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  1. We aimed to construct an artificial intelligence (AI) guided identification of suspicious bone metastatic lesions from the whole-body bone scintigraphy (WBS) images by convolutional neural networks (CNNs).

    Authors: Yemei Liu, Pei Yang, Yong Pi, Lisha Jiang, Xiao Zhong, Junjun Cheng, Yongzhao Xiang, Jianan Wei, Lin Li, Zhang Yi, Huawei Cai and Zhen Zhao
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:131
  2. There is a high incidence of injury to the lateral ligament of the ankle in daily living and sports activities. The anterior talofibular ligament (ATFL) is the most frequent types of ankle injuries. It is of g...

    Authors: Wen Yan, Xianghong Meng, Jinglai Sun, Hui Yu and Zhi Wang
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:130
  3. Estimating the prognosis of patients with pneumatosis intestinalis (PI) and porto-mesenteric venous gas (PMVG) can be challenging. The purpose of this study was to refine prognostication to improve decision ma...

    Authors: Marta Della Seta, Roman Kloeckner, Daniel Pinto dos Santos, Thula Cannon Walter-Rittel, Felix Hahn, Jörn Henze, Annika Gropp, Johann Pratschke, Bernd Hamm, Dominik Geisel and Timo Alexander Auer
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:129
  4. Current clinical post-mortem imaging techniques do not provide sufficiently high-resolution imaging for smaller fetuses after pregnancy loss. Post-mortem micro-CT is a non-invasive technique that can deliver h...

    Authors: Ian Craig Simcock, Susan Cheng Shelmerdine, Dean Langan, Guy Anna, Neil James Sebire and Owen John Arthurs
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:128
  5. Adenoid hypertrophy among orthodontic patients may be detected in lateral cephalograms. The study investigates the aerodynamic characteristics within the upper airway (UA) by means of computational fluid dynam...

    Authors: Xin Feng, Yicheng Chen, Weihua Cai, Stein Atle Lie, Kristina Hellén-Halme and Xie-Qi Shi
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:127
  6. Brachiocephalic trunk (BCT) variants may have a clinical impact during surgical procedures, some of which could be fatal. The objective of this study was to classify height positions of the BCT and report thei...

    Authors: Nadia Gabriela Jasso-Ramírez, Rodrigo E. Elizondo-Omaña, Ingrid Abigail Garza-Rico, Kouatzin Aguilar-Morales, Alejandro Quiroga-Garza, Guillermo Elizondo-Riojas, José Luis Treviño-González and Santos Guzman-Lopez
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:126
  7. Accurate measurement of hemorrhage volume is critical for both the prediction of prognosis and the selection of appropriate clinical treatment after spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). This study aimed...

    Authors: Tao Wang, Na Song, Lingling Liu, Zichao Zhu, Bing Chen, Wenjun Yang and Zhiqiang Chen
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:125
  8. Panoramic radiography is an imaging method for displaying maxillary and mandibular teeth together with their supporting structures. Panoramic radiography is frequently used in dental imaging due to its relativ...

    Authors: Elif Bilgir, İbrahim Şevki Bayrakdar, Özer Çelik, Kaan Orhan, Fatma Akkoca, Hande Sağlam, Alper Odabaş, Ahmet Faruk Aslan, Cemre Ozcetin, Musa Kıllı and Ingrid Rozylo-Kalinowska
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:124
  9. To assess the potential of radiomic features to quantify components of blood in intraaortic vessels to non-invasively predict moderate-to-severe anemia in non-contrast enhanced CT scans.

    Authors: Scherwin Mahmoudi, Simon S. Martin, Jörg Ackermann, Yauheniya Zhdanovich, Ina Koch, Thomas J. Vogl, Moritz H. Albrecht, Lukas Lenga and Simon Bernatz
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:123
  10. Functional imaging especially the SPECT bone scintigraphy has been accepted as the effective clinical tool for diagnosis, treatment, evaluation, and prevention of various diseases including metastasis. However...

    Authors: Qiang Lin, Chuangui Cao, Tongtong Li, Zhengxing Man, Yongchun Cao and Haijun Wang
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:122
  11. Carotid atherosclerotic plaques with intraplaque hemorrhage (IPH) are associated with elevated stroke risk. IPH is predominantly imaged based on paramagnetic properties of the upstream hemoglobin degradation prod...

