The use of machine learning in healthcare has the potential to revolutionize virtually every aspect industry. However, lack transparency AI applications may lead problem trustworthiness and reliability information provided by these applications. Medical practitioners rely on such systems for clinical decision making, but without adequate explanations, diagnosis made cannot be completely trusted...

PURPOSE The feasibility of medical imaging using a medical linear accelerator to generate acoustic waves is investigated. This modality, x-ray acoustic computed tomography (XACT), has the potential to enable deeper tissue penetration in tissue than photoacoustic tomography via laser excitation. METHODS Short pulsed (μs-range) 10 MV x-ray beams with dose-rate of approximately 30 Gy∕min were ge...

Since its invention in 1876 the telephone has been used as a tool for delivering health care: Alexander Graham Bell’s first recorded telephone call was for medical help after he spilt sulphuric acid on himself. By the 1970s clinical enthusiasts were describing the telephone as having become as much a part of standard medical equipment as the stethoscope. However, despite the widespread use of t...

Most of the existing research in medical image segmentation has focused on magnetic resonance (MR) and computed tomography (CT). Much less work has been done in the segmentation of X-ray images. Nevertheless, medical specialists often examine X-rays images of spinal columns to determine the presence of abnormalities or dysfunctions and to analyse the vertebral mobility. To help them to establis...

This contribution discusses a selection of today's techniques and futurc concepts for digital x-ray imaging in medicine. Advantages of digital imaging over conventional analog methods include the possibility to archive and transmit images in digital intormation systems as well as to digitally process pictures before display, for example, to enhance low contrast details. After reviewing two digi...

In this paper we present our solution to master the complexity of product adaption cycles of a medical X-ray control unit. We present the real hardware and software platform and our mapping of it to a virtual X-ray control unit, implemented as our hardware-software co-simulation. To reduce complexity for hardware developers, we developed our own XML-based abstract system description language wh...

Severe intellectual disability (ID), commonly referred to as mental retardation (MR), comprises a large collection of clinical conditions whose associated phenotypes include substantially below-average intelligence test scores and limited abilities in socially adaptive behaviors, such as communication, self-care, social interaction, and school functioning. ID/MR affects 1%–3% of the worldwide p...