Artificial Intelligence for Precision Analysis and Decision Making in Medical Imaging

A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 12 July 2025 | Viewed by 2502

Special Issue Editor

1. Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Monash University, Melbourne, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia
2. School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
Interests: medical informatics; big data research; wireless network; decision-making system; machine learning; knowledge management; computational intelligence
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Dear Colleagues, 

Medical imaging is an important basis for clinical analysis and efficacy judgment. In developing-region hospitals, due to differences in subjective judgments and a lack of experienced physicians, making accurate judgments based on medical images is remarkably difficult. Despite tremendous efforts from academics and industry, there is still a need for universal solutions for rare diseases and improved diagnostic performance. In the last decade, with the development of machine learning and neural networks, it has become possible for computer technology to intelligently process large-scale and multimodal medical data and extract meaningful deep features. Therefore, our Special Issue aims to provide contributions sharing innovative ideas for the automatic analysis of medical images using artificial intelligence to aid the medical community.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Disease detection solutions based on intelligent analysis of medical images (such as MRI, X-ray, CT, ultrasound images, etc.);
  • The semantic segmentation scheme for medical images;
  • The intelligent lesion detection scheme for medical images;
  • Accurate registration of multiparameter, cross-modal medical images;
  • Feature fusion of medical images and medical records;
  • Medical image generation;
  • Medical image classification;
  • Building a more robust medical image management platform.

Dr. Jia Wu
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • medical images
  • artificial intelligence
  • image analysis
  • auxiliary diagnosis
  • neural network
  • healthcare informatics

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Artificial Intelligence-Aided Diagnosis Solution by Enhancing the Edge Features of Medical Images
by Baolong Lv, Feng Liu, Yulin Li, Jianhua Nie, Fangfang Gou and Jia Wu
Diagnostics 2023, 13(6), 1063; https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13061063 - 10 Mar 2023
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Abstract
Bone malignant tumors are metastatic and aggressive. The manual screening of medical images is time-consuming and laborious, and computer technology is now being introduced to aid in diagnosis. Due to a large amount of noise and blurred lesion edges in osteosarcoma MRI images, [...] Read more.
Bone malignant tumors are metastatic and aggressive. The manual screening of medical images is time-consuming and laborious, and computer technology is now being introduced to aid in diagnosis. Due to a large amount of noise and blurred lesion edges in osteosarcoma MRI images, high-precision segmentation methods require large computational resources and are difficult to use in developing countries with limited conditions. Therefore, this study proposes an artificial intelligence-aided diagnosis scheme by enhancing image edge features. First, a threshold screening filter (TSF) was used to pre-screen the MRI images to filter redundant data. Then, a fast NLM algorithm was introduced for denoising. Finally, a segmentation method with edge enhancement (TBNet) was designed to segment the pre-processed images by fusing Transformer based on the UNet network. TBNet is based on skip-free connected U-Net and includes a channel-edge cross-fusion transformer and a segmentation method with a combined loss function. This solution optimizes diagnostic efficiency and solves the segmentation problem of blurred edges, providing more help and reference for doctors to diagnose osteosarcoma. The results based on more than 4000 osteosarcoma MRI images show that our proposed method has a good segmentation effect and performance, with Dice Similarity Coefficient (DSC) reaching 0.949, and show that other evaluation indexes such as Intersection of Union (IOU) and recall are better than other methods. Full article
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