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Open AccessAssessment of macular findings by OCT angiography in patients without clinical signs of diabetic retinopathy: radiomics features for early screening of diabetic retinopathy
This cross-sectional study aimed to quantitatively analyze the optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) images using MATLAB-based software and evaluate the initial changes in macular vascular density an...
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Open AccessA machine learning-based system for detecting leishmaniasis in microscopic images
Leishmaniasis, a disease caused by a protozoan, causes numerous deaths in humans each year. After malaria, leishmaniasis is known to be the deadliest parasitic disease globally. Direct visual detection of leis...
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An artificial intelligence-based clinical decision support system for large kidney stone treatment
A decision support system (DSS) was developed to predict postoperative outcome of a kidney stone treatment procedure, particularly percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL). The system can serve as a promising tool ...
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A knowledge-based system for brain tumor segmentation using only 3D FLAIR images
This study aims to develop a semi-automatic system for brain tumor segmentation in 3D MR images. For a given image, noise was corrected using SUSAN algorithm first. A specific region of interest (ROI) that con...
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Automatic segmentation of vertebrae in 3D CT images using adaptive fast 3D pulse coupled neural networks
Two systems are presented for segmentation of vertebrae in a 3D computed tomography (CT) image. The first method extracts seven features from each voxel and uses a multi-layer perceptron neural network (MLPNN)...
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3D cerebral MR image segmentation using multiple-classifier system
The three soft brain tissues white matter (WM), gray matter (GM), and cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) identified in a magnetic resonance (MR) image via image segmentation techniques can aid in structural and func...
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Validating motor unit firing patterns extracted by EMG signal decomposition
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