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2023

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Whybra P, Zwanenburg A, Andrearczyk V, Schaer R, Apte A, Ayotte A, Baheti B, Bakas S, Bettinelli A, Boellaard R, Boldrini L, Buvat I, Cook GJR, Dietsche F, Dinapoli N, Goh V, Guckenberger M, Hatt M, Hosseinzadeh M, Iyer A, Jaouen V, Lenkowicz J, Loutfi MAL, Löck S, Marturano F, Morin O, Nioche C, Orlhac F, Pati S, Rahmim A, Rezaeijo SM, Rookyard C, Salmanpour MR, Schindele A, Shiri I, Spezi E, Tanadini-Lang S, Tixier F, Upadhaya T, Valentini V, van Griethuysen J, Yousefirizi F, Zaidi H, Muller H, Vallières M, and Depeursinge A, "The Image Biomarker Standardization Initiative: Standardized convolutional filters for quantitative radiomics" Radiology (2023) in press

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Ahmadyar Y, Kamali-Asl A, Arabi H, Samimi R and Zaidi H "Hierarchical approach for pulmonary-nodule identification from CT images using YOLO model and a 3D neural network classifier" Radiol Phys Technol (2023) in press

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Sanaat A, Amini M, Arabi H and Zaidi H "The quest for multifunctional and dedicated PET instrumentation with irregular geometries" Ann Nucl Med (2023) in press

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Young P, Heeman F, Axelsson J, Collij LE, Saint-Aubert L, Sanaat A, Lubberink M, Frisoni G, Zaidi H, Barkhof F, Farrar G, Baker S, Gispert JD, Garibotto V, Rieckmann A and Schöll M "Impact of reduced injected dose on the assessment of amyloid PET scans" Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging (2023) in press

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Mecheter I, Abbod M, Zaidi H and Amira A "Transfer learning from T1-weighted to T2-werighted MR sequences for brain image segmentation" CAAI Trans Intell Technol (2023) in press

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Hajianfar G, Haddadi Avval A, Hosseini SA, Nazari M, Oveissi M, Shiri I and Zaidi H "Time-to-event overall survival prediction in glioblastoma multiforme patients using magnetic resonance imaging radiomics" Radiol Med (2023) in press

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Shiri I, Amini M, Yousefirizi F, Vafaei Sadr A, Hajianfar G, Salimi Y, Mansouri Z, Jenabi E, Maghsoudi M, Mainta I, Becker M, Rahmim A and Zaidi H "Information fusion for fully automated segmentation of head & neck tumors from PET and CT images" Med Phys (2023) in press

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Xin L, Zhuo W, Liu Q, Xie T and Zaidi H "Triple-source saddle-curve cone-beam photon counting CT image reconstruction: A simulation study" Z Med Phys (2023) in press

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Asadi A, Akhavanallaf A, Hossein SA, Vosoughi N and Zaidi H "Development and validation of an optimal GATE model for proton pencil-beam scanning delivery" Z Med Phys (2023) in press

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Hajianfar G, Sabouri M, Salimi Y, Amini M, Bagheri S, Jenabi E, Hekmat S, Maghsudi M, Mansouri Z, Khateri M, Jamshidi MH, Jafari E, Rajabi AB, Asadi M, Oveisi M, Shiri I and Zaidi H "Artificial intelligence-based analysis of whole-body bone scintigraphy: The quest for the optimal deep learning algorithm and comparison with human observer performance" Z Med Phys (2023) in press

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Shiri I, Salimi Y, Maghsudi M, Jenabi E, Harsini S, Razeghi B, Mostafaei S, Hajianfar G, Sanaat A, Jafari E, Samimi R, Khateri M, Sheikhzadeh P, Geramifar P, Dadgar H, Bitrafan Rajabi A, Assadi M, Benard F, Vafaei Sadr A, Voloshynovskiy S, Mainta I, Uribe C, Rahmim A and Zaidi H "Differential privacy preserved federated transfer learning for multi-institutional 68Ga-PET image artifacts detection and disentanglement" Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging Vol. 51, No. 1, pp 40-53 (2023).

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Salimi Y, Akhavanallaf A, Mansouri Z, Shiri I and Zaidi H "Real-time, acquisition parameter-free, voxelwise patient-specific Monte Carlo dose reconstruction in total-body CT scanning using deep neural networks" Eur Radiol Vol. 33, No. 12, pp 9411-9424 (2023).

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Rahmim A, Toosi A, Salmanpour MR, Dubljevic N, Janzen I, Shiri I, Yuan R, Ho C, Zaidi H, MacAulay C, Uribe C, Yousefirizi F "Tensor radiomics: Paradigm for systematic incorporation of multi-flavoured radiomics features" Quant Imaging Med Surg Vol. 13, No. 12, pp 7680-7694 (2023).

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Shiri I, Salimi Y, Hervier E, Pezzoni A, Sanaat A, Mostafaei S, Rahmim A, Mainta I, Zaidi H "Artificial intelligence-driven single-shot PET image artifact detection and disentanglement: Towards routine clinical image quality assurance" Clin Nucl Med Vol. 48, No. 12, pp 1035-1046 (2023).

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Rezaei H, Sheikhzadeh P, Ghafarian P, Zaidi H and Ay MR "Accurate modeling and performance evaluation of a total-body PET scanner using Monte Carlo simulations" Med Phys Vol. 50, No. 11, pp 6815-6827 (2023).

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Taleie H, Hajianfar G, Sabouri M, Parsaee M, Houshmand G, Bitarafan Rajabi A, Zaidi H and Shiri I "Left ventricular myocardial dysfunction evaluation in thalassemia patients using echocardiographic radiomic features and machine learning algorithms" J Dig Imaging Vol. 36, No. 6, pp 2494-2506 (2023).

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Hashemi S, Aghamiri SM-R, Siavashpour Z, Kahani M, Zaidi H and Jaberi R "Hydrogen nanobubbles: A novel approach toward radio-sensitization agents" Med Phys Vol. 50, No. 10, pp 6589-6599 (2023).

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Khodabakhshi Z, Amini M, Hajianfar J, Oveisi M, Shiri I and Zaidi H "Dual-centre harmonised multimodal PET/CT image radiomic features and machine learning algorithms for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer histopathological subtype phenotype decoding" Clin Oncol Vol. 35, No. 11, pp 713-725 (2023).

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Hemmati H, Kamali-Asl A, Ghafarian P, Rahmim A, Zaidi H and Ay MR "List-mode quantitative joint reconstruction of activity and attenuation maps in time-of-flight PET" J Instrum Vol. 18, No. 9, pp P09041 (2023).

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Arabi H and Zaidi H "Recent advances in Positron Emission Tomography/Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technology" Magn Reason Imaging Clin N Am Vol. 31, No. 4, pp 503-515 (2023).

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Amini M, Pursamimi M, Hajianfar G, Salimi Y, Saberi A, Mehri-Kakavand G, Nazari M, Ghorbani M, Shalbaf A, Shiri I and Zaidi H "Machine learning-based diagnosis and risk stratification of coronary artery disease using myocardial perfusion imaging SPECT: A radiomics study" Sci Rep Vol. 13, pp 14920 (2023).

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Becker M, de Vito C, Dulguerov N and Zaidi H "PET/MR imaging in head and neck cancer" Magn Reason Imaging Clin N Am Vol. 31, No. 4, pp 539-564 (2023).

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Puri T, Frost ML, Moore AEB, Choudhury A, Vinjamuri S, Mahajan A, Fynbo C, Vrist M, Thiel J, Kairemo K, Wong J, Zaidi H, Revheim M-E, Werner TJ, Alavi A, Cook GJR, Blake GM "Utility of a simplified [18F] sodium fluoride PET imaging method to quantify bone metabolic flux for a wide range of clinical applications" Front Endocrinol Vol. 14, pp 1236881 (2023).

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Böhringer AS, Sanaat A, Arabi H and Zaidi H "An active learning approach to train a deep learning algorithm for tumor segmentation from brain MR images" Insights Imaging Vol. 14, No. 1, pp 141 (2023).

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Mohebi M, Amini M, Alemzadeh-Ansari MJ, Alizadeh Asl A, Bitarafan Rajabi A, Shiri I, Zaidi H and Orooji M "Post-revascularization ejection fraction prediction for patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention based on myocardial perfusion SPECT imaging radiomics: A machine learning study" J Dig Imaging Vol. 36, No. 4, pp 1348-1363 (2023).

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Dashtbani Moghari M, Sanaat A, Young N, Moore K, Zaidi H, Evans A, Fulton R, and Kyme A "Reducing scan duration and radiation dose in cerebral CT perfusion imaging using a recurrent neural network" Phys Med Biol Vol. 68, No. 16, pp 165005 (2023).

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Akhavanallaf A, Peterson AB, Fitzpatrick K, Roseland M, Wong KK, El Naqa I, Zaidi H and Dewaraja Y "The predictive value of 68Ga-DOATATE PET and biomarkers in 177Lu-PRRT tumor dosimetry" Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging Vol. 50, No. 10, pp 2984-2996 (2023).

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Shiri I, Razeghi B, Sadr AV, Amini M, Salimi Y, Ferdowsi S, Boor P, Gündüz D, Voloshynovskiy and Zaidi H "Multi-institutional PET/CT image segmentation using federated deep transformer learning" Comput Meth Prog Biomed Vol. 240, pp 107706 (2023).

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Riveira-Martin M, Akhavanallaf A, Mansouri Z, Bianchetto Wolf N, Salimi Y, Ricoeur A, Mainta I, Garibotto V, Lopez Medina A and Zaidi H "Predictive value of 99mTc-MAA-based theragnostic dosimetry in personalized 90Y-SIRT planning of liver malignancies" EJNMMI Res Vol. 13, No. 1, pp 63 (2023).

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Qu S, Liu H, Xie T, Giger ME Quan G and and Zaidi H "Patient-specific fetal radiation dosimetry for pregnant patients undergoing abdominal and pelvic CT imaging" Med Phys Vol. 50, No. 6, pp 3801-3815 (2023).

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Sanaat A, Shooli H, Böhringer AS, Sadeghi M, Shiri I, Salimi Y, Ginovart N, Garibotto V, Arabi H and Zaidi H "A cycle-consistent adversarial network for brain PET partial volume correction without prior anatomical information" Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging Vol. 50, No. 7, pp 1881-1896 (2023).

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Salimi Y, Shiri I, Akhavan A, Mansouri Z, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Fully automated accurate patient positioning in computed tomography using anterior-posterior localizer images and a deep neural network: A dual-center study" Eur Radiol Vol. 33, No. 5, pp 3243-3252 (2023).

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Qu S, Xie T, Giger ME and Zaidi H "Construction of a digital fetus library for radiation dosimetry" Med Phys Vol. 50, No. 4, pp 2577-2589 (2023).

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Sabouri M, Hajianfar G, Hosseini Z, Amini M, Mohebi M, Ghaedian T, Madadi S, Rastgou F, Oveisi M, Bitarafan Rajabi A, Shiri I and Zaidi H "Myocardial perfusion SPECT imaging radiomic features and machine learning algorithms for cardiac contractile pattern recognition" J Dig Imaging Vol. 36, No. 2, pp 497-509 (2023).

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Farhadi F, Rajagopal JR, Veziroglu EM, Abdollahi H, Shiri I, Nikpanah M, Zaidi H, Rahmim A and Saboury B "Multi-scale temporal imaging: From micro- and meso- to macro-scale-time nuclear medicine" PET Clin Vol. 18, No. 1, pp 135-148 (2023).

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Shiri I, Sadr AV, Akhavan A, Salimi Y, Sanaat A, Amini M, Razeghi B, Saberi A, Arabi H, Ferdowsi S, Voloshynovskiy S, Gündüz D, Rahmim A and Zaidi H "Decentralized collaborative multi-institutional PET attenuation and scatter correction using federated deep learning" Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging Vol. 50, No. 4, pp 1034-1050 (2023).

2022

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Arian F, Amini M, Mostafaei S, Rezaei Kalantari K, Hadadi Aval A, Shahbazi Z, Kasani K, Bitarafan Rajabi1 A, Chatterjee S, Oveisi M, Shiri I and Zaidi H "Myocardial function prediction after coronary artery bypass grafting using MRI radiomics features and machine learning algorithms" J Dig Imaging Vol. 35, No. 6, pp 1708-1718 (2022).

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Salimi Y, Shiri I, Akhavanallaf A, Mansouri Z, Sanaat A, Pakbin M, Hossein MG, Arabi H, and Zaidi H "Deep learning-based calculation of patient size and attenuation surrogates from localizer image: Toward personalized CT protocol optimization for thorax imaging" Eur J Radiol Vol. 157, pp 110602 (2022).

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Sanaat A, Akhavanallaf A, Shiri I, Salimi Y, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Deep-TOF-PET: Deep learning-guided generation of time-of-flight (TOF) PET from non-TOF brain PET images in the image and projection domains" Hum Brain Mapp Vol. 43, No. 16, pp 5032-5043 (2022).

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Manafi-Farid R, Askari E, Shiri I, Asadi M, Khateri M, Pirich C, Zaidi H and Beheshti M "[18F]-FDG PET/CT radiomics and artificial intelligence in lung cancer: Technical aspects and potential clinical applications" Sem Nucl Med Vol. 52, No. 6, pp 759-780 (2022).

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Moradi Khaniabadi P, Bouchareb Y, Al Dhuhli H, Shinri I, Al Kindi F, Moradi Khaniabadi B, Zaidi H, Rahmim A "Two-step machine learning to diagnose and predict involvement of lungs in COVID-19 and pneumonia using CT radiomics" Comput Biol Med Vol. 150, pp 106165 (2022).

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Zaker N, Haddad K, Faghihi R, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Direct inference of Patlak parametric images in whole-body PET/CT imaging using convolutional neural networks" Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging Vol. 49, No. 12, pp 4048-4063 (2022).

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Makkia R, Nelson K, Zaidi H and Dingfelder M "Hybrid computational pregnant female phantom construction for radiation dosimetry applications" Biomed Phys Eng Exp Vol. 8, No. 6, pp 065015 (2022).

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Asadi A, Akhavanallaf A, Hossein SA, Vosoughi N and Zaidi H "Comparative study of passive scattering and active scanning proton therapy techniques using Monte Carlo simulations" J Instrum Vol. 17, No. 9, pp P09008 (2022).

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Shiri I, Mostafaei S, Avval AH, Salimi Y, Sanaat Y, Akhavanallaf A, Arabi H, Rahmim A and Zaidi H "High-dimensional multinomial multiclass severity scoring of COVID-19 pneumonia using CT radiomics features and machine learning algorithms" Sci Rep Vol. 12, No. 1, pp 14817 (2022).

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Sanaat A, Jamalizadeh M, Khanmohammadi H. Arabi H and Zaidi H "Active-PET: A multifunctional PET scanner with dynamic gantry size featuring high-resolution and high-sensitivity imaging: A Monte Carlo simulation study" Phys Med Biol Vol. 67, No. 15, pp 155021 (2022).

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Mecheter I, Abbod M, Amira A and Zaidi H "Deep learning with multiresolution handcrafted features for brain MR images segmentation" Art Intell Med Vol. 131, pp 102365 (2022).

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Katirtisidou E, Rager O, Varoquaux A, Poncet A, Lenoir V, Monnier Y, Dulguerov N, Platon A, Garibotto V, Zaidi H and Becker M "Detection of distant metastases and distant second primary cancers in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: Comparison of 18F-FDG PET/MRI and 18F-FDG PET/CT" Insights Imaging Vol. 13, No. 1, pp 121 (2022).

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Akhavanallaf A, Fayad H, Salimi Y, Aly A, Kharita H, Al Naemi H and Zaidi H "An update on computational anthropomorphic anatomical models" Dig Health Vol. 8, pp 20552076221111941 (2022).

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Hosseini SA, Shiri I, Hajianfar G, Bahadorzade B, Ghafarian P, Zaidi H and Ay MR "Synergistic impact of motion and acquisition/reconstruction parameters on 18F-FDG PET radiomics features in non-small cell lung cancer: Phantom and clinical studies" Med Phys Vol. 49, No. 6, pp 3783-3796 (2022).

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Shiri I, Sadr AV, Amini M, Salimi Y, Sanaat A, Akhavan A, Razeghi B, Ferdowsi S, Saberi A, Arabi H, Becker M, Voloshynovskiy S, Gündüz D, Rahmim A and Zaidi H "Decentralized distributed multi-institutional PET image segmentation using a federated deep learning framework" Clin Nucl Med Vol. 47, No 7, pp 606-617 (2022).

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Sanaat A, Shiri I, Ferdowsi S, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Robust-Deep: A method for increasing brain imaging datasets to improve deep learning models’ performance and robustness" J Dig Imaging Vol. 35, No. 3, pp 469-481 (2022).

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Shiri I, Salimi Y, Pakbin M, Hajianfar G, Avval AH, Sanaat A, Mostafaei S, Akhavanallaf A, Saberi A, Mansouri Z, Askari D, Ghasemian M, Sharifipour E, Sandoughdaran S, Sohrabi A, Sadati E, Livani S, Iranpour P, Kolahi S, Khateri M, Bijari S, Atashzar MR, Shayesteh SP, Babaei MR, Jenabi E, Hasanian M, Shahhamzeh A, Foroghi Ghomi SY, Mozafari A, Teimouri A, Movaseghi F, Ahmari A, Goharpey N, Bozorgmehr R, Shirzad-Aski H, Mortazavi R, Karimi J, Mortazavi N, Besharat S, Afsharpad M, Abdollahi H, Geramifar P, Radmard AR, Arabi H, Rezaei-Kalantari K, Oveisi M, Rahmim A and Zaidi H "COVID-19 prognostic modeling using CT radiomic features and machine learning algorithms: Analysis of a multi-institutional dataset of 14,339 patients" Comput Biol Med Vol. 145, pp 105467 (2022).

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Mecheter I, Abbod M, Zaidi H and Amira A "Brain MR images segmentation using 3D CNN with features recalibration mechanism for pseudo-CT synthesis" Neurocomputing Vol. 491, pp 232-243 (2022).

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Olia NA, Kamali-Asl A, Tabrizi SH, Geramifar P, Sheikhzadeh P, Farzanefar S, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Deep learning-based denoising of low-dose SPECT myocardial perfusion images: Quantitative assessment and clinical performance" Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging Vol. 49, No 5, pp 1508-1522 (2022).

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Mostafapour S, Gholamiankhah F, Maroofpour S, Momennezhad M, Asadinezhad M, Zakavi SR, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Deep learning-guided attenuation correction in the image domain for myocardial perfusion SPECT imaging" J Comput Des Eng Vol. 9, No 2, pp 434-447 (2022).

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Boutaghane N, Hesse M, Bouzid B, Zaidi H, Jamar F, and Walrand S "Dual-layer collimator for improved spatial resolution in SPECT with CZT cameras: An analytical and Monte Carlo study" Phys Med Biol Vol. 67, No. 6, pp 065006 (2022).

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Jabbarpour A, Mahdavi SR, Sadr AV, Esmaili G, Shiri I, and Zaidi H "Unsupervised pseudo CT generation using heterogenous multicentric CT/MR images and CycleGAN: Dosimetric assessment for 3D conformal radiotherapy" Comput Biol Med Vol. 143, pp 105277 (2022).

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Amini M, Hajianfar G, Avval AH, Nazari M, Deevband MR, Pveisi M, Shiri I, and Zaidi H "Overall survival prognostic modeling of non-small cell lung cancer patients using PET/CT harmonized radiomics features: The quest for the optimal machine learning algorithm" Clin Oncol Vol. 34, No. 2, pp 114-127 (2022).

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Shiri I, Amini M, Nazari M, Hajianfar G, Avval AH, Abdollahi H, Oveisi M, Arabi H, Rahmim A and Zaidi H "Impact of feature harmonization on radiogenomics analysis: Prediction of EGFR and KRAS mutations from non-small cell lung cancer PET/CT images" Comput Biol Med Vol. 142, pp 105230 (2022).

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Shiri I, Arabi H, Salimi Y, Sanaat A, Akhavanallaf A, Hajianfar G, Askari D, Moradi S, Mansouri Z, Pakbin M, Sandoughdaran S, Abdollahi H, Radmard AR, Rezaei-Kalantari K, Oghli MG, and Zaidi H "COLI-NET: Fully automated COVID-19 lung and infection pneumonia lesion detection and segmentation from chest CT images" Int J Imaging Syst Technol Vol. 32, No. 1, pp 12-25 (2022).

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Avard E, Shiri I, Hajianfar G, Abdollahi H, Kalantari KR, Kasani K, Houshmand G, Bitarafan-Rajabi A, Deevband MR, Oveisi M and Zaidi H "Non-contrast cine cardiac magnetic resonance image radiomics features and machine learning algorithms for myocardial infarction detection" Comput Biol Med Vol. 141, pp 105145 (2022).

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Arabi H and Zaidi H "MRI-guided attenuation correction in torso PET/MRI: Frequency of outliers in segmentation-, atlas-, and deep learning-based approaches" Magn Reson Med Vol. 87, No. 2, pp 686-701 (2022).

2021

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Sanaat A, Schooli H, Ferdowsi S, Shiri I, Arabi H and Zaidi H "DeepTOFSino: A deep learning model for synthesizing full-dose TOF bin sinograms from their corresponding low-dose TOF bins" Neuroimage Vol. 245, pp 118697 (2021).

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Amirrashedi M, Sarkar S, Mamizadeh H, Ghadiri H, Ghafarian P, Zaidi H and Ay MR "Leveraging deep neural networks to improve numerical and perceptual image quality in low-dose preclinical PET imaging" Comput Med Imaging Graph Vol. 94, pp 102010 (2021).

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Salimi Y, Shiri I, Akhavanallaf A, Mansouri Z, Saberi A, Sanaat A, Pakbin M, Askari D, Sandoughdaran S, Sharifipour E, Arabi H, and Zaidi H "Deep learning-based fully automated Z-axis coverage range definition from scout scans to eliminate overscanning in chest CT scanning" Insights Imaging Vol. 12, No. 1, pp 162 (2021).

