Diagnostic Imaging ; trends ; Humans ; Plaque, Atherosclerotic ; diagnosis

Advances in radionuclide tracers have allowed for more accurate imaging that reflects the actions of numerous neurotransmitters, energy metabolism utilization, inflammation, and pathological protein accumulation. All of these achievements in molecular brain imaging have broadened our understanding of brain function in Parkinson's disease (PD). The implementation of molecular imaging has supported more accurate PD diagnosis as well as assessment of therapeutic outcome and disease progression. Moreover, molecular imaging is well suited for the detection of preclinical or prodromal PD cases. Despite these advances, future frontiers of research in this area will focus on using multi-modalities combining positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging along with causal modeling with complex algorithms.
Brain ; diagnostic imaging ; Humans ; Molecular Imaging ; methods ; trends ; Neuroimaging ; methods ; trends ; Parkinson Disease ; diagnostic imaging

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*Diagnostic Imaging ; Human ; Radiology/*trends ; Radiology, Interventional ; Specialties, Medical

Cerebrovascular Disorders ; diagnostic imaging ; Clinical Medicine ; Humans ; Neuroradiography ; methods ; trends ; utilization ; Stroke ; diagnostic imaging

Intravascular optical coherence tomography (IVOCT) has emerged as a high-resolution and minimal-invasive imaging technique that provides high-speed visualization of coronary arterial vessel walls and clearly displays the vessel lumen and lesions under the intima. However, morphological gray-scale images cannot provide enough information about the tissue components to accurately characterize the plaque tissues including calcified, fibrous, lipidic and mixed plaques. Quantitative IVOCT ( IVOCT) is necessary to provide the physiological contrast mechanisms and obtain the characteristic parameters of tissues with clinical diagnostic value. In this paper, the progress of IVOCT is reviewed. The current methods for quantitatively measuring optical, elastic and hemodynamic parameters of vessel wall and plaque tissues using IVOCT gray-scale images and raw backscattered signals are introduced and potential development is forecast.
Coronary Artery Disease ; diagnostic imaging ; Coronary Vessels ; diagnostic imaging ; Humans ; Tomography, Optical Coherence ; trends

We searched and retrieved literature on the topic of medical image processing published on SCI journals in the past 10 years. We then imported the retrieved literature into TDA for data cleanup before data analysis and pro cessing by EXCLE and UCINET to generate tables and figures that could indicate disciplinary correlation and research hotspots from the perspective of bibliometrics. The results indicated that people in Europe and USA were leading researchers on medical image processing with close international cooperation. Many disciplines contributed to the fast development of medical image processing with intense interdisciplinary researches. The papers that we found show recent research hotspots of the algorithm, system, model, image and segmentation in the field of medical image processing. Cluster analysis on key words of high frequency demonstrated complicated clustering relationship.
Algorithms ; Bibliometrics ; Cluster Analysis ; Diagnostic Imaging ; trends ; Humans ; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted ; trends ; International Cooperation

Diagnostic Imaging ; trends ; Humans ; Medical Oncology ; methods ; trends ; Neoplasms ; diagnosis ; genetics ; therapy ; Patient Care Management ; methods ; trends

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Diagnostic Imaging/*methods/trends ; Humans ; Nuclear Medicine/*methods/*trends ; Positron-Emission Tomography/methods/trends ; Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon/methods/trends

Cardiology ; instrumentation ; methods ; China ; Heart ; diagnostic imaging ; physiopathology ; Humans ; Nuclear Medicine ; instrumentation ; trends ; Radionuclide Imaging ; instrumentation ; trends ; Stethoscopes ; Ventricular Dysfunction ; diagnosis ; diagnostic imaging

Spinal biomechanics, especially the range of spine motion,has close connection with spinal surgery. The change of the range of motion (ROM) is an important indicator of diseases and injuries of spine, and the essential evaluating standards of effect of surgeries and therapies to spine. The analysis of ROM can be dated to the time of the invention of X-ray and even that before it. With the development of science and technology as well as the optimization of various types of calculation methods, diverse measuring methods have emerged, from imaging methods to non-imaging methods, from two-dimensional to three-dimensional, from measuring directly on the X-ray films to calculating automatically by computer. Analysis of ROM has made great progress, but there are some older methods cannot meet the needs of the times and disappear, some classical methods such as X-ray still have vitality. Combining different methods, three dimensions and more vivo spine research are the trend of analysis of ROM. And more and more researchers began to focus on vivo spine research. In this paper, the advantages and disadvantages of the methods utilized recently are presented through viewing recent literatures, providing reference and help for the movement analysis of spine.
Animals ; Humans ; Imaging, Three-Dimensional ; instrumentation ; methods ; trends ; Radiography ; Spine ; diagnostic imaging