    Authors: My Truong, Claes Håkansson, Makda HaileMichael, Jonas Svensson, Jimmy Lätt, Karin Markenroth Bloch, Roger Siemund, Isabel Gonçalves and Johan Wassélius
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:121
  12. Gastroesophageal varices (GOV) are a life-threatening complication in chronic liver disease. A method for non-invasively predicting GOV is crucial for management. This study aimed to determine whether a vein-v...

    Authors: Yoshiki Hoshino, Takaaki Sugihara, Suguru Ikeda, Yukako Matsuki, Takakazu Nagahara, Jun-ichi Okano and Hajime Isomoto
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:120
  13. Our group previously proved that the human enteric nervous system can be visualized with confocal laser endomicroscopy after topical application of cresyl violet using surgically resected intestine specimens. ...

    Authors: Atsushi Harada, Naoki Shimojima, Masakuni Kobayashi, Shunsuke Kamba, Seiichi Hirobe and Kazuki Sumiyama
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:118
  14. SpA is a disease that seriously affects the quality of life and working ability of patients. At present, there is a lack of scientific and effective quantitative indicators to evaluate the activity of sacroili...

    Authors: Mingui Lin, Xianyuan Chen, Shun Yu, Fei Gao and Mingping Ma
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:117
  15. Quantification of non-ischemic myocardial scar remains a challenge due to the patchy diffuse nature of fibrosis. Extracellular volume (ECV) to guide late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) analysis may achieve a rob...

    Authors: Yoko Kato, Jorge R. Kizer, Mohammad R. Ostovaneh, Jason Lazar, Qi Peng, Rob J. van der Geest, Joao A. C. Lima and Bharath Ambale-Venkatesh
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:116
  16. The aim of this study was to investigate the potential use of renal ultrasonography radiomics features in the histologic classification of glomerulopathy.

    Authors: Lijie Zhang, Zhengguang Chen, Lei Feng, Liwei Guo, Dong Liu, Jinjin Hai, Kai Qiao, Jian Chen, Bin Yan and Genyang Cheng
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:115
  17. Arterial brain vessel segmentation allows utilising clinically relevant information contained within the cerebral vascular tree. Currently, however, no standardised performance measure is available to evaluate...

    Authors: Orhun Utku Aydin, Abdel Aziz Taha, Adam Hilbert, Ahmed A. Khalil, Ivana Galinovic, Jochen B. Fiebach, Dietmar Frey and Vince Istvan Madai
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:113
  18. Lung region segmentation is an important stage of automated image-based approaches for the diagnosis of respiratory diseases. Manual methods executed by experts are considered the gold standard, but it is time...

    Authors: Michael Osadebey, Hilde K. Andersen, Dag Waaler, Kristian Fossaa, Anne C. T. Martinsen and Marius Pedersen
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:112
  19. In medical diagnosis of brain, the role of multi-modal medical image fusion is becoming more prominent. Among them, there is no lack of filtering layered fusion and newly emerging deep learning algorithms. The...

    Authors: Kai Guo, Xiongfei Li, Xiaohan Hu, Jichen Liu and Tiehu Fan
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:111
  20. For the treatment of radicular pain, nerve root infiltrations can be performed under MRI guidance in select, typically younger, patients where repeated CT exams are not desirable due to associated radiation ri...

    Authors: Max Scheffler, Pauline Coralie Guillemin, Orane Lorton, Enrique Maturana, Nicolas Lauper, Dennis E. Dominguez, Sylvain Terraz, Pierre-Alexandre Poletti, Rares Salomir and Sana Boudabbous
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:110
  21. Glioma is a malignant brain tumor; its location is complex and is difficult to remove surgically. To diagnosis the brain tumor, doctors can precisely diagnose and localize the disease using medical images. How...

    Authors: Chih-Wei Lin, Yu Hong and Jinfu Liu
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:109
  22. To evaluate the performance of a Deep Learning Image Reconstruction (DLIR) algorithm in pediatric head CT for improving image quality and lesion detection with 0.625 mm thin-slice images.

    Authors: Jihang Sun, Haoyan Li, Bei Wang, Jianying Li, Michelle Li, Zuofu Zhou and Yun Peng
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:108
  23. To develop a regression neural network for the reconstruction of lesion probability maps on Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting using echo-planar imaging (MRF-EPI) in addition to ...

