Current Medical Imaging - Volume 10, Issue 1, 2014

A variety of factors cause infertility, which may arise from treatment of salpingemphraxis, hypophysoma or systemic disease. Many factors affect female reproductive function, including age, endocrine level, disease, ovarian reserve, environment, endometrial receptivity and so on. The two key factors that affect the female reproductive function are ovarian reserve and endometrial receptivity. In vitro fertilization-embryo transfe Read More

Introduction: MRCP has achieved widespread success as a diagnostic tool for biliopancreatic cancer. Aim of the study: is to assess the diagnostic quality and overall accuracy of MRCP techniques for the evaluation of biliopancreatic cancer. Patients and Methods: from 266 patients (115 male, 151 female; mean age 50), 63 suspected for biliary tree or pancreatic diseases cancer and histopathologically confirmed, were enrolled Read More

Stem cell therapies have great promise for treatment of many debilitating diseases and damaged tissues. Clinical trials evaluating the safety of cell-based therapies are currently under way. Today's biomedical imaging technology allows for real-time, noninvasive monitoring of grafted stem cells including their distribution, migration, survival and differentiation. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of nanoparticle-labeled cells being Read More

Genetic algorithm (GA) based feature selection method is an evolving search heuristic, used to provide solutions to optimization problems. Feature selection is an important aspect that improves classification accuracy. The main objective of this work is to utilize GA for feature selection by integrating it with a bank of multi-class Support Vector Machine (SVM) for identification of the effective feature set. The proposed GA ba Read More

Radiotherapy research requires a flexible computational research environment for Monte Carlo and patientspecific treatment planning. The ability to perform organs' delineation and measurements of dose distribution within the patient is necessary for analysis of treatment parameters. XSTING was used for the evaluation of chest-wall irradiation using electron beams. Treatment planning was performed by EGSnrcMP (BEAMnrc a Read More

Objectives: The aim of our study was to evaluate the incremental value of of 18F-flouro-2-deoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) performed with non-contrast enhanced computed tomography (non-ceCT) to the contrast enhanced CT (ceCT), and the advantage of combined evaluation over either modality alone in the detection of recurrent pancreatic carcinoma and cholangiocarcinoma. Methods: A retrospe Read More

With the rapid development in serious games, health games have been demonstrated as a useful tool to enhance treatment effects with respect to some problematic behaviors. Every health game has its own game design which can affect the health in a positive manner. In this paper we fixed Imagery Psychotherapy into game design and then developed the 3D Graphical Imagery Psychotherapy video game with cognitive beha Read More

Phytobezoars in the small bowel are rare and most frequently demonstrate obstructive effects leading to small bowel obstruction. Several case reports on the radiological findings of primary small bowel phytobezoars are available in the literature. However, very little is published on the CT findings. We present the CT results in a patient with phytobezoars in the stomach and small bowel with secondary small bowel obstructio Read More