Bone scintigraphy is recognized as an efficient diagnostic method for whole-body screening for bone metastases. At the moment, whole-body bone scan image analysis is primarily dependent on manual reading by nuclear medicine doctors. However, manual analysis needs substantial experience and is both stressful and time-consuming.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCOVID-19 (Coronavirus), an acute respiratory disorder, is caused by SARS-CoV-2 (coronavirus severe acute respiratory syndrome). The high prevalence of COVID-19 infection has drawn attention to a frequent illness symptom: olfactory and gustatory dysfunction. The primary purpose of this manuscript is to create a Computer-Assisted Diagnostic (CAD) system to determine whether a COVID-19 patient has normal, mild, or severe anosmia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study aims to develop an AI-enhanced methodology for the expedited and accurate diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis (MS), a chronic disease affecting the central nervous system leading to progressive impairment. Traditional diagnostic methods are slow and require substantial expertise, underscoring the need for innovative solutions. Our approach involves two phases: initially, extracting features from brain MRI images using first-order histograms, the gray level co-occurrence matrix, and local binary patterns.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIschemic heart condition is one of the most prevalent causes of death that can be treated more effectively and lead to fewer fatalities if identified early. Heart muscle fibrosis affects the diastolic and systolic function of the heart and is linked to unfavorable cardiovascular outcomes. Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) scarring, a risk factor for ischemic heart disease, may be accurately identified by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to recognize fibrosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis paper presents a machine learning-based technique for interpreting bone scintigraphy images, focusing on feature extraction and introducing a new feature selection method called GJOW. GJOW enhances the effectiveness of the golden jackal optimization (GJO) algorithm by integrating operators from the whale optimization algorithm (WOA). The technique's performance is evaluated through extensive experiments using 18 benchmark datasets and 581 bone scan images obtained from a gamma camera, including 362 abnormal and 219 normal cases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSkin cancer, specifically melanoma, is a serious health issue that arises from the melanocytes, the cells that produce melanin, the pigment responsible for skin color. With skin cancer on the rise, the timely identification of skin lesions is crucial for effective treatment. However, the similarity between some skin lesions can result in misclassification, which is a significant problem.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRefined hybrid convolutional neural networks are proposed in this work for classifying brain tumor classes based on MRI scans. A dataset of 2880 T1-weighted contrast-enhanced MRI brain scans are used. The dataset contains three main classes of brain tumors: gliomas, meningiomas, and pituitary tumors, as well as a class of no tumors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDiabetic retinopathy (DR) is a major health problem that can lead to vision loss if not treated early. In this study, a three-step system for DR detection utilizing optical coherence tomography (OCT) is presented. First, the proposed system segments the retinal layers from the input OCT images.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFront Biosci (Landmark Ed)
September 2022
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a respiratory illness that started and rapidly became the pandemic of the century, as the number of people infected with it globally exceeded 253.4 million. Since the beginning of the pandemic of COVID-19, over two years have passed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe article deals with the problem of a sharp corner, the tip of which is located on the bi-material interface. The paper presents a qualitative and quantitative description of singular stress fields occurring in the tip area of such a stress concentrator. The qualitative description was obtained by solving the problem of the plane theory of elasticity with appropriately defined boundary conditions.
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