Publications by authors named "J-M Correas"
Objectives: Kidney diseases significantly impact individuals' quality of life and strongly reduce life expectancy. Glomeruli play a crucial role in kidney function. Current imaging techniques cannot visualize them due to their small size.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The overall cancer risk increases in transplant patients, including in kidney allografts. This study aimed to analyze the outcome of patients with kidney allograft malignant tumors who underwent percutaneous thermal ablation.
Methods: We included 26 renal allograft tumors, including 7 clear-cell renal cell carcinoma (RCCs), 16 papillary RCCs, 1 clear-cell papillary RCC, and 2 tubulocystic RCCs, treated in 19 ablation sessions.
Purpose: To train and assess the performance of a deep learning-based network designed to detect, localize, and characterize focal liver lesions (FLLs) in the liver parenchyma on abdominal US images.
Materials And Methods: In this retrospective, multicenter, institutional review board-approved study, two object detectors, Faster region-based convolutional neural network (Faster R-CNN) and Detection Transformer (DETR), were fine-tuned on a dataset of 1026 patients ( = 2551 B-mode abdominal US images obtained between 2014 and 2018). Performance of the networks was analyzed on a test set of 48 additional patients ( = 155 B-mode abdominal US images obtained in 2019) and compared with the performance of three caregivers (one nonexpert and two experts) blinded to the clinical history.
Purpose: To evaluate the feasibility of using supersonic shear-wave elastography (SSWE) in children and normal values of liver stiffness with the use of control patients of different ages (from neonates to teenagers) and the diagnostic accuracy of supersonic shear wave elastography for assessing liver fibrosis by using the histologic scoring system as the reference method in patients with liver disease, with a special concern for early stages of fibrosis.
Materials And Methods: The institutional review board approved this prospective study. Informed consent was obtained from parents and children older than 7 years.
Purpose: To prospectively evaluate the performance of real-time ultrasonographic (US) shear-wave elastography (SWE) in the diagnosis of peripheral zone prostate cancer in patients with high and/or increasing prostate-specific antigen levels and/or abnormal digital rectal examination results.
Materials And Methods: After signing an informed consent form, men referred for transrectal prostate biopsy were enrolled in this prospective HIPAA-compliant two-center study, which was conducted with institutional review board approval. Transrectal US SWE of the prostate was performed after a conventional transrectal US examination and immediately before US-guided 12-core sextant biopsy.