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20192024
most citedDeep reinforcement learning to detect brain lesions on MRI: a proof-of-concept application of reinforcement learning to medical images

6 citations · 18 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

physics.chem-ph2024

Kinematics Modeling of Peroxy Free Radicals: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach

Subhadarsi Nayak, Hrithwik Shalu, Joseph Stember

Tropospheric ozone, known as a concerning air pollutant, has been associated with health issues including asthma, bronchitis, and impaired lung function. The rates at which peroxy…

cs.CV2024

Uncertainty Quantification in Detecting Choroidal Metastases on MRI via Evolutionary Strategies

Bala McRae-Posani, Andrei Holodny, Hrithwik Shalu +1

Uncertainty quantification plays a vital role in facilitating the practical implementation of AI in radiology by addressing growing concerns around trustworthiness. Given the chall…

cs.NE2022

Deep neuroevolution to predict primary brain tumor grade from functional MRI adjacency matrices

Joseph Stember, Mehrnaz Jenabi, Luca Pasquini +3

Whereas MRI produces anatomic information about the brain, functional MRI (fMRI) tells us about neural activity within the brain, including how various regions communicate with eac…

cs.NE2022

Deep neuroevolution for limited, heterogeneous data: proof-of-concept application to Neuroblastoma brain metastasis using a small virtual pooled image collection

Subhanik Purkayastha, Hrithwik Shalu, David Gutman +6

Artificial intelligence (AI) in radiology has made great strides in recent years, but many hurdles remain. Overfitting and lack of generalizability represent important ongoing chal…

q-bio.NC2022★ 3 cited

Deep reinforcement learning for fMRI prediction of Autism Spectrum Disorder

Joseph Stember, Danielle Stember, Luca Pasquini +3

Purpose : Because functional MRI (fMRI) data sets are in general small, we sought a data efficient approach to resting state fMRI classification of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) v…

cs.NE2022★ 1 cited

Direct evaluation of progression or regression of disease burden in brain metastatic disease with Deep Neuroevolution

Joseph Stember, Robert Young, Hrithwik Shalu

Purpose: A core component of advancing cancer treatment research is assessing response to therapy. Doing so by hand, for example as per RECIST or RANO criteria, is tedious, time-co…

cs.NE2021★ 2 cited

Deep Neuroevolution Squeezes More out of Small Neural Networks and Small Training Sets: Sample Application to MRI Brain Sequence Classification

Joseph N Stember, Hrithwik Shalu

Purpose: Deep Neuroevolution (DNE) holds the promise of providing radiology artificial intelligence (AI) that performs well with small neural networks and small training sets. We s…

cs.CV2021

Deep reinforcement learning with automated label extraction from clinical reports accurately classifies 3D MRI brain volumes

Joseph Stember, Hrithwik Shalu

Purpose: Image classification is perhaps the most fundamental task in imaging AI. However, labeling images is time-consuming and tedious. We have recently demonstrated that reinfor…

cs.CV2021★ 3 cited

Deep reinforcement learning-based image classification achieves perfect testing set accuracy for MRI brain tumors with a training set of only 30 images

Joseph Stember, Hrithwik Shalu

Purpose: Image classification may be the fundamental task in imaging artificial intelligence. We have recently shown that reinforcement learning can achieve high accuracy for lesio…

q-bio.QM2021★ 2 cited

Deep Neural Network Based Differential Equation Solver for HIV Enzyme Kinetics

Joseph Stember, Parvathy Jayan, Hrithwik Shalu

Purpose: We seek to use neural networks (NNs) to solve a well-known system of differential equations describing the balance between T cells and HIV viral burden. Materials and Meth…

cs.CV2020

Unsupervised deep clustering and reinforcement learning can accurately segment MRI brain tumors with very small training sets

Joseph Stember, Hrithwik Shalu

Purpose: Lesion segmentation in medical imaging is key to evaluating treatment response. We have recently shown that reinforcement learning can be applied to radiological images fo…

cs.CV2020★ 1 cited

Reinforcement learning using Deep Q Networks and Q learning accurately localizes brain tumors on MRI with very small training sets

Joseph N Stember, Hrithwik Shalu

Purpose Supervised deep learning in radiology suffers from notorious inherent limitations: 1) It requires large, hand-annotated data sets, 2) It is non-generalizable, and 3) It lac…

cs.AI2020★ 6 cited

Deep reinforcement learning to detect brain lesions on MRI: a proof-of-concept application of reinforcement learning to medical images

Joseph Stember, Hrithwik Shalu

Purpose: AI in radiology is hindered chiefly by: 1) Requiring large annotated data sets. 2) Non-generalizability that limits deployment to new scanners / institutions. And 3) Inade…

eess.IV2019

Cross-modality Knowledge Transfer for Prostate Segmentation from CT Scans

Yucheng Liu, Naji Khosravan, Yulin Liu +5

Creating large scale high-quality annotations is a known challenge in medical imaging. In this work, based on the CycleGAN algorithm, we propose leveraging annotations from one mod…