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Edalat-Javid M, Shiri I, Hajianfar G, Abdollahi H, Arabi H, Oveisi N, Javadian M, Zafarghandi MS, Malek H, Bitarafan-Rajabi A, Oveisi M and Zaidi H "Cardiac SPECT radiomic features repeatability and reproducibility: A multi-scanner phantom study" J Nucl Cardiol Vol. 28, No. 6, pp 2730-2744 (2021).

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Shiri I, Sabet KA, Arabi H, Pourkeshavarz M, Teimourian B, Ay MR and Zaidi H "Standard SPECT myocardial perfusion estimation from half-time acquisitions using deep convolutional residual neural networks" J Nucl Cardiol Vol. 28, No. 6, pp 2761-2779 (2021).

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Khodabakhshi Z, Amini M, Mostafaei S, Avval AH, Nazari M, Oveisi M, Shiri I and Zaidi H "Overall survival prediction in renal cell carcinoma patients using Computed Tomography radiomics and clinical information" J Dig Imaging Vol. 34, No. 5, pp 1086-1098 (2021).

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Amini M, Nazari M, Shiri I, Hajianfar G, Deevband MR, Abdollahi H, Arabi H, Rahmim A and Zaidi H "Multi-level multi-modality (PET and CT) fusion radiomics: Prognostic modeling for non-small cell lung carcinoma" Phys Med Biol Vol. 66, No. 20, pp 205017 (2021).

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Shiri I, Arabi H, Sanaat A, Janebi E, Becker M and Zaidi H "Fully automated gross tumour volume delineation from PET in head and neck cancer using deep learning algorithms" Clin Nucl Med Vol. 46, No. 11, pp 872-883 (2021).

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Sanaat A, Mirsadeghi E, Razeghi B, Ginovart N and Zaidi H "Fast dynamic brain PET imaging using stochastic variational prediction for recurrent frame generation" Med Phys Vol. 48, No. 9, pp 5059-5071 (2021).

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Le Guevelou J, Achard V, Mainta I, Zaidi H, Garibotto V, Lazorzeff I, Sargos P, Menard C Zilli T, "PET/CT-based salvage radiotherapy for recurrent prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy: impact on treatment management and future directions" Front Oncol Vol. 11, pp 742093 (2021).

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Ghabrial A, Franklin D and Zaidi H "A Monte Carlo simulation study of scatter fraction and the impact of patient BMI on scatter in long axial field-of-view PET scanners" Z Med Phys Vol. 31, No. 3, pp 305-315 (2021).

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Khodabakhshi Z, Mostafaei S, Arabi H, Oveisi M, Shiri I and Zaidi H "Non-small cell lung carcinoma histopathological subtype phenotyping using high-dimensional multinomial multiclass CT radiomics signature" Comput Biol Med Vol. 136, pp 104752 (2021).

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Akhavanallaf A, Mohammadi R, Shiri I, Salimi Y, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Personalized brachytherapy dose reconstruction using deep learning" Comput Biol Med Vol. 136, pp 104755 (2021).

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Bouchareb Y, Moradi Khaniabadi P, Al Kindi F, Al Dhuhli H, Shiri I, Zaidi H, Rahmim A "Artificial intelligence-driven assessment of radiological images for COVID-19" Comput Biol Med Vol. 136, pp 104665 (2021).

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Shayesteh PS, Nazari M, Salahshour A, Sandoughdaran S, Hajianfar G, Khateri M, Joybari AY, Jozian F, Feyzabad SHF, Arabi H, Shiri I and Zaidi H "Treatment response prediction using MRI-based pre-, post- and delta-radiomic features and machine learning algorithms in colorectal cancer" Med Phys Vol. 48, No. 7, pp 3691-3701 (2021).

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Arabi H and Zaidi H "Deep learning-based metal artefact reduction in PET/CT imaging" Eur Radiol Vol. 31, No. 8, pp 6384-6396 (2021).

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Ghelich Oghli M, Moradi S, Sirjani N, Gerami R, Ghaderi P, Shabanzadeh A, Shiri I, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Automatic fetal biometry prediction using a novel deep convolutional network architecture" Phys Med Vol. 88, pp 127-137 (2021).

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Lohrabian V, Kamali-Asl A, Ghadiri Harvani H, Hosseini Aghdam SR, Arabi H and Zaidi H"Comparison of the x-ray tube spectrum measurement using BGO, NaI, LYSO, and HPGe detectors in a preclinical mini-CT scanner: Monte Carlo simulation and practical experiment" Rad Phys Chem Vol. 189, pp 109666 (2021).

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Arabi H and Zaidi H "Assessment of deep learning-based PET attenuation correction frameworks in the sinogram domain" Phys Med Biol Vol. 66, No. 14, pp 145001 (2021).

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Mostafapour S, Gholamiankhah F, Dadgar H, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Feasibility of deep learning-guided attenuation and scatter correction of whole-body 68Ga-PSMA PET studies in the image domain" Clin Nucl Med Vol. 46, No. 8, pp 609-615 (2021).

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Sanaat A, Shiri I, Arabi H, Mainta I, Nkoulou R and Zaidi H "Deep learning-assisted ultra-fast/low-dose whole-body PET/CT imaging" Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging Vol. 48, No. 8, pp 2405-2415 (2021).

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Mohammadi R, Salehi M, Shokatian I, Arabi H, Shiri I and Zaidi H "Deep learning-based auto-segmentation of organs at risk in high-dose rate brachytherapy of cervical cancer" Radiother Oncol Vol. 159, pp 231-240 (2021).

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Akhavanallaf A, Shiri I, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Whole-body voxel-based internal dosimetry using deep learning" Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging Vol. 48 Vol. 3, pp 670-682 (2021).

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Zanca F, Hernandez-Giron I, Avanzo M, Guidi G, Crijns W, Diaz O, Kagadis GC, Rampaldo O, Løne PI, Ken S, Colgan N, Zaidi H, Zakaria G, M. Kortesniemi "Expanding the medical physicist curricular and professional programme to include artificial intelligence" Phys Med Vol. 83, pp 174-183 (2021).

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Zaidi H and El Naqa I "Quantitative molecular positron emission tomography imaging using advanced deep learning techniques" Annu Rev Biomed Eng Vol. 23, pp 249-276 (2021).

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Arabi H, Akhavanallaf A, Sanaat A Shiri I, and Zaidi H "The promise of artificial intelligence and deep learning in PET and SPECT imaging" Phys Med Vol. 83, pp 122-137 (2021).

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Baldock C, Basran PS and Zaidi H "An increase in retractions of research publications is an issue for Medical Physics" Med Phys Vol. 48, No. 3, pp 927-930 (2021).

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Radnia A, Abdollahzadeh H, Teimourian B, Farahani MH, Akbari ME, Zaidi H and Ay MR "Development and characterization of an all in one gamma probe with auto peak detection for sentinel lymph node biopsy based on NEMA NU3-2004 standard" Ann Nucl Med Vol. 35, No. 4, pp 438-446 (2021).

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Shiri I, Sorouri M, Geramifar P, Nazari M, Abdollahi M, Salimi Y, Khosravi B, Askari D, Aghaghazvini L, Hajianfar G, Kasaeian A, Abdollahi H, Arabi H, Rahmim A, Radmard AR and Zaidi H "Machine learning-based prognostic modelling using clinical data and quantitative radiomic features from CT images in COVID-19 patients" Comput Biol Med Vol. 132, pp 104304 (2021).

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Arabi H and Zaidi H "Non-local mean denoising using multiple PET reconstructions" Ann Nucl Med Vol. 35, No. 2, pp 176-186 (2021).

Frequently cited paper 2022 ‒ Annals of Nuclear Medicine

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Shiri I, Akhavanallaf A, Sanaat A, Askari D, Salimi Y, Mansouri Z, Shayesteh SP, Hasanian M Rezaei-Kalantari K, Salahshour A, Sandoughdaran S, Abdollahi H, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Ultra-low-dose chest CT imaging of COVID-19 patients using deep neural networks" Eur Radiol Vol. 31, No. 3, pp 1420-1431 (2021).

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Wang Y, Chen G, Tao X, Bian Z, Zeng D, Zaidi H, He J, HuangJ and Ma J "Helical CT reconstruction from sparse-view data through exploiting the 3D anatomical structure sparsity" IEEE Access Vol. 9, pp 15200-15211 (2021).

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Surti S, Del Guerra A and Zaidi H "Total-body PET is ready for prime time" Med Phys Vol. 48, No. 1, pp 3-6 (2021).

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Nazari M, Shiri I and Zaidi H "Radiomics-based machine learning model to predict risk of death within 5-years in clear cell renal cell carcinoma patients" Comput Biol Med Vol. 129, pp 104135 (2021).

2020

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Bahrami A, Karimian A, Fatemizadeh E, Arabi H and Zaidi H "A novel deep convolutional neural network design with efficient learning capability: Application to CT image synthesis from MRI" Med Phys Vol. 47, No. 10, pp 5158-5171 (2020).

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Sanaat A, Ashrafi-Belgabad A and Zaidi H "Polaroid-PET: a PET scanner with detectors fitted with polaroids for filtering unpolarized optical photons: A Monte Carlo simulation study" Phys Med Biol Vol. 65, No. 23, pp 235044 (2020).

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Xie T, Chen X and Zaidi H "Age-dependent dose calculations for common PET radionuclides and brain radiotracers in non-human primate computational models" Med Phys Vol. 47, No. 9, pp 4465-4476 (2020).

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Shiri I, Hajianfar G, Sohrabi A, Abdollahi H, Shayesteh SP, Parham G, Zaidi H, Oveisi M, and Rahmim A "Repeatability of radiomic features in magnetic resonance imaging of glioblastoma: Test-retest and image registration analyses" Med Phys Vol. 47, No. 9, pp 4265-4280 (2020).

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Arabi H and Zaidi H "Truncation compensation and metallic dental implant artefact reduction in PET/MRI attenuation correction using deep learning-based object completion" Phys Med Biol Vol. 65, No. 19, pp 195002 (2020).

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Sanaat A, Arabi H, Mainta I, Garibotto V and Zaidi H "Projection-space implementation of deep learning-guided low-dose brain PET imaging improves performance over implementation in image-space" J Nucl Med Vol. 61, No. 9, pp 1388-1396 (2020).

Recipient of 2021 Alavi-Mandell award (Society of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging)

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Sanaat A, Arabi H, Ay MR and Zaidi H "Novel preclinical PET geometrical concept using a monolithic scintillator crystal offering concurrent enhancement in spatial resolution and detection sensitivity: A simulation study" Phys Med Biol Vol. 65, No. 4, pp 045013 (2020).

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Zaker N, Kotasidis F, Garibotto V and Zaidi H "Assessment of lesion detectability in dynamic whole-body PET imaging using compartmental and Patlak parametric mapping" Clin Nucl Med Vol. 45, No. 5, pp e221-e231 (2020).

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Xie T, Park JS, Zhuo W and Zaidi H "Development of a non-human primate computational phantom for radiation dosimetry" Med Phys Vol. 47, No. 2, pp 736-744 (2020).

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Rehani MM, Szczykutowicz TP and Zaidi H "CT is still not a low dose imaging modality" Med Phys Vol. 47, No. 2, pp 293-296 (2020).

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Akhavanallaf A, Xie T and Zaidi H "Assessment of uncertainties associated with Monte Carlo-based personalized dosimetry in clinical CT examinations" Phys Med Biol Vol. 65, No. 4, pp 045008 (2020).

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Arabi H and Zaidi H "Spatially-guided non-local mean approach for denoising of PET images” Med Phys Vol. 47, No. 4, pp 1656-1669 (2020).

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Arabi H and Zaidi H "Deep learning-guided estimation of attenuation correction factors from time-of-flight PET emission data" Med Image Anal Vol. 64, pp 101718 (2020).

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Alavi A, Houshmand S, Werner T and Zaidi H "Potential applications of PET-based novel quantitative techniques in pediatric diseases and disorders" PET Clinics Vol. 15, No. 3, pp 281-284 (2020).

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Armato SG, Farahani K and Zaidi H "Biomedical image analysis challenges should be considered as an academic exercise, not an instrument that will move the field forward in a real, practical way" Med Phys Vol. 47, No. 6, pp 2325-2328 (2020).

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Nazari M, Shiri I, Hajianfar G, Oveisi N, Abdollahi H, Deevband MR, Oveisi M and Zaidi H "Non-invasive Fuhrman grading of clear cell renal cell carcinoma using computed tomography radiomic features and machine learning" Radiol Med Vol. 125, No. 8, pp 754-762 (2020).

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Shiri I, Maleki H, Hajianfar G, Abdollahi H, Ashrafinia S, Hatt M, Zaidi H, Oveisi M, and Rahmim A "Next generation radiogenomics sequencing for prediction of EGFR and KRAS mutation status in NSCLC patients using multimodal imaging and machine learning algorithms" Mol Imaging Biol Vol. 22, No. 4, pp 1132-1148 (2020).

2020 Best Clinical Paper of the Year, Molecular Imaging & Biology

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Sanaat A and Zaidi H "Depth of interaction estimation in a preclinical PET scanner equipped with monolithic crystals coupled to SiPMs using a deep neural network" Appl Sci Vol. 10, No. 14, pp 4753 (2020).

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Schaart D, Ziegler S and Zaidi H "Achieving 10 ps coincidence time resolution in TOF-PET is an impossible dream" Med Phys Vol. 47, No. 7, pp 2721-2724 (2020).

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Abdollahi H, Shiri I, Bevelacqua JJ, Jafarzadeh A, Rahmim A, Zaidi H, Mortazavi SAR, Mortazavi SMJ "Low dose radiation therapy and convalescent plasma: How a hybrid method may maximize benefits for COVID‐19 patients" J Biomed Phys Eng Vol. 10, No. 4, pp 384-394 (2020).

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Arabi H, Bortolin K, Ginovart N, Garibotto V and Zaidi H "Deep learning-guided joint attenuation and scatter correction in multitracer neuroimaging studies" Hum Brain Mapp Vol. 41, No. 13, pp 3667-3679 (2020).

WILEY Top Cited Article 2020-2021

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Baldock C, Karger C and Zaidi H "Gel dosimetry provides the optimal end-to-end quality assurance dosimetry for MR-linacs" Med Phys Vol. 47, No. 8, pp 3259-3262 (2020).

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Rastegar S, Vaziri M, Qasempour Y, Akhash MR, Abdalvand N, Shiri I, Abdollahi H and Zaidi H "Radiomics classification of bone mineral loss: a machine learning study" Diagn Interv Imaging Vol. 101, No. 9, pp 599-610 (2020).

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Amirrashedi M, Zaidi H and Ay MR "Towards quantitative small-animal imaging on hybrid PET/CT and PET/MRI systems" Clin Trans Imaging Vol. 8, No. 4, pp 243-263 (2020).

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Shiri I, Arabi H, Geramifar P, Ghafarian P, Hajianfar G, Rahmim A, Ay MR, and Zaidi H "Deep-JSAC: Joint scatter and attenuation correction in whole-body 18F-FDG PET imaging using a deep residual network" Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging Vol. 47, No. 11, pp 2533-2548 (2020).

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Amirrashedi M, Zaidi H and Ay MR "Advances in preclinical PET instrumentation" PET Clinics Vol. 15, No. 4, pp 403-426 (2020).

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Arabi H and Zaidi H "Applications of artificial intelligence and deep learning in molecular imaging and radiotherapy" Eur J Hybrid Imaging Vol. 4, No. 1, pp 17 (2020).

2019

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Arabi H, Zeng G, Zheng G and Zaidi H "Novel adversarial semantic structure deep learning for MRI-guided attenuation correction in brain PET/MRI" Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging Vol. 46, No. 13, pp 2746-2759 (2019).

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Xie T and Zaidi H "Estimation of the radiation dose in pregnancy: an automated patient-specific model using convolutional neural networks" Eur Radiol Vol. 29, No. 12, pp 6805-6815 (2019).

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Xie T, Akhavanallaf A and Zaidi H "Construction of patient-specific computational models for organ dose estimation in radiological imaging" Med Phys Vol. 46, No. 5, pp 2403-2411 (2019).

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Akhavanallaf A, Xie T and Zaidi H "Development of a library of adult computational phantoms based on anthropometric indexes" IEEE Trans Rad Plasma Med Sci Vol. 3, No. 1, pp 65-75 (2019).

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Rahmim A Lodge MA, Karakatsanis N, Panin VY, Zhou Y, McMillan A, Cho S, Zaidi H, Casey ME and Wahl RL "Dynamic whole-body PET imaging: principles, potentials and applications" Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging Vol. 46, No. 2, pp 501-518 (2019).

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Poletti PA, Botsikas D, Becker M, Picarra M, Rutschmann OT, Buchs N, Zaidi H and Platon A "Suspicion of appendicitis in pregnant women: emergency evaluation by sonography and low-dose CT with oral contrast" Eur Radiol Vol. 29, No. 1, pp 345-352 (2019).

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Boutaghane N, Bouzid B and Zaidi H "Conceptual design of a large pixelated CZT detector with four-hole collimator matched pixel detector for SPECT imaging: A Monte Carlo simulation study" J Instrum Vol. 14, No. 2, pp P02026 (2019).

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Gingold E, McKenney S and Zaidi H "Gonadal shielding should be discontinued for most diagnostic imaging exams" Med Phys Vol. 46, No. 3, pp 1111-1114 (2019).

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Zhuang M, Karakatsanis N, Dierckx RAJ and Zaidi H "Quantitative analysis of heterogeneous 18F-FDG static (SUV) vs. Patlak (Ki) whole-body PET imaging using different segmentation methods: A simulation study" Mol Imaging Biol Vol. 21, No. 2, pp 317-327 (2019).

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Keall P, Kron T and Zaidi H "In the future, emission-guided radiation therapy will play a critical role in clinical radiation oncology" Med Phys Vol. 46, No. 4, pp 1519-1522 (2019).

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Lohrabian V, Kamali-Asl AR, Arabi H, Mamashi FM, Hemati HR and Zaidi H "Design and construction of a variable resolution cone-beam small animal mini-CT prototype for in vitro and in vivo studies" Rad Phys Chem Vol. 162, pp 199-207 (2019).

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Fahrni G, Karakatsanis N, Di Domenicantonio G, Garibotto V and Zaidi H "Does whole-body Patlak 18F-FDG PET imaging improve lesion detectability in clinical oncology?" Eur Radiol Vol. 29, No. 9, pp 4812-4821 (2019).

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Jones AK, O’Connor MK and Zaidi H "The eventual rejection of the linear no-threshold theory will lead to a drastic reduction in the demand for diagnostic medical physics services" Med Phys Vol. 46, No. 8, pp 3325-3328 (2019).

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Fatnassi C and Zaidi H "Fast and accurate pseudo multispectral technique for whole MRI brain tissue classification" Phys Med Biol Vol. 64, No. 14, pp 145005 (2019).

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Lovblad KO, Bouchez L, Wetzel S, Altrichter S, Ratib O, Zaidi H and Vargas MI "PET/CT in neuroradiology" Clin Transl Neurosci July-Dec, DOI 10.1177/2514183X19868147 pp 1-7 (2019).

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Bayouth JE, Low DA and Zaidi H "MRI-linac systems will replace conventional IGRT systems within 15 years" Med Phys Vol. 46, No. 9, pp 3753-3756 (2019).

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Makkia R, Nelson K, Zaidi H and Dingfelder M "Construction of realistic hybrid computational fetal phantoms from radiological images in three gestational ages for radiation dosimetry applications" Phys Med Biol Vol. 64, No. 20, pp 205003 (2019).

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Stabin MG, Madsen MT and Zaidi H "Personalized dosimetry is a must for appropriate molecular radiotherapy" Med Phys Vol. 46, No. 11, pp 4713-4716 (2019).

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Amirrashedi M, Sarkar S, Ghafarian P, Shahraki RH, Geramifar P, Zaidi H and Ay MR "NEMA NU-4 2008 Performance Evaluation of Xtrim-PET: A prototype SiPM-based preclinical scanner" Med Phys Vol. 46, No. 11, pp 4816-4825 (2019).

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Zhuang M, Karakatsanis N, Dierckx RAJ and Zaidi H "Impact of tissue classification in MRI-guided attenuation correction on whole-body Patlak PET/MRI" Mol Imaging Biol Vol. 21, No. 6, pp 1147–1156 (2019).

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Chiesa C, Bardiès M and Zaidi H "Voxel-based dosimetry is superior to mean-absorbed dose approach for establishing dose-effect relationship in targeted radionuclide therapy" Med Phys Vol. 46, No. 12, pp 5403-5406 (2019).

2018

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Zaidi H and Karakatsanis N "Towards enhanced PET quantification in clinical oncology" Br J Radiol Vol. 91, No. 1081, pp 20170508 (2018).

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Xie T, Poletti PA, Platon A, Becker CD and Zaidi H "Assessment of CT dose to the fetus and pregnant female patient using patient-specific computational models" Eur Radiol Vol. 28, No. 3, pp 1054-1065 (2018).

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and a commentary on auntminnieeurope.com http://www.auntminnieeurope.com/index.aspx?sec=sup&sub=cto&pag=dis&ItemID=614910

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Xie T, Zanotti-Fregonara P, Edet-Sanson A and Zaidi H "Patient-specific computational model and dosimetry calculations for a patient pregnant with twins undergoing a PET/CT examination" J Nucl Med Vol. 59, No. 9, pp 1451-1458 (2018).

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Becker M, Varoquaux A, Combescure C, Rager O, Pusztaszeri M, Burkhardt K, Delattre B, Dulguerov P, Dulguerov N, Katirtzidou E, Caparrotti F, Ratib O, Zaidi H and Becker CD "Local recurrence of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck after radiochemotherapy: diagnostic performance of FDG-PET/MRI with diffusion weighted sequences" Eur Radiol Vol. 28, No. 2, pp 651-663 (2018).

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Alavi A, Werner T, Høilund-Carlsen P and Zaidi H "Correction for partial volume effect is a must, not a luxury, to fully exploit the potential of quantitative PET imaging in clinical oncology" Mol Imaging Biol Vol. 20, No. 1, pp 1-3 (2018).

