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Luan S, Ji Y, Liu Y, Zhu L, Zhou H, Ouyang J, Yang X, Zhao H, Zhu B. Real-Time Reconstruction of HIFU Focal Temperature Field Based on Deep Learning. BME Front 2024; 5:0037. [PMID: 38515637 PMCID: PMC10956737 DOI: 10.34133/bmef.0037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2023] [Accepted: 02/07/2024] [Indexed: 03/23/2024] Open
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Objective and Impact Statement: High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) therapy is a promising noninvasive method that induces coagulative necrosis in diseased tissues through thermal and cavitation effects, while avoiding surrounding damage to surrounding normal tissues. Introduction: Accurate and real-time acquisition of the focal region temperature field during HIFU treatment marked enhances therapeutic efficacy, holding paramount scientific and practical value in clinical cancer therapy. Methods: In this paper, we initially designed and assembled an integrated HIFU system incorporating diagnostic, therapeutic, and temperature measurement functionalities to collect ultrasound echo signals and temperature variations during HIFU therapy. Furthermore, we introduced a novel multimodal teacher-student model approach, which utilizes the shared self-expressive coefficients and the deep canonical correlation analysis layer to aggregate each modality data, then through knowledge distillation strategies, transfers the knowledge from the teacher model to the student model. Results: By investigating the relationship between the phantoms, in vitro, and in vivo ultrasound echo signals and temperatures, we successfully achieved real-time reconstruction of the HIFU focal 2D temperature field region with a maximum temperature error of less than 2.5 °C. Conclusion: Our method effectively monitored the distribution of the HIFU temperature field in real time, providing scientifically precise predictive schemes for HIFU therapy, laying a theoretical foundation for subsequent personalized treatment dose planning, and providing efficient guidance for noninvasive, nonionizing cancer treatment.
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- Shunyao Luan
- School of Integrated Circuits, Laboratory for Optoelectronics,
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- HIFU Center of Oncology Department,
Huadong Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- HIFU Center of Oncology Department,
Huadong Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- HIFU Center of Oncology Department,
Huadong Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- School of Integrated Circuits, Laboratory for Optoelectronics,
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- School of Integrated Circuits, Laboratory for Optoelectronics,
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- School of Integrated Circuits, Laboratory for Optoelectronics,
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- HIFU Center of Oncology Department,
Huadong Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- School of Integrated Circuits, Laboratory for Optoelectronics,
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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Luan S, Ou-Yang J, Yang X, Wei W, Xue X, Zhu B. A multi-modal vision-language pipeline strategy for contour quality assurance and adaptive optimization. Phys Med Biol 2024; 69:065005. [PMID: 38373347 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/ad2a97] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2023] [Accepted: 02/19/2024] [Indexed: 02/21/2024]
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Objective.Accurate delineation of organs-at-risk (OARs) is a critical step in radiotherapy. The deep learning generated segmentations usually need to be reviewed and corrected by oncologists manually, which is time-consuming and operator-dependent. Therefore, an automated quality assurance (QA) and adaptive optimization correction strategy was proposed to identify and optimize 'incorrect' auto-segmentations.Approach.A total of 586 CT images and labels from nine institutions were used. The OARs included the brainstem, parotid, and mandible. The deep learning generated contours were compared with the manual ground truth delineations. In this study, we proposed a novel contour quality assurance and adaptive optimization (CQA-AO) strategy, which consists of the following three main components: (1) the contour QA module classified the deep learning generated contours as either accepted or unaccepted; (2) the unacceptable contour categories analysis module provided the potential error reasons (five unacceptable category) and locations (attention heatmaps); (3) the adaptive correction of unacceptable contours module integrate vision-language representations and utilize convex optimization algorithms to achieve adaptive correction of 'incorrect' contours.Main results. In the contour QA tasks, the sensitivity (accuracy, precision) of CQA-AO strategy reached 0.940 (0.945, 0.948), 0.962 (0.937, 0.913), and 0.967 (0.962, 0.957) for brainstem, parotid and mandible, respectively. The unacceptable contour category analysis, the(FI,AccI,Fmicro,Fmacro)of CQA-AO strategy reached (0.901, 0.763, 0.862, 0.822), (0.855, 0.737, 0.837, 0.784), and (0.907, 0.762, 0.858, 0.821) for brainstem, parotid and mandible, respectively. After adaptive optimization correction, the DSC values of brainstem, parotid and mandible have been improved by 9.4%, 25.9%, and 13.5%, and Hausdorff distance values decreased by 62%, 70.6%, and 81.6%, respectively.Significance. The proposed CQA-AO strategy, which combines QA of contour and adaptive optimization correction for OARs contouring, demonstrated superior performance compare to conventional methods. This method can be implemented in the clinical contouring procedures and improve the efficiency of delineating and reviewing workflow.
