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	Author	Mariella Dimiccoli; Marc Bolaños; Estefania Talavera; Maedeh Aghaei; Stavri G. Nikolov; Petia Radeva
	Title	SR-Clustering: Semantic Regularized Clustering for Egocentric Photo Streams Segmentation			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2017	Publication	Computer Vision and Image Understanding	Abbreviated Journal	CVIU
	Volume	155	Issue		Pages	55-69
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	Abstract	While wearable cameras are becoming increasingly popular, locating relevant information in large unstructured collections of egocentric images is still a tedious and time consuming processes. This paper addresses the problem of organizing egocentric photo streams acquired by a wearable camera into semantically meaningful segments. First, contextual and semantic information is extracted for each image by employing a Convolutional Neural Networks approach. Later, by integrating language processing, a vocabulary of concepts is defined in a semantic space. Finally, by exploiting the temporal coherence in photo streams, images which share contextual and semantic attributes are grouped together. The resulting temporal segmentation is particularly suited for further analysis, ranging from activity and event recognition to semantic indexing and summarization. Experiments over egocentric sets of nearly 17,000 images, show that the proposed approach outperforms state-of-the-art methods.
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	Notes	MILAB; 601.235			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ DBT2017			Serial	2714
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	Author	Mohammad Ali Bagheri; Qigang Gao; Sergio Escalera; Huamin Ren; Thomas B. Moeslund; Elham Etemad
	Title	Locality Regularized Group Sparse Coding for Action Recognition			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2017	Publication	Computer Vision and Image Understanding	Abbreviated Journal	CVIU
	Volume	158	Issue		Pages	106-114
	Keywords	Bag of words; Feature encoding; Locality constrained coding; Group sparse coding; Alternating direction method of multipliers; Action recognition
	Abstract	Bag of visual words (BoVW) models are widely utilized in image/ video representation and recognition. The cornerstone of these models is the encoding stage, in which local features are decomposed over a codebook in order to obtain a representation of features. In this paper, we propose a new encoding algorithm by jointly encoding the set of local descriptors of each sample and considering the locality structure of descriptors. The proposed method takes advantages of locality coding such as its stability and robustness to noise in descriptors, as well as the strengths of the group coding strategy by taking into account the potential relation among descriptors of a sample. To efficiently implement our proposed method, we consider the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) framework, which results in quadratic complexity in the problem size. The method is employed for a challenging classification problem: action recognition by depth cameras. Experimental results demonstrate the outperformance of our methodology compared to the state-of-the-art on the considered datasets.
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	Notes	HuPBA; no proj			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ BGE2017			Serial	3014
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	Author	Alejandro Gonzalez Alzate; David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez; Jaume Amores
	Title	On-Board Object Detection: Multicue, Multimodal, and Multiview Random Forest of Local Experts			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2017	Publication	IEEE Transactions on cybernetics	Abbreviated Journal	Cyber
	Volume	47	Issue	11	Pages	3980 - 3990
	Keywords	Multicue; multimodal; multiview; object detection
	Abstract	Despite recent significant advances, object detection continues to be an extremely challenging problem in real scenarios. In order to develop a detector that successfully operates under these conditions, it becomes critical to leverage upon multiple cues, multiple imaging modalities, and a strong multiview (MV) classifier that accounts for different object views and poses. In this paper, we provide an extensive evaluation that gives insight into how each of these aspects (multicue, multimodality, and strong MV classifier) affect accuracy both individually and when integrated together. In the multimodality component, we explore the fusion of RGB and depth maps obtained by high-definition light detection and ranging, a type of modality that is starting to receive increasing attention. As our analysis reveals, although all the aforementioned aspects significantly help in improving the accuracy, the fusion of visible spectrum and depth information allows to boost the accuracy by a much larger margin. The resulting detector not only ranks among the top best performers in the challenging KITTI benchmark, but it is built upon very simple blocks that are easy to implement and computationally efficient.