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Ghabrial A, Franklin D and Zaidi H "A Monte Carlo simulation study of the impact of novel scintillation crystals on performance characteristics of PET scanners" Phys Med Vol. 50, pp 37-45 (2018).

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Rager O, Lee-Felker SA, Tabouret-Viaud C, Felker ER, Poncet A, Amzalag G, Garibotto V, Zaidi H, and Walter MA "Accuracy of whole-body HDP SPECT/CT, FDG PET/CT, and their combination for detecting bone metastases in breast cancer: an intra-personal comparison" Am J Nucl Med Mol Imaging Vol. 8, No. 3, pp 159-168 (2018).

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Kesner A, Pan T and Zaidi H "Data-driven motion correction will replace motion tracking devices in molecular imaging-guided radiation therapy treatment planning" Med Phys Vol. 45, No. 8, pp 3477-3480 (2018).

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Kotasidis FA, Angelis GI, Anton-Rodriguez J and Zaidi H "Robustness of indirect and direct kinetic parameter estimates under rigid head motion in dynamic brain PET imaging" Phys Med Vol. 53, pp 40-55 (2018).

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Catana C, Quick H H and Zaidi H "Current commercial techniques for MRI-guided attenuation correction are insufficient and will limit the wider acceptance of PET/MRI technology in the clinic" Med Phys Vol. 45, No. 9, pp 4007-4010 (2018).

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Zaidi H, Alavi A and El Naqa I "Novel quantitative PET techniques for clinical decision support in oncology " Sem Nucl Med Vol. 48, No. 6, pp 548-564 (2018).

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El Naqa I, Napel I and Zaidi H "Radiogenomics is the future of treatment response assessment in clinical oncology" Med Phys Vol. 45, No. 10, pp 4325-4328 (2018).

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Arabi H, Dowling JA, Burgos N, Han X, Greer PB, Koutsouvelis N and Zaidi H "Comparative study of algorithms for synthetic CT generation from MRI: Consequences for MRI-guided radiation planning in the pelvic region" Med Phys Vol. 45, No. 11, pp 5218-5233 (2018).

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Fatnassi C and Zaidi H "Robust selective weighted field mapping using multi-echo gradient echo-based MRI" Phys Med Biol Vol. 63, No. 21, pp 215002 (2018).

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Arabi H and Zaidi H "Improvement of image quality in whole-body PET imaging using post-reconstruction hybrid spatial-frequency domain filtering" Phys Med Biol Vol. 63, No. 21, pp 215010 (2018).

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Leahy R, Boellaard R and Zaidi H "Whole-body parametric PET imaging will replace conventional image-derived PET metrics in clinical oncology" Med Phys Vol. 45, No. 12, pp 5355-5358 (2018).

2017

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Arabi H and Zaidi H "Comparison of atlas-based techniques for whole-body bone segmentation" Med Image Anal Vol. 36, pp 98–112 (2017).

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Mehranian A, Zaidi H and Reader A "MR-guided joint reconstruction of activity and attenuation in brain PET-MR" Neuroimage Vol. 162, No. 15, pp 276-288 (2017).

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Xie T, Kustner N and Zaidi H "Computational hybrid anthropometric paediatric phantom library for internal radiation dosimetry" Phys Med Biol Vol. 62, No. 8, pp 3263-3283 (2017).

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Mainta I, Perani D, Delattre B, Assal F, Haller S, Vargas MI, Zekry DS, Frisoni GB, Zaidi H, Ratib O, Garibotto V "FDG PET/MR imaging in dementia" Curr Alzheimer Res Vol. 14, No. 2, pp 186-197 (2017).

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Lamanna G, Tabouret-Viaud C, Rager O, Jorcano S, Vees H, Seimbille Y, Zaidi H, Ratib O, Buchegger F, Miralbell R, Zilli T, Garibotto V "Long-term results of a comparative PET/CT and PET/MRI study of 11C-acetate and 18F-fluorocholine for restaging of early recurrent prostate cancer" Clin Nucl Med Vol. 42, No. 5, pp e242-246 (2017).

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Poletti P-A, Becker M, Becker CD, Halfon-Poletti CD, Rutschmann OT, Zaidi H, Perneger T, Platon A "Emergency assessment of patients with acute abdominal pain using low-dose CT with iterative reconstruction: A comparative study" Eur Radiol Vol. 27, No. 8, pp 3300-3309 (2017).

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Hatt M, Lee J, Schmidtlein CR, El Naqa I, Caldwell C, De Bernardi E, Lu W, Das S, Geets X, Gregoire V, Jeraj R, MacManus M, Mawlawi O, Nestle U, Pugachev A, Schöder H, Shepherd T, Spezi E, Visvikis D, Zaidi H, Kirov AS "Classification and evaluation strategies of auto-segmentation approaches for PET: Report of AAPM Task Group No. 211" Med Phys Vol. 44, No. 6, pp e1-e42 (2017).

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Fatnassi C, Boucenna R and Zaidi H "Mixed model phase evolution for correction of magnetic field inhomogeneity effects in 3D quantitative gradient echo-based MRI" Med Phys Vol. 44, No. 7, pp 3739-3751 (2017).

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Berthon B, Spezi E, Galavis P, Shepherd AT, Apte A, Hatt M, Fayad H, De Bernardi E, Soffientini C, Schmidtlein CR, El Naqa I, Jeraj R, Lu W, Das S, Zaidi H, Mawlawi O, Visvikis D, Lee JA, and Kirov AS "Towards a standard for the evaluation of PET auto-segmentation methods following the recommendations of AAPM task group No. 211: requirements and implementation" Med Phys Vol. 44, No. 8, pp 4098-4111 (2017).

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Rager O, Nkoulou R, Exquis N, Garibotto V, Tabouret-Viaud C, Zaidi H, Amzalag G, Lee-Felker A, Zilli T and Ratib O "Whole-body SPECT/CT versus targeted SPECT/CT bone scan for metastatic workup of oncological patients" BioMed Res Int Vol. 2017, Article ID 7039406, 8 pages (2017).

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Xie T, Kustner N and Zaidi H "Effects of body habitus on internal radiation dose calculations using the 5-year-old anthropomorphic male models" Phys Med Biol Vol. 62, No. 15, pp 6185-6206 (2017).

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Karakatsanis NA, Tsoumpas C and Zaidi H "Quantitative PET image reconstruction employing nested expectation-maximization deconvolution for motion compensation" Comput Med Imaging Graph Vol. 60, pp 11-21 (2017).

2016

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Zaidi H and Becker M "The promise of hybrid PET-MRI: Technical advances and clinical applications" IEEE Sign Proc Mag Vol. 33, No. 3, pp 67-85 (2016).

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Karakatsanis N, Casey ME, Lodge MA, Rahmim A and Zaidi H "Whole-body direct 4D parametric PET imaging employing nested generalized Patlak expectation-maximization reconstruction" Phys Med Biol Vol. 61, No 15, pp 5456–5485 (2016).

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In the top 10 most popular PMB papers published in 2016

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Mehranian A, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Vision 20/20: Magnetic resonance imaging-guided attenuation correction in PET/MRI: Challenges, solutions and opportunities" Med Phys Vol. 43, No. 3, pp 1130-1155 (2016).

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Mehranian A, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Quantitative analysis of MRI-guided attenuation correction methods in time-of-flight brain PET/MRI" Neuroimage Vol. 130, pp 1309-1331 (2016).

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Xie T and Zaidi H "Development of computational small animal models and their applications in preclinical research" Med Phys Vol. 43, No. 1, pp 111-131 (2016).

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Arabi H and Zaidi H "MRI-guided attenuation correction in whole-body PET/MRI using a sorted atlas approach" Med Image Anal Vol. 31, pp 1-15 (2016).

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Kotasidis F, Mehranian A and Zaidi H "Impact of time-of-flight on indirect 3-D and direct 4-D parametric image reconstruction in the presence of inconsistent dynamic PET data" Phys Med Biol Vol. 61, No. 9, pp 3343-3371 (2016).

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Arabi H, Koutsouvelis N, Rouzaud M, Miralbell R and Zaidi H "Atlas-guided generation of pseudoCT images for MRI-only and hybrid PET-MRI guided radiotherapy treatment planning" Phys Med Biol Vol. 61, No 17, pp 6531–6552 (2016).

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Zhuang M, Dierckx RAJ and Zaidi H "Generic and robust method for automatic segmentation of PET images using an active contour model" Med Phys Vol. 43, No 8, pp 4483–4494 (2016).

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Arabi H and Zaidi H "One registration multi atlas-based pseudo-CT generation for attenuation correction in PET/MRI" Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging Vol. 43, No 11, pp 2021-2035 (2016).

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Arabi H and Zaidi H "Whole-body bone segmentation from MRI for PET/MRI attenuation correction using shape-based averaging" Med Phys Vol. 43, No 11, pp 5848-5861 (2016).

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Khazaee Moghadam M, Kamali Asl A, Geramifar P and Zaidi H "Evaluating the application of tissue-specific dose point kernels instead of water dose point kernels in internal dosimetry: A Monte Carlo study" Cancer Biother Radiopharm Vol. 31, No. 10, pp 367-379 (2016).

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Xie T and Zaidi H "Development of computational pregnant female and fetal models and assessment of radiation dose from positron-emitting tracers" Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging Vol. 43, No 13, pp 2290–2300 (2016).

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Abdoli M, Mehranian A, Ailianou A, Becker M and Zaidi H "Assessment of metal artifact reduction algorithms in pelvic CT" Med Phys Vol. 43, No. 4, pp 1588-1597 (2016).

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Mehranian A, Kotasidis F and Zaidi H "Accelerated time-of-flight (TOF) PET image reconstruction using TOF bin subsetization and TOF weighting matrix pre-computation" Phys Med Biol Vol. 61, No. 3, pp 1309-1331 (2016).

2015

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Mehranian A and Zaidi H "Clinical assessment of emission- and segmentation-based MRI-guided attenuation correction in whole body TOF PET/MRI" J Nucl Med Vol. 56, No. 6, pp 877-883 (2015).
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Mehranian A and Zaidi H "Joint estimation of activity and attenuation in whole-body TOF PET/MRI using constrained Gaussian mixture models" IEEE Trans Med Imaging Vol. 34, No. 9, pp 1808-1821 (2015).

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Mehranian A and Zaidi H "Impact of time-of-flight PET on quantification errors in MRI-based attenuation correction" J Nucl Med Vol. 56, No. 4, pp 635-641 (2015).
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Karakatsanis N, Zhou Y, Lodge MA, Casey ME, Wahl RL, Zaidi H and Rahmim A "Generalized whole-body Patlak parametric imaging for enhanced quantification in clinical PET" Phys Med Biol Vol. 60, No. 22, pp 8643-8673 (2015).

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Leemans E, Kotasidis FA, Wissmeyer M, Garibotto V and Zaidi H "Qualitative and quantitative evaluation of blob-based time-of-flight PET image reconstruction in brain PET imaging" Mol Imaging Biol Vol. 17, No. 5, pp 704-713 (2015).

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Mehranian A and Zaidi H "Emission-based estimation of lung attenuation coefficients for attenuation correction in time-of-flight PET/MR" Phys Med Biol Vol. 60, No. 12, pp 4813-4833 (2015).

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Arabi H, Kamali-Asl AR, Ay MR and Zaidi H "Monte Carlo-based assessment of the trade-off between spatial resolution, field-of-view and scattered radiation in the variable resolution x-ray CT scanner" Phys Med Vol. 31, No. 5, pp 510-516 (2015).

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Blomberg BA, Bashyam A, Ramachandran A, Gholami S, Houshmand S, Salavati A, Werner T, Zaidi H and Alavi A "Quantifying [18F]-Fluorodeoxyglucose uptake in the arterial wall: The effect of dual time-point imaging and partial volume correction" Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging Vol. 42, No. 9, pp 1414-1422 (2015).

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Xie T, Lee C, Bolch WE and Zaidi H "Assessment of radiation dose in nuclear cardiovascular imaging using realistic computational models" Med Phys Vol. 42, No. 6, pp 2955-2966 (2015).

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Allali G, Garibotto V, Mainta IC, Armand S, Camicioli R, Ratib O, Zaidi H, Herrmann FR and Assal F "Dopaminergic denervation is not necessary to induce gait disorders in atypical parkinsonian syndrome" J Neurol Sci Vol. 351, No. 1-2, pp 127-132 (2015).

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Wissmeyer M, Delattre B, Zaidi H, Ratib O, and Terraz A "Yttrium-90 PET/MR based dosimetry after liver radioembolization (SIRT)" Clin Nucl Med Vol. 40, No. 4, pp 455-457 (2015).

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Arabi H, Rager O, Alem A, Varoquaux A, Becker M and Zaidi H "Clinical assessment of MR-guided 3-class and 4-class attenuation correction in PET/MR" Mol Imaging Biol Vol. 17, No. 2, pp 264-276 (2015).

Houshmand S, Salavati A, Hess S, Werner TJ, Alavi A and Zaidi H "An update on novel quantitative techniques in the context of evolving whole-body PET imaging" PET Clinics Vol. 10, No. 1, pp 45-58 (2015).

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Salavati A, Borofsky S, Teo B-J, Houshmand S, Khiewvan B, Saboury B, Codreanu I, Torigian D, Zaidi H and Alavi A "Application of partial volume effect correction and 4D PET in the quantification of FDG avid lung lesions" Mol Imaging Biol Vol. 17, No. 1, pp 140-148 (2015).

2014

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Xie T and Zaidi H "Fetal and maternal absorbed dose for positron-emitting molecular imaging probes" J Nucl Med Vol. 55, No 9, pp 1459-1466 (2014).
Suppl.

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Kotasidis FA, Matthews JC, Reader AJ, Angelis GI and Zaidi H "Application of adaptive kinetic modeling for bias propagation reduction in direct 4D image reconstruction" Phys Med Biol Vol. 59, No. 20, pp 6061-6084 (2014).

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Xie T and Zaidi H "Effect of respiratory motion on internal radiation dosimetry" Med Phys Vol. 41, No. 11, pp 112506-10 (2014).

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Kotasidis FA, Tsoumpas C, Polycarpou I and Zaidi H "A 5D computational phantom for pharmacokinetic simulation studies in dynamic emission tomography" Comput Med Imaging Graph Vol. 38, No. 8, pp 764-773 (2014).

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Ghafarian P, Ay MR, Fard-Esfahani A, Rahmim A and Zaidi H "Quantification of PET and CT misalignment errors due to bulk motion in cardiac PET/CT imaging: Phantom and clinical and studies" Frontiers in Biomedical Technologies Vol. 1, No. 3, pp 159-167 (2014).

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Kotasidis FA and Zaidi H "Experimental evaluation and basis function optimization of the spatially variant image-space PSF on the Ingenuity PET/MR scanner" Med Phys Vol. 41, No. 6, pp 062501-15 (2014).

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Kotasidis FA, Angelis GI, Anton-Rodriguez J, Matthews JC, Reader AJ and Zaidi H "Isotope specific resolution recovery image reconstruction in high resolution PET imaging" Med Phys Vol. 41, No. 5, pp 052503-11 (2014).

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Ay MR, Akbarzadeh A, Ahmadian and Zaidi H "Classification of bones from MR images in torso PET-MR imaging using a statistical shape model" Nucl Instrum Meth A Vol. 734 Part B, pp 196-200 (2014).

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Nelson J, Christianson O, Harkness B, Madsen M, Mah E, Thomas S, Zaidi H and Samei E "Improved nuclear medicine uniformity assessment using noise texture analysis" J Nucl Med Vol. 55, No 1, pp 169-174 (2014).

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Varoquaux A, Rager O, Delattre B, Dulguerov P, Poncet A, Ratib O, Becker CD, Zaidi H and Becker M "Lesion detection and FDG uptake quantification in head and neck tumors: PET/MR versus PET/CT" Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging Vol. 41, No 3, pp 462-475 (2014).

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Prasad R and Zaidi H "Scatter characterization and correction for simultaneous multiple small animal PET imaging" Mol Imaging Biol Vol. 16, No. 2, pp 199-209 (2014).

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Becker M and Zaidi H "Imaging in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: the potential role of PET/MRI" Br J Radiol Vol. 87, No. 1036, pp 20130677 (2014).

Best of British Journal of Radiology (BJR) 2014

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Xie T and Zaidi H "Evaluation of radiation dose to anthropomorphic paediatric models from positron-emitting labelled tracers" Phys Med Biol Vol. 59, No. 5, pp 1165-1187 (2014).

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Boivin G, Genoud V and Zaidi H "MRI-guided partial volume correction in brain PET imaging: Comparison of five algorithms" Frontiers in Biomedical Technologies (2014) Vol. 1, No. 2, pp 73-81 (2014).

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Ghadiri H, Shiran MB, Soltanian-Zadeh HR, Rahmim A, Zaidi H and Ay MR "Derivation of attenuation map for attenuation correction of PET data in the presence of nanoparticulate contrast agents using spectral CT imaging" Ann Nucl Med Vol. 28, No. 6, pp 559-570 (2014).

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Harnish R, Prevrhal S, Alavi A, Zaidi H and Lang T "The effect of metal artifact reduction on CT-based attenuation correction for PET imaging in the vicinity of metallic hip implants: A phantom study" Ann Nucl Med Vol. 28, No. 6, pp 540-550 (2014).

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Buchegger F, Garibotto V, Zilli T, Allainmat L, Jorcano S, Vees H, Rager O, Steiner C, Zaidi H, Seimbille Y, Ratib O, and Miralbell R "First imaging results of an intra-individual comparison of 11C-acetate and 18F-fluorocholine PET/CT for patients with prostate cancer at early biochemical first or second relapse after prostatectomy or radiotherapy" Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging Vol. 41 Part 1, pp 68-78 (2014).

2013

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Mehranian A, Ay MR, Rahmim A and Zaidi H "X-ray CT metal artifact reduction using wavelet domain L0 sparse regularization" IEEE Trans Med Imaging Vol. 32, No. 9, pp 1707-1722 (2013).

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Xie T and Zaidi H "Effect of emaciation and obesity on small animal internal radiation dosimetry for positron-emitting radionuclides" Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging Vol. 40, No. 11, pp 1748-1759 (2013).

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Torigian DA, Zaidi H, Kwee TC, Saboury B, Udupa J, Cho Z-H and Alavi A "PET-MRI: Technical aspects and potential clinical applications" Radiology Vol. 267, No. 1, pp 26-44 (2013).

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Zaidi H "A pivotal time for hybrid PET-MR imaging technology" J Am Coll Radiol Vol. 10, No. 11, pp 878-881 (2013).

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Xie T and Zaidi H "Monte Carlo-based evaluation of S-values in mouse models for positron-emitting radionuclides" Phys Med Biol Vol. 58, No 1, pp 169-182 (2013).
Suppl.

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Akbarzadeh A, Ay MR, A. Ahmadian A, Riahi Alam N, and Zaidi H "MRI-guided attenuation correction in whole-body PET/MR: Assessment of the effect of bone attenuation" Ann Nucl Med Vol. 27, No. 2, pp 152-162 (2013).

Frequently cited paper 2014 ‒ Annals of Nuclear Medicine

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Mehranian A, Rahmim A, Ay MR, Kotasidis F and Zaidi H "An ordered-subsets proximal preconditioned gradient algorithm for edge-preserving PET image reconstruction" Med Phys Vol. 40, No. 5, pp 052503-14 (2013).

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Rigaud G, Régnier R, Nguyen MK and Zaidi H "Combined modalities of Compton scattering tomography" IEEE Trans Nucl Sci Vol. 60, No. 1, pp 1570-1577 (2013).

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Akbarzadeh A, Gutierrez D, Baskin A, Ay MR, A. Ahmadian A, Riahi Alam N, Lövblad KO and Zaidi H "Evaluation of whole-body MR to CT deformable image registration" J Appl Clin Med Phys Vol. 14, No. 4, pp 238-253 (2013).

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Abdoli M, Dierckx RAJ and Zaidi H "Contourlet-based active contour model for PET image segmentation" Med Phys Vol. 40, No. 8, pp 082507-12 (2013).

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Kepe V, Moghbel M, Långström B, Zaidi H, Vinters H, Huang S-C, Satyamurthy N, Doudet D, Mishani E, Cohen R, Høilund-Carlsen P, Alavi A, Barrio J "β-Amyloid positron emission tomography imaging probes: A critical review" J Alzheimers Dis Vol. 36, No. 4, pp 613-631 (2013).

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Ghadiri H, Shiran MB, Soltanian-Zadeh HR, Ay MR and Zaidi H "Identification of multiple nanoparticulate contrast agents in spectral CT imaging using a K-edge ratio method" Br J Radiol Vol. 86, No. 1029, 20130308 (2013).

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Markel D, Zaidi H and El Naqa I "Novel multimodality segmentation using level sets and Jensen-Rényi divergence" Med Phys Vol. 40, No. 12, pp 121908-15 (2013).

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Xie T, Bolch WE, Lee C and Zaidi H "Pediatric radiation dosimetry for positron-emitting radionuclides using anthropomorphic phantoms" Med Phys Vol. 40, No. 10, pp 102502-14 (2013).

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Mehranian A, Saligheh Rad H, Rahmim A, Ay MR and Zaidi H "Smoothly clipped absolute deviation (SCAD) regularization for compressed sensing MRI using an augmented Lagrangian scheme " Magn Reson Imaging Vol. 31, No. 8, pp 1399-1411 (2013).

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Xie T and Zaidi H "Age-dependent small animal internal dosimetry" Mol Imaging Vol. 12, No. 6, pp 364-375 (2013).

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Mehranian A, Ay MR, Rahmim A and Zaidi H "3D prior image constrained projection completion for x-ray CT metal artifact reduction" IEEE Trans Nucl Sci Vol. 60, No. 5, pp 3318-3332 (2013).

