Background and Objectives: the aim of the study was to evaluate the repeatability and reproducibility of optical microangiography (OMAG)-based optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) in the optic nerve head (ONH) and radial peripapillary capi...
Flood-illuminated adaptive optics (AO) imaging enables high-resolution quantification of retinal vascular morphology; however, its repeatability in older adults with lens opacities remains poorly characterized. In this prospective study, 40 subjects...
Imaging biomarkers require technical, biological, and clinical validation to be translated into robust tools in research or clinical settings. This study contributes to the technical validation of radiomic features from magnetic resonance imaging (MR...
Background: To use the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) as reliable biomarkers, validation of MRI equipment performance and clinical acquisition protocols should be performed prior to application in patients. This study aims to validate various M...
Citrate-coated electrostatically stabilized very small superparamagnetic iron oxide particles (VSOPs) have been successfully tested as magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) contrast agents and are promising tools for molecular imaging of atheroscleros...
Repeat photography, the process of locating the camera position of an old photo and taking a new photo from this position, is utilized to protect our natural heritage, by measuring landscape changes between old and new image, and to conserve and reco...
Recently, phenotyping has become one of the main bottlenecks in plant breeding and fundamental plant science. This is particularly true for plant disease assessment, which has to deal with time-consuming evaluations and the subjectivity of visual ass...
Early diagnosis of tendon injuries and accurate long-term monitoring of the healing process are key for equine veterinarians that use conventional ultrasonography. The development of strain elastography could improve the management of clinical cases....
The tremendous advancement of cardiac imaging methods, the substantial progress in predictive modelling, along with the amount of new investigative multimodalities, challenge the current technologies in the cardiology field. Innovative, robust and mu...
Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is the second most common muscular dystrophy in adults, and it is associated with local D4Z4 chromatin relaxation, mostly via the contraction of the D4Z4 macrosatellite repeat array on chromosome 4q35. In...
Wide-angle cameras are widely used in photogrammetry and autonomous systems which rely on the accurate metric measurements derived from images. To find the geometric relationship between incoming rays and image pixels, geometric camera calibration (G...
Background: Perianal Crohn’s disease (pCD) is one of the most disabling complications of inflammatory bowel disease, characterized by fistulas and abscesses that demand precise imaging for diagnosis, treatment planning, and follow-up. Magnetic...
The recently introduced semi-orthogonal system of nucleic acid imaging offers a greatly improved method of identifying DNA sequences that are capable of adopting noncanonical structures. This paper uses our newly developed G-QINDER tool to identify s...
Ageing of historical documents often results in changes in the optical properties of the constituent materials. Imaging spectroscopy (IS) can be a valuable tool for monitoring of such changes, if the method fulfils two important conditions. Firstly,...
Moodle quizzes are a convenient way of online assessment, benefiting both teachers and students. Unfortunately, their preparation is slow, cumbersome, and error-prone. In addition to the effort of designing the questions, it is necessary to enter the...
Magnetogenetics is a new field that utilizes electromagnetic fields to remotely control cellular activity. In addition to the development of the biological genetic tools, this approach requires designing hardware with a specific set of demands for th...
Glioblastoma is the most frequent form of adult-type diffuse gliomas, and it carries a very poor prognosis. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an indispensable tool for diagnosing and monitoring brain tumors, potentially influencing choices like rep...
Rapid and non-contact surface inspection is essential for quality control in modern production. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) can image a surface without contact, but turning those images into roughness parameters usually requires specialized pr...
An unexpected periodic microtexture was observed on the machined surface of a steel workpiece during turning with an ultrasonic tool whose generator had been physically disconnected. This study examined whether cutting contact could passively excite...
While conventional radiography and MRI have a well-established role in the assessment of patients with knee osteoarthritis, ultrasound is considered a complementary and additional tool. Moreover, the actual usefulness of ultrasound is still a matter...
The purpose of the study was to characterize a detection system based on inorganic scintillators and determine its suitability for dosimetry in preclinical radiation research. Dose rate, linearity, and repeatability of the response (among others) wer...
Weed emergence models have the potential to be important tools for automating weed control actions; however, producing the necessary data (e.g., seedling counts) is time consuming and tedious. If similar weed emergence models could be created by deri...
This work describes the development of a reusable 2D detector based on radiochromic reaction for radiotherapy dosimetric measurements. It consists of a radiochromic gel dosimeter in a cuboidal plastic container, scanning with a flatbed scanner, and d...
Breast cancer is the most common cause of death in women around the world. A new tool has been adopted based on thermal imaging, deep convolutional networks, health applications on smartphones, and cloud computing for early detection of breast cancer...
Following refractive surgery, the cornea is denervated and re-innervated, hence a reproducible tool to objectively quantify this change is warranted. This study aimed to determine the repeatability and reproducibility of corneal nerve quantification...
