Latest Trends and Disruptions for Diagnostic Imaging and Image Guided Procedures and Therapies
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 3733
Special Issue Editors
2. Founding Director, Center for Innovation, Business Development & Entrepreneurship, FOM University of Applied Sciences, 45127 Essen, Germany
Interests: image guided therapies; hybrid imaging systems; health sensors; healthtech innovation generation
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Interests: advanced signal processing; image analysis; audio sensing; feature extraction; machine learning
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Dear Colleagues,
Medical Imaging (MI) modalities will further improve using advanced signal processing methods in combination with sensor fusion, artificial intelligence, deep learning, and big data approaches.
This will affect the workflow and value of MI for diagnostic evaluation and, with that, will possibly change therapy responses. Minimally invasive therapies depend on MI for accurate tool and device guidance, but often the modalities used for the initial diagnostic assessment are not available for the subsequent therapy procedure. Preoperative-to-interoperate image fusion (2D and 3D and of different modalities) is needed, which additionally requires navigation and image segmentation and merging software.
There are many novel approaches suggested to combine real-time or preoperatively acquired imaging information with other signals and modalities (e.g., audio, video, and elastography) that could not only add valuable information but also could help develop significantly cheaper and easier to use devices for a point-of-care approach.
This Special Issue focuses on some of the latest developments in computer-aided procedures for medical imaging used for diagnosis as well as for use during image-guided therapy procedures.
A specific interest is the development of novel algorithms for segmentation/evaluation/analysis, a combination of existing systems with novel sensors, and the use of auxiliary signals for existing systems or ideas for disruptive concepts in that segment.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Point-of-Care Imaging for Diagnosis and Therapy Guidance;
- Sensor Fusion with Imaging Systems;
- Hybrid concepts;
- Tool and Device Guidance and Tracking during Image-guided Therapy Procedures;
- Image Segmentation and advanced image analysis;
- Computer-aided procedures for medical imaging, used for diagnosis and during image-guided therapy procedures.
Prof. Dr. Michael Friebe
Dr. Alfredo Illanes
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- medical imaging
- artificial intelligence
- deep learning
- magnetic resonance imaging, MRI
- computed tomography, CT
- X-ray
- nuclear medicine
- endoscopy
- minimally invasive therapy
- image-guided therapy
- optical imaging modalities
- tool guidance
- point-of-care imaging
- navigation
- sensor fusion
- segmentation
- diagnosis
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