Search Results - "Chu, Winnie C. C."
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Assessment of biopsy‐proven liver fibrosis by two‐dimensional shear wave elastography: An individual patient data‐based meta‐analysis
Published in Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) (01-01-2018)“…Two‐dimensional shear wave elastography (2D‐SWE) has proven to be efficient for the evaluation of liver fibrosis in small to moderate‐sized clinical trials. We…”
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Automatic Segmentation of Acute Ischemic Stroke From DWI Using 3-D Fully Convolutional DenseNets
Published in IEEE transactions on medical imaging (01-09-2018)“…Acute ischemic stroke is recognized as a common cerebral vascular disease in aging people. Accurate diagnosis and timely treatment can effectively improve the…”
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Construction of brain atlases based on a multi-center MRI dataset of 2020 Chinese adults
Published in Scientific reports (18-12-2015)“…Despite the known morphological differences (e.g., brain shape and size) in the brains of populations of different origins (e.g., age and race), the Chinese…”
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Anterior Overgrowth in Primary Curves, Compensatory Curves and Junctional Segments in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis
Published in PloS one (28-07-2016)“…Although much attention has been given to the global three-dimensional aspect of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS), the accurate three-dimensional…”
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Brain Structure Network Analysis in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Published in PloS one (28-09-2015)“…Childhood obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a sleeping disorder commonly affecting school-aged children and is characterized by repeated episodes of blockage of…”
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Striatal and white matter volumes in chronic ketamine users with or without recent regular stimulant use
Published in Drug and alcohol dependence (01-08-2020)“…•Ketamine users had larger caudates and white matter volumes compared to non-users.•Ketamine users who co-use other substances had even larger white matter…”
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The validity, reliability and clinical utility of the Hong Kong Montreal Cognitive Assessment (HK-MoCA) in patients with cerebral small vessel disease
Published in Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders (01-01-2009)“…To evaluate the psychometric properties of the Hong Kong Montreal Cognitive Assessment (HK-MoCA) in patients with cerebral small vessel disease (SVD). 40 SVD…”
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Neuropsychiatric Symptom Clusters in Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack by Cognitive Status and Stroke Subtype: Frequency and Relationships with Vascular Lesions, Brain Atrophy and Amyloid
Published in PloS one (15-09-2016)“…The objectives of this study are 1) to examine the frequencies of neuropsychiatric symptom clusters in patients with stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA)…”
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Acute basal ganglia infarcts in poststroke fatigue: an MRI study
Published in Journal of neurology (01-02-2010)“…Lesions located in the basal ganglia (BG) are thought to be involved in the fatigue observed in neurological disorders. However, the significance of the…”
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Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: Spectral patterns observed from an in vivo phosphorus magnetic resonance spectroscopy study
Published in Journal of hepatology (01-04-2014)“…Background & Aims Liver biopsy is the gold standard for diagnosing non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) but with practical constraints. Phosphorus…”
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Evaluation of the Reliability and the Performance of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Radiomics in the Presence of Randomly Generated Irrelevant Features for Prostate Cancer
Published in Diagnostics (Basel) (01-12-2023)“…Radiomics has the potential to aid prostate cancer (PC) diagnoses and prediction by analyzing and modeling quantitative features extracted from clinical…”
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Increasing participation in habitual intellectual activities on modulating functional connectivity of default mode network among older adults at risk of dementia: study protocol of a randomized controlled trial
Published in Current controlled trials in cardiovascular medicine (14-04-2022)“…Active participation in intellectual leisure activities such as calligraphy helps prevent cognitive decline and dementia, but the underlying mechanisms are not…”
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Prestroke Statins, Progression of White Matter Hyperintensities, and Cognitive Decline in Stroke Patients with Confluent White Matter Hyperintensities
Published in Neurotherapeutics (01-07-2014)“…Cerebral white matter hyperintensities (WMH) are a consequence of cerebral small vessel disease. Statins have been shown to reduce recurrent stroke among…”
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Histogram-based normalization technique on human brain magnetic resonance images from different acquisitions
Published in Biomedical engineering online (28-07-2015)“…Intensity normalization is an important preprocessing step in brain magnetic resonance image (MRI) analysis. During MR image acquisition, different scanners or…”
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Relations between Recent Past Leisure Activities with Risks of Dementia and Cognitive Functions after Stroke
Published in PloS one (25-07-2016)“…Leisure activity participation has been shown to lower risks of cognitive decline in non-stroke populations. However, effects of leisure activities…”
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Comparison of the scoliosis curve patterns and MRI syrinx cord characteristics of idiopathic syringomyelia versus Chiari I malformation
Published in European spine journal (01-02-2016)“…Purpose Although the more readily available MR imaging has brought about more incidental findings of idiopathic syringomyelia (IS), no published study has…”
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Detecting Early‐Stage Liver Fibrosis Using Macromolecular Proton Fraction Mapping Based on Spin‐Lock MRI: Preliminary Observations
Published in Journal of magnetic resonance imaging (01-02-2023)“…Background Liver fibrosis is characterized by macromolecule depositions. Recently, a novel technology termed macromolecular proton fraction quantification…”
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Adaptive distance metric learning for diffusion tensor image segmentation
Published in PloS one (20-03-2014)“…High quality segmentation of diffusion tensor images (DTI) is of key interest in biomedical research and clinical application. In previous studies, most…”
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Tractography atlas-based spatial statistics: Statistical analysis of diffusion tensor image along fiber pathways
Published in NeuroImage (Orlando, Fla.) (15-01-2016)“…The quantitative analysis of diffusion tensor image (DTI) data has attracted increasing attention in recent decades for studying white matter (WM) integrity…”
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Intensity and sulci landmark combined brain atlas construction for Chinese pediatric population
Published in Human brain mapping (01-08-2014)“…Constructing an atlas from a population of brain images is of vital importance to medical image analysis. Especially in neuroscience study, creating a brain…”
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