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Zaidi H, Nkoulou R, Bond S, Baskin A, Schindler TH, Ratib O, and Declerck J "Computed tomography calcium score scan for attenuation correction of N-13 ammonia cardiac positron emission tomography: Effect of respiratory phase and registration method" Int J Cardiovasc Imaging Vol. 29, No. 6, pp 1351-1360 (2013).

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Xie T and Zaidi H "Assessment of S-values in stylized and voxel-based rat models for positron-emitting radionuclides" Mol Imaging Biol Vol. 15, No. 5, pp 542-551 (2013).

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Garibotto V, Heinzer S, Vulliemoz S, Guignard R, Wissmeyer M, Seeck M, Lovblad KO, Zaidi H, Ratib O, Vargas MI "Clinical applications of hybrid PET/MR in neuroimaging" Clin Nucl Med Vol. 38, No. 1, pp e13-e18 (2013).

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Pan T and Zaidi H "Attenuation correction strategies for PET/CT and 4D PET/CT" PET Clinics Vol. 8, No. 1, pp 37-50 (2013).

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Garibotto V, Tabouret-Viaud C, Rager O, Vulliemoz S, Delattre B, Haller S, Wissmeyer M, Seeck M, Lovblad KO, Zaidi H, Gold G, Ratib O, Zekry D and Vargas MI " TEP/IRM hybride en neuro-imagerie" Med Nucl Vol. 37, No. 10-11, pp 561-566 (2013).

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Rahmim A, Tang J and Zaidi H "Four-dimensional image reconstruction strategies in cardiac-gated and respiratory-gated PET imaging" PET Clinics Vol. 8, No. 1, pp 51-67 (2013)

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Ay MR, Mehranian A, Maleki A, Ghadiri H, Ghafarian P and Zaidi H "Experimental assessment of the influence of beam hardening filters on image quality and patient dose in volumetric 64-slice x-ray CT scanners" Phys Med Vol. 29, No. 3, pp 249-260 (2013)

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Senthamizhchelvan S and Zaidi H "Novel quantitative techniques in hybrid (PET-MR) imaging of brain tumors" PET Clinics Vol. 8, No. 2, pp 219-232 (2013).

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Garibotto V, Montandon ML, Tabouret-Viaud C, Allaoua M, Assal F, Burkhard PR, Ratib O, and Zaidi H "ROI-based discriminant analysis of DaTSCAN SPECT and FDG-PET for the classification of dementia " Clin Nucl Med Vol. 38, No. 3, pp e112-e117 (2013).

2012

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Gutierrez D and Zaidi H "Automated analysis of small animal PET studies through deformable registration to an Atlas" Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging Vol. 39, No. 11, pp 1807-1820 (2012)

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Zaidi H, Abdoli M, Llina-Fuentes CS and El Naqa I "Comparative methods for PET image segmentation in pharyngolaryngeal squamous cell carcinoma" Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging Vol. 39, No 5. pp 881-991 (2012)

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Prasad R and Zaidi H "A cone-shaped phantom for assessment of small animal PET scatter fraction and count rate performance" Mol Imaging Biol Vol. 14, No. 5, pp 561-571 (2012).

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Shepherd T, Teras M, Beichel RR, Boellaard R, Bruynooghe M, Dicken V, Gooding M, Julyan PJ, Lee J, Lefevre S, Mix M, Naranjo V, Wu X, Zaidi H, Zeng Z, Minn H "Comparative study with new accuracy metrics for target volume contouring in PET image guided radiation therapy " IEEE Trans Med Imaging Vol. 31, No 11, pp 2006-2024 (2012).

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Abdoli M, Dierckx RA, and Zaidi H "Metal artifact reduction for accurate attenuation correction in hybrid PET/CT imaging" Med Phys Vol. 39, No. 6, pp 3343-3360 (2012).

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Xie T, Liu Q, and Zaidi H "Evaluation of S-values and dose distributions for 90Y, 131I, 166Ho and 188Re in seven lobes of the rat liver" Med Phys Vol. 39, No. 3, pp 1462-1472 (2012).

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Sharif MS, Abbod M, Amira A and Zaidi H "Artificial neural network-statistical approach for PET volume analysis and classification" Advances in Fuzzy Systems Vol. 2012, Article ID 327861, 10 pages (2012).

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Teimourian B, Ay MR, Shamsaei-Zafarghandi M, P. Ghafarian, H. Ghadiri and Zaidi H "A novel energy mapping approach for CT-based attenuation correction in PET" Med Phys Vol. 39, No. 4, pp 2078-2089 (2012).

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Habibzadeh MA, Ay MR, Kamali Asl AR, Ghadiri H and Zaidi H "Impact of miscentering on patient dose and image noise in x-ray CT imaging: Phantom and clinical studies" Phys Med Vol. 28, No. 3, pp 191-199 (2012).

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Gutierrez D, Montandon M-L, Assal F, Allaoua M, Ratib O, Lövblad K-O, Zaidi H "Anatomically-guided voxel-based partial volume effect correction in brain PET: Impact of MRI segmentation" Comput Med Imaging Graph Vol. 36 No 8, pp 610-619 (2012).

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Ratib O, Lord M, Becker M, Viallon M, Vallee J-P, Loubeyre P, Willi J-P, Rager O, Garibotto V, Zaidi H, Fleury E, Figueral A, and Becker CD "Clinical applications of hybrid PET-MR" Med NuclVol. 36, No. 10, pp 605-614 (2012).

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Vees H, Casanova N, Zilli T, Imperiano H, Ratib O, Popowski Y, Wang H, Zaidi H, Miralbell R "Impact of 18F-FDG PET/CT on target volume delineation in recurrent or residual gynaecologic carcinoma" Radiat Oncol Vol. 7, 176 (2012).

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Teo B-K, Saboury B, Munbodh R, Scheuermann J, Torigian DA, Karp JS, Zaidi H and Alavi A "The effect of breathing irregularities on quantitative accuracy of respiratory gated PET∕CT" Med Phys Vol. 39, No. 12, pp 7390-7397 (2012).

2011

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Zaidi H, Ojha N, Morich M, Griesmer J, Hu Z, Maniawski P, Ratib O, Izquierdo D, Fayad Z, and Shao L "Design and performance evaluation of a whole-body Ingenuity TF PET–MRI system" Phys Med Biol Vol. 56, No. 10, pp 3091-3106 (2011).

Most cited PMB paper (2011-2013)

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Zaidi H and Del Guerra A "An outlook on future design of hybrid PET-MRI systems" Med Phys Vol. 38, No. 10, pp 5667–5689 (2011).

Cover page Med Phys, Vol. 38, No. 10
Selected to appear in October 2011 Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research Vol. 22, No. 7

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Gutierrez D and Zaidi H "Assessment of scatter for the micro-CT subsystem of the FLEX Triumph™ preclinical PET-CT scanner" Med Phys Vol. 38, No. 7, pp 4154-4165 (2011).

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Prasad R, Ratib O and Zaidi H "NEMA NU-04-based performance characteristics of the LabPET-8™ small animal PET scanner" Phys Med Biol Vol. 56, No. 20, pp 6649–6664 (2011).

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Abdoli M, de Jong JR, Pruim J, Dierckx RA, and Zaidi H "Reduction of artefacts caused by hip implants in CT-based attenuation corrected PET images using 2D interpolation of a virtual sinogram on an irregular grid" Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging Vol. 38, No. 12, pp 2257–2268 (2011).

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Arabi H, Kamali-Asl AR, Ay MR and Zaidi H "Novel detector design for reducing inter-cell x-ray cross-talk in the variable resolution x-ray CT scanner: A Monte Carlo study" Med Phys Vol. 38, No. 3, pp 1389-1396 (2011).

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Zeraatkar N, Ay MR, Kamali-Asl AR and Zaidi H "Accurate Monte Carlo modeling and performance assessment of the X-PET™ subsystem of the FLEX Triumph™ preclinical PET/CT scanner" Med Phys Vol. 38, No. 3, pp 1217-1225 (2011).

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Peguret N, Vock J, Vinh-Hung V, Genoglietto P, Azria D, Zaidi H, Wissmeyer M, Ratib O and Miralbell R. "Breathing adapted radiotherapy: a 4D gating software for lung cancer" Radiat Oncol Vol. 6, 78 (2011).

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Nguyen MK, Truong TT, Morvidone M and Zaidi H "Scattered radiation emission imaging: Principles and applications" Int J Biomed Imaging Vol. 2011, Article ID 913893, 15 pages (2011).

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Basu S, Zaidi H, Holm S and Alavi A "Quantitative techniques in PET-CT imaging" Curr Med Imag Rev Vol. 7, No. 3, pp 216-233 (2011).

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Zaidi H and Pan T "Recent advances in hybrid imaging for radiation therapy planning: The cutting edge" PET Clinics Vol. 6, No. 2, pp 207-226 (2011).

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Ay MR, Shirmohammad M, Rahmim A, Sarkar S and Zaidi H "Comparative assessment of energy mapping approaches in CT-based attenuation correction for PET" Mol Imag Biol Vol. 13, No. 1, pp 187-198 (2011).

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Ghafarian P, Aghamiri S.M.R, Ay MR, Rahmim A, Schindler TH, Ratib O and Zaidi H "Is metal artifact reduction mandatory in cardiac PET/CT imaging in the presence of pacemaker and implantable cardioverter defibrillator leads?" Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging Vol. 38, No. 2, pp 252-262 (2011).

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Prasad R, Ay MR, Ratib O and Zaidi H "CT-based attenuation correction on the FLEX Triumph™ preclinical PET/CT scanner" IEEE Trans Nucl Sci Vol. 58, No. 1, pp 66-75 (2011).

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Wissmeyer M, Heinzer S, Majno P, Buchegger F, Zaidi H, Garibotto V, Viallon M, Becker CD, Ratib O, and Terraz S "Yttrium-90 time of flight PET/MR on a hybrid scanner following liver radioembolisation (SIRT)" Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging Vol. 38, Vol. 38, No. 9, pp 1744-1745 (2011).

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Nambakhsh M-S, Ahmadian A and Zaidi H "A novel contextual-based multiple watermarking of PET images by patient ID and ECG signal" Comput Med Prog Biomed Vol. 104, No. 3, pp 418–425 (2011).

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Buchegger F, Ratib O, Willi J-P, Steiner C, Seimbille Y, Zaidi H, Graf V, Peter R and Jung M "[11C]acetate PET/CT visualizes skeletal muscle exercise participation, impaired function and recovery after hip arthroplasty: First results" Mol Imag Biol Vol. 13, No. 4, pp 793-799 (2011).

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Ay MR, Mehranian A, Abdoli M, Ghafarian P and Zaidi H "Qualitative and quantitative assessment of metal artefacts arising from implantable cardiac pacing devices in oncological PET/CT studies: A phantom study" Mol Imag Biol Vol. 13, No. 6, pp 1077–1087 (2011).

2010

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Prasad R, Ratib O and Zaidi H "Performance evaluation of the FLEX Triumph X-PET scanner using the National Electrical Manufacturers Association NU-04 standards" J Nucl Med Vol. 51, No. 10, pp 1608-1615 (2010).

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Zaidi H and El Naqa I "PET-guided delineation of radiation therapy treatment volumes: A survey of image segmentation techniques" Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging No. 11, pp 2165-2187 (2010).

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Sharif MS, Abbod M, Amira A and Zaidi H "Artificial neural network based system for PET volume segmentation" Int J Biomed Imaging Vol. 2010, 105610, 11 pages (2010).

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Vincenti G, Quercioli A, Zaidi H, Nkoulou R, Dewarrat S, Rager O, Ambrosio G, Seimbille Y, Mach F, Ratib O, Schindler TH "Radiation exposure of 13N-ammonia PET/CT for the combined evaluation of myocardial perfusion and coronary morphology in the identification of subclinical CAD" Nuklearmedizin Vol. 49, No. 5, pp 173-182 (2010).

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Abdoli M, Ay MR, Ahmadian A, Dierckx RA, and Zaidi H "Reduction of dental filling metallic artefacts in CT-based attenuation correction of PET data using weighted virtual sinograms optimized by a genetic algorithm" Med Phys Vol. 37, No. 12, pp 6166-6177 (2010).

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Ghafarian P, Aghamiri S.M.R, Ay MR, Fallahi B, Rahmim A, Schindler T, Ratib O and Zaidi H "Coronary calcium score scan-based attenuation correction in cardiovascular PET imaging" Nucl Med Comm Vol. 31, No 9, pp 780-787 (2010).

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Valenta I, Quercioli A, Vincenti GM, Nkoulou, Dewarrat S, Rager O, Zaidi H, Seimbille Y, Mach F, Ratib O, Schindler TH "Structural epicardial disease and microvascular function are determinants of an abnormal longitudinal myocardial blood flow difference in cardiovascular risk individuals as determined with PET/CT" J Nucl Cardiol Vol. 17, No. 6, pp 1023-1033 (2010).

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Morvidone M, Nguyen MK, Truong TT, and Zaidi H "On the V-line Radon transform and its imaging applications" Int J Biomed Imaging Vol. 2010, Article ID 208179, 6 pages (2010).

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Lucignani G and Zaidi H "PET-guided prostate cancer radiotherapy: technological innovations for dose delivery optimization" Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging Vol. 37, No. 7, pp 1426-1429 (2010).

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Akbarzadeh A, Ay MR, Ghadiri H, Sarkar S and Zaidi H "Measurement of scattered radiation in a volumetric 64-slice CT scanner using three experimental techniques", Phys Med Biol Vol. 55, No. 8, pp 2269-2280 (2010).

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Belhassen S and Zaidi H "A novel fuzzy C-means algorithm for unsupervised heterogeneous tumor quantification in PET" Med Phys Vol. 37, No. 3, pp 1309-1324 (2010).

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Akbarzadeh A, Ay MR, Ghadiri H, Sarkar S and Zaidi H "A new method for experimental characterization of scattered radiation in 64-slice CT scanner" Biomed Imaging Interv J Vol. 5, No. 1, e3 (2010).

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Zaidi H, Montandon ML and Assal F "Structure-function based quantitative brain image analysis" PET Clin Vol. 5, No. 2, pp 155-168 (2010).

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Mehranian A, Ay MR, Riahi Alam N and Zaidi H "Quantifying the effect of anode surface roughness on diagnostic x-ray spectra using Monte Carlo simulation" Med Phys Vol. 37, No. 2, pp 742-752 (2010).

Selected to appear in February 2011Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research Vol. 19, No. 3

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Abdoli M, Ay MR, Ahmadian A and Zaidi H "A virtual sinogram method to reduce dental metallic implant artefacts in CT-based attenuation correction for PET" Nucl Med Comm Vol. 30, No. 1, pp 22-31 (2010).

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Zaidi H, Montandon ML and Alavi A "The clinical role of fusion imaging using PET, CT and MRI" Magn Reson Imaging Clin N Am Vol. 18, No. 1, pp 133-149 (2010).

2009

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Zaidi H and Thompson CJ "Evolution and developments in instrumentation for Positron Emission Mammography" Vol. 4, No. 4, pp 317-327 (2009).

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Zaidi H and Tsui BMW "Review of anthropomorphic computational anatomical and physiological models" Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 97, No. 12, pp 1938-1953 (2009).

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Wang H, Vees H, Miralbell R, Wissmeyer M, Steiner C, Ratib O, Senthamizhchelvan S and Zaidi H "18F-choline PET-based target volume delineation techniques for partial prostate reirradiation in local recurrent prostate cancer" Radiother Oncol Vol. 93, No. 2, pp 220-225 (2009).

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Weber DC, Wang H, Cozzi L, Di Pasquale G, Khan HG, Ratib O, Rouzaud M, Vees H, Zaidi H and Miralbell R "RapidArc, intensity modulated photon and proton techniques for Radiation treatment for recurrent prostate cancer after radiotherapy: A treatment planning comparison study" Radiat Oncol Vol. 4, 34 (2009).

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Rahmim A, Tang J and Zaidi H "Four-dimensional (4-D) image reconstruction strategies in dynamic PET: beyond conventional independent frame reconstruction" Med Phys Vol. 36, No. 8, pp 3654-3670 (2009).

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Zaidi H, Vees H and Wissmeyer M "Molecular PET/CT imaging-guided radiation therapy treatment planning" Acad Radiol Vol. 16, No. 9, pp 1108-1133 (2009).

Followed with a special Editorial on medicalphysicsweb

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Nguyen MK, Truong TT, Driol, C and Zaidi H "On a novel approach to Compton scattered emission imaging" IEEE Trans Nucl Sci Vol 56, No. 3, pp 1430-1437 (2009).

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Zaidi H and Prasad R "Advances in multimodality molecular imaging" J Med Phys Vol. 34, No. 3, pp 122-128 (2009).

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Vees H, Senthamizhchelvan S, Miralbell R, Weber DC, Ratib O and Zaidi H "Assessment of various strategies for delineation of target volumes in 18F-FET PET studies of high-grade glioma patients" Eur. J. Nucl. Med. Mol. Imaging Vol. 36, No. 2, pp 182-193 (2009).

Followed with a special Editorial Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging Vol. 36, p 180-181 (2009).

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Steiner C, Vees H, Zaidi H, Wissmeyer M, Berrebi O, Kossovsky MP, Khan HG, Miralbell R, Ratib O and Buchegger F "Three-phase 18F-fluorocholine PET/CT in the evaluation of prostate cancer recurrence" Nuklearmedizin Vol. 48, No. 1, pp 1-9 (2009).

2008

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Weber DC, Zilli T, Buchegger F, Casanova N, Haller G, Rouzaud M, Nouet P, Dipasquale G, Ratib O, Zaidi H, Vees H, and Miralbell R "18F-Fluoroethyltyrosine Positron Emission Tomography-guided radiotherapy for high-grade glioma" Radiat Oncol Vol. 3, 44 (2008).

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Zaidi H, Montandon ML and Alavi A "The clinical role of fusion imaging using PET, CT and MRI" PET Clin Vol. 3, No. 3, pp 275-291 (2008).

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Stout DB and Zaidi H "Preclinical multimodality imaging in vivo" PET Clin Vol. 3, No. 4, pp 251-273 (2008).

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Lemmens C, Montandon M-L, Nuyts J, Ratib O, Dupont P and Zaidi H "Impact of metal artefacts due to EEG electrodes in brain PET/CT imaging" Phys. Med. Biol. Vol. 53, No. 16, pp 4417-4429 (2008).

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Ahmadian A, Ay MR, Bidgoli JH, Sarkar S and Zaidi H "Correction of oral contrast artefacts in CT-based attenuation correction of PET images using an automated segmentation algorithm" Eur. J. Nucl. Med. Mol. Imaging Vol. 35, No. 10, pp 1812-1823 (2008).

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Zaidi H "Medical physics in developing countries: Looking for a better world" Biomed. Imaging Interv. J. Vol. 4, No 1, e29 (2008).

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Nguyen MK, Driol C, Truong TT and Zaidi H "Towards a new concept for high sensitivity Compton scatter emission imaging" J. Europ. Opt. Soc. Rap. Public. Vol. 3, 08010 (2008).

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Rahmim A and Zaidi H "PET versus SPECT: strengths, limitations and challenges" Nucl. Med. Commun. Vol. 29, No. 3, pp 193-207 (2008).

2007

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Zaidi H and Alavi A "Current trends in clinical PET and combined (PET/CT and PET/MR) systems design" PET Clin. Vol. 2, No 2, pp 109-123 (2007).

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Levin CS and Zaidi H "Current trends in preclinical PET system design" PET Clin. Vol. 2, No 2, pp 125-160 (2007).

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Zaidi H and Montandon M-L "Scatter compensation techniques in PET" PET Clin. Vol. 2, No 2, pp 219-234 (2007).

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Zaidi H, Montandon M-L and Alavi A "Advances in attenuation correction techniques in PET" PET Clin. Vol. 2, No 2, pp 191-217 (2007).

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Rahmim A, Rousset OG and Zaidi H "Strategies for motion tracking and correction in PET" PET Clin. Vol. 2, No 2, pp 251-266 (2007).

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Bentourkia M and Zaidi H "Tracer kinetic modeling in PET" PET Clin. Vol. 2, No 2, pp 267-277 (2007).

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Reader AJ and Zaidi H "Advances in PET image reconstruction" PET Clin. Vol. 2, No 2, pp 173-190 (2007).

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Rousset OG, Rahmim A, Alavi A and Zaidi H "Strategies for partial volume correction in PET" PET Clin. Vol. 2, No 2, pp 235-249 (2007).

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Basu S, Zaidi H and Alavi A "Clinical and research applications of quantitative PET imaging" PET Clin. Vol. 2, No 2, pp 161-172 (2007).

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Basu S, Zaidi H and Alavi A "New concepts for assessing global organ function and disease activity based on combined PET and structural imaging techniques" PET Clin. Vol. 2, No 2, pp 279-287 (2007).

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Zaidi H, Montandon M-L and Meikle SR "Strategies for attenuation compensation in neurological PET studies" Neuroimage Vol. 34, No 2, pp 518-541 (2007).

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Montandon M-L and Zaidi H "Quantitative analysis of template-based attenuation compensation in 3D brain PET" Comput Med Imaging Graph Vol. 31, No 1, pp 28-38 (2007).

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Ay MR and Zaidi H "Impact of x-ray tube settings and metallic leads on neurological PET imaging when using CT-based attenuation correction" Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A Vol. 571, No 1-2, pp 411-414 (2007).

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Albrecht S, Buchegger F, Soloviev D, Zaidi H, Vees H, Khan H, Keller A, Bischof-Delaloye A, Ratib O and Miralbell R "¹¹C-acetate PET in the early evaluation of prostate cancer recurrence" Eur. J. Nucl. Med. Mol. Imaging Vol 34, No 2, pp 185-196 (2007).

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Montgomery DW, Amira A and Zaidi H "Fully automated segmentation of oncological PET volumes using a combined mutiscale and statistical model" Med. Phys. Vol. 34, No 2, pp 722-736 (2007).

Recipient of 2008 Varian Prize awarded by the Swiss Society of Radiobiology and Medical Physics for the best paper impacting Radiation Oncology.

