Science-Based Medicine

Are Cardiac Calcium CT Scans Useful?

My doctor recently recommended that I get a cardiac CT calcium scan to help stratify my risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD).

Low-dose CT screenings are crucial for those at risk for lung cancer

Dr. Jaime Ungo, a specialist in pulmonology and sleep medicine at Pulmonary Consultants, feels strongly about the importance of lung cancer screening. He earnestly encourages patients to understand ...
IEEE

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Low-Dose CT Reconstruction via Bayesian Uncertainty Alignment

Abstract: Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) image reconstruction techniques can reduce patient radiation exposure while maintaining acceptable imaging quality. Deep learning (DL) is widely used in ...
IEEE

Transformer Encoder-Decoder with depth-wise separable convolution for Low-Dose CT Denoising

Abstract: Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) images frequently suffer from noise and artifacts due to diminished radiation doses, challenging the diagnostic integrity of the images. We introduce an ...