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	ISSN	2168-2267	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	ADAS; 600.085; 600.082; 600.076; 600.118			Approved	no
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	Author	Pau Rodriguez; Guillem Cucurull; Jordi Gonzalez; Josep M. Gonfaus; Kamal Nasrollahi; Thomas B. Moeslund; Xavier Roca
	Title	Deep Pain: Exploiting Long Short-Term Memory Networks for Facial Expression Classification			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2017	Publication	IEEE Transactions on cybernetics	Abbreviated Journal	Cyber
	Volume		Issue		Pages	1-11
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	Abstract	Pain is an unpleasant feeling that has been shown to be an important factor for the recovery of patients. Since this is costly in human resources and difficult to do objectively, there is the need for automatic systems to measure it. In this paper, contrary to current state-of-the-art techniques in pain assessment, which are based on facial features only, we suggest that the performance can be enhanced by feeding the raw frames to deep learning models, outperforming the latest state-of-the-art results while also directly facing the problem of imbalanced data. As a baseline, our approach first uses convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to learn facial features from VGG_Faces, which are then linked to a long short-term memory to exploit the temporal relation between video frames. We further compare the performances of using the so popular schema based on the canonically normalized appearance versus taking into account the whole image. As a result, we outperform current state-of-the-art area under the curve performance in the UNBC-McMaster Shoulder Pain Expression Archive Database. In addition, to evaluate the generalization properties of our proposed methodology on facial motion recognition, we also report competitive results in the Cohn Kanade+ facial expression database.
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	Notes	ISE; 600.119; 600.098			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RCG2017a			Serial	2926
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	Author	Marta Diez-Ferrer; Debora Gil; Elena Carreño; Susana Padrones; Samantha Aso; Vanesa Vicens; Noelia Cubero de Frutos; Rosa Lopez Lisbona; Carles Sanchez; Agnes Borras; Antoni Rosell
	Title	Positive Airway Pressure-Enhanced CT to Improve Virtual Bronchoscopic Navigation			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2017	Publication	European Respiratory Journal	Abbreviated Journal	ERJ
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	Notes	IAM			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ DGC2017b			Serial	3632
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	Author	Joan Serrat; Felipe Lumbreras; Francisco Blanco; Manuel Valiente; Montserrat Lopez-Mesas
	Title	myStone: A system for automatic kidney stone classification			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2017	Publication	Expert Systems with Applications	Abbreviated Journal	ESA
	Volume	89	Issue		Pages	41-51
	Keywords	Kidney stone; Optical device; Computer vision; Image classification
	Abstract	Kidney stone formation is a common disease and the incidence rate is constantly increasing worldwide. It has been shown that the classification of kidney stones can lead to an important reduction of the recurrence rate. The classification of kidney stones by human experts on the basis of certain visual color and texture features is one of the most employed techniques. However, the knowledge of how to analyze kidney stones is not widespread, and the experts learn only after being trained on a large number of samples of the different classes. In this paper we describe a new device specifically designed for capturing images of expelled kidney stones, and a method to learn and apply the experts knowledge with regard to their classification. We show that with off the shelf components, a carefully selected set of features and a state of the art classifier it is possible to automate this difficult task to a good degree. We report results on a collection of 454 kidney stones, achieving an overall accuracy of 63% for a set of eight classes covering almost all of the kidney stones taxonomy. Moreover, for more than 80% of samples the real class is the first or the second most probable class according to the system, being then the patient recommendations for the two top classes similar. This is the first attempt towards the automatic visual classification of kidney stones, and based on the current results we foresee better accuracies with the increase of the dataset size.
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	Notes	ADAS; MSIAU; 603.046; 600.122; 600.118			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ SLB2017			Serial	3026
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	Author	Cristina Palmero; Jordi Esquirol; Vanessa Bayo; Miquel Angel Cos; Pouya Ahmadmonfared; Joan Salabert; David Sanchez; Sergio Escalera
	Title	Automatic Sleep System Recommendation by Multi-modal RBG-Depth-Pressure Anthropometric Analysis			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2017	Publication	International Journal of Computer Vision	Abbreviated Journal	IJCV
	Volume	122	Issue	2	Pages	212–227
	Keywords	Sleep system recommendation; RGB-Depth data Pressure imaging; Anthropometric landmark extraction; Multi-part human body segmentation
	Abstract	This paper presents a novel system for automatic sleep system recommendation using RGB, depth and pressure information. It consists of a validated clinical knowledge-based model that, along with a set of prescription variables extracted automatically, obtains a personalized bed design recommendation. The automatic process starts by performing multi-part human body RGB-D segmentation combining GrabCut, 3D Shape Context descriptor and Thin Plate Splines, to then extract a set of anthropometric landmark points by applying orthogonal plates to the segmented human body. The extracted variables are introduced to the computerized clinical model to calculate body circumferences, weight, morphotype and Body Mass Index categorization. Furthermore, pressure image analysis is performed to extract pressure values and at-risk points, which are also introduced to the model to eventually obtain the final prescription of mattress, topper, and pillow. We validate the complete system in a set of 200 subjects, showing accurate category classification and high correlation results with respect to manual measures.