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Basu S, Zaidi H, Houseni M, Udupa JK, Acton PD, Torigian DA and Alavi A "Novel quantitative techniques for assessing regional and global function and structure based on modern imaging modalities: Implications for normal variation, aging and diseased states" Sem. Nucl. Med. Vol. 37, No. 3, pp 223-239 (2007).

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Truong TT, Nguyen MK and Zaidi H "The mathematical foundations of Compton scatter emission imaging" Int. J. Biomed. Imaging. Vol. 2007, Article ID 92780, 11 pages, doi:10.1155/2007/92780 (2007).

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Zaidi H and Mawlawi O "Simultaneous PET/NMR will replace PET/CT as the molecular multimodality imaging platform of choice" Med. Phys. Vol. 34, No. 5, pp 1525-1528 (2007).

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Vees H, Buchegger F, Albrecht S, Kahn H, Husarik D, Zaidi H, Soloviev D, Hani T, and Miralbell R "F-choline and ¹¹C-acetate PET in patients with PSA <1ng/ml after radical prostatectomy and high risk of recurrence: A comparative assessment" BJU Int. Vol. 99, No. 6, pp 1415-1420 (2007).

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Nguyen MK, Truong TT, Delarbre JL, Roux Ch and Zaidi H "Novel approach to stationary transmission scanning using Compton scattered radiation" Phys. Med. Biol. Vol. 52, No. 15, pp 4615-4632 (2007).

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Zaidi H and Xu XG "Computational anthropomorphic models of the human anatomy:The path to realistic Monte Carlo modeling in radiological sciences" Annu. Rev. Biomed. Eng. Vol. 9, pp 471-500 (2007).

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Zaidi H and Ay MR "Current status and new horizons in Monte Carlo simulation of x-ray CT scanners" Med. Biol. Eng. Comput. Vol. 45, No. 9, pp 809-817 (2007).

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Zaidi H "Optimization of whole-body PET/CT scanning protocols" Biomed. Imaging Interv. J. Vol. 3, No 2, e36 (2007).

2006

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Zaidi H and Montandon M-L "The new challenges of brain PET imaging technology" Curr. Med. Imag. Rev. Vol 2, No 1, pp 3-13 (2006).

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Zaidi H "Recent developments and future trends in nuclear medicine instrumentation" Z. Med. Phys. Vol 16, No 1, pp 5-17 (2006).

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Ay MR and Zaidi H "Computed Tomography-based attenuation correction in neurological PET: evaluation of the effect of x-ray tube voltage on quantitative analysis" Nucl. Med. Commun. Vol 27, No 4, pp 339-346 (2006).

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Dragone A, Corsi F, Marzocca C, Losito P, Pasqua S, Nappi E, De Leo R, Séguinot J, Braem A, Chesi E, Joram C, Weilhammer P, Garibaldi F and Zaidi H "An event driven read-out system for a novel PET scanner with Compton-enhanced 3D gamma reconstruction" IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. Vol 53, No 3, pp 1156-1161 (2006).

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Vilardi I, Braem A, Chesi E, Ciocia F, Colonna N, Corsi F, Cusanno F, De Leo R, Dragone A, Garibaldi F, Joram C, Lagamba L, Marrone S, Nappi E, Seguinot J, Tagliente G, Valentini A, Weilhammer P and Zaidi H "Optimization of the effective light attenuation length of YAP:Ce and LYSO:Ce crystals for a novel geometrical PET concept" Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A Vol 564, No 4, pp 506-514 (2006).

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Ay MR and Zaidi H "Assessment of errors caused by x-ray scatter and use of contrast medium when using CT-based attenuation correction in PET" Eur. J. Nucl. Med. Mol. Imaging Vol 33, No 11, pp 1301-1313 (2006).

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Zaidi H, Ruest T, Schoenahl F, Montandon M-L "Comparative assessment of brain MR image segmentation algorithms and their impact on partial volume correction in PET" Neuroimage Vol 32, No 4, pp 1591-1607 (2006).

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Séguinot J, Braem A, Chesi E, Joram C, Mathot S, Weilhammer P, Chamizo Llatas M, Correia JG, Ribeiro da Silva M, Garibaldi F, De Leo R, Nappi E, Corsi F, Dragone A, Schoenahl F and Zaidi H "Novel geometrical concept of high performance brain PET scanner – Principle, design and performance estimates" Nuovo Cimento C Vol 29, No 4, pp 429-463 (2006).

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Boudraa AE, Cexus J-C and Zaidi H "Functional segmentation of dynamic nuclear medicie images by cross-y_B-energy operator" Comput. Meth. Prog. BioMed. Vol. 84, No 2-3, pp 146-152 (2006).

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Toso C, Zaidi H, Morel P, Armanet M, Wojtusciszyn A, Mai G, Baertschiger R,Serre Beinier V, Bühler LH, Bosco D, Berney T, "Assessment of ¹⁸F-FDG Leucocyte imaging to monitor rejection after pancreatic islet transplantation", Transplantation Proceedings Vol. 38, No 9, pp 3033-3034 (2006).

2005

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Toso C, Zaidi H, Morel P, Armanet M, Andres A, Pernin N, Baertschiger R, Slosman DO, Bühler L, Bosco D, Berney T, "Positron-emission tomography imaging of early events after transplantation of islets of Langerhans", Transplantation Vol 79, No 3, pp 353-355 (2005).

Recipient of 2005 Marti Prize awarded by the Department of Surgery, Geneva University Hospital

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Montandon M-L and Zaidi H "Atlas-guided non-uniform attenuation correction in cerebral 3D PET imaging" Neuroimage Vol 25, No 1, pp 278-286 (2005).

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Ay MR, Sarkar S, Shahriari M, Sardari D and Zaidi H, "Assessment of different computational models for generation of x-ray spectra in diagnostic radiology and mammography" Med. Phys. Vol 32, No 6, pp 1660-1675 (2005).

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Ay MR and Zaidi H, "Development and validation of MCNP4C-based Monte Carlo simulator for fan- and cone-beam x-ray CT" Phys. Med. Biol. Vol 50, No 20, pp 4863-4885 (2005).

2004

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Zaidi H, M-L Montandon and D. O. Slosman "Attenuation compensation in cerebral 3D PET: effect of the attenuation map on absolute and relative quantitation" Eur. J. Nucl. Med. Mol. Imaging Vol 31, No 1, pp 52-63 (2004).

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Zaidi H, Sossi V "Correction for image degrading factors is essential for accurate quantification of brain function using PET" Med. Phys. Vol 30, No 3, pp 423-426 (2004).

Selected to appear in February 2004 Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research, Vol. 7, No. 4

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Zaidi H and Koral KF, "Satter modelling and compensation in emission tomography" Eur. J. Nucl. Med. Mol. Imaging Vol 31, No 5, pp 761-782 (2004).

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Braem A , M Chamizo Llatas, E Chesi, JG Correia, F Garibaldi, C Joram, S Mathot, E Nappi, Ribiero Da Silva M, F Schoenahl, J Séguinot, P Weilhammer and Zaidi H, "Feasibility of a novel design of high-resolution parallax-free Compton enhanced PET scanner dedicated to brain research" Phys. Med. Biol. Vol 49, No 12, pp 2547-2562 (2004).

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Braem A, Chamizo Llatas M, Chesi E, Colonna N, Cusanno R, De Leo R, Garibaldi F, Joram C, Marrone S, Mathot S, Nappi E, Schoenahl F, Séguinot J, Weilhammer P and Zaidi H, "Novel design of a parallax free Compton enhanced PET scanner" Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A Vol 525, No 1-2, pp 268-274 (2004).

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Ay MR, Shahriari M, Sarkar S, Adib M and Zaidi H, "Monte Carlo simulation of x-ray spectra in diagnostic radiology and mammography using MCNP4C" Phys. Med. Biol. Vol 29, No 21, pp 4897-4917 (2004).

2003

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Zaidi H and B H Hasegawa "Determination of the attenuation map in emission tomography" J. Nucl. Med. Vol 44, No 2, pp 291-315 (2003)

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Zaidi H, M-L Montandon and D. O. Slosman "Magnetic resonance imaging-guided attenuation and scatter corrections in three-dimensional brain positron emission tomography" Med. Phys. Vol 30, No 5, pp 937-948 (2003).
Selected to appear in May 2003 Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research, Vol. 5, No. 9

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M-L Montandon, D O Slosman and Zaidi H "Assessment of the impact of model-based scatter correction on ¹⁸F-[FDG] 3D brain PET in healthy subjects using statistical parametric mapping" Neuroimage Vol 20, No 3, pp 1848-1856 (2003).

2002

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Zaidi H, M Diaz-Gomez, A Boudraa, DO Slosman "Fuzzy clustering-based segmented attenuation correction in whole-body PET imaging" Phys. Med. Biol. Vol 47, No 7, pp 1143-1160 (2002)

Recipient of 2003 Varian Prize awarded by the Swiss Society of Radiobiology and Medical Physics for the best paper impacting Radiation Oncology

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Zaidi H and M-L Montandon, "Which attenuation coefficient to use in combined attenuation and scatter corrections for quantitative brain SPECT?" Eur. J. Nucl. Med. Mol. Imaging Vol 29, No 7, pp 927-929 (2002)

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Zaidi H "Strategies for development and evaluation of scatter correction techniques in positron emission tomography" Med. Imag. Int. Vol 12, No 5, pp 7-12 (2002)

2001

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Zaidi H "Reconstruction-based estimation of the scatter component in positron emission tomography" Ann. Nucl. Med. Sci. Vol 14, No 3, pp 161-171 (2001).

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Zaidi H "Scatter modelling and correction strategies in fully 3D PET" Nucl. Med. Comm. Vol 22, No 11, pp 1181-1184 (2001).

2000

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Zaidi H "Addendum to Relevance of accurate Monte Carlo modeling in nuclear medical imaging" Med. Phys. Vol 27, No 4, pp 816-817 (2000).

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Zaidi H "Comparative evaluation of photon cross section libraries for materials of interest in PET Monte Carlo simulations" IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. Vol 47, No 6, pp 2722-2735 (2000).

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Zaidi H "Comparative evaluation of scatter correction techniques in 3D positron emission tomography" Eur. J. Nucl. Med. Vol 27, No 12, pp 1813-1826 (2000).

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Zaidi H "Object-oriented programming environments: a promising tool for biomedical imaging research" Pol. J. Med. Phys. Eng. Vol 6, No 2, pp 71-89 (2000).

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Chval J, D Clement, J Giba. J Hybler, J-F Loude, J A Mares, E Mihokova, C Morel, N Nejezchleb, M Nikl, A Vedda, Zaidi H "Development of new mixed Lu_x(RE³⁺)_1-xAP:Ce scintillators (RE³⁺ =Y³⁺ or Gd³⁺): Comparison with other Ce-doped or intrinsic scintillation crystals" Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A Vol 443, No 2-3, pp 331-341 (2000).

1999

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Zaidi H, AK. Hermann Scheurer and C. Morel "An Object-Oriented Monte Carlo Simulator for 3D Cylindrical PET Tomographs" Comput. Meth. Prog. Biomed. Vol 58, No 2, pp 133-145 (1999).

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Zaidi H "Relevance of accurate Monte Carlo modeling in nuclear medical imaging" Med. Phys. Vol 26, No 4, pp 574-608 (1999)
Selected to appear in 2000 Mosby-Year Book of Nuclear Medicine

1998

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Zaidi H, C. Labbe, and C. Morel "Implementation of a Monte Carlo simulation environment for fully 3D PET on a high performance parallel platform" Parallel Computing Vol 24 No 9-10, pp 1523-1536 (1998)

1997

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Zaidi H "Reflections on International Collaboration in Medical Physics". Phys. Med. Vol. XIII, Supplement 1, pp 417-419 (1997).

1996

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Zaidi H "Organ volume estimation using SPECT" IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. Vol 43, No. 3, pp 2174-2182 (1996).

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Zaidi H "Quantitative SPECT: Recent developments in detector response, attenuation and scatter correction techniques" Phys. Med. Vol. XII, No. 3, pp 101-117 (1996).

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Zaidi H "Assessment of thyroid volume with pinhole emission computed tomography" Phys. Med. Vol. XII, No. 2, pp 97-100 (1996).

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Zaidi H "Comparative methods for quantifying thyroid volume using planar imaging and SPECT" J. Nucl. Med. Vol 37, No.8, pp 1421-1426 (1996)
Selected to appear in 1998 Mosby Year Book of Nuclear Medicine

Guest Editorials

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Zaidi H, Surti S and Alavi A "Innovations in organ-specific PET instrumentation: Quo Vadis" PET Clin Vol. 18, No 1, pp xi-xii (2024).

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Zanca F, Avanzo M, Colgan N, Crijns W, Guidi G, Hernandez-Giron I, Kagadis GC, Diaz O, Zaidi H, Russo P, Toma-Dasu I, M. Kortesniemi "Focus Issue: Artificial intelligence in medical physics" Phys Med Vol. 83, pp 287-291 (2021).

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Abdollahi H, Atashzar M, Shiri I, Rahmim A and Zaidi H "A theranostic approach based on radiolabeled antiviral drugs, antibodies and CRISPR associated proteins for early detection and treatment of SARS-CoV-2 disease" Nucl Med Comm Vol. 41, No. 9, pp 837-840 (2020).

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Zaidi H, Torigian D and Alavi A "Recent advances in imaging with PET, CT and MRI techniques" PET Clinics Vol. 15, No. 4, pp xv-xvi (2020).

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Zaidi H and Nkoulou R "Artifact-free quantitative cardiovascular PET/MR imaging: An impossible dream?" J Nucl Cardiol Vol. 26, No. 4, pp 1119-1121 (2019).

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Nkoulou R and Zaidi H "Does Simplified quantitative analysis of 18F-FDG-PET in cardiac inflammatory disease work?" J Nucl Cardiol Vol. 26, No. 3, pp 919-921 (2019).

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Zaidi H "Innovation in nuclear medicine instrumentation: Looking back and moving forward" Br J Radiol Vol. 91, No. 1081, pp 20170871 (2018).

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Torigian D, Kjaer A, Zaidi H and Alavi A "PET/MRI: Clinical applications" PET Clinics Vol. 11, No. 4, pp xi-xii (2016).

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Zaidi H "PET/MR Imaging: Advances in instrumentation and quantitative procedures" PET Clinics Vol. 11, No. 2, pp xiii-xiv (2016).

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Basu S, Zaidi H, Salavati A, Hess S, Flemming Høilund Carlsen P, Alavi A "FDG-PET/CT methodology for evaluation of treatment response in Lymphoma: From “graded visual analysis” and “Semiquantitative SUVmax” to global disease burden assessment" Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging Vol. 41, No. 11, pp 2158-2160 (2014).

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Zaidi H and Alavi A "Trends in PET quantification: Opportunities and challenges " Clin Trans Imaging Vol. 2, No. 3, pp 183-185 (2014).

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Kwee TC and Zaidi H "Guest Editorial" PET Clinics Vol. 8, No. 3, pp xi-xii (2013).

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Zaidi H and Teo K "Guest Editorial" PET Clinics Vol. 2, No 1, pp ix-x (2013).

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Zaidi H and Tsui BMW "Computational anthropomorphic anatomical models" Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 97, No. 12, pp 1935-1937 (2009).

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Zaidi H "Navigating beyond the 6th dimension: A challenge in the era of multi-parametric molecular imaging" Eur. J. Nucl. Med. Mol. Imaging Vol. 36, No. 7, pp 1025-1028 (2009).

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Zaidi H and El Fakhri G "Is absolute quantification of dopaminergic neurotransmission studies with 123I SPECT ready for clinical use?" Eur. J. Nucl. Med. Mol. Imaging Vol. 35, No. 7, pp 1330-1333 (2008).

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Zaidi H "Is MR-guided attenuation correction a viable option for dual-modality PET/MR imaging?" Radiology Vol 244, No. 3, pp 639-642 (2007).

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Zaidi H and Alavi A "Guest Editorial" PET Clin. Vol. 2, No 2, pp xi-xiv (2007).

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Zaidi H "Is radionuclide transmission scanning obsolete for dual-modality PET/CT systems?" Eur. J. Nucl. Med. Mol. Imaging Vol 34, No. 6, pp 815-818 (2007).

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Zaidi H "Medical Image Segmentation: Quo Vadis" Comput. Meth. Prog. BioMed. Vol. 84, No 2-3, pp 63-65 (2006).

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Zaidi H "The quest for the ideal anato-molecular imaging fusion tool" Biomed. Imaging Interv. J. Vol. 2, No 4, e47 (2006).

Non-reviewed publications

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Zaidi H and Alavi A (2017) "In Memoriam: Hussein M. Abdel-Dayem, MD 1934-2017" J Nucl Med Vol. 58, No. 6, pp 18N.

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Abdel-Dayem E, Collier D, Elgazzar A, Larson S, Freeman L, Alavi A, Omar W and Zaidi H (2017) "Loss of a Pioneer: Hussein Abdel-Dayem, MD 1934-2017" World J Nucl MedVol. 16, No. 4, pp 255-256.

Zaidi H "Advances in hybrid PET-MR imaging" Diagnostic Imaging Europe Vol. 24, No. 2, pp 24-26 (2013).

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"PET/MR: Birth of a New Modality". Cardiovascular Business (2010).

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Séguinot J, Braem A, Chesi E, Joram C, Mathot S, Weilhammer P, Chamizo Llatas M, Correia JG, Ribeiro da Silva M, Garibaldi F, De Leo R, Nappi E, Corsi F, Dragone A, Schoenahl F and Zaidi H "Novel geometrical concept of high performance brain PET scanner: Principle, design and performance estimates" CERN preprint CERN-PH-EP-2004-05 (2004).

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Zaidi H and M-L Montandon "Functional brain imaging with SPECT and PET". Global Health Care, January Vol. 1 (2002) pp 59-61.

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M-L Montandon and Zaidi H "Perspectives in quantitative brain imaging". Global Health Care, Vol. 3 (2002) pp 71-73.

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Zaidi H, "Medical Physics in Algeria". Medical Physics World, Vol. 13, No. 2, December (1997) pp 23.

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Zaidi H, "Medical Physics on the Internet and the World-Wide Web: an overview". SCOPE, Vol. 6, No. 1, March (1997) pp 31- 35.

Refeered conference proceedings

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Zaidi H and H. Merdas "Steps towards quantification of SPECT images by computer simulation". In Proceedings of the International Conference of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Oran, ALGERIA, pp 100-105 (1994).

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Zaidi H "Monte Carlo modeling: Applications in Positron Emission Tomography" In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Applied Mathematics, University of Kuwait, Kuwait, pp 533-539 (1996).

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Zaidi H "Reflections on International Collaboration in Medical Physics". Proceedings of the V International Conference on Applications of Physics in Medicine and Biology. Trieste, ITALY; 2-6 September 1996.

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Zaidi H "Medical Imaging: Current status and future perspectives". Conf. Record, The International Conference on the Arab World and the Society of Information. Tunis, TUNISIA 4-8 May 1997 pp 1-21 (1997) Invited Talk

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Zaidi H, AK. Hermann Scheurer and C. Morel "Development of an Object-Oriented Monte Carlo simulator for 3D Positron Tomography". Conf. Record of 1997 International Meeting on Fully Three-dimensional Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Pittsburgh, USA 25-28 June 1997, pp 176-179 (1997).

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Zaidi H, C. Labbe, and C. Morel, "Improvement of the performance and accuracy of PET Monte Carlo simulations" Conf. Proc. SPIE's International Symposium on Medical imaging, San Diego, USA 20-26 February 1999, Ed. J. M. Boone and J. T. Dobbins, Vol 3659, pp 582-593 (1998).

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Labbe C, K. Thielemans, D. Belluzzo, V. Bettinardi, M.C. Gilardi, D.S. Hague, M. Jacobson, S. Kaiser, R. Levkovitz, T. Margalit, G. Mitra, C. Morel, T. Spinks, P. Valente, Zaidi H, A. Zverovich "An object-Oriented Library for 3D PET Reconstruction using Parallel Computing". Conf. Proc Image Processing in Medicine Conference, Heidelberg, Germany, 4-5 March 1999. in Informatik aktuell, Springer, Eds. H. Evers, G. Glombitza, T. Lehmann, H.-P. Meinzer. pp 268-272 (1999)

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Labbe C, K. Thielemans, Zaidi H, C. Morel, "An object-Oriented Library incorporating efficient projector/backprojector operators for 3D PET Reconstruction". Conf. Proc. 3D'99 meeting on Three-dimensional Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands, 23-26 June 1999, pp 137-140 (1999).

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Zaidi H "Statistical reconstruction-based scatter correction: a new method for 3D PET" Oral presentation at The World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Chicago, USA 23-28 July 2000. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE, Vol. 1, pp 86 -89 (2000)

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Zaidi H, M Diaz-Gomez, A Boudraa, DO Slosman "Attenuation correction for whole-body PET imaging using automated fuzzy clustering-based segmentation method" to appear in Proc 2001 Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, San Diego, USA 04-10 November 2001, Vol. 4, pp 2100 -2104 (2001)

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Zaidi H, M-L Montandon, DO Slosman, "Comparison of five attenuation correction schemes in cerebral 3D positron emission tomography”. 2nd European Medical & Biological Engineering Conference (EMBEC'02), Vienna (Austria), December 04-08, 2002 ISSN 1680-0737, ISBN 3-901351-62-0, Vol. 3, pp 868-869.

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Zaidi H, "Monte Carlo techniques in diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine". (Invited) Standards and Codes of Practice in Medical Radiation Dosimetry, ISBN 92-0-111403-6 Proc. of an International Symposium, Vienna, Austria (IAEA), 25-28 November 2002, Vol. 2, pp 29-44.

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Schoenahl F, Montandon M-L, Slosman DO, Zaidi H "Assessment of the performance of SPM analysis in PET neuroactivation studies: A Monte Carlo investigation" Conf. Proc. 3D'03 meeting on Fully Three-dimensional Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Saint Malo, France, 29 June - 4 July 2003 Available on CD-Rom.

