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Chapter and Conference Paper
Mute Mate: An Advanced Lip-Reading Solution for Mute Participants in Virtual Conferences
Mute Mate is a lip-reading system that has been developed to aid mute individuals during online conferences. With the rising popularity of virtual and remote communication, the need to address the communicatio...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Ensemble of Supervised Machine Learning Models for Cardiovascular Disease Prediction
Heart disorders, often referred to as cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), are the leading cause of mortality and a serious public health issue. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimated in 2016 that cardiovasc...
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PET/CT in Treatment Response Evaluation: Lung Cancer
18F-FDG PET/CT is recommended in the staging and treatment planning of lung cancer. There is no consensus on the optimal imaging technique for assessing response to treatment in lung cancer. However, FDG PET/CT ....
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Chapter
PET/CT in the Assessment of Treatment Response in Hepatobiliary, Gall Bladder and Pancreatic Malignancies
18F-FDG PET is reported to be useful in assessing the efficacy of chemotherapy and other regional therapies in patients with hepatobiliary, gall bladder and pancreatic cancers. In patients with pancreatic cancer,...
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PET CT in Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
18F-FDG PET CT has changed the way we look at Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL). FDG PET CT is used for staging and response assessment in NHL. In this chapter we discuss the role of PET CT in assessing NHL.
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18F-FDG PET/CT in Treatment Response Evaluation: Gastroesophageal Cancer
Esophageal cancer has a high mortality rate, and surgery is the mainstay of treatment for the locoregional disease. However, approximately 20–30% of patients with locally advanced disease have distant metastat...
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FDG PET/CT: Normal Variants, Artefacts and Pitfalls in Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Malignancies
This review depicts the common variations in imaging appearances of biliary and pancreatic malignancies on FDG PET/CT. Pitfalls and artefacts arising due to treatment-related complications are also described.
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PET/CT in Pancreatic Malignancies
Pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PAC) accounts for about 85% of cases of pancreatic malignancies [1], and the term “pancreatic cancer” is sometimes used to refer only to that type. Imaging plays a central role in th...
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Hepatic Malignancies and FDG PET/CT
This chapter highlights the role of FDG PET/CT in primary hepatic malignancies and hepatic metastases.
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Chapter
18F FDG PET/CT: Normal Variants, Artefacts and Pitfalls in Head and Neck Malignancy
This review depicts the unusual patterns of physiological and inflammatory FDG uptake in the head-neck region. Pitfalls and Artefacts arising due to treatment-related complications are also described.
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PET/CT in Gall Bladder and Biliary Tract Malignancies
In this chapter we shall discuss the role of positron emission tomography (PET/CT) in biliary tract malignancies—i.e., gall bladder cancer (GBC) and cholangiocarcinoma (CCA). Though carcinoma of ampulla of Vat...
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Lung Cancer Pictorial Atlas
Teaching point: Both tuberculosis and lung cancer can present as cavitating lesions.