Dual-energy CT-derived virtual noncalcium imaging to assess bone marrow lesions in patients with knee osteoarthritis by Wei Chen, Limin Liu, Heng Zhao, Hui Li, Jing Luo, Yao-lin Qu, Dan Zhang, Ya-han He, Yi-sha Pan, Fang Gao, Hua-zhi Liao, Xiao-long Chen, Hao Lei, De-qiu Tang, Fei Peng

“…Evaluation of two pain assessment scales (WOMAC and KOOS) were collected. VNCa images and MRI were independently scored by three readers using a four-level scoring system over 15 anatomical subregions in each knee joint. …”
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Evaluation of a content-based image retrieval system for radiologists in high-resolution CT of interstitial lung diseases by Benjamin Böttcher, Marly van Assen, Roberto Fari, Philipp L. von Knebel Doeberitz, Eun Young Kim, Eugene A. Berkowitz, Felix G. Meinel, Carlo N. De Cecco

“…Accuracy was assessed on the CT pattern level, comparing readers’ diagnoses with reference diagnoses and CBIR results with region-of-interest (ROI) patterns. …”
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Ultra-fast biparametric MRI in prostate cancer assessment: Diagnostic performance and image quality compared to conventional multiparametric MRI by Antonia M. Pausch, Vivien Filleböck, Clara Elsner, Niels J. Rupp, Daniel Eberli, Andreas M. Hötker

“…Conclusion: Deep-learning-assisted ultra-fast bpMRI protocols offer a promising alternative to conventional mpMRI for diagnosing csPCa in biopsy-naïve patients with comparable inter-reader agreement and diagnostic performance at superior image quality. …”
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Artists’ books et nursery porn : Ré-illustrer les Victoriens by Laurent Bury

“…To those five modes, this paper would like to add three more, which correspond to the relation between Victorian texts and twentieth-century images: the inversion of textual roles, exchangism and homotextuality. …”
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Reading the Background: The Textual and the Visual in Steve Tomasula’s The Book of Portraiture by Pawel Frelik

“…While the images (for example motifs from the sketches by Velasquez, who is the protagonist of one of the chapters, or pixelated nudes culled from Internet websites) are used throughout, they seem to constitute an underexposed background to the central verbal story of image and imaging. …”
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Multifocality and Detectability of Prostate Cancer with 3-Tesla Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Correlation with Radical Prostatectomy Mapping Histopathology by Serdar Karadağ, Deniz Noyan Özlü, Ahmet Hacıislamoğlu, Ömer Yıldız, Halil Fırat Baytekin, Mithat Ekşi, Hakan Polat, Alper Bitkin, Ali İhsan Taşçı

“…Suspicious regions of interest (ROIs) were evaluated by a radiologist with 4 years of experience in uroradiology and scored based on Prostate Imaging Reporting and Data System (PIRADS) v2.1. The reader was blinded to the pathological outcomes of any biopsy specimen. …”
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Magnetic resonance imaging -based radiomics of the pituitary gland is highly predictive of precocious puberty in girls: a pilot study by Michele Maddalo, Maddalena Petraroli, Francesca Ormitti, Alice Fulgoni, Margherita Gnocchi, Marco Masetti, Eugenia Borgia, Benedetta Piccolo, Emanuela C. Turco, Viviana D. Patianna, Nicola Sverzellati, Susanna Esposito, Susanna Esposito, Caterina Ghetti, Maria E. Street, Maria E. Street

“…Two readers (R1, R2) blindly segmented the pituitary gland on MRI studies for RFs and performed a manual estimation of the pituitary volume. …”
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The Impact of Weighting Factors on Dual-Energy Computed Tomography Image Quality in Non-Contrast Head Examinations: Phantom and Patient Study by Doris Šegota Ritoša, Doris Dodig, Slavica Kovačić, Nina Bartolović, Ivan Brumini, Petra Valković Zujić, Slaven Jurković, Damir Miletić

“…All readers agreed that 0.8-WA images exhibited the lowest image quality. …”
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Validation of a data-driven motion-compensated PET brain image reconstruction algorithm in clinical patients using four radiotracers by Ole L. Munk, Anders B. Rodell, Patricia B. Danielsen, Josefine R. Madsen, Mie T. Sørensen, Niels Okkels, Jacob Horsager, Katrine B. Andersen, Per Borghammer, Joel Aanerud, Judson Jones, Inki Hong, Sven Zuehlsdorff

“…Methods We conducted technical validation experiments of the algorithm using Hoffman brain phantom scans during a series of controlled movements, followed by two blinded reader studies assessing image quality between standard images and MoCo images in 38 clinical patients receiving dementia scans with [18F]Fluorodeoxyglucose, [18F]N-(3-iodopro-2E-enyl)-2beta-carbomethoxy-3beta-(4’-methylphenyl)-nortropane, [18F]flutemetamol, and a research group comprising 25 elderly subjects scanned with [18F]fluoroethoxybenzovesamicol. …”
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“From in the light I touched the light” by Anne-Laure Tissut

