Improving utility of brain tumor confocal laser endomicroscopy: objective value assessment and diagnostic frame detection with convolutional neural networks

no code implementations • 6 Jan 2018 • Mohammadhassan Izadyyazdanabadi, Evgenii Belykh, Nikolay Martirosyan, Jennifer Eschbacher, Peter Nakaji, Yezhou Yang, Mark C. Preul

Examining all the hundreds or thousands of images from a single case to discriminate diagnostic images from nondiagnostic ones can be tedious.

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Convolutional Neural Networks: Ensemble Modeling, Fine-Tuning and Unsupervised Semantic Localization for Intraoperative CLE Images

no code implementations • 10 Sep 2017 • Mohammadhassan Izadyyazdanabadi, Evgenii Belykh, Michael Mooney, Nikolay Martirosyan, Jennifer Eschbacher, Peter Nakaji, Mark C. Preul, Yezhou Yang

While manual examination of thousands of nondiagnostic images during surgery would be impractical, this creates an opportunity for a model to select diagnostic images for the pathologists or surgeon's review.