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Zaidi H, Montandon M-L, Slosman DO, "Impact of the attenuation map on relative and absolute quantitation in 3D brain PET: assessment of 6 different methods" Conf. Proc. 3D'03 meeting on Fully Three-dimensional Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Saint Malo, France, 29 June - 4 July 2003 Available on CD-Rom.

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M Chamizo Llatas, A Braem, E Chesi, C Joram, S Mathot, J Séguinot, P Weilhammer, F Garibaldi, E Nappi, F Schoenahl and Zaidi H "High-resolution 3D brain PET with hybrid photon detectors" Conf. Proc. of the 8th ICATPP Conference on Astroparticle, Particle, Space Physics, Detectors and Medical Physics Applications, 6-10th October 2003, Villa Erba (Italy), World Scientific, pp 391-395.

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A Braem, M Chamizo Llatas, E Chesi, F Garibaldi, C Joram, S Mathot, E Nappi, F Schoenahl, J Séguinot, P Weilhammer and Zaidi H, "Novel design of high-resolution parallax-free Compton enhanced PET scanner dedicated to brain research" Conf. Proc. of the First International meeting on Applied Physics, 15-18th October 2003, Badajoz (Spain) pp 86-87.

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Toso C, Zaidi H, Morel P, Armanet M, Andres A, Pernin N, Baertschiger R, Bühler L, Bosco D, Slosman D, Berney T, "Imaging of early post-islet transplant events by positron emission tomography (PET)", Proc. XXth International Congress of the Transplantation Society, 5-10 September 2004, Vienna, Austria. Transplantation 78(2) Supplement 1: pp 441.

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Ay MR, Sarkar S, Shahriari M, Sardari D and Zaidi H "Comparative assessment of different computational models for generation of x-ray spectra in diagnostic radiology and mammography", (2004) Proceedings of IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Rome, Italy, 19-22 October 2004; Vol 5, pp 4190- 4194.

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Schoenahl F and Zaidi H "Towards optimal model-based partial volume effect correction in oncological PET imaging", (2004) Proceedings of IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Rome, Italy, 19-22 October 2004; Vol 7, pp 3177- 3181.

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Vilardi I, Ciocia F, Colonna N, De Leo R, Lagamba L, Marrone S, Nappi E, Tagliente G, Valentini A, Braem A, Chesi E, Joram C, Seguinot J, Weilhammer P, Corsi F, Dragone A, Cusanno F, Garibaldi F and Zaidi H "Optimization of the effective light attenuation length of YAP:Ce and LYSO:Ce crystals for a novel geometrical PET concept" (2004) Proceedings of IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Rome, Italy, 19-22 October 2004; Vol 5, pp 2859- 2863.

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Dragone A, Corsi F, Marzocca C, Losito P, Pasqua S, Nappi E, De Leo R, Séguinot J, Braem A, Chesi E, Joram C, Weilhammer P, Garibaldi F and Zaidi H "An event driven read-out system for a novel PET scanner with Compton-enhanced 3D gamma reconstruction" (2004) Proceedings of IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Rome, Italy, 19-22 October 2004; Vol 5, pp 3156- 3160.

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Montandon M-L and Zaidi H, "Relevance of attenuation and scatter corrections toward quantification of 3D brain PET images" (2005) Proceedings of the First UAE International Conference on Biological and Medical Physics, Al-Ain, UAE, March 27-30, 2005, pp 188.

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Zaidi H, "Future trends in nuclear medical imaging", In Recent Advances in Interdisciplinary Applied Physics Proceedings of the First UAE International Meeting on Applied Physics (APHYS-2003), Elsevier Science (Oxford, UK), Ed. A. Mendez-Vilas, ISBN 0-08-044648-5, 2005; pp 657-664.

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Ay MR, Sarkar S, Shahriari M, Sardari D and Zaidi H "MCNP4C-based Monte Carlo simulator for fan- and cone-beam x-ray CT: development and experimental validation" (2005) Proceedings of the 14th International Conference of Medical Physics, Nuremberg, Germany, September 14-17, 2005, Biomedizinische Technik Vol. 50, Suppl, part 1, pp 360-361.

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Ghaffarian P, Sharafi AA, Keshvarz K and Zaidi H, "MCNP4C-based Monte Carlo study of grid performance in diagnostic radiology" (2005) Proceedings of the 14th International Conference of Medical Physics, Nuremberg, Germany, September 14-17, 2005, Biomedizinische Technik Vol. 50, Suppl, part 1, pp 1098-1099.

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Dragone A, Corsi F, Marzocca C, Losito P, Pasqua S, Nappi E, De Leo R, Séguinot J, Braem A, Chesi E, Joram C, Weilhammer P, Garibaldi F and Zaidi H "Parallel chains based read-out system for a Compton-enhanced 3D PET scanner" Proceedings of Research in Microelectronics and Electronics Conference, Otranto, Italy, 12-15 June 2006, pp 401-404.

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Zaidi H "PET/CT: Technical aspects and image registration" (2006) Proceedings of the International Symposium on Advance in Diagnostic Medical Physics, New Delhi, India, 13-16 July 2006, pp 450-461.

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Zaidi H "Image correction techniques in PET" (2006) Proceedings of the International Symposium on Advance in Diagnostic Medical Physics, New Delhi, India, 13-16 July 2006, pp 441-449.

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Zaidi H "New frontiers in quantitative molecular imaging with PET" (2006) Proceedings of the World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Seoul, Korea, 27 August - 1 September 2006, IFMBE Proceedings Series, Vol. 14, pp 1659-1662.

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Montandon ML and Zaidi H "Quantitative VOI-based analysis of template-guided attenuation correction in 3D brain PET" (2006) Proceedings of IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, San Diego, USA, 29 October - 4 November 2006, Vol. 6; pp 3326-3330.

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Zaidi H and Ay MR "Impact of x-ray scatter when using CT-based attenuation correction in PET: A Monte Carlo investigation" (2006) Proceedings of IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, San Diego, USA, 29 October - 4 November 2006,Vol. 4; pp 2161-2165.

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Ay MR and Zaidi H "Simulation-based assessment of the impact of contrast medium on CT-based attenuation correction in PET" (2006) Proceedings of IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, San Diego, USA, 29 October - 4 November 2006,Vol. 5; pp 2731-2735.

Recipient of 2006 IEEE Medical Imaging Conference Award

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Ay MR, Ghafarian P and Zaidi H "A hybrid approach for fast simulation of x-ray computed tomography" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, 28 October – 3 November 2007; Vol. 4, pp 3155-3160.

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Ghafarian P, Ay MR, Ghadiri H, Sarkar S and Zaidi H "Impact of x-ray tube voltage, field size and phantom thickness on scattered radiation in diagnostic radiology: A Monte Carlo investigation" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, 28 October – 3 November 2007; Vol. 5, pp 3830-3834.

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Bidgoli JH, Ay MR, Sarkar S, Ahmadian A and Zaidi H "Correction of oral contrast artefacts in CT-based attenuation correction of PET images using an automated segmentation algorithm" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, 28 October – 3 November 2007; Vol. 5, pp 3542-3547.

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Ay MR, Ghadiri H, Ghafarian P, Sarkar S and Zaidi H "Influence of energy indexing algorithm and electron substeps on MCNP4C electron transport: Application to simulation of x-ray spectra in diagnostic radiology and mammography" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, 28 October – 3 November 2007; Vol. 5, pp 4006-4011.

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Lemmens C, Montandon M-L, Nuyts J, Ratib O and Zaidi H "Impact of metal artifacts due to EEG electrodes in brain PET imaging" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, 28 October – 3 November 2007; Vol. 4, pp 3026-3033.

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Akbarzadeh A, Ay MR, Ghadiri H, Sarkar S and Zaidi H "A novel approach for experimental measurement of scatter profile and scatter to primary ratio in a 64-slice CT scanner", 4th Kuala Lumpur International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, 25-28 June 2008, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, IFMBE Proceedings Series, Vol. 21, pp 473-477.

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Akbarzadeh A, Ay MR, Ghadiri H, Sarkar S and Zaidi H "A hybrid approach for accurate estimation of the scatter component in x-ray CT combining experimental measurements and Monte Carlo simulations" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Dresden, Germany, 19-25 October 2008, pp 3864-3867.

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Nguyen MK, Delarbre JL, Truong TT, Driol C and Zaidi H "Effect of energy resolution in Compton scattered radiation imaging" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Dresden, Germany, 19-25 October 2008, pp 1110-1113.

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Shafaei M, Ay MR, Sardari S and Zaidi H "Monte Carlo assessment of geometric, scatter and septal penetration components in high energy collimators"ECIFMBE 2008, Antwerp, Belgium, 23-27 November 2008; J. Vander Sloten, P. Verdonck, M. Nyssen, J. Haueisen (Eds.), IFMBE Proceedings Vol. 22, pp 2479-2482, 2008.

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Abdoli M, Ay MR, Ahmadian A, Sahba N and Zaidi H "A novel approach for reducing dental filling artefacts in CT-based attenuation correction of head and neck oncologic PET/CT data"ECIFMBE 2008, Antwerp, Belgium, 23-27 November 2008; J. Vander Sloten, P. Verdonck, M. Nyssen, J. Haueisen (Eds.), IFMBE Proceedings Vol. 22, pp 492-495, 2008.

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Ay MR, Bidgoli JH, Ghafarian P and Zaidi H "Reduction of Intravenous Contrast Related Artifacts in CT-based Attenuation Corrected PET Images" ECIFMBE 2008, Antwerp, Belgium, 23-27 November 2008; J. Vander Sloten, P. Verdonck, M. Nyssen, J. Haueisen (Eds.), IFMBE Proceedings Vol. 22, pp 513-516, 2008.

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Shirmohammad M, Ay MR, Rahmim A, Sarkar S and Zaidi H "Comparative assessment of different energy mapping approaches in CT based attenuation correction: a patient study" ECIFMBE 2008, Antwerp, Belgium, 23-27 November 2008; J. Vander Sloten, P. Verdonck, M. Nyssen, J. Haueisen (Eds.), IFMBE Proceedings Vol. 22, pp 496-499, 2008.

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Fezza SA, Benamrane N, and Zaidi H "Optimisation à base de flot de graphe pour la mise en correspondance d’images stéréoscopiques" Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Optimisation and Information Systems (COSI'2009), 25-27 Mai 2009, Annaba, Algeria, pp 449-460.

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Ay MR, Maleki A, Ghadiri H, Ahmadian A, Ghafarian P and Zaidi H "The Influence of x-ray spectra filtration on image quality and patient dose in the GE VCT 64-slice cardiac CT scanner" The 3rd International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (ICBBE’2009), Beijing, China, 11-13 June 2009, pp 1-4.

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Ghafarian P, S.M.R. Aghamiri, Ay MR, Rahmim A and Zaidi H "Quantification of PET and CT misalignment errors in cardiac PET/CT: Phantom and clinical studies" The 3rd International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (ICBBE’2009), Beijing, China, 11-13 June 2009, pp 1-4.

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Abdoli M, Ay MR, Ahmadian A and Zaidi H " Metal artifact reduction in CT-based attenuation correction in PET using the virtual sinogram concept" The 3rd International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (ICBBE’2009), Beijing, China, 11-13 June 2009, pp 1-4.

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Abdoli M, Ay MR, Ahmadian A and Zaidi H "Reduction of dental filling metallic artifacts in CT-based attenuation correction of PET data using weighted virtual sinograms" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Orlando (FL) USA, 25-31 October 2009, pp 2752-2755.

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Mehranian A, Ay MR, Riahi Alam N and Zaidi H "Quantitative assessment of the effect of anode surface roughness on diagnostic x-ray spectra using Monte Carlo simulation" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Orlando (FL) USA, 25-31 October 2009,pp 2902-2907.

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Prasad R, Ay MR, Ratib O and Zaidi H "CT-based attenuation correction on the FLEX Triumph™ preclinical PET/CT scanner" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Orlando (FL) USA, 25-31 October 2009,pp 3357-3362.

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Akbari SM, Ay MR, Kamali Asl AR, Ghadiri H and Zaidi H "Experimental measurement of the modulation transfer function (MTF) for five commercial CT scanners" The 12th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing (MEDICON 2010), Chalkidiki, Greece, 27-30 May 2010, IFMBE Proceedings Vol. 29, pp 351-354, 2010.

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Habibzadeh MA, Ay MR, Kamali-Asl AR, Ghadiri H and Zaidi H "The influence of patient miscentering on patient dose and image noise in two commercial CT scanners: A phantom study" The 12th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing (MEDICON 2010), Chalkidiki, Greece, 27-30 May 2010, IFMBE Proceedings Vol. 29, pp 327-330, 2010.

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Mehranian A, Ay MR and Zaidi H "CT2MCNP: An integrated package for constructing patient-specific voxel-based models dedicated for MCNP(X) Monte Carlo simulations" The 12th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing (MEDICON 2010), Chalkidiki, Greece, 27-30 May 2010, IFMBE Proceedings Vol. 29, pp 319-322, 2010.

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Teimourian B, Ay MR, Shamsaei-Zafarghandi M and Zaidi H "A novel approach for dual-energy mapping in CT-based attenuation correction using single kVp imaging: A feasibility study" The 12th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing (MEDICON 2010), Chalkidiki, Greece, 27-30 May 2010, IFMBE Proceedings Vol. 29, pp 220-223, 2010.

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Zeraatkar N, Ay MR, Kamali-Asl AR and Zaidi H "Monte Carlo-based performance assessment of the preclinical Rodent Research PET (RRPET) scanner using the NEMA NU-4 standards" The 12th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing (MEDICON 2010), Chalkidiki, Greece, 27-30 May 2010, IFMBE Proceedings Vol. 29, pp 311-314, 2010.

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Sharif S, Amira A and Zaidi H "3D oncological PET volume analysis using CNN and LVQNN" IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2010), Paris, France, 30 May – 02 June 2010, pp 1783-1786.

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Sharif S, Amira A and Zaidi H "Intelligent approach for PET volume analysis" IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2010), Paris, France, 30 May – 02 June 2010, pp 2291-2294.

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Morvidone M, Nguyen MK, Truong TT, and Zaidi H "A novel V-line Radon transform and its imaging applications"17th International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP’10), Hong Kong, 26-29 September 2010, pp 629-632.

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Nguyen MK, Régnier R, Truong TT, and Zaidi H "Compton scattered imaging based on the V-line Radon transform and its medical imaging applications "32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Aug 31 - Sept 4, 2010, Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc Vol. 1, pp 4300-4303.

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Ojha N, Hu Z, Shao L, Izquierdo D, Machac J, Ratib O, Zaidi H, Fuster V, and Fayad ZA "PET performance of the Gemini TF PET-MR: the world’s first whole body PET-MRI scanner" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Knoxville (TN) USA, 30 October – 6 November 2010, pp 2013-2015.

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Gutierrez D and Zaidi H "Assessment of x-ray scatter for the micro-CT subsystem of the FLEX Triumph™ preclinical PET-CT scanner" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Knoxville (TN) USA, 30 October – 6 November 2010, pp 2216-2223.

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Sharif S, Abbod M, Amira A and Zaidi H"Automatic PET volume analysis and classification based on ANN and BIC", The 15th IEEE Symposium on Consumer Electronics (ISCE2011), Singapore 14-17 June 2011, pp 565-570.

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Sharif S, Abbod M, Amira A and Zaidi H"Novel hybrid approach combining ANN and MRA for PET volume segmentation" Proceedings of the 11th biennial Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS 2010), Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, 6–9 December 2010, pp 596-599.

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Khodadad D, Ahmadian A, Ay MR, Esfahani AF, Banaem HY and Zaidi H "B-spline based free form deformation thoracic non-rigid registration of CT and PET images", International Conference on Graphic and Image Processing (ICGIP 2011), 1-3 October 2011, Cairo, Egypt, Proc. SPIE, Vol. 8285, pp 82851K.

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Abdoli M, de Jong JR, Pruim J, Dierckx RA and Zaidi H "Clough-Tocher interpolation of virtual sinogram in a Delaunay triangulated grid for metal artifact reduction of PET/CT images" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Valencia, Spain, 23-29 October 2011, pp 3197–3201.

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Prasad R, Ratib O and Zaidi H "NEMA NU-04-based performance characteristics of the LabPET-8™ small animal PET scanner" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Valencia, Spain, 23-29 October 2011, pp 3654– 3660.

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Prasad R and Zaidi H "Evaluation of scatter fraction and count rate performance of two small-animal PET scanners using dedicated phantoms" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Valencia, Spain, 23-29 October 2011, pp 3639–3645.

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Gutierrez D and Zaidi H "Atlas-guided automated analysis of small-animal PET studies" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Valencia, Spain, 23-29 October 2011, pp 2883-2890.

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Akbarzadeh A, Ay MR, Ahmadian A, Riahi Alam N and Zaidi H "Impact of tissue classification on the accuracy of MR-based attenuation correction in PET-MRI" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Valencia, Spain, 23-29 October 2011, pp 2524–2530.

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Mehranian A, Ay MR, Rahmim A, and Zaidi H "Sparsity constrained sinogram inpainting for metal artifact reduction in x-ray computed tomography" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Valencia, Spain, 23-29 October 2011, pp 3694–3699.

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Najafi Darmian A, Ay MR, Ghafarian P, Pouladian M, Shirazi A, Ghadiri H, Akbarzadeh A and Zaidi H "Characterization of scattered radiation profile in volumetric 64-slice x-ray CT scanner: A Monte Carlo study" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Valencia, Spain, 23-29 October 2011, pp 2692–2696.

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Mehranian A, Ay MR, Rahmim A and Zaidi H "Metal artifact reduction in CT-based attenuation correction of PET using Sobolev sinogram restoration" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Valencia, Spain, 23-29 October 2011, pp 2936-2942.

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Ghadiri H, Shiran MB, Ay MR, Soltanian-Zadeh H, Rahmim A and Zaidi H "A novel energy mapping approach in CT-based attenuation correction of PET data using multi-energy CT imaging" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Valencia, Spain, 23-29 October 2011, pp 2510-2515.

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Mehranian A, Rahmim A, Ay MR and Zaidi H "An ordered-subsets proximal preconditioned gradient algorithm for total variation regularized PET image reconstruction" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Anahaim, CA USA, 29 October – 3 November 2012, pp 3375-3382.

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Mehranian A, Salighe Rad H, Rahmim A, Ay MR and Zaidi H "Smoothly clipped absolute deviation (SCAD) regularization for compressed sensing MRI using an augmented Lagrangian scheme" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Anahaim, CA USA, 29 October – 3 November 2012, pp 3646-3653.

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Abdoli M, Dierckx RAJ and Zaidi H "Deformable model-based PET segmentation technique for heterogeneous tumor volume delineation" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Anahaim, CA USA, 29 October – 3 November 2012, pp 3947-3951.

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Kotasidis FA, Heinzer S and Zaidi H "Experimental evaluation and image reconstruction based optimization of the spatially variant PSF on the Ingenuity TF PET/MR scanner" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Anahaim, CA USA, 29 October – 3 November 2012, pp 2921-2924.

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Kotasidis FA, Angelis GI, Anton-Rodriguez J, Matthews JC, Reader AJ, Green M and Zaidi H "Isotope dependent system matrices for high resolution PET imaging" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Anahaim, CA USA, 29 October – 3 November 2012, pp 2925-2928.

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Kotasidis FA, Matthews JC, Reader AJ, Angelis GI and Zaidi H "Application of adaptive kinetic modelling for bias propagation reduction in direct 4D image reconstruction" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Anahaim, CA USA, 29 October – 3 November 2012, pp 3688-3694.

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Kotasidis FA, Matthews JC, Reader AJ, Angelis GI, Price PM and Zaidi H "Direct parametric reconstruction for dynamic 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging in the body" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Anahaim, CA USA, 29 October – 3 November 2012, pp 3383-3386.

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Xie T and Zaidi H "Age-dependent small animal internal radiation dosimetry" Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Computational Phantoms for Radiation Protection, Imaging and Radiotherapy, Zurich, Switzerland, 20-22 May 2013, pp 60-61.

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Xie T and Zaidi H "Assessment of S-values in stylized and voxel-based rat models for positron-emitting radionuclides" Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Computational Phantoms for Radiation Protection, Imaging and Radiotherapy, Zurich, Switzerland, 20-22 May 2013. pp 70-71.

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Ay MR, Akbarzadeh A, Ahmadian and Zaidi H "Classification of bones from MR images in torso PET-MR imaging using a statistical shape model" PSMR 2013 MR-PET Workshop, Jülich, Germany, 6-7 Mai (2013).

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Kotasidis FA, Tsoumpas C, Polycarpou I and Zaidi H "A 5D anthropomorphic numerical phantom for respiratory-gated parametric imaging simulation studies in dynamic emission tomography" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Seoul, Korea, 27 October – 2 November 2013, pp 1-3.

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Kotasidis FA, Tsoumpas C, Angelis GI, Matthews JC, Reader AJ and Zaidi H "Impact of motion on indirect and direct estimation of kinetic parameters from dynamic PET data" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Seoul, Korea, 27 October – 2 November 2013, pp 1-4.

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Kotasidis FA, Anton-Rodriguez J, Angelis GI, Matthews JC, Reader AJ and Zaidi H "Isotope-specific resolution modeling image reconstruction for high resolution PET imaging" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Seoul, Korea, 27 October – 2 November 2013, pp 1-3.

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Karakatsanis NA, Tsoumpas C and Zaidi H "Generalized 3D and 4D motion compensated whole-body PET image reconstruction employing nested EM deconvolution" IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques, Santorini, Greece, 14 – 17 October 2014, pp 263-268.

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Arabi H and Zaidi H "Comparison of atlas-based bone segmentation methods in whole-body PET/MRI" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Seattle, USA, 8 – 15 November 2014, pp 1-4.

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Arabi H and Zaidi H "MRI-based pseudo-CT generation using sorted atlas images in whole-body PET/MRI" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Seattle, USA, 8 – 15 November 2014, pp 1-4.

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Mehranian A and Zaidi H "Joint estimation of activity and attenuation in whole-body PET/MRI using MR-constrained Gaussian priors" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Seattle, USA, 8 – 15 November 2014, pp 1-4.