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- Shunyao Luan
- School of Integrated Circuits, Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- School of Integrated Circuits, Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- School of Integrated Circuits, Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Hubei Cancer Hospital, TongJi Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Hubei Cancer Hospital, TongJi Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China
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- School of Integrated Circuits, Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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Luan S, Ding Y, Shao J, Zou B, Yu X, Qin N, Zhu B, Wei W, Xue X. Deep learning for head and neck semi-supervised semantic segmentation. Phys Med Biol 2024; 69:055008. [PMID: 38306968 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/ad25c2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2023] [Accepted: 02/01/2024] [Indexed: 02/04/2024]
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Objective. Radiation therapy (RT) represents a prevalent therapeutic modality for head and neck (H&N) cancer. A crucial phase in RT planning involves the precise delineation of organs-at-risks (OARs), employing computed tomography (CT) scans. Nevertheless, the manual delineation of OARs is a labor-intensive process, necessitating individual scrutiny of each CT image slice, not to mention that a standard CT scan comprises hundreds of such slices. Furthermore, there is a significant domain shift between different institutions' H&N data, which makes traditional semi-supervised learning strategies susceptible to confirmation bias. Therefore, effectively using unlabeled datasets to support annotated datasets for model training has become a critical issue for preventing domain shift and confirmation bias.Approach. In this work, we proposed an innovative cross-domain orthogon-based-perspective consistency (CD-OPC) strategy within a two-branch collaborative training framework, which compels the two sub-networks to acquire valuable features from unrelated perspectives. More specifically, a novel generative pretext task cross-domain prediction (CDP) was designed for learning inherent properties of CT images. Then this prior knowledge was utilized to promote the independent learning of distinct features by the two sub-networks from identical inputs, thereby enhancing the perceptual capabilities of the sub-networks through orthogon-based pseudo-labeling knowledge transfer.Main results. Our CD-OPC model was trained on H&N datasets from nine different institutions, and validated on the four local intuitions' H&N datasets. Among all datasets CD-OPC achieved more advanced performance than other semi-supervised semantic segmentation algorithms.Significance. The CD-OPC method successfully mitigates domain shift and prevents network collapse. In addition, it enhances the network's perceptual abilities, and generates more reliable predictions, thereby further addressing the confirmation bias issue.
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- Shunyao Luan
- School of Integrated Circuits, Laboratory for optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Hubei Cancer Hospital, TongJi Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Hubei Cancer Hospital, TongJi Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China
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- School of Integrated Circuits, Laboratory for optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Oncology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, People's Republic of China
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- The First Affiliated Hospital of Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu, People's Republic of China
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- School of Integrated Circuits, Laboratory for optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Hubei Cancer Hospital, TongJi Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Hubei Cancer Hospital, TongJi Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China
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Luan S, Wu K, Wu Y, Zhu B, Wei W, Xue X. Accurate and robust auto-segmentation of head and neck organ-at-risks based on a novel CNN fine-tuning workflow. J Appl Clin Med Phys 2024; 25:e14248. [PMID: 38128058 PMCID: PMC10795444 DOI: 10.1002/acm2.14248] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2023] [Revised: 12/08/2023] [Accepted: 12/11/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023] Open
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PURPOSE Obvious inconsistencies in auto-segmentations exist among various AI software. In this study, we have developed a novel convolutional neural network (CNN) fine-tuning workflow to achieve precise and robust localized segmentation. METHODS The datasets include Hubei Cancer Hospital dataset, Cetuximab Head and Neck Public Dataset, and Québec Public Dataset. Seven organs-at-risks (OARs), including brain stem, left parotid gland, esophagus, left optic nerve, optic chiasm, mandible, and pharyngeal constrictor, were selected. The auto-segmentation results from four commercial AI software were first compared with the manual delineations. Then a new multi-scale lightweight residual CNN model with an attention module (named as HN-Net) was trained and tested on 40 samples and 10 samples from Hubei Cancer Hospital, respectively. To enhance the network's accuracy and generalization ability, the fine-tuning workflow utilized an uncertainty estimation method for automatic selection of candidate samples of worthiness from Cetuximab Head and Neck Public Dataset for further training. The segmentation performances were evaluated on the Hubei Cancer Hospital dataset and/or the entire Québec Public Dataset. RESULTS A maximum difference of 0.13 and 0.7 mm in average Dice value and Hausdorff distance value for the seven OARs were observed by four AI software. The proposed HN-Net achieved an average Dice value of 0.14 higher than that of the AI software, and it also outperformed other popular CNN models (HN-Net: 0.79, U-Net: 0.78, U-Net++: 0.78, U-Net-Multi-scale: 0.77, AI software: 0.65). Additionally, the HN-Net fine-tuning workflow by using the local datasets and external public datasets further improved the automatic segmentation with the average Dice value by 0.02. CONCLUSION The delineations of commercial AI software need to be carefully reviewed, and localized further training is necessary for clinical practice. The proposed fine-tuning workflow could be feasibly adopted to implement an accurate and robust auto-segmentation model by using local datasets and external public datasets.
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- Shunyao Luan
- Department of Radiation OncologyHubei Cancer Hospital, Tongji Medical CollegeHuazhong University of Science and TechnologyWuhanChina
- School of Integrated CircuitsLaboratory for OptoelectronicsHuazhong University of Science and TechnologyWuhanChina
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- Department of Radiation OncologyHubei Cancer Hospital, Tongji Medical CollegeHuazhong University of Science and TechnologyWuhanChina
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- Department of Radiation OncologyHubei Cancer Hospital, Tongji Medical CollegeHuazhong University of Science and TechnologyWuhanChina
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- School of Integrated CircuitsLaboratory for OptoelectronicsHuazhong University of Science and TechnologyWuhanChina
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- Department of Radiation OncologyHubei Cancer Hospital, Tongji Medical CollegeHuazhong University of Science and TechnologyWuhanChina
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- Department of Radiation OncologyHubei Cancer Hospital, Tongji Medical CollegeHuazhong University of Science and TechnologyWuhanChina
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Shao J, Luan S, Ding Y, Xue X, Zhu B, Wei W. Attention Connect Network for Liver Tumor Segmentation from CT and MRI Images. Technol Cancer Res Treat 2024; 23:15330338231219366. [PMID: 38179668 PMCID: PMC10771068 DOI: 10.1177/15330338231219366] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2023] [Revised: 10/18/2023] [Accepted: 11/21/2023] [Indexed: 01/06/2024] Open
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Introduction: Currently, the incidence of liver cancer is on the rise annually. Precise identification of liver tumors is crucial for clinicians to strategize the treatment and combat liver cancer. Thus far, liver tumor contours have been derived through labor-intensive and subjective manual labeling. Computers have gained widespread application in the realm of liver tumor segmentation. Nonetheless, liver tumor segmentation remains a formidable challenge owing to the diverse range of volumes, shapes, and image intensities encountered. Methods: In this article, we introduce an innovative solution called the attention connect network (AC-Net) designed for automated liver tumor segmentation. Building upon the U-shaped network architecture, our approach incorporates 2 critical attention modules: the axial attention module (AAM) and the vision transformer module (VTM), which replace conventional skip-connections to seamlessly integrate spatial features. The AAM facilitates feature fusion by computing axial attention across feature maps, while the VTM operates on the lowest resolution feature maps, employing multihead self-attention, and reshaping the output into a feature map for subsequent concatenation. Furthermore, we employ a specialized loss function tailored to our approach. Our methodology begins with pretraining AC-Net using the LiTS2017 dataset and subsequently fine-tunes it using computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data sourced from Hubei Cancer Hospital. Results: The performance metrics for AC-Net on CT data are as follows: dice similarity coefficient (DSC) of 0.90, Jaccard coefficient (JC) of 0.82, recall of 0.92, average symmetric surface distance (ASSD) of 4.59, Hausdorff distance (HD) of 11.96, and precision of 0.89. For AC-Net on MRI data, the metrics are DSC of 0.80, JC of 0.70, recall of 0.82, ASSD of 7.58, HD of 30.26, and precision of 0.84. Conclusion: The comparative experiments highlight that AC-Net exhibits exceptional tumor recognition accuracy when tested on the Hubei Cancer Hospital dataset, demonstrating highly competitive performance for practical clinical applications. Furthermore, the ablation experiments provide conclusive evidence of the efficacy of each module proposed in this article. For those interested, the code for this research article can be accessed at the following GitHub repository: https://github.com/killian-zero/py_tumor-segmentation.git.
