• 3D Masked Modelling Advances Lesion Classification in Axial T2w Prostate MRI 

      Fernandez Quilez, Alvaro; Andersen, Christoffer Gabrielsen; Eftestøl, Trygve Christian; Kjosavik, Svein Reidar; Oppedal, Ketil (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Masked Image Modelling (MIM) has been shown to be an efficient self-supervised learning (SSL) pre-training paradigm when paired with transformer architectures and in the presence of a large amount of unlabelled natural ...
    • Are you sure it’s an artifact? Artifact detection and uncertainty quantification in histological images 

      Kanwal, Neel; Lopez-Perez, Miguel; Kiraz, Umay; Zuiverloon, Tahlita C M; Molina, Rafael (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Modern cancer diagnostics involves extracting tissue specimens from suspicious areas and conducting histotechnical procedures to prepare a digitized glass slide, called whole slide image (WSI), for further examination. ...
    • Artifacts on Magnetic Resonance Imaging from Electronic Identification Enablement in Silicone Gel Implants Are Not Negligible 

      Kurz, Kathinka Dæhli; Kallevåg, Øystein; Austrått, Kenneth; Styr, Bodil Margrethe; Leiknes, Jon Bjarne; Krøger, Pål (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Breast implants filled with silicone gel are used worldwide for cosmetic reasons, or breast reconstruction following risk-reducing or therapeutic mastectomy. The importance of identifiable implants is undeniable. A recent ...
    • Butterfly glioblastoma: Clinical characteristics, treatment strategies and outcomes in a population-based cohort 

      Bjorland, Line; Kurz, Kathinka Dæhli; Fluge, Øystein; Gilje, Bjørnar; Mahesparan, Rupavathana; Sætran, Hege Aase; Ushakova, Anastasia; Farbu, Elisabeth (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Butterfly glioblastoma is a rare subgroup of glioblastoma with a bihemispheric tumor crossing the corpus callosum, and is associated with a dismal prognosis. Prognostic factors are previously sparsely described and optimal ...
    • Cardiac Structure and Function in Epilepsy Patients with Drug-Resistant Convulsive Seizures 

      Gonzalez, Alba; Haugaa, Kristina Ingrid Helena Hermann; Brekke, Pål Haugar; Hopp, Einar; Ørn, Stein; Alvestad, Silje; Taubøll, Erik; Aurlien, Dag (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      High frequency of convulsive seizures and long-lasting epilepsy are associated with an increased risk of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP). Structural changes in the myocardium have been described in SUDEP victims. ...
    • Chest compressions: The good, the bad and the ugly 

      Eftestøl, Trygve (Journal article, 2012)
      Where exactly is the chest compression, where does it begin, when does it end, how deep does it go and at what rate are they performed? In short – how good or bad is the chest compression? These are some of the questions ...
    • CrossTransUnet: A new computationally inexpensive tumor segmentation model for brain MRI 

      Anaya-Isaza, Andres; Mera Jiménez, Leonel; Fernandez Quilez, Alvaro (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Brain tumors are usually fatal diseases with low life expectancies due to the organs they affect, even if the tumors are benign. Diagnosis and treatment of these tumors are challenging tasks, even for experienced physicians ...
    • Effects of purified anthocyanins in people at risk for dementia: Study protocol for a phase II randomized controlled trial 

      Khalifa, Khadija; Bergland, Anne Katrine; Sønnesyn, Hogne; Oppedal, Ketil; Oesterhus, Ragnhild; Dalen, Ingvild; Larsen, Alf Inge; Fladby, Tormod; Brooker, Helen; Wesnes, Keith A.; Ballard, Clive; Aarsland, Dag (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Background: The number of people with dementia is increasing, with huge challenges for society and health-care systems. There are no disease-modifying therapies available. There is, therefore, an urgent need to identify ...
    • Explainable artificial intelligence for human-machine interaction in brain tumor localization 

      Esmaeili, Morteza; Vettukattil, Riyas; Banitalebi, Hasan; Krogh, Nina R.; Geitung, Jonn Terje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Primary malignancies in adult brains are globally fatal. Computer vision, especially recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI), have created opportunities to automatically characterize and diagnose tumor lesions ...
    • Factors Affecting the Course of Resuscitation From Cardiac Arrest With Pulseless Electrical Activity in Children and Adolescents 

      Skogvoll, Eirik; Nordseth, Trond; Sutton, Robert M.; Eftestøl, Trygve Christian; Irusta, Unai; Aramendi, Elisabete; Niles, Dana E.; Nadkarni, Vinay M.; Berg, Robert A.; Abella, Benjamin S.; Kvaløy, Jan Terje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Background: Although in-hospital pediatric cardiac arrests and cardiopulmonary resuscitation occur >15,000/year in the US, few studies have assessed which factors affect the course of resuscitation in these patients. We ...
    • High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin I and T Response Following Strenuous Activity is Attenuated by Smokeless Tobacco: NEEDED (North Sea Race Endurance Exercise Study) 2014 

