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Thoracic imaging

This section aims to publish articles related to the development, evaluation, and use of imaging techniques and image processing tools to image the organs and tissues of the thoracic cavity. 

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  1. To explore if the quantitative perfusion histogram parameters of dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) correlates with the expression of PTEN, P-Akt and m-TOR protein in lung cancer.

    Authors: Bingqian Zhang, Zhenhua Zhao, Ya’nan Huang, Haijia Mao, Mingyue Zou, Cheng Wang, Guangmao Yu and Minming Zhang

    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:73

    Content type: Research article

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  2. In oncology, the correct determination of nodal metastatic disease is essential for patient management, as patient treatment and prognosis are closely linked to the stage of the disease. The aim of the study w...

    Authors: Andra-Iza Iuga, Heike Carolus, Anna J. Höink, Tom Brosch, Tobias Klinder, David Maintz, Thorsten Persigehl, Bettina Baeßler and Michael Püsken

    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:69

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  3. To investigate left atrial shape differences on CT scans of atrial fibrillation (AF) patients with (AF+) versus without (AF−) post-ablation recurrence and whether these shape differences predict AF recurrence.

    Authors: Thomas Atta-Fosu, Michael LaBarbera, Soumya Ghose, Paul Schoenhagen, Walid Saliba, Patrick J. Tchou, Bruce D. Lindsay, Milind Y. Desai, Deborah Kwon, Mina K. Chung and Anant Madabhushi

    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:45

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  4. Long-term exposure to coal dust causes respiratory disease. In chest computer tomography (CT), pulmonary nodules, pulmonary interstitial fibrosis and emphysema manifest themselves. However, tracheal foreign bo...

    Authors: Li-juan Zhong, Min Yan, Yi Wang, Dai-quan Zhou, Jian-ming Tang and Shou-hong Xiang

    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:35

    Content type: Case report

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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:61

  5. To establish the normal reference range of fetal thorax by two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound VOCAL technique and evaluate the application in diagnosing fetal thoracic malformations.

    Authors: Xihua Lian, Zhenhong Xu, Liping Zheng, Zhixing Zhu, Tofunmi Ejiwale, Ayush Kumar, Peiya Cai, Shaozheng He, Shunlan Liu, Ying Zhang and Guorong Lyu

    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:34

    Content type: Research article

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  6. Image segmentation is a common task in medical imaging e.g., for volumetry analysis in cardiac MRI. Artificial neural networks are used to automate this task with performance similar to manual operators. Howev...

    Authors: Markus J. Ankenbrand, Liliia Shainberg, Michael Hock, David Lohr and Laura M. Schreiber

    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:27

    Content type: Software

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  10. Coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD) is an important underlying cause of angina pectoris. Currently, no diagnostic tool is available to directly visualize the coronary microvasculature. Invasive microvascu...

    Authors: F. Groepenhoff, R. G. M. Klaassen, G. B. Valstar, S. H. Bots, N. C. Onland-Moret, H. M. Den Ruijter, T. Leiner and A. L. M. Eikendal

    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2021 21:5

    Content type: Research article

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  11. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has emerged as a global pandemic. According to the diagnosis and treatment guidelines of China, negative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) is the key ...

    Authors: Quan Cai, Si-Yao Du, Si Gao, Guo-Liang Huang, Zheng Zhang, Shu Li, Xin Wang, Pei-Ling Li, Peng Lv, Gang Hou and Li-Na Zhang

    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2020 20:118

    Content type: Research article

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  12. This study outlines an image processing algorithm for accurate and consistent lung segmentation in chest radiographs of critically ill adults and children typically obscured by medical equipment. In particular...

    Authors: Narathip Reamaroon, Michael W. Sjoding, Harm Derksen, Elyas Sabeti, Jonathan Gryak, Ryan P. Barbaro, Brian D. Athey and Kayvan Najarian

    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2020 20:116

    Content type: Research article

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  13. Integrated Angiography-Computed Tomography (ACT) suites were initially designed in the 1990’s to perform complex procedures requiring high-resolution cross-sectional imaging and fluoroscopy. Since then, there ...

