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387 citations · 645 across the 41 of their papers we have counts for

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42 papers

cs.CL2026

ReportMedSAM: Guiding Segmentation Through Radiology Reports

Anghong Du, Theodoros N. Arvanitis, Colin Watts +2

Free-form radiology reports contain rich clinical descriptions, yet converting them for reliable segmentation remains challenging due to the inherent variability of natural languag…

cs.CV2023★ 13 cited

Radiology Report Generation Using Transformers Conditioned with Non-imaging Data

Nurbanu Aksoy, Nishant Ravikumar, Alejandro F Frangi

Medical image interpretation is central to most clinical applications such as disease diagnosis, treatment planning, and prognostication. In clinical practice, radiologists examine…

cs.CY2023★ 39 cited

FUTURE-AI: International consensus guideline for trustworthy and deployable artificial intelligence in healthcare

Karim Lekadir, Aasa Feragen, Abdul Joseph Fofanah +117

Despite major advances in artificial intelligence (AI) for medicine and healthcare, the deployment and adoption of AI technologies remain limited in real-world clinical practice. I…

eess.IV2023

Learned Local Attention Maps for Synthesising Vessel Segmentations

Yash Deo, Rodrigo Bonazzola, Haoran Dou +5

Magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) is an imaging modality for visualising blood vessels. It is useful for several diagnostic applications and for assessing the risk of adverse ev…

eess.IV2023

Shape-guided Conditional Latent Diffusion Models for Synthesising Brain Vasculature

Yash Deo, Haoran Dou, Nishant Ravikumar +2

The Circle of Willis (CoW) is the part of cerebral vasculature responsible for delivering blood to the brain. Understanding the diverse anatomical variations and configurations of…

eess.IV2023

Adaptive Semi-Supervised Segmentation of Brain Vessels with Ambiguous Labels

Fengming Lin, Yan Xia, Nishant Ravikumar +3

Accurate segmentation of brain vessels is crucial for cerebrovascular disease diagnosis and treatment. However, existing methods face challenges in capturing small vessels and hand…

eess.IV2023

A Conditional Flow Variational Autoencoder for Controllable Synthesis of Virtual Populations of Anatomy

Haoran Dou, Nishant Ravikumar, Alejandro F. Frangi

The generation of virtual populations (VPs) of anatomy is essential for conducting in silico trials of medical devices. Typically, the generated VP should capture sufficient variab…

eess.IV2023★ 1 cited

GSMorph: Gradient Surgery for cine-MRI Cardiac Deformable Registration

Haoran Dou, Ning Bi, Luyi Han +7

Deep learning-based deformable registration methods have been widely investigated in diverse medical applications. Learning-based deformable registration relies on weighted objecti…

eess.IV2023★ 10 cited

A Generalised Deep Meta-Learning Model for Automated Quality Control of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Images

Shahabedin Nabavi, Hossein Simchi, Mohsen Ebrahimi Moghaddam +2

Background and Objectives: Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging is a powerful modality in functional and anatomical assessment for various cardiovascular diseases. Suffi…

cs.CV2023

Learning disentangled representations for explainable chest X-ray classification using Dirichlet VAEs

Rachael Harkness, Alejandro F Frangi, Kieran Zucker +1

This study explores the use of the Dirichlet Variational Autoencoder (DirVAE) for learning disentangled latent representations of chest X-ray (CXR) images. Our working hypothesis i…

q-bio.GN2023★ 1 cited

Unsupervised ensemble-based phenotyping helps enhance the discoverability of genes related to heart morphology

Rodrigo Bonazzola, Enzo Ferrante, Nishant Ravikumar +5

Recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been successful in identifying associations between genetic variants and simple cardiac parameters derived from cardiac magnetic…

cs.CV2022★ 4 cited

Joint segmentation and discontinuity-preserving deformable registration: Application to cardiac cine-MR images

Xiang Chen, Yan Xia, Nishant Ravikumar +1

Medical image registration is a challenging task involving the estimation of spatial transformations to establish anatomical correspondence between pairs or groups of images. Recen…

eess.SP2022

Boosting Personalised Musculoskeletal Modelling with Physics-informed Knowledge Transfer

