This article introduces a novel method named "Parallel Imaging and Noquist in Tandem" (PINOT) for accelerated image acquisition of cine cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. This method combines two prior information formalisms, ...
[EN] To find structural differences between brain metastases of lung and breast cancer, computing their heterogeneity parameters by means of both 2D and 3D texture analysis (TA).
Patients with 58 brain metastases from ...
[EN] Background: The respiratory epithelium is frequently infected by the respiratory syncytial virus, resulting in inflammation, a
reduction in cilia activity and an increase in the production of mucus.
Methods: In this ...
El Hajj, Rida(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2015-05-11)
The main goal of this project was to design a didactic software tool that could permit a user to study the mechanisms behind the image reconstruction in Computerized Axial Tomography (also known as Computed Tomography), ...
Polylaminin (polyLM) is a non-covalent acid-induced nano- and micro-structured polymer of the protein laminin displaying
distinguished biological properties. Polylaminin stimulates neuritogenesis beyond the levels achieved ...
Spine is a structure commonly involved in several diseases. Identification and segmentation of the vertebral structures are of relevance to many medical applications related to the spine such as diagnosis, therapy or ...
Díaz-Parra, Antonio; Canals, S.; Moratal, David(IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2017-09-14)
[EN] Identification of brain states measured with electrophysiological methods such as electroencephalography and local field potential (LFP) recordings is of great importance in numerous neuroscientific applications. For ...
This work presents a new automated method for spinal canal detection in Computed Tomography (CT) images. It uses both 2D and 3D information and the algorithm extracts the spinal canal automatically. The procedure can be ...
[EN] Edge detection in medical imaging is a significant task for object recognition of human organs and is considered a pre-processing step in medical image segmentation and reconstruction. This article proposes an efficient ...
Díaz Parra, Antonio(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-09-10)
El cerebro está constituido por numerosos elementos que se encuentran interconectados de forma masiva y organizados en módulos que forman redes jerárquicas. Ciertas patologías cerebrales, como la enfermedad de Alzheimer y ...
Marcos-Garces, Victor; Gavara-Doñate, Josep; Monmeneu-Menadas, Jose Vicente; Lopez-Lereu, Maria P.; Pérez, Nerea; Rios-Navarro, César; De Dios, Elena; Moratal, David; Miñana, Gema; Núñez, Julio; Chorro Gasco, Francisco J.; Bodi, V.(MDPI AG, 2020-06)
[EN] Vasodilator stress cardiac magnetic resonance (stressCMR) has shown robust diagnostic and prognostic value in patients with known or suspected chronic coronary syndrome (CCS). However, it is unknown whether integration ...
Ortiz-Ramón, Rafael; Larroza-Santacruz, Andrés; Arana Fernandez de Moya, Estanislao; Moratal, David(IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2017)
[EN] Brain metastases are occasionally detected before diagnosing their primary site of origin. In these cases, simple visual examination of medical images of the metastases is not enough to identify the primary cancer, ...
Quiñones, Darío R.; Ferragud-Agulló, Jorge; Pérez Feito, Ricardo; García Manrique, Juan Antonio; Canals-Gamoneda, Santiago; Moratal, David(MDPI AG, 2018-09)
[EN] In biology and neuroscience courses, brain anatomy is usually explained using Magnetic Resonance (MR) images or histological sections of different orientations. These can show the most important macroscopic areas in ...
Pérez-Cervera, Laura; De Santis, Silvia; Marcos, Encarni; Ghorbanzad-Ghaziany, Zahra; Trouvé-Carpena, Alejandro; Selim, Mohamed Kotb; Pérez-Ramírez, Úrsula; Pfarr, Simone; Bach, Patrick; P Halli; Kiefer, Falk; Moratal, David; Kirsch, Peter; Sommer, Wolfgang H.; Canals, Santiago(BioMed Central Ltd., 2023-06-21)
[EN] IntroductionAlcohol dependence is characterized by a gradual reduction in cognitive control and inflexibility to contingency changes. The neuroadaptations underlying this aberrant behavior are poorly understood. Using ...
Pérez Ramírez, María Úrsula(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2015-07-31)
[EN] A brain tumor is a pathological intracranial cell growth. It can destroy directly the normal cell population or damage indirectly by invading other parts and cause inflammation, cerebral edema and intracranial pressure. ...
[EN] The current criteria for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease (AD) require the presence of relevant cognitive deficits, so the underlying neuropathological damage is important by the time the diagnosis is made. Therefore, ...
Cosa Liñán, Alejandro(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2017-11-06)
[EN] Alcohol abuse is one of the most alarming issues for the health authorities. It is estimated that at least 23 million of European citizens are affected by alcoholism causing a cost around 270 million euros. Excessive ...
Tejero Cervera, Pascual(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020-07-15)
[ES] Las enfermedades cardiovasculares (ECV) son la principal causa de mortalidad en el mundo que, sólo en 2016, provocaron 17,9 millones de muertes, representando el 31% de la mortalidad a nivel global; y se espera que ...
Cantalapiedra Cabezas, Cristina(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2021-03-05)
[ES] La literatura científica ha demostrado que los carcinomas prostáticos reducen la difusión en imágenes de resonancia magnética (MRI, Magnetic Resonance Imaging). Para cuantificar la difusión se utiliza el coeficiente ...
Pérez Lorente, Isabel(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2023-09-05)
[ES] Se denomina grasa epicárdica al tejido adiposo localizado entre el pericardio visceral y epicardio. Se trata de un depósito de tejido adiposo metabólicamente activo que se encuentra en el espacio pericárdico. Existen ...