Virtual colonoscopy versus optical colonoscopy

Z Liang, RJ Richards - Expert opinion on medical diagnostics, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Importance of the field: The high prevalence of colon carcinoma combined with the low
compliance rates of recommended screening guidelines may explain the continued high …

Texture feature extraction and analysis for polyp differentiation via computed tomography colonography

Y Hu, Z Liang, B Song, H Han… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Image textures in computed tomography colonography (CTC) have great potential for
differentiating non-neoplastic from neoplastic polyps and thus can advance the current CTC …

Improving the accuracy of CTC interpretation: computer-aided detection

RM Summers - Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Clinics, 2010 - giendo.theclinics.com
Computer-aided detection (CAD) for computed tomographic colonography (CTC) was
introduced in the late 1990s. CAD has developed rapidly and early clinical trials of CAD are …

Volumetric texture features from higher-order images for diagnosis of colon lesions via CT colonography

B Song, G Zhang, H Lu, H Wang, W Zhu… - International journal of …, 2014 - Springer
Purpose Differentiation of colon lesions according to underlying pathology, eg, neoplastic
and non-neoplastic lesions, is of fundamental importance for patient management. Image …

Self-Supervised adversarial learning with a limited dataset for electronic cleansing in computed tomographic colonography: a preliminary feasibility study

R Tachibana, JJ Näppi, T Hironaka, H Yoshida - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Electronic cleansing (EC) is used for performing a virtual cleansing of the
colon on CT colonography (CTC) images for colorectal cancer screening. However, current …

Haustral fold segmentation with curvature-guided level set evolution

H Zhu, M Barish, P Pickhardt… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Human colon has complex structures mostly because of the haustral folds. The folds are thin
flat protrusions on the colon wall, which complicate the shape analysis for computer-aided …

Improved curvature estimation for computer-aided detection of colonic polyps in CT colonography

H Zhu, Y Fan, H Lu, Z Liang - Academic radiology, 2011 - Elsevier
Rationale and Objectives Current schemes for computer-aided detection (CAD) of colon
polyps usually use kernel methods to perform curvature-based shape analysis. However …

Increasing computer‐aided detection specificity by projection features for CT colonography

H Zhu, Z Liang, PJ Pickhardt, MA Barish, J You… - Medical …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: A large number of false positives (FPs) generated by computer‐aided detection
(CAD) schemes is likely to distract radiologists' attention and decrease their interpretation …

An adaptive paradigm for computer-aided detection of colonic polyps

H Wang, Z Liang, LC Li, H Han, B Song… - Physics in Medicine …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Most previous efforts in developing computer-aided detection (CADe) of colonic polyps
apply similar measures or parameters to detect polyps regardless of their locations under an …

Electronic cleansing for computed tomography (CT) colonography using a scale-invariant three-material model

IWO Serlie, FM Vos, R Truyen, FH Post… - IEEE transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A well-known reading pitfall in computed tomography (CT) colonography is posed by
artifacts at T-junctions, ie, locations where air-fluid levels interface with the colon wall. This …