Omics technologies improving breast cancer research and diagnostics

A Orsini, C Diquigiovanni, E Bonora - International Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Breast cancer (BC) has yielded approximately 2.26 million new cases and has caused
nearly 685,000 deaths worldwide in the last two years, making it the most common …

Artificial intelligence in breast X-ray imaging

S Vedantham, MS Shazeeb, A Chiang… - Seminars in Ultrasound …, 2023 - Elsevier
This topical review is focused on the clinical breast x-ray imaging applications of the rapidly
evolving field of artificial intelligence (AI). The range of AI applications is broad. AI can be …

A residual dense network assisted sparse view reconstruction for breast computed tomography

Z Fu, HW Tseng, S Vedantham, A Karellas, A Bilgin - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
To develop and investigate a deep learning approach that uses sparse-view acquisition in
dedicated breast computed tomography for radiation dose reduction, we propose a …

Supplemental screening for patients at intermediate and high risk for breast cancer

L Wang, RM Strigel - Radiologic Clinics, 2021 - radiologic.theclinics.com
The early detection of breast cancer with screening mammography in women who undergo
screening has been well-established in multiple trials to decrease mortality by more than …

Dedicated cone-beam breast CT using laterally-shifted detector geometry: Quantitative analysis of feasibility for clinical translation

S Vedantham, HW Tseng, S Konate… - Journal of X-ray …, 2020 - content.iospress.com
BACKGROUND: High-resolution, low-noise detectors with minimal dead-space at chest-wall
could improve posterior coverage and microcalcification visibility in the dedicated cone …

Radiation dosimetry of a clinical prototype dedicated cone‐beam breast CT system with offset detector

HW Tseng, A Karellas, S Vedantham - Medical physics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose A clinical‐prototype, dedicated, cone‐beam breast computed tomography (CBBCT)
system with offset detector is undergoing clinical evaluation at our institution. This study is to …

Sparse-view, short-scan, dedicated cone-beam breast computed tomography: image quality assessment

HW Tseng, A Karellas… - Biomedical physics & …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The purpose of this study is to quantify the impact of sparse-view acquisition in short-scan
trajectories, compared to 360-degrees full-scan acquisition, on image quality measures in …

[HTML][HTML] Digital breast tomosynthesis in mammographic screening: false negative cancer cases in the To-Be 1 trial

N Moshina, A Gräwingholt… - Insights into …, 2024 - insightsimaging.springeropen.com
The randomized controlled trial comparing digital breast tomosynthesis and synthetic 2D
mammograms (DBT+ SM) versus digital mammography (DM)(the To-Be 1 trial), 2016–2017 …

Breast Imaging Physics in Mammography (Part II)

N Fico, GD Grezia, V Cuccurullo, AAH Salvia… - Diagnostics, 2023 - mdpi.com
One of the most frequently detected neoplasms in women in Italy is breast cancer, for which
high-sensitivity diagnostic techniques are essential for early diagnosis in order to minimize …

[HTML][HTML] Automatic Detection of Post-Operative Clips in Mammography Using a U-Net Convolutional Neural Network

T Schnitzler, C Ruppert, P Hejduk, K Borkowski… - Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Background: After breast conserving surgery (BCS), surgical clips indicate the tumor bed
and, thereby, the most probable area for tumor relapse. The aim of this study was to …