Assessment of regional functional effects of surgical treatment in thoracic insufficiency syndrome via dynamic magnetic resonance imaging

Y Tong, JK Udupa, JM McDonough, C Wu, C Sun… - JBJS, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Background: Quantitative regional assessment of thoracic function would enable clinicians
to better understand the regional effects of therapy and the degree of deviation from …

Characterizing Lung Parenchymal Aeration via Standardized Signal Intensity from Free-breathing 4D Dynamic MRI in Phantoms, Healthy Children, and Pediatric …

Y Tong, JK Udupa, JM McDonough, C Wu… - Radiology …, 2024 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose To investigate free-breathing thoracic bright-blood four-dimensional (4D) dynamic
MRI (dMRI) to characterize aeration of parenchymal lung tissue in healthy children and …

Growing rods in Early Onset Scoliosis: The current scenario

JS Mehta, M Tognini, H Hothi - Journal of Orthopaedics, 2023 - Elsevier
Background and aims The treatment of early onset scoliosis is a challenge. Some curves
resolve spontaneously, while the more aggressive ones require surgical intervention …

Automatic lung nodule classification in CT images using Two-stage CNNs and Soft-voting of Multi-scale Classifiers

L Xie, Y Tong, Y Wan - 2023 11th European Workshop on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Lung nodule classification in Computed Tomography is an essential procedure for the
diagnosis of lung cancer. Though some automatic methods have been proposed with high …

Do Rib-Based Anchors Impair Chest Wall Motion in Early Onset Scoliosis (EOS)?

Y Tong, JK Udupa, JM McDonough, L Xie, C Wu… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
Purpose There is a concern in pediatric surgery practice that rib-based fixation may limit
chest wall motion in early onset scoliosis (EOS). The purpose of this study is to address the …

Interactive Segmentation of Lung Tissue and Lung Excursion in Thoracic Dynamic MRI Based on Shape-guided Convolutional Neural Networks

L Xie, JK Udupa, Y Tong, JM McDonough, PJ Cahill… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
Purpose: Lung tissue and lung excursion segmentation in thoracic dynamic magnetic
resonance imaging (dMRI) is a critical step for quantitative analysis of thoracic structure and …

Automatic Individual Tooth Segmentation in Cone-Beam Computed Tomography Based on Multi-Task CNN and Watershed Transform

L Xie, BX Liu, Y Cao, C Yang - 2022 IEEE 24th Int Conf on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Individual tooth segmentation in Cone-beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) is an essential
procedure for the quantitative analysis of tooth function in patients with oral diseases …

Auto-segmentation of thoraco-abdominal organs in pediatric dynamic MRI

Y Akhtar, JK Udupa, Y Tong, T Liu, C Wu, R Kogan… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
Purpose: Analysis of the abnormal motion of thoraco-abdominal organs in respiratory
disorders such as the Thoracic Insufficiency Syndrome (TIS) and scoliosis such as …

Virtual Growing Child (VGC): A general normative comparative system via quantitative dynamic MRI for quantifying pediatric regional respiratory anomalies with …

Y Tong, JK Udupa, J McDonough, C Wu, L Xie, Y Hao… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Background: A normative database of regional respiratory structure and function in healthy
children does not exist. Methods: VGC provides a database with four categories of regional …

Estimating lung volumetric parameters via rapid, limited-slice, free-breathing thoracic dynamic MRI

Y Hao, JK Udupa, Y Tong, C Wu, JM McDonough… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
Purpose: We present an observational study involving free-breathing short-scan-time
dynamic MRI (dMRI) method that can be routinely used for computing dynamic lung volumes …