Current Medical Imaging - Volume 19, Issue 7, 2023

Medical imaging plays a vital role in medical diagnosis and clinical treatment. The biggest challenge in the medical field is the correct identification of disease and better treatment. Multi-modal Medical Image Fusion (MMIF) is the process of merging multiple medical images from different modalities into a single fused image. The main objective of the medical image fusion is to obtain a large amount of appropriate informat Read More

Computer vision has proven that it can solve many problems in the field of health in recent years. Processing the data obtained from the patients provided benefits in both disease detection and follow-up and control mechanisms. Studies on the use of computer vision for COVID-19, which is one of the biggest global health problems of the past years, are increasing daily. This study includes a preliminary review of COVID-19 c Read More

Purpose: The aim of the study was to investigate the differential performances in lesions and 18F-FDG radiotracer distribution detected by PET/CT between multiple myeloma and unknown osteolytic metastasis. Methods: A retrospective study was performed on 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging of 63 patients with multiple bone destructions without extraosseous primary malignant tumors. By pathological diagnosis, 20 patients were co Read More

Objective: The study aims to clarify the comparative benefits of X-ray sinography and computed tomography (CT) sinography in assessing the abdominal wall sinus tract. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, patients in our hospital with an abdominal wall sinus tract who had received both X-ray sinography and CT sinography from January 2018 to January 2021 were enrolled. The intraoperative findings were used as the gol Read More

Aims: This study aims to assess the prognostic value of graft patency with coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) using a comprehensive single-branch targeted atherosclerotic risk score (CSBS) in patients before coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Methods: This retrospective study contains a total of 88 patients who underwent clinical CCTA before off-pump CABG surgery between 2015 and 2018. Read More

Background: The techniques differed in many of the literature on the detection of Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia from the blood smear pictures, as the cases of infection in the world and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia were increasing and the causes of this disease were not known, especially for children, which is a serious and fatal disease. Objective: Through this work we seek to contribute to discover the blood cells affected by Read More

Introduction: Since the most prominent effect of iron is increasing R2* and R2 relaxation rates, the iron-overload liver shows little signal with conventional T1ρ sequences like RARE. Whereas UTE MR imaging sequences can detect the signal from short T2/T2* relaxation components in tissues. This study aims to evaluate the difference in R1ρ profiles and compare the correlations between RARE-based and UTE-based se Read More

Objectives: To demonstrate cerebral arterial flow volume changes during the hypothyroid, euthyroid, and hyperthyroid phases and comparing between laboratory findings and cerebral arterial flow changes with carotid-vertebral duplex Doppler ultrasound (CVA-DUSG) in subclinical Hashimoto thyroiditis (HT) patients. Methods: According to the TSH level, 3 groups were constructed between patient cases. Group 1 (n Read More

Background: The crush injury model of the sciatic nerve in rabbits is a common nerve injury model, but there is little literature on the evaluation of nerve stiffness by ultrasound elastography. Purpose: To explore the value of ultrasound elastography in diagnosing crush injury of the sciatic nerve in rabbits. Materials and Methods: Forty cases of crush injury model of the sciatic nerve in rabbits were examined by conventional ultras Read More

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical value of computed tomographyguided localization needle (LN) and methylene blue (MB) for pulmonary nodule localization. Materials and Methods: Between November 2019 and January 2022, 547 patients underwent computed tomography-guided LN (n=171) or MB (n=376) localization and video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) resection. Results: In total, Read More

Introduction: Chordomas are midline tumors that arise from remnants of the primitive notochord, while the heterotopic rests are usually situated extradural within the bones of the axial skeleton. The tumor is locally aggressive with a high recurrence rate but rarely gives rise to metastasis. Case Report: A 55-year-old female presented with complaints of headache and intermittent vomiting for six months and diminution of vi Read More

Background: Diffuse large B-cell lymphomas are the most common type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Because cutaneous lymphomas predominantly originate from the T cells, primary cutaneous diffuse large B-cell lymphomas are considered a rare subtype of extranodal diffuse large B-cell lymphomas that commonly involve the subcutaneous tissues of the trunk and extremities. To date, only a single case of facial primary c Read More

Introduction: Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common type of non- Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL). However, the primary skeletal muscle involvement of DLBCL is extremely rare, comprising less than 1% of all the extranodal lymphoma. To date, only 8 cases of extranodal NHL involving the masticator muscles have been reported in the literature. Case Presentation: A 70-year-old male presented with a rapid pro Read More

Background: Persistent sciatic artery (PSA) is a congenital malformation due to incomplete involution during the embryonic period. Its etiology is unknown, with an estimated incidence of 0.02 - 0.04% in the whole population and a mean age of 60-65 years. Its presentation can be bilateral. It is asymptomatic in most cases and is usually detected accidentally; however, some symptoms may appear, such as claudication, sciatic n Read More