A survey on U-shaped networks in medical image segmentations

L Liu, J Cheng, Q Quan, FX Wu, YP Wang, J Wang - Neurocomputing, 2020 - Elsevier
The U-shaped network is one of the end-to-end convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In
electron microscope segmentation of ISBI challenge 2012, the concise architecture and …

A review of atlas-based segmentation for magnetic resonance brain images

M Cabezas, A Oliver, X Lladó, J Freixenet… - Computer methods and …, 2011 - Elsevier
Normal and abnormal brains can be segmented by registering the target image with an
atlas. Here, an atlas is defined as the combination of an intensity image (template) and its …

Blood-brain barrier leakage in patients with early Alzheimer disease

HJ Van De Haar, S Burgmans, JFA Jansen… - Radiology, 2016 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose To investigate whether the blood-brain barrier (BBB) leaks blood-circulating
substances in patients with early forms of Alzheimer disease (AD), and if so, to examine the …

Association of cerebral microbleeds with cognitive decline and dementia

S Akoudad, FJ Wolters, A Viswanathan… - JAMA …, 2016 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Cerebral microbleeds are hypothesized downstream markers of brain damage
caused by vascular and amyloid pathologic mechanisms. To date, whether their presence is …

[HTML][HTML] BIANCA (Brain Intensity AbNormality Classification Algorithm): A new tool for automated segmentation of white matter hyperintensities

L Griffanti, G Zamboni, A Khan, L Li, G Bonifacio… - Neuroimage, 2016 - Elsevier
Reliable quantification of white matter hyperintensities of presumed vascular origin (WMHs)
is increasingly needed, given the presence of these MRI findings in patients with several …

Location sensitive deep convolutional neural networks for segmentation of white matter hyperintensities

M Ghafoorian, N Karssemeijer, T Heskes… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
The anatomical location of imaging features is of crucial importance for accurate diagnosis
in many medical tasks. Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have had huge successes in …

Prevalence and risk factors of cerebral microbleeds: an update of the Rotterdam scan study

MMF Poels, MW Vernooij, MA Ikram, A Hofman… - Stroke, 2010 - Am Heart Assoc
Background and Purpose—We previously reported on the high prevalence of cerebral
microbleeds (CMBs) in community-dwelling people aged 60 years and older. Moreover, we …

Blood-brain barrier impairment and hypoperfusion are linked in cerebral small vessel disease

SM Wong, JFA Jansen, CE Zhang, EI Hoff, J Staals… - Neurology, 2019 - AAN Enterprises
Objective To investigate the link between blood-brain-barrier (BBB) permeability and
cerebral blood flow (CBF) and the relation with white matter hyperintensities (WMH) in …

Is dementia incidence declining? Trends in dementia incidence since 1990 in the Rotterdam Study

EMC Schrijvers, BFJ Verhaaren, PJ Koudstaal… - Neurology, 2012 - AAN Enterprises
Objective: To investigate whether dementia incidence has changed over the last 2 decades.
Methods: We compared dementia incidence in 2 independent subcohorts of persons aged …

[HTML][HTML] Trajectories of imaging markers in brain aging: the Rotterdam Study

EJ Vinke, M de Groot, V Venkatraghavan, S Klein… - Neurobiology of …, 2018 - Elsevier
With aging, the brain undergoes several structural changes. These changes reflect the
normal aging process and are therefore not necessarily pathologic. In fact, better …