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- Jiakang Shao
- School of Integrated Circuits, Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- School of Integrated Circuits, Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Hubei Cancer Hospital, TongJi Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Hubei Cancer Hospital, TongJi Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- School of Integrated Circuits, Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Hubei Cancer Hospital, TongJi Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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Luan S, Yu X, Lei S, Ma C, Wang X, Xue X, Ding Y, Ma T, Zhu B. Deep learning for fast super-resolution ultrasound microvessel imaging. Phys Med Biol 2023; 68:245023. [PMID: 37934040 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/ad0a5a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2023] [Accepted: 11/07/2023] [Indexed: 11/08/2023]
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Objective. Ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM) enables microvascular reconstruction by localizing microbubbles (MBs). Although ULM can obtain microvascular images that are beyond the ultimate resolution of the ultrasound (US) diffraction limit, it requires long data processing time, and the imaging accuracy is susceptible to the density of MBs. Deep learning (DL)-based ULM is proposed to alleviate these limitations, which simulated MBs at low-resolution and mapped them to coordinates at high-resolution by centroid localization. However, traditional DL-based ULMs are imprecise and computationally complex. Also, the performance of DL is highly dependent on the training datasets, which are difficult to realistically simulate.Approach. A novel architecture called adaptive matching network (AM-Net) and a dataset generation method named multi-mapping (MMP) was proposed to overcome the above challenges. The imaging performance and processing time of the AM-Net have been assessed by simulation andin vivoexperiments.Main results. Simulation results show that at high density (20 MBs/frame), when compared to other DL-based ULM, AM-Net achieves higher localization accuracy in the lateral/axial direction.In vivoexperiment results show that the AM-Net can reconstruct ∼24.3μm diameter micro-vessels and separate two ∼28.3μm diameter micro-vessels. Furthermore, when processing a 128 × 128 pixels image in simulation experiments and an 896 × 1280 pixels imagein vivoexperiment, the processing time of AM-Net is ∼13 s and ∼33 s, respectively, which are 0.3-0.4 orders of magnitude faster than other DL-based ULM.Significance. We proposes a promising solution for ULM with low computing costs and high imaging performance.
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- Shunyao Luan
- School of Integrated Circuits, Laboratory for optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Hubei Cancer Hospital, TongJi Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China
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- School of Integrated Circuits, Laboratory for optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- School of Integrated Circuits, Laboratory for optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Rutgers-Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, United States of America
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Rutgers-Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, United States of America
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Hubei Cancer Hospital, TongJi Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Hubei Cancer Hospital, TongJi Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China
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- The Institute of Biomedical and Health Engineering, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, People's Republic of China
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- School of Integrated Circuits, Laboratory for optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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Luan S, Wei C, Ding Y, Xue X, Wei W, Yu X, Wang X, Ma C, Zhu B. PCG-net: feature adaptive deep learning for automated head and neck organs-at-risk segmentation. Front Oncol 2023; 13:1177788. [PMID: 37927463 PMCID: PMC10623055 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2023.1177788] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2023] [Accepted: 10/03/2023] [Indexed: 11/07/2023] Open
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Introduction Radiation therapy is a common treatment option for Head and Neck Cancer (HNC), where the accurate segmentation of Head and Neck (HN) Organs-AtRisks (OARs) is critical for effective treatment planning. Manual labeling of HN OARs is time-consuming and subjective. Therefore, deep learning segmentation methods have been widely used. However, it is still a challenging task for HN OARs segmentation due to some small-sized OARs such as optic chiasm and optic nerve. Methods To address this challenge, we propose a parallel network architecture called PCG-Net, which incorporates both convolutional neural networks (CNN) and a Gate-Axial-Transformer (GAT) to effectively capture local information and global context. Additionally, we employ a cascade graph module (CGM) to enhance feature fusion through message-passing functions and information aggregation strategies. We conducted extensive experiments to evaluate the effectiveness of PCG-Net and its robustness in three different downstream tasks. Results The results show that PCG-Net outperforms other methods, improves the accuracy of HN OARs segmentation, which can potentially improve treatment planning for HNC patients. Discussion In summary, the PCG-Net model effectively establishes the dependency between local information and global context and employs CGM to enhance feature fusion for accurate segment HN OARs. The results demonstrate the superiority of PCGNet over other methods, making it a promising approach for HNC treatment planning.