      Skranes, Julia Brox; Kleiven, Øyunn; Aakre, Kristin Moberg; Skadberg, Øyvind; Melberg, Tor Harald; Omland, Torbjørn; Ørn, Stein (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Background Use of snus, a smokeless tobacco product, is increasing in Scandinavia. Strenuous physical activity is associated with an acute increase in high‐sensitivity cardiac troponin (swhs‐cTn) concentrations. Current ...
    • Impact of extent of resection on outcome from glioblastoma using the RANO resect group classification system: a retrospective, population-based cohort study 

      Bjorland, Line; Mahesparan, Rupavathana; Fluge, Øystein; Gilje, Bjørnar; Kurz, Kathinka Dæhli; Farbu, Elisabeth (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Background Extent of resection (EOR) is associated with survival in glioblastoma. A standardized classification for EOR was lacking until a system was recently proposed by the response assessment in neuro-oncology (RANO) ...
    • In Vivo Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Methods for Investigating Cardiac Metabolism 

      Esmaeili, Morteza; Vettukattil, Muhammad Riyas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) is a non-invasive and non-ionizing technique, enabling in vivo investigation of cardiac metabolism in normal and diseased hearts. In vivo measurement tools are critical for studying ...
    • Metric based virtual simulation training for endovascular thrombectomy improves interventional neuroradiologists’ simulator performance 

      Schneider, Magnus Sundgot; Sandve, Knut Olav Lende; Kurz, Kathinka Dæhli; Dalen, Ingvild; Ospel, Johanna; Goyal, Mayank; Kurz, Friedrich Martin Wilhelm; Fjetland, Lars (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Objective Metric based virtual reality simulation training may enhance the capability of interventional neuroradiologists (INR) to perform endovascular thrombectomy. As pilot for a national simulation study we examined ...
    • MRI data-driven clustering reveals different subtypes of Dementia with Lewy bodies 

      Inguanzo, Anna; Poulakis, Konstantinos; Mohanty, Rosaleena; Schwarz, Christopher G.; Przybelski, Scott A.; Diaz-Galvan, Patricia; Lowe, Val J.; Boeve, Bradley F.; Lemstra, Afina W.; van de Beek, Marleen; van der Flier, Wiesje; Barkhof, Frederik; Blanc, Frederic; Loureiro de Sousa, Paulo; Philippi, Nathalie; Cretin, Benjamin; Demuynck, Catherine; Nedelska, Zuzana; Hort, Jakub; Segura, Barbara; Junque, Carme; Oppedal, Ketil; Aarsland, Dag; Westman, Eric; Kantarci, Kejal; Ferreira, Daniel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is a neurodegenerative disorder with a wide heterogeneity of symptoms, which suggests the existence of different subtypes. We used data-driven analysis of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) ...
    • A Multiscale Approach for Whole-Slide Image Segmentation of five Tissue Classes in Urothelial Carcinoma Slides 

      Wetteland, Rune; Engan, Kjersti; Eftestøl, Trygve Christian; Janssen, Emiel; Kvikstad, Vebjørn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      In pathology labs worldwide, we see an increasing number of tissue samples that need to be assessed without the same increase in the number of pathologists. Computational pathology, where digital scans of histological ...
    • NewbornTime - improved newborn care based on video and artificial intelligence - study protocol 

      Engan, Kjersti; Meinich-Bache, Øyvind; Brunner, Sara; Myklebust, Helge; Rong, Chunming; Garcia-Torres Fernandez, Jorge; Ersdal, Hege Langli; Johannessen, Anders; Pike, Hanne; Rettedal, Siren (Journal article, 2023)
      Background Approximately 3-8% of all newborns do not breathe spontaneously at birth, and require time critical resuscitation. Resuscitation guidelines are mostly based on best practice, and more research on newborn ...
    • Parsing heterogeneity within dementia with Lewy bodies using clustering of biological, clinical, and demographic data 

      Abdelnour, Carla; Ferreira, Daniel; van de Beek, Marleen; Cedres, Nira; Oppedal, Ketil; Cavallin, Lena; Blanc, Frédéric; Bousiges, Olivier; Wahlund, Lars-Olof; Pilotto, Andrea; Padovani, Alessandro; Boada, Mercè; Pagonabarraga, Javier; Kulisevsky, Jaime; Aarsland, Dag; Lemstra, Afina W.; Westman, Eric (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Background Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) includes various core clinical features that result in different phenotypes. In addition, Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and cerebrovascular pathologies are common in DLB. All this ...
    • Prostate Age Gap: An MRI Surrogate Marker of Aging for Prostate Cancer Detection 

      Fernandez Quilez, Alvaro; Nordström, Jon Tobias; Jäderling, Fredrik; Kjosavik, Svein Reidar; Eklund, Martin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Background Aging is the most important risk factor for prostate cancer (PC). Imaging techniques can be useful to measure age-related changes associated with the transition to diverse pathological states. However, biomarkers ...
    • Pulseless electrical activity in in-hospital cardiac arrest – A crossroad for decisions 

      Norvik, Anders; Unneland, Eirik; Bergum, Daniel; Buckler, D.G.; Bhardwaj, A.; Eftestøl, Trygve Christian; Aramendi, E.; Nordseth, Trond; Abella, B.S.; Kvaløy, Jan Terje; Skogvoll, Eirik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Background PEA is often seen during resuscitation, either as the presenting clinical state in cardiac arrest or as a secondary rhythm following transient return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC), ventricular fibrillatio ...