Medical Image Computing and Analysis

A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Bioelectronics".

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The Intervention Centre, Oslo University Hospital, Sognsvannsveien 21, 0188 Oslo, Norway
Interests: medical imaging; image processing and analysis; image segmentation; image registration; navigation; mixed reality visualization; deep learning

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Department of Computer Science, NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 191, 2802 Gjøvik, Norway
Interests: visual information processing and analysis; computer vision; machine learning; signal processing
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Laboratoire de Traitement et Transport de l'Information, Institut Galilée, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, 93430 Villetaneuse, France
Interests: biometrics; compression; contrast; coding; diffusion; entropy; fractals; human visual system; image and video processing; image and video quality; image understanding; motion; non-linear filtering; percolation; scene analysis; segmentation

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Dear Colleagues,

Medical image computing and analysis are fundamental to understanding, visualizing, and quantifying medical images in clinical applications. The rapid developments during the past couple of decades has helped in the creation of faster diagnosis and more accurate treatment solutions, leading to significant increase in patient safety while reducing processing time and cost.  

The field of medical image computing and analysis is a branch of scientific computing, where advanced computational strategies are applied for the extraction of relevant quantitative information from medical images. Though segmentation, visualization, registration, navigation, etc., are seen as separate problems under medical image computing, they are closely interconnected in solving clinical bottlenecks. For example, segmentation of an organ of interest could be used as a starting point for registration between multiple medical image modalities, which could further be used for visualization with head mounted displays.  

The aim of this Special Issue of Electronics is to present state-of-the-art investigations in medical image computing and analysis for improving current applications and exploring novel applications in medicine. It will also be a question in this Special Issue to confront and make the link between the classical approaches based on interpretable and flexible models and the new trend represented by the approaches based on deep learning which seem to become widespread. Towards achieving this aim, we invite researchers to contribute original and unique articles, as well as review articles. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

  • Medical Image Processing and Analysis
  • Video Processing and Analysis for Medical Diagnosis
  • Video Guided Surgery
  • Medical Image Datasets for Deep Learning Models
  • Computer-Aided Diagnosis
  • Learning-Based Image Enhancement
  • Weakly-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
  • Image Visualization and Reconstruction
  • Mixed, Augmented, and Virtual Reality
  • Image Registration
  • Image Guided Navigation
  • Deep Learning for Medical Imaging

Dr. Rahul Prasanna Kumar
Prof. Dr. Faouzi Alaya Cheikh
Prof. Dr. Azeddine Beghdadi
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Keywords

  • medical imaging
  • medical image computation
  • medical image analysis
  • image enhancement
  • image segmentation
  • image registration
  • image guided navigation
  • visualization
  • deep learning
  • artificial intelligence
  • machine learning
  • mixed reality
  • augmented reality
  • virtual reality
  • validation
  • diagnosis
  • treatment
  • patient
  • healthcare

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Improved Deep Convolutional Neural Networks via Boosting for Predicting the Quality of In Vitro Bovine Embryos
by Turki Turki and Zhi Wei
Electronics 2022, 11(9), 1363; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11091363 - 25 Apr 2022
Cited by 6 | Viewed by 2053
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Automated diagnosis for the quality of bovine in vitro-derived embryos based on imaging data is an important research problem in developmental biology. By predicting the quality of embryos correctly, embryologists can (1) avoid the time-consuming and tedious work of subjective visual examination to [...] Read more.
Automated diagnosis for the quality of bovine in vitro-derived embryos based on imaging data is an important research problem in developmental biology. By predicting the quality of embryos correctly, embryologists can (1) avoid the time-consuming and tedious work of subjective visual examination to assess the quality of embryos; (2) automatically perform real-time evaluation of embryos, which accelerates the examination process; and (3) possibly avoid the economic, social, and medical implications caused by poor-quality embryos. While generated embryo images provide an opportunity for analyzing such images, there is a lack of consistent noninvasive methods utilizing deep learning to assess the quality of embryos. Hence, designing high-performance deep learning algorithms is crucial for data analysts who work with embryologists. A key goal of this study is to provide advanced deep learning tools to embryologists, who would, in turn, use them as prediction calculators to evaluate the quality of embryos. The proposed deep learning approaches utilize a modified convolutional neural network, with or without boosting techniques, to improve the prediction performance. Experimental results on image data pertaining to in vitro bovine embryos show that our proposed deep learning approaches perform better than existing baseline approaches in terms of prediction performance and statistical significance. Full article
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