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- Shunyao Luan
- School of Integrated Circuit, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro and Nano-structures of Ministry of Education, Center for Theoretical Physics, School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Hubei Cancer Hospital, TongJi Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Hubei Cancer Hospital, TongJi Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Hubei Cancer Hospital, TongJi Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of University of Science and Technology of China, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Rutgers-Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Rutgers-Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
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- School of Integrated Circuit, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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Yu X, Luan S, Lei S, Huang J, Liu Z, Xue X, Ma T, Ding Y, Zhu B. Deep learning for fast denoising filtering in ultrasound localization microscopy. Phys Med Biol 2023; 68:205002. [PMID: 37703894 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/acf98f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2023] [Accepted: 09/13/2023] [Indexed: 09/15/2023]
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Objective.Addition of a denoising filter step in ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM) has been shown to effectively reduce the error localizations of microbubbles (MBs) and achieve resolution improvement for super-resolution ultrasound (SR-US) imaging. However, previous image-denoising methods (e.g. block-matching 3D, BM3D) requires long data processing times, making ULM only able to be processed offline. This work introduces a new way to reduce data processing time through deep learning.Approach.In this study, we propose deep learning (DL) denoising based on contrastive semi-supervised network (CS-Net). The neural network is mainly trained with simulated MBs data to extract MB signals from noise. And the performances of CS-Net denoising are evaluated in bothin vitroflow phantom experiment andin vivoexperiment of New Zealand rabbit tumor.Main results.Forin vitroflow phantom experiment, the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) of single microbubble image are 26.91 dB and 4.01 dB, repectively. Forin vivoanimal experiment , the SNR and CNR were 12.29 dB and 6.06 dB. In addition, single microvessel of 24μm and two microvessels separated by 46μm could be clearly displayed. Most importantly,, the CS-Net denoising speeds forin vitroandin vivoexperiments were 0.041 s frame-1and 0.062 s frame-1, respectively.Significance.DL denoising based on CS-Net can improve the resolution of SR-US as well as reducing denoising time, thereby making further contributions to the clinical real-time imaging of ULM.
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- Xiangyang Yu
- Shool of Integrated Circuit, Wuhan National Laboratory for optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- Shool of Integrated Circuit, Wuhan National Laboratory for optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- Shool of Integrated Circuit, Wuhan National Laboratory for optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- Shool of Integrated Circuit, Wuhan National Laboratory for optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- Shool of Integrated Circuit, Wuhan National Laboratory for optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Hubei Cancer Hospital, TongJi Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China
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- The Institute of Biomedical and Health Engineering, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Hubei Cancer Hospital, TongJi Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China
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- Shool of Integrated Circuit, Wuhan National Laboratory for optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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Luan S, Xue X, Wei C, Ding Y, Zhu B, Wei W. Machine Learning-Based Quality Assurance for Automatic Segmentation of Head-and-Neck Organs-at-Risk in Radiotherapy. Technol Cancer Res Treat 2023; 22:15330338231157936. [PMID: 36788411 PMCID: PMC9932790 DOI: 10.1177/15330338231157936] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/16/2023] Open
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Purpose/Objective(s): With the development of deep learning, more convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are being introduced in automatic segmentation to reduce oncologists' labor requirement. However, it is still challenging for oncologists to spend considerable time evaluating the quality of the contours generated by the CNNs. Besides, all the evaluation criteria, such as Dice Similarity Coefficient (DSC), need a gold standard to assess the quality of the contours. To address these problems, we propose an automatic quality assurance (QA) method using isotropic and anisotropic methods to automatically analyze contour quality without a gold standard. Materials/Methods: We used 196 individuals with 18 different head-and-neck organs-at-risk. The overall process has the following 4 main steps. (1) Use CNN segmentation network to generate a series of contours, then use these contours as organ masks to erode and dilate to generate inner/outer shells for each 2D slice. (2) Thirty-eight radiomics features were extracted from these 2 shells, using the inner/outer shells' radiomics features ratios and DSCs as the input for 12 machine learning models. (3) Using the DSC threshold adaptively classified the passing/un-passing slices. (4) Through 2 different threshold analysis methods quantitatively evaluated the un-passing slices and obtained a series of location information of poor contours. Parts 1-3 were isotropic experiments, and part 4 was the anisotropic method. Result: From the isotropic experiments, almost all the predicted values were close to the labels. Through the anisotropic method, we obtained the contours' location information by assessing the thresholds of the peak-to-peak and area-to-area ratios. Conclusion: The proposed automatic segmentation QA method could predict the segmentation quality qualitatively. Moreover, the method can analyze the location information for un-passing slices.
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- Shunyao Luan
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Hubei Cancer
Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong
University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China,School of Optical and Electronic Information,
Huazhong
University of Science and Technology,
Wuhan, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Hubei Cancer
Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong
University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Hubei Cancer
Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong
University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China,Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro and Nano-structures of Ministry
of Education, Center for Theoretical Physics, School of Physics and Technology,
Wuhan
University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Hubei Cancer
Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong
University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- School of Optical and Electronic Information,
Huazhong
University of Science and Technology,
Wuhan, China,Benpeng Zhu, School of Optical and
Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan,
430000, China.
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Hubei Cancer
Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong
University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China,Wei Wei, Department of Radiation Oncology,
Hubei Cancer Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science
and Technology, Wuhan, 430079, China.
