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Journal of Imaging, Volume 9, Issue 3

2023 March - 19 articles

Cover Story: Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have become increasingly powerful, generating photorealistic images. One recurrent theme in medical imaging is whether GANs can be effective at generating workable medical data. We performed a multi-GAN (from basic DCGAN to more sophisticated GANs) and multi-application study by measuring the segmentation accuracy of a U-Net trained on generated images for three imaging modalities and three organs. The results reveal that GANs are far from being equal. Only the top-performing GANs are capable of generating realistic-looking medical images that can fool trained experts in a visual Turing test and comply to some metrics. However, segmentation results suggest that no GAN can supplant the richness of the dataset it was trained on. View this paper
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Articles (19)

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,322 Views
23 Pages

ARAM: A Technology Acceptance Model to Ascertain the Behavioural Intention to Use Augmented Reality

  • Anabela Marto,
  • Alexandrino Gonçalves,
  • Miguel Melo,
  • Maximino Bessa and
  • Rui Silva

The expansion of augmented reality across society, its availability in mobile platforms and the novelty character it embodies by appearing in a growing number of areas, have raised new questions related to people’s predisposition to use this te...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,235 Views
23 Pages

In this work, a visual object detection and localization workflow integrated into a robotic platform is presented for the 6D pose estimation of objects with challenging characteristics in terms of weak texture, surface properties and symmetries. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,879 Views
12 Pages

CT Rendering and Radiomic Analysis in Post-Chemotherapy Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection for Testicular Cancer to Anticipate Difficulties for Young Surgeons

  • Anna Scavuzzo,
  • Pavel Figueroa-Rodriguez,
  • Alessandro Stefano,
  • Nallely Jimenez Guedulain,
  • Sebastian Muruato Araiza,
  • Jose de Jesus Cendejas Gomez,
  • Alejandro Quiroz Compeaán,
  • Dimas O. Victorio Vargas and
  • Miguel A. Jiménez-Ríos

Post-chemotherapy retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (PC-RPLND) in non-seminomatous germ-cell tumor (NSTGCTs) is a complex procedure. We evaluated whether 3D computed tomography (CT) rendering and their radiomic analysis help predict resectability...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,100 Views
21 Pages

On The Potential of Image Moments for Medical Diagnosis

  • Cecilia Di Ruberto,
  • Andrea Loddo and
  • Lorenzo Putzu

Medical imaging is widely used for diagnosis and postoperative or post-therapy monitoring. The ever-increasing number of images produced has encouraged the introduction of automated methods to assist doctors or pathologists. In recent years, especial...

  • Article
  • Open Access
177 Citations
25,785 Views
16 Pages

GANs for Medical Image Synthesis: An Empirical Study

  • Youssef Skandarani,
  • Pierre-Marc Jodoin and
  • Alain Lalande

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have become increasingly powerful, generating mind-blowing photorealistic images that mimic the content of datasets they have been trained to replicate. One recurrent theme in medical imaging, is whether GANs ca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,119 Views
20 Pages

The current paper presents a hyper parameterization optimization process for a convolutional neural network (CNN) applied to pipe burst locations in water distribution networks (WDN). The hyper parameterization process of the CNN includes the early s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,285 Views
30 Pages

A Real-Time Registration Algorithm of UAV Aerial Images Based on Feature Matching

  • Zhiwen Liu,
  • Gen Xu,
  • Jiangjian Xiao,
  • Jingxiang Yang,
  • Ziyang Wang and
  • Siyuan Cheng

This study aimed to achieve the accurate and real-time geographic positioning of UAV aerial image targets. We verified a method of registering UAV camera images on a map (with the geographic location) through feature matching. The UAV is usually in r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,877 Views
13 Pages

Predictive Factors of Local Recurrence after Colorectal Cancer Liver Metastases Thermal Ablation

  • Julien Odet,
  • Julie Pellegrinelli,
  • Olivier Varbedian,
  • Caroline Truntzer,
  • Marco Midulla,
  • François Ghiringhelli and
  • David Orry

Background: Identify risk factors for local recurrence (LR) after radiofrequency (RFA) and microwave (MWA) thermoablations (TA) of colorectal cancer liver metastases (CCLM). Methods: Uni- (Pearson’s Chi2 test, Fisher’s exact test, Wilcoxo...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,649 Views
11 Pages

Comparison of Image Quality and Quantification Parameters between Q.Clear and OSEM Reconstruction Methods on FDG-PET/CT Images in Patients with Metastatic Breast Cancer

  • Mohammad Naghavi-Behzad,
  • Marianne Vogsen,
  • Oke Gerke,
  • Sara Elisabeth Dahlsgaard-Wallenius,
  • Henriette Juel Nissen,
  • Nick Møldrup Jakobsen,
  • Poul-Erik Braad,
  • Mie Holm Vilstrup,
  • Paul Deak and
  • Thomas Lund Andersen
  • + 1 author

