A5058713581- Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications
- Advanced X-ray and CT Imaging
- Radiation Dose and Imaging
- Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
- Diverticular Disease and Complications
- Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments
- Vascular anomalies and interventions
- Medical Imaging and Pathology Studies
- Streptococcal Infections and Treatments
- Elbow and Forearm Trauma Treatment
- Pediatric Urology and Nephrology Studies
- Intraperitoneal and Appendiceal Malignancies
- Urologic and reproductive health conditions
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry and Applications
- Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research
- Hernia repair and management
- Plant and Fungal Interactions Research
- Orthopedic Infections and Treatments
- MRI in cancer diagnosis
- Cardiovascular and Diving-Related Complications
- Breast Cancer Treatment Studies
- Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management
- Adrenal Hormones and Disorders
- Musculoskeletal synovial abnormalities and treatments
University of Catania
2022
Humanitas University
2018
University of Naples Federico II
2015-2017
Yeshiva University
1990
Despite improvements in treatments, metastatic breast cancer remains difficult to cure. Bones constitute the most common site of first-time recurrence, occurring 40–75% cases. Therefore, evaluation for possible osseous metastases is crucial. Technetium 99 (99Tc) bone scintigraphy and fluorodexossyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET)-computed (PET-CT) are commonly used techniques assess metastasis. PET magnetic resonance (PET-MR) imaging an innovative technique still under...
To retrospectively evaluate positron emission tomography (PET)/magnetic resonance (MR) enterography for the differentiation of fibrotic strictures from inflammatory in patients with Crohn disease.This HIPAA-compliant retrospective study was approved by institutional review board. Patients gave their written informed consent enrollment. PET/MR images were evaluated 19 disease who had that underwent surgical resection pathologic confirmation. Two radiologists and a nuclear medicine physician...
Differences in genetics and receptor expression (phenotypes) of invasive ductal breast cancer (IDC) impact on prognosis treatment response. Immunohistochemistry (IHC), the most used technique for IDC phenotyping, has some limitations including its invasiveness. We explored possibility contrast-enhanced positron emission tomography magnetic resonance (CE-FDG PET/MR) to discriminate phenotypes.21 patients with IHC assessment oestrogen (ER), progesterone (PR), human epidermal growth factor-2...
The aim of the present study was to evaluate performance whole-body diffusion-weighted imaging (WB-DWI), positron emission tomography with computed (WB-PET/CT), and magnetic resonance (WB-PET/MRI) in staging patients untreated invasive ductal carcinoma breast. Fifty-one women newly diagnosed breast underwent WB-DWI, WB-PET/CT WB-PET/MRI before treatment. A radiologist a nuclear medicine physician reviewed consensus images from three modalities searched for occurrence, number location...
Purpose The purpose of this study was the evaluation anthropomorphic model observers trained with neural networks for prediction a human observer's performance. Methods To simulate liver lesions, phantom contrast targets (acrylic spheres, varying diameters, +30 HU ) repeatedly scanned on computed tomography scanner. Image data labeled confidence ratings assessed in reader detection task lesions were used to build several observers. Models images reconstructed iterative reconstruction and...
In the medical imaging domain, image quality assessment is usually carried out by human observers (HuO) performing a clinical task in reader studies. To overcome time-consuming studies numerical model (MO) were introduced and are now widely used CT research community to predict performance of HuOs. recent years, machine learning based MOs showed promising results for SPECT. Therefore, we built neural network, socalled softmax regression on learning, as MO x-ray CT. Performance was evaluated...
Computed Tomography (CT) is one of the most important imaging modalities in medical domain. Ongoing demand for reduction X-ray radiation dose and advanced reconstruction algorithms induce ultra-low CT acquisitions more more. However, though reconstructions lead to improved image quality, ratio between electronic detector noise incoming signal decreases scans causing a degradation quality and, therefore, building boundary reduction. Future generations scanners may allow sparse sampled data...
Skenitis refers to the infection of Skene's glands. glands are paraurethral localized on upper wall vagina. The diagnosis abscess or is usually made based history and physical examination, but half women with para-urethral gland symptoms present non-palpable lesions necessitate further evaluation imaging. Patients may chronic urethral pain, recurrent urinary tract infections, unexplained dyspareunia, dysuria. At imaging typically located anterior vaginal wall, at symphysis level paramedian...