May 24, 2018 | Completed Projects
Background The gold standard for examining hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is biopsy, which is an invasive procedure that can often result in morbidity/mortality. In addition, the locations for biopsy samples are limited within the liver or a mass and thus suffer from...
May 24, 2018 | Completed Projects
Cancer is the leading cause of death of Americans aged 40-79 years. Part of the problem is ineffective evaluation of treatment responses. Currently applied tumor response metrics, such as Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors, rely on subjective tumor...
May 24, 2018 | Completed Projects
Mayo Collaborators: Alvin Silva, M.D., Scott Kriegshauser Determining the chemical composition of renal stones can have a profound effect on clinical management. Dual-energy CT (DECT), including single-source DECT (ssDECT) has been shown to significantly improve renal...
May 24, 2018 | Completed Projects
Background Accessing dosage amounts from medical records used to be performed manually, causing difficulty in collecting information from digital imaging procedures into a central repository. The need to track dosages has grown because of efforts within the medical...
May 24, 2018 | Completed Projects
The incidence of oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC) is rising in younger patients because of its association with human papilloma virus (HPV) oncogenesis. Compared with carcinogen-associated OPSCC, cancer related to HPV infection behaves differently on a...
May 23, 2018 | Completed Projects
Background “One-size-fits-all” is one of the major obstacles to effective cancer treatment in modern medicine. Personalized cancer treatment must consider regional genomic diversity of the tumor. Different regions of the same tumor, or the primary and metastatic...
