific dose distributions for medical CT using the deep dose estimation

J Maier, L Klein, E Eulig, S Sawall… - Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose With the rising number of computed tomography (CT) examinations and the trend
toward personalized medicine, patient‐specific dose estimates are becoming more and …

A scanner-specific framework for simulating CT images with tube current modulation

G Jadick, E Abadi, B Harrawood… - Physics in Medicine …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Although tube current modulation (TCM) is routinely implemented in modern computed
tomography (CT) scans, no existing CT simulator is capable of generating realistic images …

Real-time, acquisition parameter-free voxel-wise patient-specific Monte Carlo dose reconstruction in whole-body CT scanning using deep neural networks

Y Salimi, A Akhavanallaf, Z Mansouri, I Shiri… - European Radiology, 2023 - Springer
Objective We propose a deep learning-guided approach to generate voxel-based absorbed
dose maps from whole-body CT acquisitions. Methods The voxel-wise dose maps …

A review of organ dose calculation tools for patients undergoing computed tomography scans

C Lee - Journal of Radiation Protection and Research, 2021 - koreascience.kr
Background: Computed tomography (CT) is one of the crucial diagnostic tools in modern
medicine. However, careful monitoring of radiation dose for CT patients is essential since …

iPhantom: A Framework for Automated Creation of Individualized Computational Phantoms and Its Application to CT Organ Dosimetry

W Fu, S Sharma, E Abadi, AS Iliopoulos… - IEEE journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: This study aims to develop and validate a novel framework, iPhantom, for
automated creation of patient-specific phantoms or “digital-twins (DT)” using patient medical …

Scout-Net: prospective personalized estimation of CT organ doses from scout views

AAZ Imran, S Wang, D Pal, S Dutta, B Patel… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Purpose: Estimation of patient-specific organ doses is required for more comprehensive
dose metrics, such as effective dose. Currently, available methods are performed …

A GPU-accelerated framework for rapid estimation of scanner-specific scatter in CT for virtual imaging trials

S Sharma, E Abadi, A Kapadia… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Virtual imaging trials (VITs), defined as the process of conducting clinical imaging trials
using computer simulations, offer a time-and cost-effective alternative to traditional imaging …

Deep silicon photon-counting CT: A first simulation-based study for assessing perceptual benefits across diverse anatomies

S Sharma, D Pal, E Abadi, P Segars, J Hsieh… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Objectives To assess perceptual benefits provided by the improved spatial resolution and
noise performance of deep silicon photon-counting CT (Si-PCCT) over conventional energy …

Personalized CT organ dose estimation from scout images

AAZ Imran, S Wang, D Pal, S Dutta, B Patel… - … Image Computing and …, 2021 - Springer
With the rapid increase of CT usage, radiation dose across patient populations is also
increasing. Therefore, it is desirable to reduce the CT radiation dose. However, the reduction …