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Extending the value of routine lung screening CT with quantitative body composition assessment

Nov. 28, 2022—Kaiwen Xu, Riqiang Gao, Yucheng Tang, Steve A. Deppen, Kim L. Sandler, Michael N. Kammer, Sanja L. Antic, Fabien Maldonado, Yuankai Huo, Mirza S. Khan, Bennett A. Landman Abstract Certain body composition phenotypes, like sarcopenia, are well established as predictive markers for post-surgery complications and overall survival of lung cancer patients. However, their association with...

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3D UX-Net: A Large Kernel Volumetric ConvNet Modernizing Hierarchical Transformer for Medical Image Segmentation

Oct. 6, 2022—Ho Hin Lee, Shunxing Bao, Yuankai Huo, Bennett A. Landman, “3D UX-Net: A Large Kernel Volumetric ConvNet Modernizing Hierarchical Transformer for Medical Image Segmentation”, arXiv 2022 Full Text Abstract Vision transformers (ViTs) have quickly superseded convolutional networks (ConvNets) as the current state-of-the-art (SOTA) models for medical image segmentation. Hierarchical transformers (e.g., Swin Transformers) reintroduced several...

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Self-Supervised Pre-Training of Swin Transformers for 3D Medical Image Analysis

Jul. 25, 2022—Tang, Yucheng, Dong Yang, Wenqi Li, Holger R. Roth, Bennett Landman, Daguang Xu, Vishwesh Nath, and Ali Hatamizadeh. “Self-supervised pre-training of swin transformers for 3d medical image analysis.” In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 20730-20740. 2022. Full text:  Abstract Vision Transformers (ViT)s have shown great performance in self-supervised...

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Efficient Quality Control with Mixed CT and CTA Datasets

Dec. 10, 2021—Lucas W. Remedios, Leon Y. Cai, Colin B. Hansen, Samuel W. Remedios, Bennett A. Landman (2022). Efficient Quality Control with Mixed CT and CTA Datasets. Proc SPIE Int Soc Opt Eng. 2022. Abstract Deep learning promises the extraction of valuable information from traumatic brain injury (TBI) datasets and depends on efficient navigation when using large-scale mixed computed tomography (CT) datasets from...

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Technical Note: Comparison of Convolutional Neural Networks for Detecting Large Vessel Occlusion on Computed Tomography Angiography

Jul. 21, 2021—Lucas W. Remedios, Sneha Lingam, Samuel W. Remedios, Riqiang Gao, Stephen W. Clark, Larry T. Davis, Bennett A. Landman. Technical Note: Comparison of Convolutional Neural Networks for Detecting Large Vessel Occlusion on Computed Tomography Angiography. Medical Physics,  2021 Full Text Abstract Purpose: Artificial intelligence diagnosis and triage of large vessel occlusion may quicken clinical response for...

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Body Part Regression With Self-Supervision

Jan. 14, 2021—Y.Tang, R.Gao, S.Han, Y.Chen, D.Gao, V.Nath, C.Bermudez, M.R. Savona, R.G. Abramson, S.Bao,I.Lyu, Y.Huo and B.A. Landman,”Body Part Regression with Self-supervision”,IEEETransactions onMedicalImaging,2021 Full Text:  https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9350603 Abstract Body part regression is a promising new technique that enables content navigation through selfsupervised learning. Using this technique, the global quantitative spatial location for each axial view slice is obtained...

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Multi-Contrast Computed Tomography Healthy Kidney Atlas

Dec. 28, 2020—Ho Hin Lee, Yucheng Tang, Kaiwen Xu, Shunxing Bao, Agnes B. Fogo, Raymond Harris, Mark P. de Caestecker, Mattias Heinrich, Jeffery M. Spraggins, Yuankai Huo, Bennett A. Landman, “Multi-Contrast Computed Tomography Healthy Kidney Atlas.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.12432 (2020). Full Text Abstract The construction of three-dimensional multi-modal tissue maps provides an opportunity to spur interdisciplinary innovations across temporal and...

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Prediction of Type II Diabetes Onset with Computed Tomography and Electronic Medical Records

Dec. 7, 2020—Yucheng Tang, Riqiang Gao, Ho Hin Lee, Quinn Stanton Wells, Ashley Spann, James Gregory Terry, Jeff Carr, Yuankai Huo, Shunxing Bao and Bennett A. Landman, “Prediction of Type II Diabetes Onset with Computed Tomography and Electronic Medical Records”, MICCAI CLIP, 2020. Full Text: Abstract Type II diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a significant public health concern...

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Learning from dispersed manual annotations with an optimized data weighting policy

Dec. 7, 2020—Yucheng Tang, Riqiang Gao, Yunqiang Chen, Dashan Gao, Michael R. Savona, Richard G. Abramson, Shunxing Bao, Yuankai Huo and Bennett A. Landman, “Learning from Dispersed Manual Annotations with an Optimized Data Weighting Policy”, Journal of Medical Imaging, 2020. Full Text: Abstract https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32775501/ Purpose: Deep learning methods have become essential tools for quantitative interpretation of medical...

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Construction of a Multi-Phase Contrast Computed Tomography Kidney Atlas

Dec. 6, 2020—Ho Hin Lee, Yucheng Tang, Kaiwen Xu, Shunxing Bao, Agnes B. Fogo, Raymond Harris, Mark P. de Caestecker, Mattias Heinrich, Jeffrey Spraggins, Yuankai Huo, Bennett A, Landman, Construction of a Multi-Phase Contrast Computed Tomography Kidney Atlas, SPIE 2021 Medical Imaging Full Text Abstract The Human BioMolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP) seeks to create a molecular atlas at the cellular level of...

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