“…Gilles Deleuze’s analyses of the figure in Francis Bacon — and of its interactions with the background — are used to shed light on what happens to language in its relation to images in Butler’s Ever. While the reader is drawn towards a sensory form of reading, Blake Butler’s writing of obsession allows an exploration of the text as a medium and calls for a questioning of the very conditions of the possibility of writing.…”
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ANIMALS IN ADVERTISING (LITERATURE REVIEW) by Yuliya V. Massalskaya, Anastasiya V. Nikolaeva

“…A related aim is to identify which animals (or their images) in advertising texts have a greater ability to attract and hold the reader’s attention and to influence them, i.e., to direct their behavior towards making a purchase. …”
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Representation and Reception of the Image of the Zulu. From Travel Accounts to the Public Sphere in Mid-Victorian and Edwardian Great Britain (1850–1914) by Patricia Crouan-Véron

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Staging of Primary Abdominal Lymphomas: Comparison of Whole-Body MRI with Diffusion-Weighted Imaging and 18F-FDG-PET/CT by Alessandro Stecco, Francesco Buemi, Martina Quagliozzi, Mariangela Lombardi, Alberto Santagostino, Gian Mauro Sacchetti, Alessandro Carriero

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Rémanence de Madame Bovary dans l’édition illustrée by Bruno Gallice

“…Artists claimed for themselves Emma Bovary in particular, and constantly updated their vision of Flaubert’s character, who became for the reader a figure both permeable and vivid.…”
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Diagnostic Accuracy of Detective Flow Imaging Endoscopic Ultrasonography for Evaluating Blood Flow Within Mural Nodules of Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms by Kazuki Endo, Haruo Miwa, Kazuya Sugimori, Kozue Shibasaki, Shoichiro Yonei, Yugo Ishino, Shotaro Tsunoda, Hayato Yoshimura, Akihiro Funaoka, Hiromi Tsuchiya, Ritsuko Oishi, Yuichi Suzuki, Satoshi Komiyama, Takashi Kaneko, Manabu Morimoto, Kazushi Numata, Shin Maeda

“…<b>Background/Objectives:</b> Detective flow imaging (DFI) endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) can identify the microvascular flow imaging of a mural nodule (MN) in an intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm (IPMN) without the use of contrast agents. …”
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« Bois ! ». La rencontre fatale entre Salammbô et Mâtho dans les transpositions iconiques du roman by Bruna Donatelli

“…Salammbô’s action is referred to in the novel in the dialogues of some of the mercenaries, but remains wrapped in an aura of sacred mistery which leaves the reader intentionally at a loss. Its transposition in images is accordingly problematic. …”
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Optimisation of low and ultra-low dose scanning protocols for ultra-extended field of view PET in a real-world clinical setting by Johanna Ingbritsen, Jason Callahan, Hugh Morgan, Melissa Munro, Robert E. Ware, Rodney J. Hicks

“…Quantitative analysis was also performed of image noise to assess how this correlated with qualitative preferences. …”
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Deep Transfer Learning for Classification of Late Gadolinium Enhancement Cardiac MRI Images into Myocardial Infarction, Myocarditis, and Healthy Classes: Comparison with Subjective... by Amani Ben Khalifa, Manel Mili, Mezri Maatouk, Asma Ben Abdallah, Mabrouk Abdellali, Sofiene Gaied, Azza Ben Ali, Yassir Lahouel, Mohamed Hedi Bedoui, Ahmed Zrig

“…Our model surpassed the accuracy of Reader 1 by 27% and Reader 2 by 17%. <b>Conclusions:</b> Our study demonstrated that the VGG16-MLP model permits accurate classification of MI, myocarditis, and healthy LGE cardiac MRI images and could be considered a reliable computer-aided diagnosis approach specifically for radiologists with limited experience in cardiovascular imaging.…”
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Differentiation of Early Sacroiliitis Using Machine-Learning- Supported Texture Analysis by Qingqing Zhu, Qi Wang, Xi Hu, Xin Dang, Xiaojing Yu, Liye Chen, Hongjie Hu

“…A control group of healthy individuals matched in terms of age and sex to the patients was included in this study. First, two readers independently qualitatively scored the oblique coronal T1WI and FsT2WI non-enhanced sacroiliac joint images. …”
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High SUVs Have More Robust Repeatability in Patients with Metastatic Prostate Cancer: Results from a Prospective Test-Retest Cohort Imaged with 18F-DCFPyL by Rudolf A. Werner, Bilêl Habacha, Susanne Lütje, Lena Bundschuh, Takahiro Higuchi, Philipp Hartrampf, Sebastian E. Serfling, Thorsten Derlin, Constantin Lapa, Andreas K. Buck, Markus Essler, Kenneth J. Pienta, Mario A. Eisenberger, Mark C. Markowski, Laura Shinehouse, Rehab AbdAllah, Ali Salavati, Martin A. Lodge, Martin G. Pomper, Michael A. Gorin, Ralph A. Bundschuh, Steven P. Rowe

“…In patients with prostate cancer (PC) receiving prostate-specific membrane antigen- (PSMA-) targeted radioligand therapy (RLT), higher baseline standardized uptake values (SUVs) are linked to improved outcome. Thus, readers deciding on RLT must have certainty on the repeatability of PSMA uptake metrics. …”
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