Author(s): Karatzas N; Abdelnour P; Corban JPAH; Zhao KY; Veilleux LN; Bergeron SG; Fevens T; Rivaz H; Babouras A; Martineau PA; ...

Knee kinematics during a drop vertical jump, measured by the Kinect V2 (Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA), have been shown to be associated with an increased risk of non-contact anterior cruciate ligame ...

Article GUID: 38544237

Author(s): Aktar M; Xiao Y; Tehrani AKZ; Tampieri D; Rivaz H; Kersten-Oertel M;

This study conducts collateral evaluation from ischemic damage using a deep learning-based Siamese network, addressing the challenges associated with a small and imbalanced dataset. The collateral network provides an alternative oxygen and nutrient supply p ...

Article GUID: 38364600

Author(s): Eshaghinia SS; Taghvaeipour A; Aghdam MM; Rivaz H;

Elastography is a medical imaging modality that enables visualization of tissue stiffness. It involves quasi-static or harmonic mechanical stimulation of the tissue to generate a displacement field which is used as input in an inversion algorithm to reconst ...

Article GUID: 38240143

Author(s): Ashikuzzaman M; Peng B; Jiang J; Rivaz H;

Background: Ultrasound strain imaging, which delineates mechanical properties to detect tissue abnormalities, involves estimating the time delay between two radio-frequency (RF) frames collected before and after tissue deformation. The existing regularized ...

Article GUID: 38159299

Author(s): Belasso CJ; Cai Z; Bezgin G; Pascoal T; Stevenson J; Rahmouni N; Tissot C; Lussier F; Rosa-Neto P; Soucy JP; Rivaz H; Benali H; ...

Background: Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnosis in its early stages remains difficult with current diagnostic approaches. Though tau neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) generally follow the stereotyp ...

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Author(s): Corban J; Karatzas N; Zhao KY; Babouras A; Bergeron S; Fevens T; Rivaz H; Martineau PA;

Background: Knee kinematic parameters during a drop vertical jump (DVJ) have been demonstrated to be associated with increased risk of noncontact anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury. However, standard motion analysis systems are not practical for routin ...

Article GUID: 36790216

Author(s): Crook J; Masi S; Naghdi N; Roussac A; Rye M; Rosenstein B; Rivaz H; Boily M; Weber MH; Fortin M; ...

Purpose: The aim of this observational cross-sectional study was to examine correlations of intramuscular fat content in lumbar multifidus (LM) by comparing muscle echo intensity (EI) and percent f ...

Article GUID: 36658047

Author(s): Aktar M; Reyes J; Tampieri D; Rivaz H; Xiao Y; Kersten-Oertel M;

Purpose: Collateral evaluation is typically done using visual inspection of cerebral images and thus suffers from intra- and inter-rater variability. Large open databases of ischemic stroke patients are rare, limiting the use of deep learning methods in tre ...

Article GUID: 36635594

Author(s): Pirhadi A; Salari S; Ahmad MO; Rivaz H; Xiao Y;

Purpose: In brain tumor surgery, tissue shift (called brain shift) can move the surgical target and invalidate the surgical plan. A cost-effective and flexible tool, intra-operative ultrasound (iUS) with robust image registration algorithms can effectively ...

Article GUID: 36306056

Author(s): Masoumi N; Rivaz H; Ahmad MO; Xiao Y;

Purpose: Diffeomorphic image registration is essential in many medical imaging applications. Several registration algorithms of such type have been proposed, but primarily for intra-contrast alignment. Currently, efficient inter-modal/contrast diffeomorphic ...

Article GUID: 36173541

Author(s): Goudarzi S; Rivaz H;

This paper presents a novel beamforming approach based on deep learning to get closer to the ideal Point Spread Function (PSF) in Plane-Wave Imaging (PWI). The proposed approach is designed to reconstruct a high-quality version of Tissue Reflectivity Functi ...

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