Barrett esophagus (BE) is a precursor to a life-threatening esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC). Surveillance endoscopy with random biopsies is recommended for early intervention against EAC, but its adherence in the clinical setting is poor. Dysplastic...
Advanced heart failure (AHF) presents a complex landscape with challenges spanning diagnosis, management, and patient outcomes. In response, the integration of multimodality imaging techniques has emerged as a pivotal approach. This comprehensive rev...
The accuracy of target delineation in radiation treatment (RT) planning of cerebral gliomas is crucial to achieve high tumor control, while minimizing treatment-related toxicity. Conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), including contrast-enhan...
MRI plays a key role in the evaluation of post-treatment changes, both in the immediate post-operative period and during follow-up. There are many different treatment’s lines and many different neuroradiological findings according to the treatm...
A novel ultrasound (US) high-channels platform is a pre-requisite to open new frontiers in diagnostic and/or therapy by experimental implementation of innovative advanced US techniques. To date, a few systems with more than 1000 transducers permit fu...
Since 1997, heart failure (HF) has been designated as a new epidemic. However, it is not easy to find a proper definition since different descriptors are used in clinical practice. Moreover, HF is not a single clinical entity, and there is a close re...
Textile materials made from staple fibers typically have protruding fibers on their surface, commonly referred to as surface hairiness. During fraying, the surface of the textile material is susceptible to damage, which affects its appearance and lea...
Recently, medical image encryption has gained special attention due to the nature and sensitivity of medical data and the lack of effective image encryption using innovative encryption techniques. Several encryption schemes have been recommended and...
Aerogels have emerged as appealing materials for various applications due to their unique features, such as low density, high porosity, high surface area, and low thermal conductivity. Aiming to bring the advantages of these materials to the environm...
The efficacy of a hyperthermia treatment depends on the delivery of well-controlled heating; hence, accurate temperature monitoring is essential for ensuring effective treatment. For deep pelvic hyperthermia, there are no comprehensive and systematic...
Background: Accurate identification of complete or near-complete responders after total neoadjuvant therapy (TNT) is critical for selecting candidates for non-operative management in locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC). While static inflammatory bi...
Cardiovascular emergencies most frequently arise from the sudden destabilization of atherosclerotic plaques. Conventional diagnostic strategies predominantly focus on luminal stenosis, despite the fact that most acute coronary events originate from n...
Obtaining key and rich visual information under sophisticated road conditions is one of the key requirements for advanced driving assistance. In this paper, a newfangled end-to-end model is proposed for advanced driving assistance based on the fusion...
Sports image classification has gained increasing significance in various domains, including athlete training, event management, and broadcasting. Nonetheless, accurately classifying these images remains a formidable challenge due to factors such as...
With the increasing use of multimedia in communications, the content security of remote-sensing images attracts much attention in both the academia and industry. The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is a famous symmetric cryptosystem. A symmetric r...
Background: Positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) is a firmly established tool in oncology and is gaining importance in dermato-oncology. However, its use in advanced basal cell carcinoma (BCC...
Gliomas are a significant health problem with a lot of imaging challenges. The role of imaging is no longer limited to only providing anatomic details, but with the advancement of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) techniques, it now permits the assess...
The Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) is the primary Earth observing sensor on the new generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES-R) series, and provides significant spectral, spatial and temporal observational enhancements comp...
A well-researched field is the development of Computer Aided Diagnosis (CADx) Systems for the benign-malignant classification of abnormalities detected by mammography. Due to the nature of the breast parenchyma, there are significant uncertainties ab...
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) remain the leading cause of death worldwide. An effective management and treatment of CVDs highly relies on accurate diagnosis of the disease. As the most common imaging technique for clinical diagnosis of the CVDs, US...
Recent advances in navigational platforms have led bronchoscopists to make major strides in diagnostic interventions for pulmonary parenchymal lesions. Over the last decade, multiple platforms including electromagnetic navigation and robotic bronchos...
Background: Stroke is a leading cause of mortality and long-term disability, and aphasia is among its most common and debilitating sequelae. Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and advanced diffusion imaging techniques enable the assessment of white matte...
Background/Objectives: Prostate cancer is a prevalent malignancy often presenting without early symptoms. Advanced imaging technologies have revolutionized its diagnosis and management. This review discusses the principles, benefits, and clinical app...
Background: While almost one-third of patients treated for laryngeal cancer will experience disease recurrence, the current National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines do not recommend routine post-treatment imaging follow-up. We aimed to examin...
Biological imaging has opened novel paths for discoveries and advances in biology ranging from molecular to tissue scales [...]
Continued advances in medical imaging are increasingly resulting in promising developments, for example in producing high-resolution visualization of musculoskeletal systems and thus having a high impact in clinical assessments [...]
