Coronary artery calcium (CAC) score has shown to be an accurate predictor of future cardiovascular events. Early detection by CAC scoring might reduce the number of deaths by cardiovascular disease (CVD). Automatically excluding scans which test …
To determine the effect of low-dose, high-pitch non-electrocardiographic (ECG)-triggered chest CT on coronary artery calcium (CAC) detection, quantification and risk stratification, compared to ECG-triggered cardiac CT. We selected 1,000 participants …
To investigate the effect of the slab thickness in maximum intensity projections (MIPs) on the candidate detection performance of a deep learning-based computer-aided detection (DL-CAD) system for pulmonary nodule detection in CT scans. The public …
Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools provide rapid analysis of complex datasets, at the cost of flexibility in the data that is fed to them. To have the best performance, AI tools require training on data similar to the data that will be encountered …
Lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and cardiovascular disease, the so-called Big-3 (B3), are responsible for high rates of morbidity and mortality. B3CARE is a research collaboration project, with a final ambition to establish an …
The B3CARE project aims to validate and evaluate imaging biomarkers for the Big-3 diseases (lung cancer, COPD, and cardiovascular disease). To this end a large-scale, high- quality imaging data biobank is established containing data from different …
In clinical practice, small lung nodules can be easily overlooked by radiologists. The paper aims to provide an efficient and accurate detection system for small lung nodules while keeping good performance for large nodules. We propose a multi-planar …
The aim of this phantom study was to investigate the effect of scan parameters and noise suppression techniques on the minimum radiation dose for acceptable image quality for CT emphysema densitometry. The COPDGene phantom was scanned on a third …
Accurate pulmonary nodule detection is a crucial step in lung cancer screening. Computer-aided detection (CAD) systems are not routinely used by radiologists for pulmonary nodule detection in clinical practice despite their potential benefits. …
Lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and coronary artery disease (CAD) are expected to cause most deaths by 2050. State-of-the-art computed tomography (CT) allows early detection of lung cancer and simultaneous evaluation of …