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Abdoli M, Mehranian A, Ailianou A, Becker M and Zaidi H "Comparative methods for metal artifact reduction in x-ray CT" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Seattle, USA, 8 – 15 November 2014, pp 1-5.

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Karakatsanis NA, Lodge MA, Casey ME, Zaidi H, Rahmim A "Impact of acquisition time-window on clinical whole-body PET parametric imaging" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Seattle, USA, 8 – 15 November 2014, pp 1-8.

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Karakatsanis NA, Rahmim A and Zaidi H "Introducing time-of-flight and resolution recovery image reconstruction to whole-body PET parametric imaging" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Seattle, USA, 8 – 15 November 2014, pp 1-6.

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Fatnassi C, Boucenna R, Betz M and Zaidi H "Correction of macroscopic field inhomogeneities in 3D quantitative GRE imaging based on nonlinear phase model and SNR mapping" Proc. 23rd ISMRM Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, 1–5 June 2015, pp 3766.

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Fatnassi C, Boucenna R and Zaidi H "Numerical Simpson’s rule for real time and accurate T2* maps generation using 3D quantitative GRE" World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering WC’2015, Toronto, Canada, 7–12 June 2015, IFMBE Proceedings, Vol. 51, pp 107-110.

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Fatnassi C, Boucenna R and Zaidi H "Improvement of pseudo multispectral classification of brain MR images" World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering WC’2015, Toronto, Canada, 7–12 June 2015, IFMBE Proceedings, Vol. 51, pp 111-114.

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Fatnassi C, Boucenna R and Zaidi H "Unwrapping highly wrapped phase using nonlinear multi-echo phase unwrapping" World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering WC’2015, Toronto, Canada, 7–12 June 2015, IFMBE Proceedings, Vol. 51, pp 115-118.

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Xie T and Zaidi H "Construction of pregnant female phantoms at different gestation periods for radiation dosimetry" Proc. of the 5th International Workshop on Computational Human Phantoms, Seoul, Korea, 19-22 July 2015, pp 4-5.

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Xie T and Zaidi H "Development of a hybrid computational phantom library: Application to the evaluation of the effects of body habitus on internal radiation dosimetry" Proc. of the 5th International Workshop on Computational Human Phantoms, Seoul, Korea, 19-22 July 2015, pp 18-19.

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Karakatsanis N, Mehranian A, Lodge MA, Casey ME, Rahmim A and Zaidi H "Clinical evaluation of direct 4D whole-body parametric imaging with time-of-flight and resolution modeling capabilities" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, San Diego, USA, 31 October – 7 November 2015, pp 1-6.

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Karakatsanis N, Garibotto V, Rager O and Zaidi H "Continuous bed motion vs. step-and-shoot acquisition on clinical whole-body dynamic and parametric PET imaging" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, San Diego, USA, 31 October –7 November 2015, pp 1-6.

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Arabi H and Zaidi H "Fast atlas-based MRI-guided PET attenuation map generation in whole-body PET/MR imaging" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, San Diego, USA, 31 October –7 November 2015, pp 1-4.

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Kotasidis F, Karakatsanis NA, Mehranian A, Zaidi H "Multi-bed tracer kinetic imaging of micro-parameters from dynamic time-of-flight PET data" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, San Diego, USA, 31 October – 7 November 2015, pp 1-4.

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Kotasidis F, Mehranian A and Zaidi H "Error propagation reduction in direct 4D image reconstruction using time-of-flight PET" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, San Diego, USA, 31 October – 7 November 2015, pp 1-4.

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Kotasidis F, Mehranian A and Zaidi H "Limited field-of-view dynamic PET imaging using truncated time-of-flight sinograms" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, San Diego, USA, 31 October –7 November 2015, pp 1-3.

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Kotasidis F, Mehranian A and Zaidi H "Impact of time-of-flight image reconstruction in PET parametric imaging" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, San Diego, USA, 31 October –7 November 2015, pp 1-4.

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Zhuang M, Dierckx RAJ and Zaidi H "Novel active contour model-based automated segmentation of PET images" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Strasbourg, France, 29 October – 6 November 2016, pp 1-3.

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Xie T, Poletti PA, Becker C and Zaidi H "Construction of personalized computational phantoms of pregnant patients for assessment of CT radiation dose" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Strasbourg, France, 29 October – 6 November 2016, pp 1-5.

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Karakatsanis N, Mehranian A, Casey ME, and Zaidi H "Direct 4D slice-wise whole-body parametric PET image reconstruction for continuous bed motion acquisitions" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Strasbourg, France, 29 October – 6 November 2016, pp 1-6.

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Kotasidis F, Garibotto V and Zaidi H "Hybrid whole-body dynamic TOF PET imaging for simultaneous estimation of compartmental and Patlak parametric maps from continuous bed motion data" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Strasbourg, France, 29 October – 6 November 2016, pp 1-2.

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Kotasidis F and Zaidi H "Time of flight parametric image reconstruction from variable random fraction dynamic PET data" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Strasbourg, France, 29 October – 6 November 2016, pp 1-2.

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Xie T and Zaidi H "Conceptual basis of dose monitoring in radiological imaging using personalized computational models" Proc. of the 6th International Workshop on Computational Human Phantoms, Annapolis (MD), USA, 27-30 August 2017, pp 37-38.

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Akhavanallaf A, Xie T and Zaidi H "Development of a novel library of adult anthropomorphic phantoms with more realistic scaling of organ masses" Proc. of the 6th International Workshop on Computational Human Phantoms, Annapolis (MD), USA, 27-30 August 2017,pp 120-121.

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Xie T, Zanotti-Fregonara P, Edet-Sanson A and Zaidi H "Construction of a computational model representing pregnant patients with twins for radiation dosimetry" Proc. of the 6th International Workshop on Computational Human Phantoms, Annapolis (MD), USA, 27-30 August 2017, pp 84-85.

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Kotasidis F, Manari M, Garibotto V and Zaidi H "Joint Optimization of kinetic modeling and CBM acquisition parameters in hybrid whole-body dynamic PET imaging" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Atlanta, USA, 21-28 October 2017.

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Kotasidis F, Garibotto V and Zaidi H "Patient-specific hybrid whole-body PET parametric imaging from speed modulated continuous bed motion dynamic data" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Atlanta, USA, 21-28 October 2017.

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Nguyen T, Zaidi H, Høilund-Carlsen PF and Werner V "Clinical relevance of partial volume effect: Dependence on lesion size and shape" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Atlanta, USA, 21-28 October 2017.

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Arabi H, Zeng G, Zheng G and Zaidi H "Novel deep learning-based CT synthesis algorithm for MRI-guided attenuation correction in brain PET/MRI" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Sydney, Australia, 10-17 November 2018, pp 1-3.

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Arabi H, Dowling JA, Burgos N, Han X, Greer PB, Koutsouvelis N and Zaidi H "Comparison of six synthetic CT generation algorithms for MRI- or PET/MRI-guided radiation planning in the pelvic region" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Sydney, Australia, 10-17 November 2018, pp 1-3.

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Arabi H and Zaidi H "Spatially-guided non-local mean filter for denoising of clinical whole-body PET images" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Sydney, Australia, 10-17 November 2018, pp 1-3.

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Ghabrial A, Franklin D and Zaidi H "Assessment of the scatter component in large axial field-of-view PET scanners: A Monte Carlo simulation study" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Sydney, Australia, 10-17 November 2018, pp 1-3.

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Bian Z, Zeng D, Xie T, Huang J, Feng Q, Ma J and Zaidi H "Spatio-temporal constrained adaptive sinogram restoration for low-dose dynamic cerebral perfusion CT imaging" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Sydney, Australia, 10-17 November 2018, pp 1-3.

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Khodajou-Chokami H, Hosseini SA, Ay MR, Mohammadi M and Zaidi H "MCNP-FBSM: Development of MCNP/MCNPX source model for simulation of multi-slice fan-beam x-ray CT scanners" Proc. of the 14th IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MEMEA 2019), İstanbul, Turkey, 26-28 June 2019, pp 1-6.

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Khodajou-Chokami H, Hosseini SA, Ay MR, Ghafarian P, Pornour M and Zaidi H "A novel method for measuring the MTF of CT scanners: A phantom study" Proc. of the 14th IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MEMEA 2019), İstanbul, Turkey, 26-28 June 2019, pp 1-6.

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Akhavanallaf A, Xie T and Zaidi H "Assessment of uncertainties associated with Monte Carlo simulation of clinical CT examinations" Proc. of the 7th International Workshop on Computational Human Phantoms, Neuherberg, Germany, 22-24 July 2019, pp 1-2.

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Bahrami A, Karimian A, Fatemizadeh E, Arabi H and Zaidi H "A novel convolutional neural network with high convergence rate: Application to CT synthesis from MRI" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Manchester, UK, 26 October - 2 November 2019.

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Bortolin K, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Deep learning-guided attenuation and scatter correction in brain PET/MRI without using anatomical images" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Manchester, UK, 26 October - 2 November 2019.

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Arabi H and Zaidi H "Three-dimensional shape completion using deep convolutional neural networks: Application to truncation compensation and metal artifact reduction in PET/MRI attenuation correction" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Manchester, UK, 26 October - 2 November 2019.

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Zaker N, Kotasidis F, Garibotto V and Zaidi H "Clinical assessment of lesion detectability in dynamic whole-body PET imaging using compartmental and Patlak parametric mapping" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Manchester, UK, 26 October - 2 November 2019.

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Sanaat A and Zaidi H "A novel convolutional neural network for predicting full dose from low dose PET scans" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Manchester, UK, 26 October - 2 November 2019.

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Sanaat A and Zaidi H "Feasibility of a novel design of a high resolution/sensitivity animal PET scanner using thick and thin arrangement of monolithic scintillators" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Manchester, UK, 26 October - 2 November 2019.

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Sanaat A and Zaidi H "Accurate estimation of depth of interaction in PET on monolithic crystal coupled to SiPMs using deep convolutional neural network and Monte Carlo simulations" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Manchester, UK, 26 October - 2 November 2019.

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Mecheter I, Amira A, Abbod M and Zaidi H "Brain MR Imaging Segmentation using Convolutional Auto Encoder Network for PET Attenuation Correction" Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys 2020), Amserdam, Netherlands, 2-3 September 2020, "Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing", 2021, Vol. 1252, pp 430-440.

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Sanaat A, Ashrafi-Belgabad A and Zaidi H "A novel concept for PET scanners design using detectors equipped with polaroids for filtering reflected optical photons" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Boston, MA, USA, 31 October - 7 November 2020.

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Arabi H, Shiri I, Janebi E, Becker M and Zaidi H "Deep learning-based automated delineation of head and neck malignant lesions from PET images" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Boston, MA, USA, 31 October - 7 November 2020.

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Shiri I, Akhavanallaf A, Sanaat A, Askari D, Salimi Y, Mansouri Z, Shayesteh SP, Rezaei-Kalantari K, Salahshour A, Sandoughdaran S, Abdollahi H, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Ultra-low dose chest CT imaging of COVID-19 patients using deep neural networks" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Boston, MA, USA, 31 October - 7 November 2020.

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Akhavanallaf A, Shiri I, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Deep learning-assisted whole-body voxel-based internal dosimetry" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Boston, MA, USA, 31 October - 7 November 2020. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Boston, MA, USA, 31 October - 7 November 2020.

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Sanaat A, Shiri I, Arabi H, Mainta I, Nkoulou R and Zaidi H "Whole-body PET image synthesis from low-dose images using cycle-consistent generative adversarial networks" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Boston, MA, USA, 31 October - 7 November 2020.

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Oghli M G, Moradi S, Sirjani N, Gerami R, Ghaderi P, Shabanzadeh A, Arabi H, Shiri I and Zaidi H "Automatic assessment of fetal head, abdomen and from ultrasound images using deep network networks" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Boston, MA, USA, 31 October - 7 November 2020.

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Arabi H and Zaidi H "Multiple PET reconstruction assisted non-local mean denoising of PET images" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Boston, MA, USA, 31 October - 7 November 2020.

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Shayesteh PS, Salahshour A, Nazari M, Hajianfar G, Sandoughdaran S, Shiri I and Zaidi H "MRI Delta-radiomic features integrated with clinical parameters for prediction of treatment response in colorectal cancer" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Boston, MA, USA, 31 October - 7 November 2020.

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Shayesteh PS, Salahshour A, Nazari M, Shiri I and Zaidi H "Machine learning-based prediction of thyroid nodules malignancy: Radiomic analysis of ultrasound images" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Boston, MA, USA, 31 October - 7 November 2020.

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Avard E, Shiri I, Hajianfar G, Abdollahi H, Kasaee K, Kalantari KR, Bitarafan-Rajabi A, Deevband MR, Oveisi M and Zaidi H "Late gadolinium-enhanced cardiac magnetic resonance imaging radiomics for high precision differentiation of scar and viable cardiac tissues" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Boston, MA, USA, 31 October - 7 November 2020.

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Amini M, Nazari M, Shiri I, Hajianfar G, Deevband MR, Abdollahi H and Zaidi H "Multi-level PET and CT image fused radiomics feature-based survival analysis of NSCLC patients" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Boston, MA, USA, 31 October - 7 November 2020.

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Nazari M, Shiri I and Zaidi H "Radiomics-based machine learning model to predict risk of death within 5-years in clear cell renal cell carcinoma patients" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Boston, MA, USA, 31 October - 7 November 2020.

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Sanaat A, Mirsadeghi E, Razeghi B, Ginovart N and Zaidi H "Fast dynamic brain PET imaging using deep learning" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Boston, MA, USA, 31 October - 7 November 2020.

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Mecheter I, Amira A, Abbod M and Zaidi H "Deep learning-based segmentation for multi MR imaging protocols using transfer learning for PET attenuation correction" 2020 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI’2020), Canberra, Australia, 2-4 December 2020, pp 2516-2520.

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Amirrashedi M, Sarkar S, Ghadiri H, Ghafarian P, Zaidi H and Ay MR "A deep neural network to recover missing data in small-animal PET imaging: Comparison between sinogram- and image-domain implementations" IEEE International Symposium of Biomedical Imaging (ISBI’2021), Nice, France, 13-16 April 2021,pp 1365-1368.

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Akhavanallaf A, Salimi Y,Shiri I, Arabi A, Rahmim A and Zaidi H "Deep learning-based dosimetry in radionuclide therapy: Is it worth the effort?" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Arabi H and Zaidi H "Does prior knowledge enhance accuracy of deep learning-assisted semantic segmentation?" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Arabi H and Zaidi H "Segmentation of the hippocampus head and body: comparison of single annotator and multi-annotator" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Arabi H and Zaidi H "Deep learning-based attenuation correction strategies in the sinogram domain" IEEE IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Arabi H and Zaidi H "Training with probability map: an effective framework for deep learning training with multi-observer labeled datasets" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Arabi H and Zaidi H "Learning from multiple annotators: hierarchical deep learning training scheme for prostate Gleason cancer grading" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Arabi H and Zaidi H "Identification of noisy labels in deep learning-based synthetic CT generation from MR images" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Arabi H and Zaidi H "Low-dose Covid-19 CT imaging: Noise-to-noise versus supervised deep learning-based denoising" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Jahangir R, Kamali-Asl AR, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Impact of using prior knowledge on attenuation and scatter correction of brain 18F-FDG PET images in the image domain" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Arabian H, Rasti R, Karimian AR, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Deep attention-based seminal segmentation: A practical deep learning framework for accurate segmentation of the Hippocampus from magnetic resonance images" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Shiri I, Sanaat A, Arabi H, Rahmim A and Zaidi H "Deep active learning model for adaptive PET attenuation and scatter correction in multi-centric studies" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Sanaat A, Jamalizadeh M, Arabi H and Zaidi H "A multi-purpose clinical PET scanner with dynamic gantry design" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Shiri I, Sanaat A, Salimi Y, Akhavanallaf A, Arabi H, Rahmim A and Zaidi H "PET-QA-Net: Towards routine PET image artifact detection and correction using deep convolutional neural networks" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Ashkani V, Sirjani S, Ghelichoghli M, Shiri I, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Double attention Res-U-Net: A novel deep neural architecture for crown rump length segmentation" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Sanaat A, Jamalizadeh M, Arabi H and Zaidi H "DeepGATE: A multilayer perceptron model for the assessment of PET spatial resolution and sensitivity using Monte Carlo simulations" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Sanaat A, Salimi Y, Shiri I, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Deep learning-assisted simultaneous MRI-based attenuation correction and full-dose synthesis from non-attenuated low-dose PET images" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Sanaat A, Boehringer A, Salimi Y, Shiri I, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Deep-PVC: A deep learning model for synthesizing full-dose partial volume corrected PET images from low-dose images" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Sanaat A, Ghavabesh A, Salimi Y, Shiri I, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Deep learning for MRI-based attenuation correction of multitracer Brain PET images" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Sanaat A, Akhavanallaf A, Salimi Y, Shiri I, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Time-of-flight (TOF) image synthesis from non-TOF PET using deep learning" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Salimi Y, Akhavanallaf A, Hajianfar G, Sanaat A, Shiri I, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Automated deep learning-based calculation of water equivalent diameter from 2D CT localizer images" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Shiri I, Amini M, Hajianfar G, Sanaat A, Arabi H and Zaidi H "On the removal of inter/intra observer variability of PET radiomics features" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Azimi S, Kamali-Asl A.R, Arabi H and Zaidi H "ATB-Net: A novel attention-based convolutional neural network for predicting full dose from low-dose PET images" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Ghorbanzadeh M, Akhavanallaf A, Arabi H and Zaidi H "A novel iterative prior fusion-based metal artifact reduction for CT imaging: A phantom study" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Mostafapour S, Gholamiankhah F, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Attenuation correction for myocardial perfusion SPECT imaging in the image domain" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Mostafapour S, Gholamiankhah F, Arabi H and Zaidi H "A novel unsupervised approach for COVID-19 lung lesion detection based on object completion technique" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Salimi Y, Akhavanallaf A, Hajianfar G, Sanaat A, Shiri I, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Deep learning-based fully automated scan range detection in chest CT imaging" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Shiri I, Sanaat A, Ferdosi S, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Federated learning-based deep learning model for PET attenuation and scatter correction: A multicenter study" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Zaker N, Faghihi R, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Direct Ki Patlak generation without using the input function guided by deep-learning methods" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Mostafapour S, Gholamiankhah F, Arabi H and Zaidi H "A novel unsupervised COVID-19 lesion segmentation from CT images based on the lung tissue detection" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Karimzadeh R, Rajabi N, Khodabakhsh A, Fatemizadeh E, Arabi H and Zaidi H "X-Net: A novel deep learning architecture with high-resolution feature maps for image segmentation" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Karimzadeh R, Fatemizadeh E, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Prediction error propagation: A novel strategy to enhance performance of deep learning models in seminal segmentation" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Karimzadeh R, Fatemizadeh E, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Knowledge distillation: A strategy to enhance the performance of deep learning-based seminal segmentation" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Sanaei B, Faghihi R, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Does prior knowledge in the form of multiple low-dose PET images (at different dose levels) improve standard-dose PET prediction?" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Aghakhan N, Geramifar P, Kamali-Asl A.R, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Deep learning-based low-dose cardiac gated SPECT: in projection or image domain?" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Khodabakhsh A, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Deep learning-based estimation of functional connectivity from time series multi-Channel EEG for schizophrenia patients" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Azimi S, Kamali-Asl A.R, Arabi H and Zaidi H "A novel attention-based convolutional neural network for joint denoising and partial volume correction of low-dose PET images" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Aghakhan N, Geramifar P, Kamali-Asl AR, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Investigation of noise reduction in low-dose SPECT myocardial perfusion images with a generative adversarial network" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Bagheri S, Hajianfar G, Saberi A, Oveisi M, Shiri I and Zaidi H "Pathological Prostate Gleason Score Prediction Using MRI Radiomics and Machine Learning Algorithms" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Salimi Y, AkhavanAllaf A, Shiri I, Mansouri Z, Saberimanesh A, Sanaat A, Pakbin M, Askari D, Sandoughdaran S, Sharifipour E, Arabi H and Zaidi H "A deep learning-based fully automated scan range detection in chest CT Imaging" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Rezaei H, Sheikhzadeh P, Ghafarian P, Zaidi H and Ay MR "Accurate modeling and performance evaluation of a total-body Positron Emission Tomography scanner using Monte Carlo simulation" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Arian F, Avval AH, Mostafaei S, Shahbazi Z, Bitarafan Rajabi A, Rezaei Kalantari K, Kasani K, Bagherpour Z, Oveisi M, Shiri I and Zaidi H "Prediction of myocardial function after coronary artery bypass graft using cardiac magnetic resonance imaging radiomics" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Sanaat A and Zaidi H "A continuous deep learning model for brain PET image denoising in medical internet of things" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Haddadi Avval A, Mostafaei S, Oveisi M, Shiri I and Zaidi H "Holistic MRI-based prognostic model development, genomic and clinical features in glioblastoma patients" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Khodabakhshi Z, Amini M, Hajianfar G, Oveisi M, Shiri I and Zaidi H "Histopathological subtype phenotype decoding using harmonized PET/CT image radiomics features and machine learning" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Hosseini SA, Hajianfar G, Shiri I and Zaidi H "Lymphovascular invasion Prediction in lung cancer using multi-segmentation PET radiomics and multi-machine learning algorithm" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Hosseini SA, Hajianfar G, Shiri I and Zaidi H "PET image radiomics feature variability in lung cancer: Impact of image segmentation" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Sabouri M, Hajianfar G, Amini M, Hosseini Z, Madadi S, Ghaedian T, Ghassed M, Rastgou F, Bitarafan Rajabi A, Shiri I and Zaidi H "Cardiac pattern recognition from SPECT images using machine learning algorithms" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Amini M, Hajianfar G, Nazari M, Mehri-Kakavand G, Shiri I and Zaidi H "Survival prognostic modeling using PET/CT image radiomics: The quest for optimal approaches" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Hajianfar G, Sabouri M, Bagheri S, Salimi Y, Oveisi M, Shiri I and Zaidi H "Dual input scintigraphy image-based fused deep neural networks for bone abnormalities detection and differentiation" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Hosseini SA, Hajianfar G, Shiri I and Zaidi H "Lung cancer recurrence prediction using radiomics features of PET tumor sub-volumes and multi-machine learning algorithms" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Saberi Manesh A, Saneei S, Salimi Y, Shiri I and Zaidi H "Automatic clinical report generation of thyroid scintigraphy using natural language processing and Bayesian convolutional neural network" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Dashtbani Moghari M, Sannat A, Young N, Moore K, Fulton R, Zaidi H and Kyme A "Reducing scan duration and radiation dose in cerebral CT perfusion imaging using a recurrent neural network" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Hajianfar G, Haddadi Avval A, Sabouri M, Khateri M, Jenabi E, Geramifar P, Oveisi M, Shiri I and Zaidi H "ComBat harmonization of image reconstruction parameters to improve the repeatability of radiomics features" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Asadi A, Akhavanallaf A, Hosseini SA, Vosoughi N and Zaidi H "Development and validation of an optimal GATE model for pencil beam scanning proton beam delivery" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Asadi A, Akhavanallaf A, Hosseini SA, Mohammadi R, Vosoughi N and Zaidi H "Dosimetric Comparison of Pencil Beam Scanning Proton- and Photon-Based Techniques in head and neck cancer" IEEE Virtual Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 16-23 October 2021.