Ongoing advances in both imaging and treatment for oncology purposes have seen a significant rise in the use of not only the individual imaging modalities, but also their combination in single systems such as Positron Emission Tomography combined wit...
Leaf area index (LAI) and fraction of photosynthetically active radiation (FPAR) absorbed by vegetation are two of the essential biophysical variables used in most global models of climate, hydrology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. Most LAI/FPAR produ...
Aortic stenosis is the most common form of valve disease in the Western world and a major healthcare burden. Although echocardiography remains the central modality for the diagnosis and assessment of aortic stenosis, recently, advanced cardiac imagin...
Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects about 10% of women, and it is characterized by the presence of endometrial tissue outside the uterine cavity. Associated symptoms are dyspareunia, chronic pelvic pain, and infertility. The...
Fusion imaging depicts an innovative technique that facilitates combining assets and reducing restrictions of advanced ultrasound and cross-sectional imaging. The purpose of the present retrospective study was to evaluate the role of fusion imaging f...
Hemorrhagic hydrocephalus is a common pathology in neonates with high mortality and morbidity. Current imaging approaches fail to capture the mechanisms behind its pathogenesis. Here, we discuss the processes underlying this pathology, the metabolic...
There are several unique features of the concept of advanced intraoperative imaging modalities with CT (computed tomography), MRI (magnet resonance imaging) and DSA (digital substraction angiography) inaugurated in one operating tract. For the first...
A physical retrieval algorithm has been developed for deriving the layered precipitable water vapor (LPWs) product from infrared radiances of the Advanced Geosynchronous Radiation Imager (AGRI) onboard FengYun-4A (FY-4A), the first of the new generat...
Background and Objectives: Evidence on epilepsy surgery from Central Asia is limited, reflecting the real-world challenges of developing this service in low- and middle-income settings. We evaluated one-year seizure outcomes after resective surgery f...
Geo-Kompsat-2A (Geostationary-Korean Multi-Purpose SATtellite-2A, GK2A), a new generation of Korean geostationary meteorological satellite, carry state-of-the-art optical sensors with significantly higher radiometric, spectral, and spatial resolution...
Microbubbles as traditional ultrasound contrast agents have seen tremendous developments and bio-applications in the past decades. Due to their outstanding performance, advanced microbubbles as a multifunctional platform combining both imaging and th...
Glioblastoma is the most common primary brain tumor in adult patients, and despite standard-of-care treatment, median survival has remained less than two years. Advances in our understanding of molecular mutations have led to changes in the diagnosti...
This paper proposes an image encryption scheme based on a discrete-time alternating quantum walk (AQW) and the advanced encryption standard (AES). We use quantum properties to improve the AES algorithm, which uses a keystream generator related to AQW...
Background/Objectives: Radiotherapy for tumors of the central nervous system (CNS) could be improved by incorporating advanced imaging techniques into treatment planning and response assessment. The objective of this narrative review is to highlight...
On behalf of the Editors, we wish to express our sincere gratitude to all authors and reviewers who contributed to the success of this Special Issue, titled “Intraoperative Visualization Techniques and Advanced Imaging in Brain Tumors” [...]
Viruses must continuously evolve to hijack the host cell machinery in order to successfully replicate and orchestrate key interactions that support their persistence. The type-1 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) is a prime example of viral persist...
Advanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques are transforming the study of movement disorders by providing valuable insights into disease mechanisms. This narrative review presents a comprehensive overview of their applications in this field,...
The Chinese Fengyun–4A geostationary meteorological satellite was successfully launched on 11 December 2016, carrying an Advanced Geostationary Radiation Imager (AGRI) to provide the observations of visible, near infrared, and infrared bands wi...
Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) and smoldering multiple myeloma (SMM), the asymptomatic precursors to multiple myeloma, affect up to 5% of the population over the age of 40. Bone involvement, a myeloma-defining event, repres...
Intracellular micromanipulation assisted by robotic systems has valuable applications in biomedical research, such as genetic diagnosis and genome-editing tasks. However, current studies suffer from a low success rate and a large operation damage bec...
The etiology of epilepsy is variable and sometimes multifactorial. Clinical course and response to treatment largely depend on the precise etiology of the seizures. Along with the electroencephalogram (EEG), neuroimaging techniques, in particular, ma...
Benefiting from tunable emission from ultraviolet to near-infrared windows, long luminescence lifetimes, and exceptional photostability, rare earth (RE)-doped nanomaterials overcome the limitations of conventional dyes and quantum dots, enabling deep...
Transcatheter device intervention is now offered as first line therapy for many congenital heart defects (CHD) which were traditionally treated with cardiac surgery. While off-label use of devices is common and appropriate, a growing number of device...
Maximal-effort upfront or interval debulking surgery is the recommended approach for advanced-stage ovarian cancer. The role of diagnostic imaging is to provide a systematic and structured report on tumour dissemination with emphasis on key sites for...
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