Classification of benign/malignant microcalcification clusters is a major diagnostic challenge for radiologists. Clinical studies have revealed that the shape of the cluster, and the spatial ...

Figure 1: Results of microcalcification detection experiments. (a) A benign example of calcification. The green boxes represent benign lesions. ‘GT’ refers to the gold standard label given by ...

Calcification is a common feature of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), but its role in the pathogenesis of the disease remains incompletely understood. While heavy arterial macrocalcification is ...

The standardized vascular atlas offers a spatially informed framework for mapping 18F-NaF positron emission tomography–based measures of microcalcification, which can be applied to many disorders to ...

Microcalcification 'fingerprints' can yield info about cancer Date: February 22, 2023 Source: Cornell University Summary: An interdisciplinary collaboration 10 years in the making used a materials ...

News Release 22-Feb-2023 Microcalcification ‘fingerprints’ can yield info about cancer Peer-Reviewed Publication Cornell University ITHACA, N.Y.

Background: Patients with thoracic aortopathy are at increased risk of catastrophic aortic dissection, carrying with it substantial mortality and morbidity. Although granular medial calcinosis (medial ...

Highlights Increased medial microcalcification is found in patients with mild and moderate histopathologic thoracic aortic aneurysm disease and is associated with higher levels of alkaline phosphatase ...

Finally, we will discuss the possibility that microcalcifications might stimulate smooth muscle cells to produce larger and more stable calcifications to stabilize plaques, to exit the vicious cycle ...

In order to overcome the shortcomings of high false positive rate and poor generalization in the detection of microcalcification clusters regions, this paper proposes a method combining discriminative ...

Among symptomatic patients, histologic assessment indicated a strong correlation between microcalcification and NaF uptake. Also, histologic evidence of calcification correlated inversely with FDG ...