Normative brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is essential to interpret the state of an individual’s brain health. However, a normative study is often expensive for small research groups. Although several attempts have been made to establish...
Current guidelines for the care of heart transplantation recipients recommend routine endomyocardial biopsy and invasive coronary angiography as the cornerstones in the surveillance for acute rejection (AR) and coronary allograft vasculopathy (CAV)....
Advances in accelerated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) continue to push the bounds on achievable spatial and temporal resolution while maintaining a clinically acceptable image quality. Validation tools, including numerical simulations, are needed...
Background/Objectives: Radiomics has seen substantial growth in medical imaging; however, its potential in optical coherence tomography (OCT) has not been widely explored. We systematically evaluate the repeatability and reproducibility of handcrafte...
Mobile devices have become the most used tool for a large number of tasks that we regularly perform such as relating them, searching for information, and in particular for making purchases. A situation that is frequently repeated in many areas is dis...
Cell-based immunotherapies require noninvasive tools that can quantify the migration, biodistribution, and persistence of administered immune cells. This review focuses primarily on oncologic immune cell therapy, while also considering selected infla...
We applied conversational robots in language learning, building on the previously developed Japanese repeating (shadowing) system for beginners in an applied foreign languages program at a northern Taiwan university. The previous system, designed to...
Precision greenhouse agriculture enhances plant health and crop yields by continuously monitoring key plant parameters. Stem diameter is such a parameter and is monitored to support decisions on plant care. However, traditional contact-based methods...
Implementation of the cold spray (CS) technology in manufacturing and repair creates a demand for reliable quality control and process monitoring measures. In this regard, particle size and impact velocity are undoubtedly the most important control p...
Heart failure (HF) is a multidisciplinary disease affecting almost 1–2% of the adult population worldwide. Symptoms most frequently reported by patients suffering from HF include dyspnoea, cough or exercise intolerance, which is equally often o...
Additive manufacturing enables the development of low-cost, self-built robotic systems; however, their performance is typically not characterized by validated metrics. The paper presents a photogrammetric concept intended for system-independent appli...
Structure-from-motion (SfM) photogrammetry from unmanned aerial system (UAS) imagery is an emerging tool for repeat topographic surveying of dryland erosion. These methods are particularly appealing due to the ability to cover large landscapes compar...
Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) is a major prognostic and predictive marker overexpressed in 15–20% of breast cancers. The diagnostic reference standard for selecting patients for HER2-targeted therapy is based on the analysis o...
Background/Objectives: Ptosis surgery corrects drooping upper eyelids, improving function and esthetics. Traditional methods like marginal reflex distance (MRD) and palpebral fissure height (PFH) offer limited one-dimensional measurements. This study...
Mammography is an essential tool in breast screening, often revealing lesions that appear as microcalcifications with or without an associated mass. Decisions about biopsy requirements are guided by the BI-RADS system, aiming to confirm the histopath...
As survival for cancer patients improves, the incidence of brain metastases has risen. This is likely due to improved systemic disease control, increased diligence in surveillance imaging in high-risk pathologies, improved neuro-imaging techniques an...
Digital hemispherical photography (DHP) has been widely used to estimate leaf area index (LAI) in forestry. Despite the advancement in the processing of hemispherical images with dedicated tools, several steps are still manual and thus easily affecte...
Background: Magnetic resonance (MR) relaxometry provides a noninvasive tool to discriminate endometriosis-associated ovarian cancer (EAOC) from ovarian endometrioma (OE) with high accuracy. However, this method has a limitation in discriminating mali...
The transformation of the state of polarization of a light beam via its linear interaction with a material medium can be modeled through the Stokes–Mueller formalism. The Mueller matrix associated with a given interaction depends on many aspect...
Active surveillance (AS) in prostate cancer (PCa) represents a curative alternative for men with localised low-risk PCa. Continuous improvement of AS patient’s selection and surveillance modalities aims at reducing misclassification, simplifying moda...
Background/Objectives: Chest X-ray (CXR) images are a widely used first-line screening tool for pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) detection but are difficult to interpret, which has increased demand for an automated screening tool. Deep-learning-based comp...
Software security is a component of software development that should be integrated throughout its entire development lifecycle, and not simply as an afterthought. If security vulnerabilities are caught early in development, they can be fixed before t...
Background: Since cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) technology has been widely adopted in orthodontics, multiple attempts have been made to devise techniques for mandibular segmentation and 3D superimposition. Unfortunately, as the software utiliz...
Musculoskeletal diseases of the knee joint affect a large percentage of the population, particularly athletes at the competitive level where stress on the joints is higher. These conditions can be diagnosed and monitored using various imaging techniq...
Neurofibrillary tangles composed of hyperphosphorylated tau protein are primarily neuropathological features of a number of neurodegenerative diseases collectively termed tauopathy. To understand the mechanisms underlying the cause of tauopathy, prec...
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