Jie Zhang, Yihui Zhao, Tianzhe Bao +5

Data-driven methods have become increasingly more prominent for musculoskeletal modelling due to their conceptually intuitive simple and fast implementation. However, the performan…

physics.med-ph2022

Three-dimensional micro-structurally informed in silico myocardium -- towards virtual imaging trials in cardiac diffusion weighted MRI

Mojtaba Lashgari, Nishant Ravikumar, Irvin Teh +4

In silico tissue models enable evaluating quantitative models of magnetic resonance imaging. This includes validating and sensitivity analysis of imaging biomarkers and tissue micr…

eess.SP2022★ 22 cited

Physics-informed Deep Learning for Musculoskeletal Modelling: Predicting Muscle Forces and Joint Kinematics from Surface EMG

Jie Zhang, Yihui Zhao, Fergus Shone +4

Musculoskeletal models have been widely used for detailed biomechanical analysis to characterise various functional impairments given their ability to estimate movement variables (…

cs.CV2022

Agent with Tangent-based Formulation and Anatomical Perception for Standard Plane Localization in 3D Ultrasound

Yuxin Zou, Haoran Dou, Yuhao Huang +9

Standard plane (SP) localization is essential in routine clinical ultrasound (US) diagnosis. Compared to 2D US, 3D US can acquire multiple view planes in one scan and provide compl…

eess.IV2022

Localizing the Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve via Ultrasound with a Bayesian Shape Framework

Haoran Dou, Luyi Han, Yushuang He +6

Tumor infiltration of the recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) is a contraindication for robotic thyroidectomy and can be difficult to detect via standard laryngoscopy. Ultrasound (US)…

eess.IV2022★ 3 cited

Fully Automated Assessment of Cardiac Coverage in Cine Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Images using an Explainable Deep Visual Salient Region Detection Model

Shahabedin Nabavi, Mohammad Hashemi, Mohsen Ebrahimi Moghaddam +2

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging has become a modality with superior power for the diagnosis and prognosis of cardiovascular diseases. One of the essential basic qua…

eess.IV2021

Automatic Multi-Class Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Image Quality Assessment using Unsupervised Domain Adaptation in Spatial and Frequency Domains

Shahabedin Nabavi, Hossein Simchi, Mohsen Ebrahimi Moghaddam +2

Population imaging studies rely upon good quality medical imagery before downstream image quantification. This study provides an automated approach to assess image quality from car…

cs.CV2021

The pitfalls of using open data to develop deep learning solutions for COVID-19 detection in chest X-rays

Rachael Harkness, Geoff Hall, Alejandro F Frangi +2

Since the emergence of COVID-19, deep learning models have been developed to identify COVID-19 from chest X-rays. With little to no direct access to hospital data, the AI community…

cs.CV2021★ 1 cited

Self Context and Shape Prior for Sensorless Freehand 3D Ultrasound Reconstruction

Mingyuan Luo, Xin Yang, Xiaoqiong Huang +6

3D ultrasound (US) is widely used for its rich diagnostic information. However, it is criticized for its limited field of view. 3D freehand US reconstruction is promising in addres…

cs.CV2021

Flip Learning: Erase to Segment

Yuhao Huang, Xin Yang, Yuxin Zou +7

Nodule segmentation from breast ultrasound images is challenging yet essential for the diagnosis. Weakly-supervised segmentation (WSS) can help reduce time-consuming and cumbersome…

cs.CV2021

Statistical Dependency Guided Contrastive Learning for Multiple Labeling in Prenatal Ultrasound

Shuangchi He, Zehui Lin, Xin Yang +13

Standard plane recognition plays an important role in prenatal ultrasound (US) screening. Automatically recognizing the standard plane along with the corresponding anatomical struc…

eess.IV2021★ 10 cited

AI-based Aortic Vessel Tree Segmentation for Cardiovascular Diseases Treatment: Status Quo

Yuan Jin, Antonio Pepe, Jianning Li +6

The aortic vessel tree is composed of the aorta and its branching arteries, and plays a key role in supplying the whole body with blood. Aortic diseases, like aneurysms or dissecti…