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Luan S, Xue X, Ding Y, Wei W, Zhu B. Adaptive Attention Convolutional Neural Network for Liver Tumor Segmentation. Front Oncol 2021; 11:680807. [PMID: 34434891 PMCID: PMC8381250 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2021.680807] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2021] [Accepted: 07/12/2021] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Purpose Accurate segmentation of liver and liver tumors is critical for radiotherapy. Liver tumor segmentation, however, remains a difficult and relevant problem in the field of medical image processing because of the various factors like complex and variable location, size, and shape of liver tumors, low contrast between tumors and normal tissues, and blurred or difficult-to-define lesion boundaries. In this paper, we proposed a neural network (S-Net) that can incorporate attention mechanisms to end-to-end segmentation of liver tumors from CT images. Methods First, this study adopted a classical coding-decoding structure to realize end-to-end segmentation. Next, we introduced an attention mechanism between the contraction path and the expansion path so that the network could encode a longer range of semantic information in the local features and find the corresponding relationship between different channels. Then, we introduced long-hop connections between the layers of the contraction path and the expansion path, so that the semantic information extracted in both paths could be fused. Finally, the application of closed operation was used to dissipate the narrow interruptions and long, thin divide. This eliminated small cavities and produced a noise reduction effect. Results In this paper, we used the MICCAI 2017 liver tumor segmentation (LiTS) challenge dataset, 3DIRCADb dataset and doctors' manual contours of Hubei Cancer Hospital dataset to test the network architecture. We calculated the Dice Global (DG) score, Dice per Case (DC) score, volumetric overlap error (VOE), average symmetric surface distance (ASSD), and root mean square error (RMSE) to evaluate the accuracy of the architecture for liver tumor segmentation. The segmentation DG for tumor was found to be 0.7555, DC was 0.613, VOE was 0.413, ASSD was 1.186 and RMSE was 1.804. For a small tumor, DG was 0.3246 and DC was 0.3082. For a large tumor, DG was 0.7819 and DC was 0.7632. Conclusion S-Net obtained more semantic information with the introduction of an attention mechanism and long jump connection. Experimental results showed that this method effectively improved the effect of tumor recognition in CT images and could be applied to assist doctors in clinical treatment.
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- Shunyao Luan
- Department of Optoelectronic Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Oncology Radiotherapy Department, Hubei Cancer Hospital, Wuhan, China
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- Oncology Radiotherapy Department, Hubei Cancer Hospital, Wuhan, China
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- Oncology Radiotherapy Department, Hubei Cancer Hospital, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Optoelectronic Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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Luan S, Cowles K, Murphy MR, Cardoso FC. Effect of a grain challenge on ruminal, urine, and fecal pH, apparent total-tract starch digestibility, and milk composition of Holstein and Jersey cows. J Dairy Sci 2016; 99:2190-2200. [PMID: 26774720 DOI: 10.3168/jds.2015-9671] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2015] [Accepted: 12/02/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The effects of a grain challenge on ruminal, urine, and fecal pH, apparent total-tract starch digestibility, and milk composition were determined. Six Holstein cows, 6 rumen-cannulated Holstein cows, and 6 Jersey cows were used in a replicated 3 × 3 Latin square design balanced to measure carryover effects. Periods (10 d) were divided into 4 stages (S): S1, d 1 to 3, served as baseline with regular total mixed ration ad libitum; S2, d 4, served as restricted feeding, with cows offered 50% of the total mixed ration fed on S1 (dry matter basis); S3, d 5, a grain challenge was performed, in which cows were fed total mixed ration ad libitum and not fed (CON) or fed an addition of 10% (MG) or 20% (HG) pellet wheat-barley (1:1) top-dressed onto the total mixed ration, based on dry matter intake obtained in S1; S4, d 6 to 10, served as recovery stage with regular total mixed ration fed ad libitum. Overall, cows had a quadratic treatment effect for milk yield where CON (22.6 kg/d) and HG (23.5 kg/d) had lower milk yield than cows in MG (23.7 kg/d). Jersey cows had a quadratic treatment effect for dry matter intake where cows in CON (13.2 kg/d) and HG (12.4 kg/d) had lower dry matter intake than cows in MG (14 kg/d). Holstein cows had a linear treatment effect for dry matter intake (17.7, 18.4, and 18.6 kg/d for CON, MG, and HG, respectively). Rumen pH for the rumen-cannulated cows had a linear treatment effect (6.45, 6.35, and 6.24 for CON, MG, and HG, respectively). Cows in HG spent more time with rumen pH below 5.8 (4.33 h) than MG (2 h) or CON (2.17 h) as shown by the quadratic treatment effect. Holstein cows in HG (8.46) had lower urine pH than MG (8.51) or CON (8.54) as showed by the linear treatment effect for urine pH. Apparent total-tract starch digestibility had a tendency for a linear treatment effect on S3 (97.62 ± 1.5, 97.47 ± 1.5, and 91.84 ± 1.6%, for CON, MG, and HG, respectively). Fecal pH was associated with rumen pH depression as early as 15 h after feeding for Holstein cows. In conclusion, a grain challenge reduced urine pH in Holstein cows but not in Jersey cows. Holstein cows' health were not affected when rumen pH was depressed. A potentially useful link between rumen pH and systemic (urine) pH within 2 h after feeding was quantified in Holstein cows.
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- S Luan
- Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801
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- Cargill Office Center, Minneapolis, MN 55440
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- Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801
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- Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801.
