The paper addresses Medical Hand Drawing Management System architecture and implementation. In the system, we developed four modules: hand drawing management module; patient medical records query module; hand drawing ...
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The paper addresses Medical Hand Drawing Management System architecture and implementation. In the system, we developed four modules: hand drawing management module; patient medical records query module; hand drawing editing and upload module; hand drawing query module. The system adapts windows-based applications and encompasses web pages by *** hosting mechanism under web services platforms. The hand drawings implemented as files are stored in a FTP server. The file names with associated data, e.g. patient identification, drawing physician, access rights, etc. are reposited in a database. The modules can be conveniently embedded, integrated into any system. Therefore, the system possesses the hand drawing features to support daily medical operations, effectively improve healthcare qualities as well. Moreover, the system includes the printing capability to achieve a complete, computerized medical document process. In summary, the system allows web-based applications to facilitate the graphic processes for healthcare operations.
Three-dimensional (3D) carotid ultrasound (US) phenotypes are increasingly being investigated for quantifying carotid arthrosclerosis for monitoring and assessment of patients who are at a greater risk of stroke. Vess...
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Three-dimensional (3D) carotid ultrasound (US) phenotypes are increasingly being investigated for quantifying carotid arthrosclerosis for monitoring and assessment of patients who are at a greater risk of stroke. Vessel wall volume (VWV), which is the 3D measurement of vessel wall thickness plus plaque within the carotid artery, provides a high measurement sensitivity and reproducibility for carotid arthrosclerosis. VWV computation requires lumen and media-adventitia boundaries of the carotid arteries to be outlined. Its use in current clinical practice is limited by the requirement for manual segmentation which is extremely time consuming and operator-dependent. Therefore the objective of this study is to develop and validate a semiautomatic segmentation algorithm for delineating the media-adventitia and lumen boundaries of carotid arteries for patients with asymptomatic carotid stenosis . Due to the presence of plaque, poor definition of the vessel boundaries, intensity heterogeneity, image speckle, and shadowing, the carotid arteries are extremely challenging to segment using image information alone. Therefore, we combine various image cues with domain knowledge of the vessel geometry and some user interaction into the segmentation framework. We adopted an energy minimization approach based on the level sets formulation to segment the vessel wall and lumen using edge-based and region-based objective functions respectively. The proposed segmentation method was evaluated with respect to manually outlined boundaries using several similarity measures on 60 2D US slices from ten patients. The realization of semi-automated methods will accelerate the translation of 3DUS to real-time clinical research and clinical care.
The engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) student chapters and clubs enable students world wide to engage with the global biomedical community, build relationships that extend beyond college, and better u...
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The engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) student chapters and clubs enable students world wide to engage with the global biomedical community, build relationships that extend beyond college, and better understand societal benefits that result from biomedical pursuits. This article addresses lessons learned from the formation of an IEEE EMBS student chapter at Kansas State University (KSU) and highlights some of the activities supported by this group, which include research to aid persons with disabilities and hands-on efforts to interest young women in science and engineering.
This work is concerned with the numerical implementation of a reconstruction algorithm developed to recover a function from its spherical means over spheres centered on a circle. The algorithm is experimentally verifi...
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Many abdominal surgery procedures are now performed minimally invasively. We consider tumour resection, where surgeons use a laparoscopic camera to view the organ surface and a laparoscopic ultrasound (US) probe to vi...
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Many abdominal surgery procedures are now performed minimally invasively. We consider tumour resection, where surgeons use a laparoscopic camera to view the organ surface and a laparoscopic ultrasound (US) probe to visualize the tumour to plan and perform the excision. Conventionally, images are displayed separately and are typically presented in 2D. Therefore, the surgeon has to look back and forth between the images and mentally map the US onto the video to determine the tumour location relative to the surface. Furthermore, the 2D nature of the images decreases depth perception. To address these limitations, we developed an augmented reality visualization that fuses images in a common 3D environment. Instruments were tracked using sensors spatially identified with a magnetic field generator. Through calibration, their image locations were determined in real time. The accuracy of the camera and US calibrations was determined both relative to the tracking system and to each other using target localization. We evaluated the efficacy of the fusion with a phantom experiment. A surgeon performed tumour resections on polyvinyl alcohol-cryogel phantoms under the guidance of the conventional visualization and the fusion system presented in 2D and in 3D. The target localization error was 1.20±0.08mm for the camera, 1.85±0.14mm for the US, and 2.38±0.11mm between the camera and the US. Early results demonstrate a faster resection planning time using fusion compared to the conventional setup while maintaining similar margin accuracy. This study supports the implementation of fusion for guidance of time-sensitive resection tasks performed under conditions of warm ischemia.
Recent progress on a high-resolution, photon-counting gamma-ray and x-ray imager called BazookaSPECT is presented. BazookaSPECT is an example of a new class of scintillation detectors based on integrating detectors su...
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Hearing loss is one of the most common birth defects among infants. Most hearing-impaired children are not diagnosed until one to three years of age, which is too late to treat for normal speech and language developme...
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Control of the gliding directions of kinesin-driven microtubules (MTs) in vitro has good feasibility for the development of nano-scale transport systems. A requirement for the control of transporters in these systems ...
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Control of the gliding directions of kinesin-driven microtubules (MTs) in vitro has good feasibility for the development of nano-scale transport systems. A requirement for the control of transporters in these systems includes detecting the positions of gliding MTs;however, no studies have reported on the monitoring of the positions of gliding MTs. Here, we suggest an algorithm to detect tip coordinates of gliding MTs by binarization, skeletonization, and filtration of fluorescent images of MTs. The algorithm was first applied to artificially drawn segments with given lengths (10-80 pixels), widths (1-10 pixels), and curvature radii (20-120 pixels) to verify the effect of the sizes of MTs on accuracy of tip coordinates extracted by the algorithm, and error was estimated by referring to the true coordinates. The estimated errors were as small as 2 pixels in the width and were not affected by the length and the curvature radius, indicating that our algorithm is useful to extract the tips of MTs. The algorithm was subsequently applied to images of gliding MTs. Since distances from the trajectories of the MTs to the centers of gravity of the MTs (3.7 ± 2.1 pixels) were significantly larger than those to the tips (1.9 ± 0.5 pixels), the use of the tips as representative points of gliding MTs was verified. A detection method using tips of MTs, as suggested in this study, may be a useful technique for monitoring each MT in nanoscale transport systems.
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