    Authors: Ingo Hermann, Alena K. Golla, Eloy Martínez-Heras, Ralf Schmidt, Elisabeth Solana, Sara Llufriu, Achim Gass, Lothar R. Schad and Frank G. Zöllner
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:107
  24. The amount of muscle volume (MV) varies between individuals and is important for health, well-being and performance. Therefore, the monitoring of MV using different imaging modalities is important. Magnetic re...

    Authors: Rasmus Liegnell, Fredrik Wessman, Adel Shalabi and Marita Harringe
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:106
  25. In majority of studies on speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) the strain estimates are averaged over large areas of the left ventricle. This may impair the diagnostic capability of the STE in the case of e...

    Authors: Jakub Żmigrodzki, Szymon Cygan and Krzysztof Kałużyński
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:105
  26. This study prospectively investigates the agreement between radial (r-US) and meander-like (m-US) breast ultrasound with regard to lesion location, lesion size, morphological characteristics and final BI-RADS ...

    Authors: Pascale Brasier-Lutz, Claudia Jäggi-Wickes, Sabine Schaedelin, Rosemarie Burian, Cora-Ann Schoenenberger and Rosanna Zanetti-Dällenbach
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:104
  27. Neonatal hyperbilirubinemia is a common clinical condition that requires medical attention in newborns, which may develop into acute bilirubin encephalopathy with a significant risk of long-term neurological d...

    Authors: Miao Wu, Xiaoxia Shen, Can Lai, Weihao Zheng, Yingqun Li, Zhongli Shangguan, Chuanbo Yan, Tingting Liu and Dan Wu
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:103
  28. The aim of this study was to investigate the concordance in lesion detection, between conventional Handhold Ultrasound (HHUS) and The Anatomical Intelligence for Breast ultrasound scan method.

    Authors: Juan Li, Hao Wang, Lu Wang, Ting Wei, Minggang Wu, Tingting Li, Jifen Liao, Bo Tan and Man Lu
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:102
  29. Segmentation of the left atrium (LA) is required to evaluate atrial size and function, which are important imaging biomarkers for a wide range of cardiovascular conditions, such as atrial fibrillation, stroke,...

    Authors: Ricardo A. Gonzales, Felicia Seemann, Jérôme Lamy, Per M. Arvidsson, Einar Heiberg, Victor Murray and Dana C. Peters
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:101
  30. Nuclear protein Ki-67 indicates the status of cell proliferation and has been regarded as an attractive biomarker for the prognosis of HCC. The aim of this study is to investigate which radiomics model derived...

    Authors: Yanfen Fan, Yixing Yu, Ximing Wang, Mengjie Hu and Chunhong Hu
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:100
  31. Whole-body diffusion-weighted imaging (WB-DWI) is a method for evaluating bone marrow infiltration in multiple myeloma (MM). This study seeks to elucidate the correlation between the apparent diffusion coeffic...

    Authors: Bei Zhang, Bingyang Bian, Zhiwei Zhao, Fang Lin, Zining Zhu and Mingwu Lou
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:98
  32. Conventional dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE) magnetic resonance (MR) hardly achieves a good imaging performance of arteries and lymph nodes in the breast area. Therefore, a new imaging method is needed for the...

    Authors: Yang Liu, Jiaxin Hou, Zhijun Zhu, Bingguang Liu, Manrui Cao and Wenjian Qin
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:97
  33. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a promising tool for cardiothoracic ratio (CTR) measurement that has been technically validated but not clinically evaluated on a large dataset. We observed and validated AI and...

    Authors: Pairash Saiviroonporn, Kanchanaporn Rodbangyang, Trongtum Tongdee, Warasinee Chaisangmongkon, Pakorn Yodprom, Thanogchai Siriapisith, Suwimon Wonglaksanapimon and Phakphoom Thiravit
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:95
  34. Mobile 3-dimensional fluoroscopes are an integral part of modern neurosurgical operating theatres and can also be used in combination with free available image post processing to depict cerebral vessels. In pr...

    Authors: Thomas Linsenmann, Andrea Cattaneo, Alexander März, Judith Weiland, Christian Stetter, Robert Nickl and Thomas Westermaier
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:94
  35. In patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD), run-off MR-angiography (MRA) is a commonly performed diagnostic test to obtain high-resolution images for evaluation of the arterial system from the aorta thro...