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Luan S, Duersteler M, Galbraith E, Cardoso F. Effects of direct-fed Bacillus pumilus 8G-134 on feed intake, milk yield, milk composition, feed conversion, and health condition of pre- and postpartum Holstein cows. J Dairy Sci 2015; 98:6423-32. [DOI: 10.3168/jds.2015-9512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2015] [Accepted: 05/11/2015] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Riofrio D, Zhou J, Ma L, Luan S. TU-AB-201-04: Optimizing the Number of Catheter Implants and Their Tracks for Prostate HDR Brachytherapy. Med Phys 2015. [DOI: 10.1118/1.4925542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Maierhofer T, Diekmann M, Offenborn JN, Lind C, Bauer H, Hashimoto K, S. Al-Rasheid KA, Luan S, Kudla J, Geiger D, Hedrich R. Site- and kinase-specific phosphorylation-mediated activation of SLAC1, a guard cell anion channel stimulated by abscisic acid. Sci Signal 2014; 7:ra86. [DOI: 10.1126/scisignal.2005703] [Citation(s) in RCA: 144] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Riofrio D, Ma L, Zhou J, Luan S. TH-A-9A-06: Inverse Planning of Gamma Knife Radiosurgery Using Natural Physical Models. Med Phys 2014. [DOI: 10.1118/1.4889576] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Bornstein J, McCullough K, Combe C, Bieber B, Jadoul M, Pisoni R, Mariani L, Robinson B, Saito A, Sen A, Tentori F, Guinsburg A, Marelli C, Marcelli D, Usvyat L, Maddux D, Canaud B, Kotanko P, Hwang SJ, Hsieh HM, Chen HF, Mau LW, Lin MY, Hsu CC, Yang WC, Pitcher D, Rao A, Phelps R, Canaud B, Barbieri C, Marcelli D, Bellocchio F, Bowry S, Mari F, Amato C, Gatti E, Zitt E, Hafner-Giessauf H, Wimmer B, Herr A, Horn S, Friedl C, Sprenger-Maehr H, Kramar R, Rosenkranz AR, Lhotta K, Ferris M, Marcelli D, Marelli C, Etter M, Xu X, Grassmann A, Von Gersdorff GD, Pecoits-Filho R, Sylvestre L, Kotanko P, Usvyat L, Consortium M, Dzekova-Vidimliski P, Nikolov I, Trajceska L, Selim G, Gelev S, Matevska Geshkovska N, Dimovski A, Sikole A, Suleymanlar G, Utas C, Ecder T, Ates K, Bieber B, Robinson BM, Pisoni RL, Laplante S, Liu FX, Culleton B, Tomilina N, Bikbov B, Andrusev A, Zemchenkov A, Bieber B, Robinson BM, Pisoni RL, Bikbov B, Tomilina N, Kotenko O, Andrusev A, Panaye M, Jolivot A, Lemoine S, Guebre-Egziabher F, Doret M, Juillard L, Filiopoulos V, Hadjiyannakos D, Papakostoula A, Takouli L, Biblaki D, Dounavis A, Vlassopoulos D, Bikbov B, Tomilina N, Al Wakeel J, Bieber B, Al Obaidli AA, Ahmed Almaimani Y, Al-Arrayed S, Alhelal B, Fawzy A, Robinson BM, Pisoni RL, Aucella F, Girotti G, Gesuete A, Cicchella A, Seresin C, Vinci C, Scaparrotta G, Naso A, Pilotto A, Hoffmann TR, Flusser V, Santoro LF, Almeida FA, Aucella F, Girotti G, Gesuete A, Cicchella A, Seresin C, Vinci C, Scaparrotta G, Ganugi S, Gnerre T, Russo GE, Amato M, Naso A, Pilotto A, Trigka K, Douzdampanis P, Chouchoulis K, Mpimpi A, Kaza M, Pipili C, Kyritsis I, Fourtunas C, Ortalda V, Tomei P, Ybarek T, Lupo A, Torreggiani M, Esposito V, Catucci D, Arazzi M, Colucci M, Montagna G, Semeraro L, Efficace E, Piazza V, Picardi L, Esposito C, Hekmat R, Mohebi M, Ahmadzadehhashemi S, Park J, Hwang E, Jang M, Park S, Resende LL, Dantas MA, Martins MTS, Lopes GB, Lopes AA, Engelen W, Elseviers M, Gheuens E, Colson C, Muyshondt I, Daelemans R, He Y, Chen J, Luan S, Wan Q, Cuoghi A, Bellei E, Monari E, Bergamini S, Tomasi A, Atti M, Caiazzo M, Palladino G, Bruni F, Tekce H, Ozturk S, Aktas G, Kin Tekce B, Erdem A, Uyeturk U, Ozyasar M, Taslamacioglu Duman T, Yazici M, Schaubel DE, McCullough KP, Morgenstern H, Gallagher MP, Hasegawa T, Pisoni RL, Robinson BM, Nacak H, Van Diepen M, Suttorp MM, Hoorn EJ, Rotmans JI, Dekker FW, Speyer E, Beauger D, Gentile S, Isnard Bagnis C, Caille Y, Baudelot C, Mercier S, Jacquelinet C, Briancon S, Sosorburam T, Baterdene B, Delger A, Daelemans R, Gheuens E, Engelen W, De Boeck K, Marynissen J, Bouman K, Mann M, Exner DV, Hemmelgarn BR, Hanley D, Ahmed SB. DIALYSIS. EPIDEMIOLOGY, OUTCOME RESEARCH, HEALTH SERVICES 2. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2014. [DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfu178] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Riofrio D, Sellner S, Cabal G, Keyes R, Holzscheiter M, Jaekel O, Luan S. SU-E-T-610: Impact of Variable Beam Spot Size on Treatment Time in Particle Therapy. Med Phys 2012; 39:3846. [DOI: 10.1118/1.4735699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Keyes R, Maes D, Luan S. MO-F-BRB-04: Fast Estimation of Secondary Particle Therapy Dose Using a Modified Track Repeating Method. Med Phys 2012; 39:3874. [DOI: 10.1118/1.4735817] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Ma L, Hu W, Luan S. SU-E-T-880: An Investigation of Kernel-Based Dynamic Dose Painting Treatment Approach. Med Phys 2011. [DOI: 10.1118/1.3612844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Riofrio D, Keyes R, Maes D, Luan S. TU-A-BRB-03: Simultaneous Optimization of Dose and LET in Proton Therapy Using Voronoi Partitions. Med Phys 2011. [DOI: 10.1118/1.3613068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Keyes R, Arnold D, Reynaud A, Luan S. SU-E-T-688: McCloud: Toward 10 Million Monte Carlo Primaries in 5 Minutes for Clinical Use. Med Phys 2011. [DOI: 10.1118/1.3612650] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Keyes R, Romano C, Arnold D, Luan S. SU-GG-T-376: Medical Physics Calculations in the Cloud: A New Paradigm for Clinical Computing. Med Phys 2010. [DOI: 10.1118/1.3468773] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Riofrio D, Cabal G, Keyes R, Holzscheiter M, DeMarco J, Jäkel O, Luan S. SU-GG-T-446: Minimizing Energy Changes in Particle Therapy Using Voronoi Partitions. Med Phys 2010. [DOI: 