by | Aug 10, 2023 | Jha, Abhinav Kumar, Li, Ran, Woodard, Pamela, Zheng, Jie
— Technology Description
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a two-stage neural network model, with CNN and BNN architecture, to segment carotid atherosclerotic plaque components based on multi-weighted MR images and measure the uncertainty of the segmentation output. Th…
by | Mar 10, 2018 | Rossin, Raffaella, Welch, Michael, Woodard, Pamela
— Background
Atherosclerosis is a disease process in which lipid deposition causes the formation of plaques that lead to thickening of the artery walls. The cause of a majority of fatal acute myocardial infarction and sudden coronary death is due to the rupture of soft or unstable plaques; however, t…
