Deep Learning in Medical Imaging and Sensing
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Intelligent Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2024) | Viewed by 4724
Special Issue Editors
Interests: medical imaging; inverse problems; image reconstruction; deep learning
Interests: medical imaging; inverse problems; unrolled neural networks; single-pixel imaging; spectral computed tomography
Interests: inverse problems; tomography; machine learning
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Advancements in medical imaging are essential for accurate diagnosis, monitoring and outcome prediction, as well as for investigating the underlying mechanisms of diseases. The recent success of deep learning (DL) is pushing the limits of what is possible with imaging and has already become the state-of-the-art for several tasks: segmentation, automatic diagnosis, computer-aided detection (CAD), image restoration and image reconstruction, among others. At the same time, DL is being rapidly adopted by many medical imaging providers.
Despite its current success, many challenges still remain. This Special Issue will address some of these challenges, such as explainability and interpretability, the hungry-data nature of DL models, and the need for robust methods in order to be translated to the clinic. One of the main challenges is the lack of annotated data in most medical applications. In this case, domain adaptation, self-supervised learning, and synthetic generation-based approaches play a critical role.
However, more data is not always the only solution. Leveraging a priori information in the form of architecture design (CNNs, ViT), knowledge of the underlying physics, or other a priori information can reduce the problem complexity and the amount of needed data. This is very relevant for inverse problems arising in medical imaging: denoising, deblurring, super-resolution, image reconstruction under limited conditions, and natural ill-posed problems (EIT, ECT, MIT). Actually, the current trend in inverse problems is to move towards the so-called model-based deep learning (MBDL) approaches, which combine model-based methods with DL. MBDL methods (plug-and-play and unrolled algorithms) include a data consistency term that ensures robustness, making them perfectly suited for medical imaging. However, these methods are still under development.
DL can also play an important role in sensor imaging for optimal sensor design and optimization of the transmitting and receiving processes. Optimal design can be beneficial for ultrasound, X-rays imaging, low-resolution imaging systems such as EIT, and others. Digital twin models could further unlock the potential with the low-res imaging systems with the aid of more established imaging information as well as physiological modelling.
The aim of this Special Issue of Sensors is to propose and highlight novel methods, architectures, and applications of deep learning in medical imaging and sensors. We expect submissions of articles related, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Deep learning for medical imaging and imaging sensors (ultrasound, CT, MRI, spectral CT, optical imaging, PET, EIT, etc.);
- Deep learning for image reconstruction and image restoration;
- Deep learning for segmentation;
- Deep learning for computer aided detection and diagnosis;
- Semi/weak/self/unsupervised learning.
Dr. Juan Felipe Pérez-Juste Abascal
Dr. Nicolas Ducros
Prof. Dr. Manuchehr Soleimani
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- deep learning
- medical imaging
- imaging sensor
- image reconstruction
- segmentation
- diagnosis