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	Notes	HuPBA;MILAB; 303.100			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ PEB2017			Serial	2765
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	Author	Xavier Perez Sala; Fernando De la Torre; Laura Igual; Sergio Escalera; Cecilio Angulo
	Title	Subspace Procrustes Analysis			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2017	Publication	International Journal of Computer Vision	Abbreviated Journal	IJCV
	Volume	121	Issue	3	Pages	327–343
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	Abstract	Procrustes Analysis (PA) has been a popular technique to align and build 2-D statistical models of shapes. Given a set of 2-D shapes PA is applied to remove rigid transformations. Then, a non-rigid 2-D model is computed by modeling (e.g., PCA) the residual. Although PA has been widely used, it has several limitations for modeling 2-D shapes: occluded landmarks and missing data can result in local minima solutions, and there is no guarantee that the 2-D shapes provide a uniform sampling of the 3-D space of rotations for the object. To address previous issues, this paper proposes Subspace PA (SPA). Given several instances of a 3-D object, SPA computes the mean and a 2-D subspace that can simultaneously model all rigid and non-rigid deformations of the 3-D object. We propose a discrete (DSPA) and continuous (CSPA) formulation for SPA, assuming that 3-D samples of an object are provided. DSPA extends the traditional PA, and produces unbiased 2-D models by uniformly sampling different views of the 3-D object. CSPA provides a continuous approach to uniformly sample the space of 3-D rotations, being more efficient in space and time. Experiments using SPA to learn 2-D models of bodies from motion capture data illustrate the benefits of our approach.
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	Notes	MILAB; HuPBA; no proj			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ PTI2017			Serial	2841
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	Author	Antonio Lopez; Gabriel Villalonga; Laura Sellart; German Ros; David Vazquez; Jiaolong Xu; Javier Marin; Azadeh S. Mozafari
	Title	Training my car to see using virtual worlds			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2017	Publication	Image and Vision Computing	Abbreviated Journal	IMAVIS
	Volume	38	Issue		Pages	102-118
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	Abstract	Computer vision technologies are at the core of different advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and will play a key role in oncoming autonomous vehicles too. One of the main challenges for such technologies is to perceive the driving environment, i.e. to detect and track relevant driving information in a reliable manner (e.g. pedestrians in the vehicle route, free space to drive through). Nowadays it is clear that machine learning techniques are essential for developing such a visual perception for driving. In particular, the standard working pipeline consists of collecting data (i.e. on-board images), manually annotating the data (e.g. drawing bounding boxes around pedestrians), learning a discriminative data representation taking advantage of such annotations (e.g. a deformable part-based model, a deep convolutional neural network), and then assessing the reliability of such representation with the acquired data. In the last two decades most of the research efforts focused on representation learning (first, designing descriptors and learning classifiers; later doing it end-to-end). Hence, collecting data and, especially, annotating it, is essential for learning good representations. While this has been the case from the very beginning, only after the disruptive appearance of deep convolutional neural networks that it became a serious issue due to their data hungry nature. In this context, the problem is that manual data annotation is a tiresome work prone to errors. Accordingly, in the late 00’s we initiated a research line consisting of training visual models using photo-realistic computer graphics, especially focusing on assisted and autonomous driving. In this paper, we summarize such a work and show how it has become a new tendency with increasing acceptance.
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	Notes	ADAS; 600.118			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ LVS2017			Serial	2985
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	Author	Karim Lekadir; Alfiia Galimzianova; Angels Betriu; Maria del Mar Vila; Laura Igual; Daniel L. Rubin; Elvira Fernandez-Giraldez; Petia Radeva; Sandy Napel
	Title	A Convolutional Neural Network for Automatic Characterization of Plaque Composition in Carotid Ultrasound			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2017	Publication	IEEE Journal Biomedical and Health Informatics	Abbreviated Journal	J-BHI
	Volume	21	Issue	1	Pages	48-55
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	Abstract	Characterization of carotid plaque composition, more specifically the amount of lipid core, fibrous tissue, and calcified tissue, is an important task for the identification of plaques that are prone to rupture, and thus for early risk estimation of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events. Due to its low costs and wide availability, carotid ultrasound has the potential to become the modality of choice for plaque characterization in clinical practice. However, its significant image noise, coupled with the small size of the plaques and their complex appearance, makes it difficult for automated techniques to discriminate between the different plaque constituents. In this paper, we propose to address this challenging problem by exploiting the unique capabilities of the emerging deep learning framework. More specifically, and unlike existing works which require a priori definition of specific imaging features or thresholding values, we propose to build a convolutional neural network (CNN) that will automatically extract from the images the information that is optimal for the identification of the different plaque constituents. We used approximately 90 000 patches extracted from a database of images and corresponding expert plaque characterizations to train and to validate the proposed CNN. The results of cross-validation experiments show a correlation of about 0.90 with the clinical assessment for the estimation of lipid core, fibrous cap, and calcified tissue areas, indicating the potential of deep learning for the challenging task of automatic characterization of plaque composition in carotid ultrasound.