    Authors: Joseph P. Erinjeri, Raphael Doustaly, Grégoire Avignon, Achiude Bendet, Elena N. Petre, Etay Ziv, Hooman Yarmohammadi and Stephen B. Solomon

    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2020 20:114

    Content type: Research article

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  14. Deep learning algorithms are increasingly used for automatic medical imaging analysis and cardiac chamber segmentation. Especially in congenital heart disease, obtaining a sufficient number of training images ...

    Authors: Gerhard-Paul Diller, Julius Vahle, Robert Radke, Maria Luisa Benesch Vidal, Alicia Jeanette Fischer, Ulrike M. M. Bauer, Samir Sarikouch, Felix Berger, Philipp Beerbaum, Helmut Baumgartner and Stefan Orwat

    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2020 20:113

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  16. To develop and validate a nomogram for early identification of severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) based on initial clinical and CT characteristics.

    Authors: Yixing Yu, Ximing Wang, Min Li, Lan Gu, Zongyu Xie, Wenhao Gu, Feng Xu, Yaxing Bao, Rongrong Liu, Su Hu, Mengjie Hu and Chunhong Hu

    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2020 20:111

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  17. Coronary artery angiography is an indispensable assistive technique for cardiac interventional surgery. Segmentation and extraction of blood vessels from coronary angiographic images or videos are very essenti...

    Authors: Lu Wang, Dongxue Liang, Xiaolei Yin, Jing Qiu, Zhiyun Yang, Junhui Xing, Jianzeng Dong and Zhaoyuan Ma

    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2020 20:110

    Content type: Research article

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  19. The aim of this was to analyze 4 chest CT imaging features of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Shenzhen, China so as to improve the diagnosis of COVID-19.

    Authors: Jun Jin, De-hong Gao, Xin Mo, Si-ping Tan, Zhen-xia Kou, Yi-bo Chen, Jin-bo Cao, Wen-jing Chen, Ya-ming Zhang, Bing-qing Li, Kuan-long Huang, Bing-ren Xu, Xiao-li Tang and Yu-li Wang

    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2020 20:84

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  20. There is an increased interest in quantifying and characterizing epicardial fat which has been linked to various cardiovascular diseases such as coronary artery disease and atrial fibrillation. Recently, three...

    Authors: Markus Henningsson, Martin Brundin, Tobias Scheffel, Carl Edin, Federica Viola and Carl-Johan Carlhäll

    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2020 20:80

    Content type: Technical advance

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  23. Left ventricle rotation and torsion are fundamental components of myocardial function, and several software packages have been developed for analysis of these components. The purpose of this study was to compa...

    Authors: Lauri Lehmonen, Mikko Jalanko, Mika Tarkiainen, Touko Kaasalainen, Johanna Kuusisto, Kirsi Lauerma and Sauli Savolainen

    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2020 20:73

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  24. We aimed to describe the chest CT findings in sixty-seven patients infected by Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

    Authors: Xiaoyang Wang, Chenbin Liu, Liang Hong, Cuiyun Yuan, Jiguang Ding, Qing Jia, Gangqiang Sun, Wenxian Peng and Qingfeng Sun

    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2020 20:70

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  25. Many clinical guidelines recommend FDG PET/CT for the evaluation of pulmonary nodules ≥8 mm detected during low dose computed tomography (LDCT) lung cancer screening. However, its added value in this setting r...

    Authors: Sarah Hadique, Pranav Jain, Yousaf Hadi, Aneeqah Baig and John E. Parker

    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2020 20:69

    Content type: Research article

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  26. Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) is increasingly requested in the therapy of peripheral arterial occlusive disease. The evaluation of the technical result after balloon angioplasty with regard to ba...

