With the growing use of electronic medical records, the trend of diagnostic imaging reporting is toward a more structured format. Advantages include improved quality and consistency of the reporting and ease of data mining. The essential elements of a structured report are provided and illustrated for coronary artery computed tomographic angiograms.

This paper presents a method for segmenting bone in magnetic resonance images. The starting point is the formulation of a Gradient Vector Flow (GVF) snake extended to include statistical shape information. This method exploits the diffusion process used by the GVF snake and improves its capacity to deal with occlusion problems by adding a shape term to the traditional scheme. A dataset of coron...

In today's societies, successful new medical imaging technologies have focused unprecedented attention on the inside of the human body. These techniques have jumped the walls of the biomedical field per se, penetrating the fields of culture and law. The article traces a genealogy of twentieth-century medical techniques used to visualize the human body and brain, from X-rays to the more sophisti...

It is shown that the Dirac equation is separable by variables in a five-dimensional rotating Kerr-(anti-)de Sitter black hole with two independent angular momenta. A first order symmetry operator that commutes with the Dirac operator is constructed in terms of a rank-three Killing-Yano tensor whose square is a second order symmetric Stäckel-Killing tensor admitted by the five-dimensional Kerr-(...

Welds have been inspected by radiography for years, but this technology has major drawbacks: low detection rates for critical planar defects (i.e. cracks and lack of fusion), subjective interpretation, no vertical sizing capability, significant safety hazards, licensing issues, plant closures, and generally slow inspection rates. For decades, the main alternative was manual ultrasonics, which i...

We present a detailed description of a set of FreeSurfer compatible segmentation guidelines tailored to infant MRI scans, and a unique data set of manually segmented acquisitions, with subjects nearly evenly distributed between 0 and 2 years of age. We believe that these segmentation guidelines and this dataset will have a wide range of potential uses in medicine and neuroscience.

In the area of memory research there have been two rival approaches for memory measurement-signal detection theory (SDT) and multinomial processing trees (MPT). Both approaches provide measures for the quality of the memory representation, and both approaches provide for corrections for response bias. In recent years there has been a strong case advanced for the MPT approach because of the find...

Methods Over 3 years, 48 patients were imaged via MRI/CMR (1.5T GE, Milwaukee, WI). Specifically: 8 AICD, 7 AICD/PM, 2 retained lead, 2 REVO and 29 dual chamber PM. Specific criteria were followed for all pts to objectively define whether final diagnosis provided additional information towards pt care. A checklist of 3 questions was answered following scan interpretation by both the technologis...

OBJECTIVES Medical social-media provide a new source of information within information gaining contexts. Facts, experiences, opinions or information on behaviour can be found in the medical web and could support a broad range of applications. The intention of this Focus Theme is to bring the existing research together and to show the possibilities, challenges and technologies for Web Science in...

Since its inception in 19th-century Germany, the physiology laboratory has been a complex and expensive research enterprise involving experts in various fields of science and engineering. Physiology research has been critically dependent on cutting-edge technological support of mechanical, electrical, optical, and more recently computer engineers. Evolution of modern experimental equipment is c...