    Authors: Felix Streckenbach, Felix G. Meinel, Felix Ammermann, Anke Busse, Andreas Neumann, Thomas Heller, Marc-André Weber and Ebba Beller
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:93
  36. Differential diagnosis of tumour recurrence (TuR) from treatment effects (TrE), mostly induced by radiotherapy and chemotherapy, is still difficult by using conventional computed tomography (CT) or magnetic re...

    Authors: Cong Li, Chang Yi, Yingshen Chen, Shaoyan Xi, Chengcheng Guo, Qunying Yang, Jian Wang, Ke Sai, Ji Zhang, Chao Ke, Fanfan Chen, Yanchun Lv, Xiangsong Zhang and Zhongping Chen
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:92
  37. To compare the quality of free-text reports (FTR) and structured reports (SR) of brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examinations in patients following mechanical thrombectomy for acute stroke treatment.

    Authors: Sebastian Mönch, Tiberiu Andrisan, Kathleen Bernkopf, Benno Ikenberg, Benjamin Friedrich, Claus Zimmer and Dennis M. Hedderich
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:91
  38. Dynamic PET with kinetic modeling was reported to be potentially helpful in the assessment of hepatic malignancy. In this study, a kinetic modeling analysis was performed on hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and ...

    Authors: Jingnan Wang, Yunwen Shao, Bowei Liu, Xuezhu Wang, Barbara Katharina Geist, Xiang Li, Fang Li, Haitao Zhao, Marcus Hacker, Haiyan Ding, Hui Zhang and Li Huo
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:90
  39. The study compared clinical decisions regarding root angulation correction and root proximity based on the interpretation of Panoramic (PAN) versus Cone-Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) images.

    Authors: Athbi Alqareer, Rania Nada, Aref Ghayyath, Mariam Baghdady and Veerasathpurush Allareddy
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:89
  40. MR fingerprinting (MRF) is a novel imaging method proposed for the diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis (MS). This study aims to determine if MR Fingerprinting (MRF) relaxometry can differentiate frontal normal app...

    Authors: Thomaz R. Mostardeiro, Ananya Panda, Norbert G. Campeau, Robert J. Witte, Nicholas B. Larson, Yi Sui, Aiming Lu and Kiaran P. McGee
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:88

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  41. Primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) results from an excess of parathyroid hormone (PTH) produced from an overactive parathyroid gland. The study aimed to explore the sonographic features of parathyroid adenomas...

    Authors: Ruigang Lu, Wei Zhao, Li Yin, Ruijun Guo, Bojun Wei, Mulan Jin, Xiang Zhou, Chun Zhang and Xiuzhang Lv
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:87
  42. The aim of this study was to evaluate the success of the artificial intelligence (AI) system in implant planning using three-dimensional cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) images.

    Authors: Sevda Kurt Bayrakdar, Kaan Orhan, Ibrahim Sevki Bayrakdar, Elif Bilgir, Matvey Ezhov, Maxim Gusarev and Eugene Shumilov
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:86
  43. Pericardial hematoma is blood accumulation in the pericardial space. Although rare, it could arise in various conditions, such as after cardiac surgery. Clinical diagnosis of pericardial hematoma is implausibl...

    Authors: Aninka Saboe, Ferdy Sanjaya, Raden Erwin Affandi Soeriadi, Euis Maryani, Nuraini Yasmin Kusumawardhani, Charlotte Johanna Cool and Astri Astuti
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:85
  44. The molecular biomarkers of breast ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) have important guiding significance for individualized precision treatment. This study was intended to explore the significance of radiomics b...

    Authors: Linyong Wu, Yujia Zhao, Peng Lin, Hui Qin, Yichen Liu, Da Wan, Xin Li, Yun He and Hong Yang
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:84
  45. The purpose of this study was to review our institutional experience with the EOS machine in order to identify the incidence and clinical significance of incidental extraspinal findings (IESF) in an adult spin...

    Authors: Lily Wood, Christopher Martin, David Polly, Samuel Luchsinger and Takashi Takahashi
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:83
  46. Necrotic pulmonary lesions manifest as relatively low-density internally on contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT). However, using CT to differentiate malignant and benign necrotic pulmonary lesions is cha...

    Authors: Qi Li, Xiao Fan, Tian-You Luo, Fa-Jin Lv and Xing-Tao Huang
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:81

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