This paper presents a computer-aided diagnosis system for pigmented skin lesions, with solutions for the lesion boundary detection and for the quantification of the degree of symmetry. Lesion detection results were validated by expert dermatologists, who also provided hand-drawn boundaries of the lesions. These reference boundaries were not used as a gold standard, but were allowed to statistic...

OBJECTIVES To investigate whether the human sciatic nerve might have a consistent somatotopic organization according to proximal fascicle input by spinal nerves. METHODS Twelve patients (55.3 ± 15.5 years) with confirmed lesions of either the L5 or S1 spinal nerve root underwent magnetic resonance neurography of sciatic nerve fascicles including thigh and knee levels (T2-weighted sequence wit...

Abstract Background Parotid tumors are frequently encountered by otolaryngologists, and the vast majority of these pleomorphic variety. Myoepitheliomas represent a small subset parotid tumors. Due to their lack specificity, they can easily be mistaken an untrained eye for adenoma. However, recent advent immunohistochemical staining has aided in diagnosis. These show both benign malignant potent...

Due to its increasing incidence, skin cancer, and especially melanoma, is considered a major public health issue. Manually detecting lesions (SL) from dermoscopy images difficult time-consuming process. Thus, researchers designed computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems assist dermatologists in the early detection of cancer. Moreover, SL naturally exhibits long-tailed distribution due complex pat...

1. Introduction Liver lesions stem from a variety of causes ranging from benign to malignant. The ability to efficiently and accurately differentiate these lesions as malignant or benign using non-invasive medical imaging is important to patient treatment and outcome. Contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) imaging is the dominant technology used for liver lesion diagnosis [1]. This modality...