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	Notes	MILAB; no menciona			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ LGB2017			Serial	2931
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	Author	Mireia Sole; Joan Blanco; Debora Gil; G. Fonseka; Richard Frodsham; Francesca Vidal; Zaida Sarrate
	Title	Noves perspectives en l estudi de la territorialitat cromosomica de cel·lules germinals masculines: estudis tridimensionals			Type	Journal
	Year	2017	Publication	Biologia de la Reproduccio	Abbreviated Journal	JBR
	Volume	15	Issue		Pages	73-78
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	Abstract	In somatic cells, chromosomes occupy specific nuclear regions called chromosome territories which are involved in the maintenance and regulation of the genome. Preliminary data in male germ cells also suggest the importance of chromosome territoriality in cell functionality. Nevertheless, the specific characteristics of testicular tissue (presence of different cell types with different morphological characteristics, in different stages of development and with different ploidy) makes difficult to achieve conclusive results. In this study we have developed a methodology to approach the threedimensional study of all chromosome territories in male germ cells from C57BL/6J mice (Mus musculus). The method includes the following steps: i) Optimized cell fixation to obtain an optimal preservation of the three-dimensionality cell morphology, ii) Chromosome identification by FISH (Chromoprobe Multiprobe® OctoChrome™ Murine System; Cytocell) and confocal microscopy (TCS-SP5, Leica Microsystems), iii) Cell type identification by immunofluorescence iv) Image analysis using Matlab scripts, v) Numerical data extraction related to chromosome features, chromosome radial position and chromosome relative position. This methodology allows the unequivocally identification and the analysis of the chromosome territories of all spermatogenic stages. Results will provide information about the features that determine chromosomal position, preferred associations between chromosomes, and the relationship between chromosome positioning and genome regulation.
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	ISSN		ISBN	978-84-697-3767-5	Medium
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	Notes	IAM; 600.096; 600.145			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ SBG2017c			Serial	2961
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	Author	David Vazquez; Jorge Bernal; F. Javier Sanchez; Gloria Fernandez Esparrach; Antonio Lopez; Adriana Romero; Michal Drozdzal; Aaron Courville
	Title	A Benchmark for Endoluminal Scene Segmentation of Colonoscopy Images			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2017	Publication	Journal of Healthcare Engineering	Abbreviated Journal	JHCE
	Volume		Issue		Pages	2040-2295
	Keywords	Colonoscopy images; Deep Learning; Semantic Segmentation
	Abstract	Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third cause of cancer death world-wide. Currently, the standard approach to reduce CRC-related mortality is to perform regular screening in search for polyps and colonoscopy is the screening tool of choice. The main limitations of this screening procedure are polyp miss- rate and inability to perform visual assessment of polyp malignancy. These drawbacks can be reduced by designing Decision Support Systems (DSS) aim- ing to help clinicians in the different stages of the procedure by providing endoluminal scene segmentation. Thus, in this paper, we introduce an extended benchmark of colonoscopy image segmentation, with the hope of establishing a new strong benchmark for colonoscopy image analysis research. The proposed dataset consists of 4 relevant classes to inspect the endolumninal scene, tar- geting different clinical needs. Together with the dataset and taking advantage of advances in semantic segmentation literature, we provide new baselines by training standard fully convolutional networks (FCN). We perform a compar- ative study to show that FCN significantly outperform, without any further post-processing, prior results in endoluminal scene segmentation, especially with respect to polyp segmentation and localization.