    Authors: Anne Marie Augustin, Irina Thein, Nicole Rickert, Thorsten Klink, Thorsten Alexander Bley and Ralph Kickuth

    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2020 20:67

    Content type: Research article

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  27. Coronary heart disease is one of the diseases with the highest mortality rate. Due to the important position of cardiovascular disease prevention and diagnosis in the medical field, the segmentation of cardiov...

    Authors: Dongxue Liang, Jing Qiu, Lu Wang, Xiaolei Yin, Junhui Xing, Zhiyun Yang, Jiangzeng Dong and Zhaoyuan Ma

    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2020 20:65

    Content type: Technical Advance

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  28. In December 2019, an outbreak of a novel coronavirus pneumonia, now called COVID-19, occurred in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. COVID-19, which is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (...

    Authors: Cheng-Juan Long, Ping Fang, Tie-Jun Song, Jing-Chao Zhang and Qing Yang

    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2020 20:64

    Content type: Research article

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  29. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a highly infectious disease caused by the new coronavirus. Previous studies have shown that the chest CT examination plays an important role in the diagnosis and monitori...

    Authors: Jiawei Li, Xiao Wang, Xiaolu Huang, Fangxing Chen, Xuesong Zhang, Ying Liu, Guangzuo Luo and Xunhua Xu

    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2020 20:56

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  32. To increase the image quality of end-expiratory and end-inspiratory phases of retrospective respiratory self-gated 4D MRI data sets using non-rigid image registration for improved target delineation of moving ...

    Authors: Stefan Weick, Kathrin Breuer, Anne Richter, Florian Exner, Serge-Peer Ströhle, Paul Lutyj, Jörg Tamihardja, Simon Veldhoen, Michael Flentje and Bülent Polat

    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2020 20:41

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  33. To evaluate the clinical value of foetal intelligent navigation echocardiography (5D Heart) for the display of key diagnostic elements in basic sections.

    Authors: Wan-Yu Hu, Jin-Hong Zhou, Xiao-Ying Tao, Shi-Yan Li, Bei Wang and Bo-Wen Zhao

    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2020 20:33

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  34. Automatic analyses of echocardiograms may support inexperienced users in quantifying left ventricular (LV) function. We have developed an algorithm for fully automatic measurements of mitral annular plane syst...

    Authors: Jahn Frederik Grue, Sigurd Storve, Håvard Dalen, Ole Christian Mjølstad, Stein O. Samstad, Torfinn Eriksen-Volnes, Hans Torp and Bjørn Olav Haugen

    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2020 20:29

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  35. Pulmonary hypertension is definitively diagnosed by the measurement of mean pulmonary artery (PA) pressure (mPAP) using right heart catheterization. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) four-dimensional (4D...

    Authors: Joao G. Ramos, Alexander Fyrdahl, Björn Wieslander, Gert Reiter, Ursula Reiter, Ning Jin, Eva Maret, Maria Eriksson, Kenneth Caidahl, Peder Sörensson, Andreas Sigfridsson and Martin Ugander

    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2020 20:28

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  36. Intravascular imaging plays an important part in diagnosis of vascular conditions and providing insight for treatment strategy. Two main imaging modalities are intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and optical coher...

    Authors: Edward Pavillard and Luke Sewall

    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2020 20:18

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  38. We aimed to develop radiomic models based on different phases of computed tomography (CT) imaging and to investigate the efficacy of models for diagnosing mediastinal metastatic lymph nodes (LNs) in non-small ...

    Authors: Xue Sha, Guanzhong Gong, Qingtao Qiu, Jinghao Duan, Dengwang Li and Yong Yin

    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2020 20:12

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  39. The accuracy of 2D and 3D strain analyses was evaluated by comparing strain and cardiac function parameters in Fontan repair patients and normal child volunteers.

    Authors: Liwei Hu, Qian Wang, Barton P. Gregory, Rong Zhen Ouyang, Aimin Sun, Chen Guo, Tongtong Han and Yumin Zhong

    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2020 20:8

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  40. IVUS is widely used to quantitatively assess coronary artery disease. The purpose of this study was to automatically characterize dense calcium (DC) tissue in the gray scale intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) ima...

