Deep-Learning Based Quantification of Bovine Oocyte Quality From Microscopy Images.

The success rate of bovine in vitro embryo reproduction is low and highly dependent on the oocyte quality. The selection of the oocyte to be fertilized is done by the embryologists' visual examination of oocytes. It is time-consuming, subjective, and inconsistent between specialists in the area.

Inflammatory Microenvironment in Early Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Exploring the Predictive Value of Radiomics.

Patient prognosis is a critical consideration in the treatment decision-making process. Conventionally, patient outcome is related to tumor characteristics, the cancer spread, and the patients' conditions. However, unexplained differences in survival time are often observed, even among patients with similar clinical and molecular tumor traits.

Fetal Heart Rate Fragmentation.

Intrapartum fetal monitoring's primary goal is to avoid adverse perinatal outcomes related to hypoxia/acidosis without increasing unnecessary interventions. Recently, a set of indices were proposed as new biomarkers to analyze heart rate (HR), termed HR fragmentation (HRF). In this work, the HRF indices were applied to intrapartum fetal heart rate (FHR) traces to evaluate fetal acidemia.

Preliminary Report on Computed Tomography Radiomics Features as Biomarkers to Immunotherapy Selection in Lung Adenocarcinoma Patients.

Purpose: To assess the efficacy of radiomics features obtained by computed tomography (CT) examination as biomarkers in order to select patients with lung adenocarcinoma who would benefit from immunotherapy.

Methods: Seventy-four patients (median age 63 years, range 42-86 years) with histologically confirmed lung cancer who underwent immunotherapy as first- or second-line therapy and who had baseline CT studies were enrolled in this approved retrospective study. As a control group, we selected 50 patients (median age 66 years, range 36-86 years) from 2005 to 2013 with histologically confirmed lung adenocarcinoma who underwent chemotherapy alone or in combination with targeted therapy.

The texture analysis as a predictive method in the assessment of the cytological specimen of CT-guided FNAC of the lung cancer.

The lung cancer is the principle cause of the worldwide deaths and its prognosis is poor with a 5-year overall survival rate. Computed tomography (CT) gives many information about the prognosis, but the problem is the subject interpretation of the findings. Thanks to the computer-aided diagnosis/detection (CAD), it is possible to reduce the second opinion.

Evaluation of Dose Homogeneity in Cone-Beam Breast Computed Tomography.

The aim of this study is to determine, via measurements on phantoms and Monte Carlo (MC) simulations, the dose distribution of absorbed dose in a cone-beam breast computed tomography scan. The absorbed dose volume distribution was measured inside a polyethylene cylindrical phantom, simulating adipose breast tissue, using LiF:Mg,Ti thermoluminescence dosimeters. A reasonable agreement (between 2 and 8%) between the simulated and measured data was observed.