In addition, US is the best modality for performing imaged guided biopsy, a recent meta-analysis showing that US guided fine needle aspiration cytology is the most accurate modality for detecting cervical lymph node metastases[ 11 ].
Screening behaviors including mammography, clinical breast examination and breast self-examination are also considered to be effective for early detection and reduced mortality due to breast cancer [ 22- 24], although guidelines for performing these modalities are not consistent and varies in different parts of the world [ 1, 25, 26].
The core functionality of the proposed approach relies on the introduced integrated BN, which is developed for performing joint modality fusion and temporal context exploitation.
A BN structure is initially defined for performing the fusion of the computed single-modality analysis results.
In this tutorial paper, we discussed the utility of matrix factorization for performing linear unmixing of imaging and spectroscopic data commonly acquired via microscopy modalities.
Then, Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) are employed for performing an initial association of each shot with the semantic classes that are of interest separately for each modality.
Besides increasing our understanding of the disease mechanisms involved in ichthyotic syndromes, this model system is potentially useful for testing novel treatment modalities, for example by performing a small molecule library screen for compounds that are able to suppress the phenotype.
In practice, multi-sensing modalities are performed for a comprehensive assessment, which is costly, labour-intensive and sometimes time-consuming.
We observed that for all the modalities cMEM performed better than MNE in detecting the spatial extent of the propagating sources (higher AUC median values for both the sources when using cMEM).
We also recorded the imaging modalities performed for each patient, the treatment received, and the clinical outcome.
