Rationale and Objectives Parametric shape representations of endocardial contours, obtained with principal component analysis (PCA) and the orthomax criterion, provide compact descriptors for clas...

Retrospective analyses of pivotal prospective studies are important for verifying the inferences made as a result of the original studies and for generating new hypotheses. However, careful attenti...

Rationale and Objectives The creation of two-dimensional (2D) ultrasound mosaics is becoming a common clinical practice with a high clinical value. The next step coming along with the increasing a...

Rationale and Objectives Our goal was to investigate the effects of changes that the prevalence of cancer in a population have on the probability of malignancy (PM) output and an optimal combinati...

Rationale and Objectives Diffusion tensor (DT) and T1 structural magnetic resonance images provide unique and complementary tools for quantifying the living brain. We leverage both modalities in a...

Gur’s perspective article raises important points about analytic methods and the clinical inferences drawn from retrospective statistical analyses of prospective studies. Specifically, he associate...

Rationale and Objectives The effects of locally delivered angiogenic factors or stem cells on the coronary artery perfusion territory are not well defined. Therefore, the aim of this study was to ...

Legislation passed by Congress in July 2008 (House Resolution 6331) to defer a 10.6% reduction in Medicare fees to physicians also contained language intended to curtail the performance of “advance...

In the past few years, I have noticed a stream of articles asserting that American physicians are performing or prescribing too many imaging procedures. The result of this excessive indulgence, ass...

Rationale and Objectives To convert and optimize our previously developed computerized analysis methods for use with images from full-field digital mammography (FFDM) for breast mass classificatio...