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	Notes	ADAS; MV; 600.075; 600.085; 600.076; 601.281; 600.118			Approved	no
	Call Number	VBS2017b			Serial	2940
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	Author	Jordi Esquirol; Cristina Palmero; Vanessa Bayo; Miquel Angel Cos; Sergio Escalera; David Sanchez; Maider Sanchez; Noelia Serrano; Mireia Relats
	Title	Automatic RBG-depth-pressure anthropometric analysis and individualised sleep solution prescription			Type	Journal
	Year	2017	Publication	Journal of Medical Engineering & Technology	Abbreviated Journal	JMET
	Volume	41	Issue	6	Pages	486-497
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	Abstract	INTRODUCTION: Sleep surfaces must adapt to individual somatotypic features to maintain a comfortable, convenient and healthy sleep, preventing diseases and injuries. Individually determining the most adequate rest surface can often be a complex and subjective question. OBJECTIVES: To design and validate an automatic multimodal somatotype determination model to automatically recommend an individually designed mattress-topper-pillow combination. METHODS: Design and validation of an automated prescription model for an individualised sleep system is performed through a single-image 2 D-3 D analysis and body pressure distribution, to objectively determine optimal individual sleep surfaces combining five different mattress densities, three different toppers and three cervical pillows. RESULTS: A final study (n = 151) and re-analysis (n = 117) defined and validated the model, showing high correlations between calculated and real data (>85% in height and body circumferences, 89.9% in weight, 80.4% in body mass index and more than 70% in morphotype categorisation). CONCLUSIONS: Somatotype determination model can accurately prescribe an individualised sleep solution. This can be useful for healthy people and for health centres that need to adapt sleep surfaces to people with special needs. Next steps will increase model's accuracy and analise, if this prescribed individualised sleep solution can improve sleep quantity and quality; additionally, future studies will adapt the model to mattresses with technological improvements, tailor-made production and will define interfaces for people with special needs.
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	Notes	HUPBA; no menciona			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ EPB2017			Serial	3010
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	Author	Ivet Rafegas; Javier Vazquez; Robert Benavente; Maria Vanrell; Susana Alvarez
	Title	Enhancing spatio-chromatic representation with more-than-three color coding for image description			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2017	Publication	Journal of the Optical Society of America A	Abbreviated Journal	JOSA A
	Volume	34	Issue	5	Pages	827-837
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	Abstract	Extraction of spatio-chromatic features from color images is usually performed independently on each color channel. Usual 3D color spaces, such as RGB, present a high inter-channel correlation for natural images. This correlation can be reduced using color-opponent representations, but the spatial structure of regions with small color differences is not fully captured in two generic Red-Green and Blue-Yellow channels. To overcome these problems, we propose a new color coding that is adapted to the specific content of each image. Our proposal is based on two steps: (a) setting the number of channels to the number of distinctive colors we find in each image (avoiding the problem of channel correlation), and (b) building a channel representation that maximizes contrast differences within each color channel (avoiding the problem of low local contrast). We call this approach more-than-three color coding (MTT) to enhance the fact that the number of channels is adapted to the image content. The higher color complexity an image has, the more channels can be used to represent it. Here we select distinctive colors as the most predominant in the image, which we call color pivots, and we build the new color coding using these color pivots as a basis. To evaluate the proposed approach we measure its efficiency in an image categorization task. We show how a generic descriptor improves its performance at the description level when applied on the MTT coding.
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	Notes	CIC; 600.087			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RVB2017			Serial	2892
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	Author	Marta Diez-Ferrer; Debora Gil; Elena Carreño; Susana Padrones; Samantha Aso
	Title	Positive Airway Pressure-Enhanced CT to Improve Virtual Bronchoscopic Navigation			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2017	Publication	Journal of Thoracic Oncology	Abbreviated Journal	JTO
	Volume	12	Issue	1S	Pages	S596-S597
	Keywords	Thorax CT; diagnosis; Peripheral Pulmonary Nodule
	Abstract	A main weakness of virtual bronchoscopic navigation (VBN) is unsuccessful segmentation of distal branches approaching peripheral pulmonary nodules (PPN). CT scan acquisition protocol is pivotal for segmentation covering the utmost periphery. We hypothesize that application of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) during CT acquisition could improve visualization and segmentation of peripheral bronchi. The purpose of the present pilot study is to compare quality of segmentations under 4 CT acquisition modes: inspiration (INSP), expiration (EXP) and both with CPAP (INSP-CPAP and EXP-CPAP).
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	Notes	IAM; 600.096; 600.075; 600.145			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ DGC2017a			Serial	2883
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