Artificial intelligence applications in medical imaging: A review of the medical physics research in Italy

M Avanzo, M Porzio, L Lorenzon, L Milan, R Sghedoni… - Physica Medica, 2021 - Elsevier
Purpose To perform a systematic review on the research on the application of artificial
intelligence (AI) to imaging published in Italy and identify its fields of application, methods …

[HTML][HTML] Unified focal loss: Generalising dice and cross entropy-based losses to handle class imbalanced medical image segmentation

M Yeung, E Sala, CB Schönlieb, L Rundo - Computerized Medical Imaging …, 2022 - Elsevier
Automatic segmentation methods are an important advancement in medical image analysis.
Machine learning techniques, and deep neural networks in particular, are the state-of-the-art …

MADGAN: Unsupervised medical anomaly detection GAN using multiple adjacent brain MRI slice reconstruction

C Han, L Rundo, K Murao, T Noguchi, Y Shimahara… - BMC …, 2021 - Springer
Background Unsupervised learning can discover various unseen abnormalities, relying on
large-scale unannotated medical images of healthy subjects. Towards this, unsupervised …

A survey on nature-inspired medical image analysis: a step further in biomedical data integration

L Rundo, C Militello, S Vitabile, G Russo… - Fundamenta …, 2020 - content.iospress.com
Natural phenomena and mechanisms have always intrigued humans, inspiring the design of
effective solutions for real-world problems. Indeed, fascinating processes occur in nature …

Fast level set method for glioma brain tumor segmentation based on Superpixel fuzzy clustering and lattice Boltzmann method

A Khosravanian, M Rahmanimanesh… - Computer Methods and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Background and Objective Brain tumor segmentation is a challenging issue due to
noise, artifact, and intensity non-uniformity in magnetic resonance images (MRI). Manual …

Pixel-wise regression using U-Net and its application on pansharpening

W Yao, Z Zeng, C Lian, H Tang - Neurocomputing, 2018 - Elsevier
Convolutional neural networks are widely used for solving image recognition and other
classification problems in which the whole image is considered as a single object. In this …

MedGA: a novel evolutionary method for image enhancement in medical imaging systems

L Rundo, A Tangherloni, MS Nobile, C Militello… - Expert Systems with …, 2019 - Elsevier
Medical imaging systems often require the application of image enhancement techniques to
help physicians in anomaly/abnormality detection and diagnosis, as well as to improve the …

[HTML][HTML] Auto-segmentation of head and neck tumors in positron emission tomography images using non-local means and morphological frameworks

S Heydarheydari, MJT Birgani… - Polish Journal of …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Purpose Accurately segmenting head and neck cancer (HNC) tumors in medical images is
crucial for effective treatment planning. However, current methods for HNC segmentation are …

Infinite brain MR images: PGGAN-based data augmentation for tumor detection

C Han, L Rundo, R Araki, Y Furukawa, G Mauri… - Neural approaches to …, 2020 - Springer
Due to the lack of available annotated medical images, accurate computer-assisted
diagnosis requires intensive data augmentation (DA) techniques, such as …

Prediction of glioma grades using deep learning with wavelet radiomic features

G Çinarer, BG Emiroğlu, AH Yurttakal - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Gliomas are the most common primary brain tumors. They are classified into 4 grades
(Grade I–II-III–IV) according to the guidelines of the World Health Organization (WHO). The …