Facilitation of colon cancer screening based on multi-energy CT colonography

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K12562
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Medical systems
• Research Institution: Oshima National College of Maritime Technology
• Principal Investigator: Tachibana Rie 大島商船高等専門学校, その他部局等, 准教授 (90435462)
• Research Collaborator: YOSHIDA Hiroyuki Massachusetts General Hospital, 3D Imaging Research, Director ; NÄPPI Janne J. Massachusetts General Hospital, 3D Imaging Research
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: Dual energy CT / CTコロノグラフィ / 機械学習

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The goal of this research was to develop and evaluate an innovative colon cancer screening system based on multi-energy CT colonography images and machine-learning-based segmentation methods of residual fecal materials. Preliminary results suggest that the multi-energy based electronic cleansing (EC) method is effective and that it minimizes the EC artifacts that were present in the single-energy based EC methods.

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