We compared the image quality and quantification parameters through bayesian penalized likelihood reconstruction algorithm (Q.Clear) and ordered subset expectation maximization (OSEM) algorithm for 2-[18F]FDG-PET/CT scans performed for response monit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,653 Views
16 Pages

Autokeras Approach: A Robust Automated Deep Learning Network for Diagnosis Disease Cases in Medical Images

  • Ahmad Alaiad,
  • Aya Migdady,
  • Ra’ed M. Al-Khatib,
  • Omar Alzoubi,
  • Raed Abu Zitar and
  • Laith Abualigah

Automated deep learning is promising in artificial intelligence (AI). However, a few applications of automated deep learning networks have been made in the clinical medical fields. Therefore, we studied the application of an open-source automated dee...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,299 Views
20 Pages

Environment-Aware Rendering and Interaction in Web-Based Augmented Reality

  • José Ferrão,
  • Paulo Dias,
  • Beatriz Sousa Santos and
  • Miguel Oliveira

This work presents a novel framework for web-based environment-aware rendering and interaction in augmented reality based on WebXR and three.js. It aims at accelerating the development of device-agnostic Augmented Reality (AR) applications. The solut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,884 Views
22 Pages

DCTable: A Dilated CNN with Optimizing Anchors for Accurate Table Detection

  • Takwa Kazdar,
  • Wided Souidene Mseddi,
  • Moulay A. Akhloufi,
  • Ala Agrebi,
  • Marwa Jmal and
  • Rabah Attia

With the widespread use of deep learning in leading systems, it has become the mainstream in the table detection field. Some tables are difficult to detect because of the likely figure layout or the small size. As a solution to the underlined problem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,385 Views
13 Pages

ReUse: REgressive Unet for Carbon Storage and Above-Ground Biomass Estimation

  • Antonio Elia Pascarella,
  • Giovanni Giacco,
  • Mattia Rigiroli,
  • Stefano Marrone and
  • Carlo Sansone

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has recently established the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) program, which requires countries to report their carbon emissions and sink estimates...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,540 Views
15 Pages

Sleep Action Recognition Based on Segmentation Strategy

  • Xiang Zhou,
  • Yue Cui,
  • Gang Xu,
  • Hongliang Chen,
  • Jing Zeng,
  • Yutong Li and
  • Jiangjian Xiao

In order to solve the problem of long video dependence and the difficulty of fine-grained feature extraction in the video behavior recognition of personnel sleeping at a security-monitored scene, this paper proposes a time-series convolution-network-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,422 Views
21 Pages

This paper investigates the impact of the amount of training data and the shape variability on the segmentation provided by the deep learning architecture U-Net. Further, the correctness of ground truth (GT) was also evaluated. The input data consist...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,010 Views
17 Pages

A Novel Multimedia Player for International Standard—JPEG Snack

  • Sonain Jamil,
  • Oh-Jin Kwon,
  • Jinhee Lee,
  • Faiz Ullah,
  • Yaseen and
  • Afnan

The advancement in mobile communication and technologies has led to the usage of short-form digital content increasing daily. This short-form content is mainly based on images that urged the joint photographic experts’ group (JPEG) to introduce...

  • Review
  • Open Access
72 Citations
15,977 Views
27 Pages

Applications of LiDAR in Agriculture and Future Research Directions

  • Sourabhi Debnath,
  • Manoranjan Paul and
  • Tanmoy Debnath

24 February 2023

Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors have accrued an ever-increasing presence in the agricultural sector due to their non-destructive mode of capturing data. LiDAR sensors emit pulsed light waves that return to the sensor upon bouncing off sur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,419 Views
13 Pages

Remote Interactive Surgery Platform (RISP): Proof of Concept for an Augmented-Reality-Based Platform for Surgical Telementoring

  • Yannik Kalbas,
  • Hoijoon Jung,
  • John Ricklin,
  • Ge Jin,
  • Mingjian Li,
  • Thomas Rauer,
  • Shervin Dehghani,
  • Nassir Navab,
  • Jinman Kim and
  • Sandro-Michael Heining
  • + 1 author

23 February 2023

The “Remote Interactive Surgery Platform” (RISP) is an augmented reality (AR)-based platform for surgical telementoring. It builds upon recent advances of mixed reality head-mounted displays (MR-HMD) and associated immersive visualization...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,170 Views
11 Pages

Inter- and Intra-Observer Variability and the Effect of Experience in Cine-MRI for Adhesion Detection

  • Bram de Wilde,
  • Frank Joosten,
  • Wulphert Venderink,
  • Mirjam E. J. Davidse,
  • Juliëtte Geurts,
  • Hanneke Kruijt,
  • Afke Vermeulen,
  • Bibi Martens,
  • Maxime V. P. Schyns and
  • Henkjan Huisman
  • + 13 authors

23 February 2023

Cine-MRI for adhesion detection is a promising novel modality that can help the large group of patients developing pain after abdominal surgery. Few studies into its diagnostic accuracy are available, and none address observer variability. This retro...

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