10.1118/1.3468844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Chen Z, Luan S, Riofrio D, Ma L. SU-HH-BRB-02: A Study on the Focusing Power of Dynamic Photon Painting. Med Phys 2010. [DOI: 10.1118/1.3469020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Riofrio D, Keyes R, Hecht A, Luan S, Holzscheiter M, DeMarco J, Fahimian B. SU-FF-T-160: Planning Dynamic Particle Therapy. Med Phys 2009. [DOI: 10.1118/1.3181634] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Keyes RW, Luan S, Holzscheiter M. SU-FF-T-416: Antiproton Therapy: A Simplified Method to Characterize and Compare Dose From Peripheral Radiation Fields. Med Phys 2009. [DOI: 10.1118/1.3181898] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Cao D, Rao M, Chen F, Ye J, Luan S, Shepard D. SU-FF-T-222: A Novel Approach to Machine Specific QA for Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy. Med Phys 2009. [DOI: 10.1118/1.3181698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Chen F, Rao M, Ye J, Luan S, Shepard D, Cao D. MO-D-BRB-01: Study of Systemic and Random Errors On VMAT and IMRT Plan Quality and Deliver Accuracy. Med Phys 2009. [DOI: 10.1118/1.3182211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Fahimian B, DeMarco J, Keyes R, Luan S, Zankl M, Holzscheiter M. WE-C-BRB-06: Antiproton Radiotherapy: Development of Physically and Biologically Optimized Monte Carlo Treatment Planning Systems for Intensity and Energy Modulated Delivery. Med Phys 2009. [DOI: 10.1118/1.3182464] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Luan S, Swanson N, Chen Z, Ma L. SU-EE-A2-05: A Planning System for Dynamic Gamma Knife Radiosurgery. Med Phys 2009. [DOI: 10.1118/1.3181103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Wang C, Luan S, Tang G, Chen D, Earl M, Yu C. SU-GG-T-542: Arc-Modulated Radiation Therapy (AMRT): A Novel Method for Rotational Radiation Therapy. Med Phys 2008. [DOI: 10.1118/1.2962291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Tang G, Earl M, Luan S, Wang C, Naqvi S, Yu C. TU-EE-A1-06: Comparison of Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy, Intensity-Modulated Arc Therapy and Arc-Modulated Radiation Therapy. Med Phys 2008. [DOI: 10.1118/1.2962610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Tang G, Earl M, Luan S, Wang C, Naqvi S, Yu C. TH-C-350-02: Is Dose Rate Variation Crucial for Single-Arc Radiation Therapy Delivery? Med Phys 2008. [DOI: 10.1118/1.2962827] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Wang C, Luan S, Tang G, Chen D, Yu C. SU-GG-T-92: Dynamic Leaf Sequencing with Monitor Units Control. Med Phys 2008. [DOI: 10.1118/1.2961844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Tang G, Earl M, Luan S, Naqvi S, Yu C. Converting Multiple-Arc Intensity Modulated Arc Therapy Into a Single Arc for Efficient Delivery. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.07.2031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Luan S, Wang C, Cao D, Chen D, Shepard D, Yu C. TH-C-AUD-01: IMAT Leaf Sequencing Using Graph Algorithms. Med Phys 2007. [DOI: 10.1118/1.2761660] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Swanson N, Luan S, Li K, Ma L. TH-D-AUD-01: A Dynamic Dose Delivery Model for Gamma Knife Radiosurgery. Med Phys 2007. [DOI: 10.1118/1.2761720] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Luan S, Wang C, Cao D, Chen D, D'Souza W, Yu C. SU-FF-J-102: Patient Breathing Motion Synchronized IMAT: A New Technique for Compensating Intra-Fraction Organ Motions. Med Phys 2006. [DOI: 10.1118/1.2240878] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Cao D, Earl M, Luan S, Shepard D. TU-D-ValA-03: Continuous Intensity Map Optimization (CIMO): A Novel Leaf-Sequencing Algorithm. Med Phys 2006. [DOI: 10.1118/1.2241572] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Luan S, Heintz P, Sorensen S, Jimenez A, Roedersheimer K, Chen D, Wong G. The Effect of Collimator Rotation on IMRT Treatment Planning. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2005. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2005.07.886] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Roedersheimer K, Chen DZ, Luan S, Xing L. SU-FF-T-105: The Impact of Multileaf Collimator Rotation in IMRT Planning. Med Phys 2005. [DOI: 10.1118/1.1997776] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Wang C, Luan S, Chen DZ, Hu X, Yu C. SU-FF-T-97: A Generalized MLC Segmentation Algorithm for Step-And-Shoot IMRT with No Tongue-And-Groove Error. Med Phys 2005. [DOI: 10.1118/1.1997768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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A number of environmental conditions including drought, low humidity, cold and salinity subject plants to osmotic stress. A rapid plant response to such stress conditions is stomatal closure to reduce water loss from plants. From an external stress signal to stomatal closure, many molecular components constitute a signal transduction network that couples the stimulus to the response. Numerous studies have been directed to resolving the framework and molecular details of stress signalling pathways in plants. In guard cells, studies focus on the regulation of ion channels by abscisic acid (ABA), a chemical messenger for osmotic stress. Calcium, protein kinases and phosphatases, and membrane trafficking components have been shown to play a role in ABA signalling process in guard cells. Studies also implicate ABA-independent regulation of ion channels by osmotic stress. In particular, a direct osmosensing pathway for ion channel regulation in guard cells has been identified. These pathways form a complex signalling web that monitors water status in the environment and initiates responses in stomatal movements.
