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Renal screening sonography—A comparative study in a Portuguese basic emergency service 肾脏超声筛查--葡萄牙基础急诊服务中的对比研究。
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Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences Pub Date : 2024-06-18 DOI: 10.1002/jmrs.802
Sérgio Miravent MSc, Carmen Jiménez MD, MSc, Narciso Barbancho MD, MSc, Manuel Duarte Lobo MSc, Teresa Figueiredo MD, PhD, Carla Gomes MD, MSc, Ion Ratusneac MD, MSc, João Mário Gonçalves MD, MSc, Corina Hasnas BSc, Rui de Almeida PhD
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Continuing Professional Development - Medical Imaging 电子作品集:增强放射技师学生对放射解剖学和病理学交流的信心。一项横断面研究。
IF 1.8
Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences Pub Date : 2024-06-17 DOI: 10.1002/jmrs.805
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Continuing Professional Development - Radiation Therapy 专业进修--放射治疗。
IF 2.1
Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences Pub Date : 2024-06-10 DOI: 10.1002/jmrs.799
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Multi-centre digital radiography reject analysis for different clinical room use types: The establishment of local reject reference levels for public hospital departments 针对不同临床用房类型的多中心数字放射成像废片分析:为公立医院各科室建立本地废片参考水平。
IF 1.8
Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences Pub Date : 2024-06-06 DOI: 10.1002/jmrs.796
Daniel Serra MSc, BSc, Michael J Neep PhD, MSc, BApp Sci(Med Rad Tech), Elaine Ryan PhD, MSc, BSc (Hons), PGDip(IPEM)
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Evidence-based practice in radiography: A strategy for shifting our culture 放射学循证实践:转变我们文化的策略。
IF 1.8
Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences Pub Date : 2024-06-04 DOI: 10.1002/jmrs.801
Laura Di Michele GradDipHM, BMedRadSc(DR), SFHEA, Amani Bell PhD, BSc (Hons), GradCertHigherEd, SFHEA, Kate Thomson PhD, GradCertEdStudies (HigherEd), MIH (Dist), BPsych (Hons), FHERDSA, SFHEA, Warren Reed PhD, PGCert TLHE, BSc (Hons)
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Using a new artificial intelligence-aided method to assess body composition CT segmentation in colorectal cancer patients 使用新的人工智能辅助方法评估结直肠癌患者的身体成分 CT 分割。
IF 1.8
Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences Pub Date : 2024-05-22 DOI: 10.1002/jmrs.798
Ke Cao PhD (Melb), Josephine Yeung BPharm (Hons), Yasser Arafat MS (Usyd), FRACS, Jing Qiao MD, Richard Gartrell MS, FRACS, Mobin Master FRANZCR, MBBS, Justin M. C. Yeung DM, FRACS, Paul N. Baird PhD (Lond)
{"title":"Using a new artificial intelligence-aided method to assess body composition CT segmentation in colorectal cancer patients","authors":"Ke Cao PhD (Melb),&nbsp;Josephine Yeung BPharm (Hons),&nbsp;Yasser Arafat MS (Usyd), FRACS,&nbsp;Jing Qiao MD,&nbsp;Richard Gartrell MS, FRACS,&nbsp;Mobin Master FRANZCR, MBBS,&nbsp;Justin M. C. Yeung DM, FRACS,&nbsp;Paul N. Baird PhD (Lond)","doi":"10.1002/jmrs.798","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jmrs.798","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Introduction</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of our own artificial intelligence (AI)-generated model to assess automated segmentation and quantification of body composition-derived computed tomography (CT) slices from the lumber (L3) region in colorectal cancer (CRC) patients.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Methods</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>A total of 541 axial CT slices at the L3 vertebra were retrospectively collected from 319 patients with CRC diagnosed during 2012–2019 at a single Australian tertiary institution, Western Health in Melbourne. A two-dimensional U-Net convolutional network was trained on 338 slices to segment muscle, visceral adipose tissue (VAT) and subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT). Manual reading of these same slices of muscle, VAT and SAT was created to serve as ground truth data. The Dice similarity coefficient was used to assess the U-Net-based segmentation performance on both a validation dataset (68 slices) and a test dataset (203 slices). The measurement of cross-sectional area and Hounsfield unit (HU) density of muscle, VAT and SAT were compared between two methods.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The segmentation for muscle, VAT and SAT demonstrated excellent performance for both the validation (Dice similarity coefficients &gt;0.98, respectively) and test (Dice similarity coefficients &gt;0.97, respectively) datasets. There was a strong positive correlation between manual and AI segmentation measurements of body composition for both datasets (Spearman's correlation coefficients: 0.944–0.999, <i>P</i> &lt; 0.001).</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusions</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Compared to the gold standard, this fully automated segmentation system exhibited a high accuracy for assessing segmentation and quantification of abdominal muscle and adipose tissues of CT slices at the L3 in CRC patients.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":16382,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences","volume":"71 4","pages":"519-528"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11638354/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141081409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Continuing Professional Development - Medical Imaging 专业进修 - 医学影像。
IF 2.1
Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences Pub Date : 2024-05-12 DOI: 10.1002/jmrs.795
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ePortfolios: Enhancing confidence in student radiographers' communication of radiographic anatomy and pathology. A cross-sectional study 电子作品集:增强放射技师学生对放射解剖学和病理学交流的信心。一项横断面研究。
IF 1.8
Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences Pub Date : 2024-05-07 DOI: 10.1002/jmrs.787
Magdalena Dolic BRadMedImag (Hons), Yaxuan Peng BRadMedImag (Hons), Keshav Dhingra BRadMedImag (Hons), Kristal Lee BRadMedImag (Hons), John McInerney HDipHPE. GCHPE, PGCertIV Leadership and Management, PGCert CT Imaging, PGDip IV cannulation, BSc(Rad) Hons
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Improved deep learning for automatic localisation and segmentation of rectal cancer on T2-weighted MRI 改进深度学习,在 T2 加权磁共振成像上自动定位和分割直肠癌。
IF 1.8
Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences Pub Date : 2024-04-24 DOI: 10.1002/jmrs.794
Zaixian Zhang PhD, Junqi Han MS, Weina Ji MS, Henan Lou MS, Zhiming Li PhD, Yabin Hu PhD, Mingjia Wang PhD, Baozhu Qi MS, Shunli Liu PhD
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The importance of quality management systems in nuclear medicine departments 核医学部门质量管理系统的重要性。
IF 2.1
Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences Pub Date : 2024-04-20 DOI: 10.1002/jmrs.793
Kunthi Pathmaraj MSc (Radiation Physics), BSc Applied Science (Medical Radiations), Grad Dip Computer Science
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