{"title":"Promises and limitations of deep learning for medical image segmentation","authors":"C. Perone, J. Cohen-Adad","doi":"10.21037/JMAI.2019.01.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/JMAI.2019.01.01","url":null,"abstract":"It is not a secret that recent advances in deep learning (1) methods have achieved a scientific and engineering milestone in many different fields such as natural language processing, computer vision, speech recognition, object detection, and segmentation, to name a few. Different applications of deep learning to medical imaging started to appear first in workshops, conferences and then in journals. According to a recent survey (2), the number of papers grew rapidly in 2015 and 2016. Nowadays, deep learning methods are pervasive throughout the entire medical imaging community, with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) being the most used model for tasks such as dense prediction (or segmentation), detection and classification. In the same survey, which analyzed more than 300 contributions in the field, the authors found that computed tomography (CT) was the third most used imaging modality.","PeriodicalId":73815,"journal":{"name":"Journal of medical artificial intelligence","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.21037/JMAI.2019.01.01","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46836557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures, recent advances and commentary on, Vasta et al., the application of artificial intelligence to understand the biological bases of the disorder","authors":"N. Boutros","doi":"10.21037/JMAI.2018.12.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/JMAI.2018.12.01","url":null,"abstract":"As many as 33 per 100,000 people experience episodes of paroxysmal impairment associated with a range of manifestations that can be motor, sensory, and/or mental and closely mimic and frequently mistaken for epileptic seizures (1). These episodes are termed psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES). The prevalence of PNES episodes is much higher in epilepsy practices, reaching as high as 30% (2). The diagnosis of PNES remains a process of excluding epilepsy and thus leads to an average time from onset of these paroxysms to diagnosis of close to seven years.","PeriodicalId":73815,"journal":{"name":"Journal of medical artificial intelligence","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.21037/JMAI.2018.12.01","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43175427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Computer-aided diagnosis to differentiate colorectal polyps: are we nearing primetime?","authors":"N. Shahidi, M. Byrne","doi":"10.21037/JMAI.2018.11.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/JMAI.2018.11.02","url":null,"abstract":"Colorectal cancer screening has proven to be an effective preventative health measure (1). This is, in part, achieved by the identification and removal of neoplastic adenomatous polyps. However, within the rectum and sigmoid colon, non-neoplastic hyperplastic polyps are also common.","PeriodicalId":73815,"journal":{"name":"Journal of medical artificial intelligence","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.21037/JMAI.2018.11.02","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46169198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can texture features computed from the joint intensity distribution of different MRI sequences accurately predict prostate cancer grade?","authors":"V. Stavrinides, L. C. Echeverria, H. Whitaker","doi":"10.21037/JMAI.2018.11.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/JMAI.2018.11.01","url":null,"abstract":"The diagnostic landscape of prostate cancer has evolved rapidly, from prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing to exciting new technologies that allow visualization of the disease, moving away from random sampling to targeted biopsies. Multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) is a new modality that combines T2-weighted (T2W), diffusion-weighted (DW) and dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) sequences, each designed to reveal specific microstructural features typically associated with malignancy such as increased vascularity and cellularity.","PeriodicalId":73815,"journal":{"name":"Journal of medical artificial intelligence","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41440471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}