    Authors: Juhwan Lee, Yoo Na Hwang, Ga Young Kim, Ji Yean Kwon and Sung Min Kim

    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2019 19:103

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  41. Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) alters left ventricular (LV) hemodynamics, resulting in decreased global LV ejection fraction and global LV kinetic energy. We hypothesize that anterior AMI effects localized ...

    Authors: Philip A. Corrado, Jacob A. Macdonald, Christopher J. François, Niti R. Aggarwal, Jonathan W. Weinsaft and Oliver Wieben

    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2019 19:101

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  42. Lung cancer is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Radiotherapy for lung cancer is beneficial in both the radical and palliative settings, and technologic advances in recent years now afford ...

    Authors: Xiaohui Cao, Ming Liu, Fushan Zhai, Nan Li, Feng Li, Chaoen Bao, Yinliang Liu and Gang Chen

    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2019 19:100

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  43. Aortic dissection is a life-threatening syndrome that sometimes requires emergency intervention, and endovascular aortic aneurysm repair (EVAR) is a treatment option. Long-term image follow-up is also required...

    Authors: Yu-Li Lee, Yao-Kuang Huang, Li-Sheng Hsu, Pang-Yen Chen and Chien-Wei Chen

    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2019 19:82

    Content type: Case report

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  44. Computed tomography pulmonary angiography (CTPA) is the gold standard for the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism (PE). However, contrast is contraindicated in some patients. The purpose of this study was to deter...

    Authors: Chiao-Hsuan Chien, Fu-Chieh Shih, Chin-Yu Chen, Chia-Hui Chen, Wan-Ling Wu and Chee-Wai Mak

    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2019 19:65

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  45. To investigate the value of predictive nomogram in optimizing computed tomography (CT)-based differential diagnosis of primary progressive pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) from community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in...

    Authors: Bei Wang, Min Li, He Ma, Fangfang Han, Yan Wang, Shunying Zhao, Zhimin Liu, Tong Yu, Jie Tian, Di Dong and Yun Peng

    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2019 19:63

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  46. T1 mapping sequences such as MOLLI, ShMOLLI and SASHA make use of different technical approaches, bearing strengths and weaknesses. It is well known that obtained T1 relaxation times differ between the sequenc...

    Authors: Julius F. Heidenreich, Andreas M. Weng, Julian Donhauser, Andreas Greiser, Kelvin Chow, Peter Nordbeck, Thorsten A. Bley and Herbert Köstler

    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2019 19:59

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  47. The reliable quantification of myocardial blood flow (MBF) with MRI, necessitates the correction of errors in arterial input function (AIF) caused by the T1 saturation effect. The aim of this study was to compare...

    Authors: Minna Husso, Mikko J. Nissi, Antti Kuivanen, Paavo Halonen, Miikka Tarkia, Jarmo Teuho, Virva Saunavaara, Pauli Vainio, Petri Sipola, Hannu Manninen, Seppo Ylä-Herttuala, Juhani Knuuti and Juha Töyräs

    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2019 19:58

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  48. In this study we sought to retrospectively evaluate whether a very brief cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) protocol sufficiently distinguishes patients with relevant myocardial changes with need for fur...

    Authors: Jonathan Nadjiri, Anna-Lena Zaschka, Alexandra S. Straeter, Andreas Sauter, Maximilian Englmaier, Florian Weis, Karl-Ludwig Laugwitz, Ernst J. Rummeny, Daniela Pfeiffer and Michael Rasper

    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2019 19:57

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  50. Pulmonary involvement is common in several infectious and non-infectious diagnostic settings. Imaging findings consistently overlap and are therefore difficult to differentiate by chest-CT. The aim of this stu...

    Authors: Christopher Kloth, Wolfgang Maximilian Thaiss, Robert Beck, Michael Haap, Jan Fritz, Meinrad Beer and Marius Horger

    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2019 19:39

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