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- S. Luan
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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Li L, Tutone AF, Drummond RS, Gardner RC, Luan S. A novel family of magnesium transport genes in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 2001; 13:2761-75. [PMID: 11752386 PMCID: PMC139487 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.010352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2001] [Accepted: 09/04/2001] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Magnesium (Mg(2+)) is the most abundant divalent cation in plant cells and plays a critical role in many physiological processes. We describe the identification of a 10-member Arabidopsis gene family (AtMGT) encoding putative Mg(2+) transport proteins. Most members of the AtMGT family are expressed in a range of Arabidopsis tissues. One member of this family, AtMGT1, functionally complemented a bacterial mutant lacking Mg(2+) transport capability. A second member, AtMGT10, complemented a yeast mutant defective in Mg(2+) uptake and increased the cellular Mg(2+) content of starved cells threefold during a 60-min uptake period. (63)Ni tracer studies in bacteria showed that AtMGT1 has highest affinity for Mg(2+) but may also be capable of transporting several other divalent cations, including Ni(2+), Co(2+), Fe(2+), Mn(2+), and Cu(2+). However, the concentrations required for transport of these other cations are beyond normal physiological ranges. Both AtMGT1 and AtMGT10 are highly sensitive to Al(3+) inhibition, providing potential molecular targets for Al(3+) toxicity in plants. Using green fluorescence protein as a reporter, we localized AtMGT1 protein to the plasma membrane in Arabidopsis plants. We suggest that the AtMGT gene family encodes a Mg(2+) transport system in higher plants.
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- L Li
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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Magnesium (Mg(2+)) is the most abundant divalent cation in plant cells and plays a critical role in many physiological processes. We describe the identification of a 10-member Arabidopsis gene family (AtMGT) encoding putative Mg(2+) transport proteins. Most members of the AtMGT family are expressed in a range of Arabidopsis tissues. One member of this family, AtMGT1, functionally complemented a bacterial mutant lacking Mg(2+) transport capability. A second member, AtMGT10, complemented a yeast mutant defective in Mg(2+) uptake and increased the cellular Mg(2+) content of starved cells threefold during a 60-min uptake period. (63)Ni tracer studies in bacteria showed that AtMGT1 has highest affinity for Mg(2+) but may also be capable of transporting several other divalent cations, including Ni(2+), Co(2+), Fe(2+), Mn(2+), and Cu(2+). However, the concentrations required for transport of these other cations are beyond normal physiological ranges. Both AtMGT1 and AtMGT10 are highly sensitive to Al(3+) inhibition, providing potential molecular targets for Al(3+) toxicity in plants. Using green fluorescence protein as a reporter, we localized AtMGT1 protein to the plasma membrane in Arabidopsis plants. We suggest that the AtMGT gene family encodes a Mg(2+) transport system in higher plants.
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- L Li
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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Luan S, Kudla J, Harter K, Gruissem W, Chory J. Renaming genes and duplication of gene names in the literature. Plant Cell 2001; 13:2391-2392. [PMID: 11701876 PMCID: PMC2652722 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.131140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Aluminum (Al) inhibits inward K(+) channels (K(in)) in both root hair and guard cells, which accounts for at least part of the Al toxicity in plants. To understand the mechanism of Al-induced K(in) inhibition, we performed patch clamp analyses on K(in) in guard cells and on KAT1 channels expressed in Xenopus oocytes. Our results show that Al inhibits plant K(in) by blocking the channels at the cytoplasmic side of the plasma membrane. In guard cells, single-channel recording revealed that Al inhibition of K(in) occurred only upon internal exposure. Using both "giant patch" recording and single-channel analyses, we found that Al reduced KAT1 open probability and changed its activation kinetics through an internal membrane-delimited mechanism. We also provide evidence that a Ca(2)+ channel-like pathway that is sensitive to antagonists verapamil and La(3)+ mediates Al entry across the plasma membrane. We conclude that Al enters plant cells through a Ca(2)+ channel-like pathway and inhibits K(+) uptake by internally blocking K(in).
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- K Liu
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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Kim KN, Cheong YH, Gupta R, Luan S. Interaction specificity of Arabidopsis calcineurin B-like calcium sensors and their target kinases. Plant Physiol 2000; 124:1844-53. [PMID: 11115898 PMCID: PMC59879 DOI: 10.1104/pp.124.4.1844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 133] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2000] [Revised: 09/11/2000] [Accepted: 09/28/2000] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Calcium is a critical component in a number of plant signal transduction pathways. A new family of calcium sensors called calcineurin B-like proteins (AtCBLs) have been recently identified from Arabidopsis. These calcium sensors have been shown to interact with a family of protein kinases (CIPKs). Here we report that each individual member of AtCBL family specifically interacts with a subset of CIPKs and present structural basis for the interaction and for the specificity underlying these interactions. Although the C-terminal region of CIPKs is responsible for interaction with AtCBLs, the N-terminal region of CIPKs is also involved in determining the specificity of such interaction. We have also shown that all three EF-hand motifs in AtCBL members are required for the interaction with CIPKs. Several AtCBL members failed to interact with any of the CIPKs presented in this study, suggesting that these AtCBL members either have other CIPKs as targets or they target distinct proteins other than CIPKs. These results may provide structural basis for the functional specificity of CBL family of calcium sensors and their targets.
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- K N Kim
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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