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Khodabakhshi Z, Shiri I, Zaidi H, Andratschke N, Tanadini-Lang S "Two-year overall survival prediction in non–small-cell lung cancer patients using pre-treatment Computed Tomography images and deep neural networks: A multicentric study" Medical Imaging with Deep Learning (MIDL 2022), Zurich, Switzerland, 6-8 July 2022.

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Andrearczyk V, Oreiller V, Vallières M, Dave Fuller CD, Naser M, Wahid K, Mohamed A, Ruan S, Decazes P, Vera P, Zaidi H, Tanadini-Lang S, Cheze-Le Rest C, Visvikis D, Elhalawani H, Castelli J, Jreige M, Dias-Correia R, Boughdad S, Prior JO, Hatt M Depeursinge A "HEad and neCK TumOR segmentation and outcome prediction in PET/CT images" 25th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2022), Singapore, 18-22 September 2022.

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Mecheter I, Amira A, Abbod M and Zaidi H "Ensemble of 3D CNNs for brain MRI segmentation" 3rd Internatinoal Conference on Distributed Systems and Intelligent Systems, Dubai, UAE, 19-21 Octobber 2022, pp 40-48.

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Rahmim A, Toosi A, Salmanpour MR, Dubljevic N, Janzen I, Shiri I, Ramezani M, Yuan R, Ho C, Zaidi H, MacAulay C, Uribe C, Yousefirizi F "Tensor radiomics: Paradigm for systematic incorporation of multi-flavoured radiomics features" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Shiri I, Salimi Y, Sirjani N, Haddadi Avval A, Mansouri Z, Amini M, Sanaat A, Saberi A, Hajianfar G, Pakbin M, Ghelich Oghli M, Oveisi M and Zaidi H "Deep vision transformers for prognostic modeling in COVID-19 patients using large multi-institutional CT dataset" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Amini M, Mostafaei S, Pursamimi M, Chatterjee S, Mansouri Z, Ghorbani M, Shiri I and Zaidi H "Interpretable PET/CT radiomic-based prognosis modeling of NSCLC recurrent following complete resection" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Amini M, Salimi Y, Mansouri Z, Arabi H, Shiri I and Zaidi H "Density dedicated deep learning model for mammogram malignancy classification" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Amini M, Shiri I and Zaidi H "PET and CT information fusion and quality assessment toward optimized radiomic features extraction" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Boehringer AS, Sanaat A and Zaidi H "An active learning approach to deep learning glioma segmentation from brain MR images" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Hajianfar G, Haddadi Avval A, Hosseini SA, Oveisi M, Shiri I and Zaidi H "Machine learning-based overall survival prediction in GBM patients using MRI radiomics" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Seif SR, Karimian A, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Impact of attention modules in deep learning-based semantic segmentation: Evaluation for liver lesion segmentation from CT images" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Haddadi Avval A, Amini M, Hajianfar G, Shiri I and Zaidi H "Progression-free survival prediction in head and neck cancer via fused PET-CT radiomics and machine learning" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Shiri I, Showkatian E, Mohammadi R, Razeghi B, Bagheri S, Hajianfar G, Salimi Y, Ghelich Oghli M, Ferdowsi S, Voloshynovskiy S and Zaidi H "Collaborative multi-institutional prostate lesion segmentation in MR images using deep federated learning framework" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Hosseini SA, Hajianfar G, Hosseini E, Servaes S, Rosa-Neto P, Shiri I and Zaidi H "Robust versus non-robust radiomic features: Machine learning-based models for NSCLC lymphovascular invasion" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Hajianfar G, Sabouri M, Yasemi MJ, Sirjani N, Amini M, Salimi Y, Bagheri S, Bitarafan Rajabi A, Ghelich Oghli M, Shiri I and Zaidi H "End-to-end fully automated cardiac disease diagnosis using deep learning and SPECT imaging" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Shiri I, Salimi Y, Maghsudi M, Hajianfar G, Jafari E, Samimi R, Khateri M, Sheikhzadeh P, Geramifar P, Dadgar H, Bitarafan Rajabi A, Assadi M, Benard F, Uribe C, Rahmim A and Zaidi H "Deep adaptive transfer learning model for site-specific PET attenuation and scatter correction in multi-national/institutional dataset" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Salimi Y, Akhavanallaf A, Mansouri Z, Shiri I and Zaidi H "Real-time voxelwise patient-specific Monte Carlo dose reconstruction in whole-body CT scan images using deep neural network" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Mashayekhi M, Sanaat A, Aghakhan Olia N, Khazaei Z, Amiramjadi A and Zaidi H "Ultra-fast/low-dose PET/CT imaging using transformers" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Salimi Y, Shiri I, Mansouri Z and Zaidi H "Fully automated multi-organ segmentation in CT images via deep neural networks" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Nezampour H, Motevalli SM, Sanaat A and Zaidi H "Design and performance evaluation of a dynamic dual-head breast PET scanner based on LSO and CZT detector modules: A simulation" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Nezampour H, Motevalli SM, Sanaat A aand Zaidi H "Enhancing partial geometrical breast PET scanner images by deep learning" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Hajianfar G, Hosseini SA, Amini M, Shiri I and Zaidi H "MRI radiomic features harmonization: A multi-center phantom study" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Shiri I, Salimi Y, Sirjani N, Haddadi Avval A, Mansouri Z, Amini M, Sanaat A, Saberi A, Hajianfar G, Pakbin M, Ghelich Oghli M, Oveisi M and Zaidi H "Deep vision transformers for prognostic modeling in COVID-19 patients using large multi-institutional CT dataset" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Sabouri M, Mohebi M, Arian F, Yasemi MJ, Bagheri S, Bitarafan Rajabi A, Shiri I and Zaidi H "Cardiac SPECT radiomic features repeatability and reproducibility: Patient study" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Khaleghi Bizaki M, Vafaei Sadr A, Amini M, Nafissi N, Shiri I, Zaidi H and Reiazi R "Deep neural networks-based malignant breast lesions detection and segmentation on mammography images" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Mansouri Z, Salimi Y, Amini M, Hajianfar G, Oveisi M, Shiri I and Zaidi H "Head and neck cancer overall survival prognostication using dosiomics features and random survival Forest algorithm" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Saberi Manesh A, Amini M, Arabi H, Doroud K, Williams C and Zaidi H "Conceptual design of a dual-panel dedicated prostate PET scanner: A Monte Carlo simulation study" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Mirahmadi M, Shokatian E, Hajianfar G, Haddadi Avval A, Shiri I and Zaidi H "Deep neural network features repeatability in magnetic resonance images of glioblastoma multiforme: A test-retest analysis" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Sanaat A, Arslan M, Salimi Y, Shiri I and Zaidi H "A deep learning model for synthesizing cardiac rest images from stress images and conversely" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Akhavanallaf A, Hoseininezhad M, Moradi M, Hajianfar G, Oveisi M, Shiri I and Zaidi H "Breast tumor genes subtype profiling using MR image radiomic features and machine learning algorithms" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Sanaat A, Najafgholizadeh A, Mazandarani HR and Zaidi H "Low dose brain PET imaging using denoising diffusion probabilistic models" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Asadi A, Hosseini SA, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Performance of the B2O3-Bi2O3-Zno-Li2O glasses for gamma radiation" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Hosseini SA, Asadi A, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Development of the theoretical relationship between the electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) intensity and absorbed dose by Alanine" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Hosseini MS, Aghamiri SMR, Azimi MS, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Evaluation and simulation of a sample pixelated detector aimed at use in mammography application in synchrotron medical beamline" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022

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Dorri Giv M, Dabbagh Kakhki VR, Noroozbeigi N, Bakhshi Golestani Z, Aghaee A, Dadgar H, Mostafapour S, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Assessment of deep learning-based attenuation correction in the image domain for 68Ga-PSMA PET imaging using artifact-free dataset" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Sanaei B, Faghihi R, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Standard-dose PET prediction from low-dose versions: Investigation of post-reconstruction denoising filters as prior knowledge in a deep learning solution" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Ghareei Inchehbroun F, Nodehi A, Ehsanirad A, Alibegli M, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Role of neural network architectures and loss functions in semantic segmentation of medical images" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Ahmadyar Razlighi Y, Kamali-Asl A, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Automated pulmonary nodule detection from different levels of low-dose CT images using 3D convolutional networks" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Maleki F, Karimian A, Ashrafi SS, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Joint region of interest detection and bone age estimation from radiograph of the hand" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Mehrban Pajouh G, Kamali-Asl A, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Automatic segmentation of prostate and its anatomical sub-regions from MR images using a novel ResUnet model" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Karimzadeh R, Khodabakhsh A, Bagher M, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Generative adversarial-based framework for classification using imbalanced data: Application to pneumonia detection in chest radiographs" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Hosseini MS, Aghamiri SMR, Fatemi Ardekani A, Bagherimofidi SM, Azimi MS, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Non-quadratic regularization parameters selection for model-based geometrical distortion correction of MR images" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Hosseini MS, Aghamiri SMR, Fatemi Ardekani A, Bagherimofidi SM, Azimi MS, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Evaluation of the non-quadratic model-based reconstruction method for geometrical distortion correction in MR imaging using Pari Head QC phantom" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022

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Hosseini MS, Azimi MS, Shahzadeh S, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Supervised classification of mean diffusivity in Substantia Nigra for Parkinson's disease diagnosis" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Asadi A, Hosseini SA, Akhavanallaf A, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Dosimetric comparison of passive scattering and active scanning proton therapy methods using GATE simulations" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Azimi MS, Hosseini MS, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Dual-energy material discrimination using beam spectra obtained from depth dose analysis" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Arabi H and Zaidi H "Noise-to-noise model training for noise reduction in PET imaging using multiple image reconstructions" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Karimzadeh R, Arabi H, Fatemizadeh E and Zaidi H "Topology-based cost function: A novel approach for organ delineation from medical images with deep learning methods" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Shirkhani Z, Kamali-Asl A, Jahangir R, Arabi H and Zaidi H "A dedicated neural network for automated segmentation of prostate gland from PET images" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Azimi MS, Hosseini MS, Shahzadeh S, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Early detection of Parkinson's disease based on diffusion tensor imaging and deep learning" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Azimi MS, Hosseini MS, Shahzadeh S, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Attention-based deep neural network for early detection of Parkinson's disease using diffusion tensor imaging" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Arabi H and Zaidi H "Inclusive-exclusive model training framework to jointly perform semantic segmentation and uncertainty map estimation" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Arabi H and Zaidi H "Model training in the transform domain versus spatial domain for noise suppression in low-dose PET imaging" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Ahmadyar Razlighi Y, Kamali-Asl A, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Automated pulmonary nodules detection from CT images using hierarchical YOLO v5s and 3D convolutional neural network classifier" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022

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Arabi H and Zaidi H "Semantic organ segmentation using regression solutions (loss functions) based on organ distance map" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Arabi H and Zaidi H "Contrastive learning versus deformable data augmentation in semantic organ segmentation" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Shabanpour M, Arabi H and Zaidi H "Graph-based analysis of age-related changes in the functional regions of the brain using functional MRI data" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Arabi H and Zaidi H "A novel self-learning approach based on object completion concept: Evaluation for lesion segmentation from MR images" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Arabi H and Zaidi H "Confidence score estimation in machine learning-based automated lesion segmentation from PET images" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Shiri I, Sanaat A, Amini M, Hajianfar G, Mansouri Z, Saberi A, Salimi Y and Zaidi H "DSLS-PET: Unsupervised deep generative simulator for realistic PET lesion synthesis" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Milan, Italy, 5-12 November 2022.

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Andrearczyk V, Oreiller V, Akhavanallaf A, Balermpas P, Boughdad S, Capriotti L, Castelli J, Cheze Le Rest C, Decazes P, Dias-Correia R, Elhalawani H, Fuller CD, Jreige M, La Greca A, Mohamed A, Naser M, Prior JO, Ruan S, Tanadini-Lang S, Tankyevych O, Salimi Y, Vallieres M, Vera P, Visvikis D, Wahid K, Zaidi H, Hatt M, and Depeursinge A "Overview of the HECKTOR challenge at MICCAI 2022: Automatic head and neck tumor segmentation and outcome prediction in PET/CT" HECKTOR 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Cham (2023), pp 1-30.

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Polson L, Klyuzhin I, Yuan R, Martin M, Shiri I, Zaidi H, Uribe C, Rahmim A "Clinician-interactive AI for RECIST measurements in CT imaging" SPIE Medical Imaging Meeting, Physics of Medical Imaging, San Diego, CA, USA, 19 - 23 February 2023, Vol 12463, pp 124633N.

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Zhao H, Young P, Pineda J, Hitzel A Heeman F, Axelsson J, Collij LE, Sanaat A, Balzan AN, Perissinotti A, Lubberink M, Frisoni G, Zaidi H, Barkhof F, Farrar G, Baker S, Gispert JD, Garibotto V, Rieckmann A, Pereira J, Giovanni G and Michael Schöll "Standard-dose PET image synthesis from low-dose images using a GAN-transformer" Proc. SPIE PC12655, Emerging Topics in Artificial Intelligence (ETAI), San Diego, USA, 18-22 August 2023, pp PC126551B.

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Sanaat A, Mazandarani HR, Amini M, Mansouri Z, Salimi Y, Shiri I, Zaidi H "Diffusion probabilistic models-guided partial volume correction in brain PET imaging without using prior anatomical information" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 4-11 November 2023.

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Salmanpour M, Shiri I, Hosseinzadeh M, Zaidi H, Ashrafinia S, Oveisi M, Rahmim A "ViSERA: Visualized & standardized environment for radiomics analysis - A shareable, executable, and reproducible workflow generator" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 4-11 November 2023.

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Hatami A, Hamzian N, Seif SR, Arabi H, Zaidi H "Evaluation of Convolutional Neural Networks in the classification of myocardial perfusion images" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 4-11 November 2023.

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Saberi A, Shiri I, Khateri M, Jenabi E, Salimi Y, Geramifar P, Zaidi H "Fine-tuned BERT language model for efficient nuclear medicine data retrieval" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 4-11 November 2023.

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Amini M, Saberi A, Sanaat A, Arabi H, Doroud K, Williams C, Zaidi H "Performance evaluation of Pro-HeadPET: A brain dedicated PET scanner with time of flight and depth of interaction capabilities" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 4-11 November 2023.

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Bagheri S, Khajetash B, Hajianfar G, Mahdavi SR, Nikoofar A, Shiri I, Zaidi H "Early sticky saliva complications prediction using CT radiomic features and machine learning" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 4-11 November 2023.

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Bagheri S, Salahshour F, Taherzadeh M, Rasouli A, Shayesteh S, Hajianfar G, Shiri I, Zaidi H "Non-invasive pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor grading using CT radiomics and machine learning" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 4-11 November 2023.

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Khajetash B, Bagheri S, Hajianfar G, MahdaviShiri SR, Shiri I, Zaidi H "Late sticky saliva complications prediction using MRI radiomics: Impact of harmonization in multi-centric datasets" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 4-11 November 2023.

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Faraji S, Nasseri S, Vosoughi H, Emami F, Geramifar P, Vosoughi Z, Hajianfar G, Shiri I, Zaidi H "Radiogenomics analysis of breast cancer using 18F-FDG-PET/CT: multicentre machine learning study" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 4-11 November 2023.

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Gorji A, Hosseinzadeh M, Jouzdani AF, Sanati N, Yousefirizi F, Moore S, Leung B, Ho C, Shiri, I, Salman M, Zaidi H, Rahmim A, Salmanpour MR "Region-of-interest and handcrafted vs. deep radiomics feature comparisons for survival outcome prediction: Application to lung PET/CT imaging" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 4-11 November 2023.

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Sharifian P, Karimian A, Arabi H, Zaidi H "Anatomical brain regions segmentation from MR images using global and local deep learning networks" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 4-11 November 2023.

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Gharibi O, Sabouri M, Hajianfar G, Mohebi M, Amini M, Bagheri S, Arian F, Yasemi MJ, Bitarafan-Rajabi A, Zaidi H, Rahmim A, Shiri I, "Maximizing the predictive power of radiomic features in SPECT images: A comparative study of reconstruction algorithms using machine learning" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 4-11 November 2023.

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Amini M, Salimi Y, Sabouri M, Hajianfar G, Sanaat A, Hervier E, Mainta I, Rahmim A, Shiri I, Zaidi H "Auto-PET-IQA: A fully automated region-specific PET image quality assessment tool" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 4-11 November 2023.

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Vosoughi Z, Hamzian N, Geramifar P, Vosoughi H, Emami F, Faraji S, Hajianfar G, Shiri I, Zaidi H "Non-invasive Gleason scoring in prostate cancer using [68Ga]PSMA-PET/CT radiomics and machine learning" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 4-11 November 2023.

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Seif SR, Arabi H, Zaidi H "Assessment of transformer networks for brain tumor segmentation from multi-parametric MR images" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 4-11 November 2023.

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Ahmadi M, Barzegar-Golmoghani E, Mohseni M, Ghaffari Jolfayi A, Alizadehasl A, Bitarafan Rajabi A, Mohebi M, Zaidi H, Shiri I "Echocardiography radiomics features for cardiotoxicity prediction in cancer patients using interpretable machine learning algorithms" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 4-11 November 2023.

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Sadati E, Hashemi B, Mahdavi SR, Nikoufar A, Mofid B, Abdollahi H, Hajianfar G, Shiri I, Zaidi H "Radiation-induced cystitis perediction in prostate cancer due to IMRT based on 3D CT radiomics and dosiomics" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 4-11 November 2023.

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Sadati E, Hashemi B, Mahdavi SR, Nikoufar A, Mofid B, Abdollahi H, Hajianfar G, Shiri I, Zaidi H "Rectal toxicity prediction in prostate cancer radiation therapy using CT radiomic and 3D dose distribution dosomic features" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 4-11 November 2023.

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Zohdi H, Mohebi M, Alemzadeh-Ansari MJ, Alizadehasl A, Bitarafan Rajabi A, Momeni H, Zaidi H, Shiri I "Machine learning-based predictive models for transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) outcomes: Improving procedural success and patient care" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 4-11 November 2023.

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Yasemi MJ, Hajianfar G, Sabouri M, Reihani B, Bitarafan-Rajabi A, Jamshidi Araghi Z, Zaidi H, Shiri I "Automated diastolic dysfunction diagnosis in gated myocardial perfusion imaging SPECT using deep learning" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 4-11 November 2023.

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Yasemi MJ, Hajianfar G, Sabouri M, Reihani B, Bitarafan-Rajabi A, Jamshidi Araghi Z, Zaidi H, Shiri "Automated diastolic dysfunction diagnosis in gated myocardial perfusion imaging SPECT using deep learning" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 4-11 November 2023.

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Mohebi M, Barzegar-Golmoghani E, Almasi K, Alemzadeh-Ansari MJ, Alizadehasl A, Bitarafan Rajabi A, Orooji M, Zaidi H, Shiri I "Building a robust predictive radiomics model for myocardial perfusion SPECT: Leveraging reproducible radiomics features for improved accuracy and reliability" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 4-11 November 2023.

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Taghizadeh M, Sabouri M, Hajianfar G, Ahmadi M, Alemzadeh Ansari MJ, Bitarafan-Rajabi A, Zaidi H, Shiri I "Pressure wireless fractional flow eeserve (FFR) prediction using angiographic radiomic and machine learning" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 4-11 November 2023.

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Ehsandoust H, Sabouri M, Gharibi O, Bitarafan-Rajabi A, Zaidi H, Shiri I "Design and manufacture of a novel nuclear medicine phantom for extrinsic uniformity test" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 4-11 November 2023.

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Mohebi M, Almasi K, Alemzadeh-Ansari MJ, Alizadehasl A, Bitarafan Rajabi A, M. Orooji M, Shiri I, Zaidi H "Myocardial perfusion SPECT imaging delta-radiomics for percutaneous coronary intervention post-revascularization ejection fraction prediciton" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 4-11 November 2023.

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Hajianfar G, Rasouli A, Bagheri S, Ahmadzade AM, Shiri I, Zaidi H "Non-invasive prostate cancer diagnosis using ultrasound radiomics and machine learning algorithms" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 4-11 November 2023.

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Hajianfar G, Bagheri S, Askari E, Sabouri M, Aghaei A, Eyvazkhani T, Rasouli A, Shiri I, Zaidi H "Automatic renal cortical defect detection in Tc-99 DMSA scintigraphy using multi-view deep learning" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 4-11 November 2023.

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Hajianfar G, Bagheri S, Gharibi O, Mousavi SA, Aminzadeh B, Sabouri M, Shiri I, Zaidi H "Automatic scaphoid fracture detection in radiography by aid of interpretable deep learning" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 4-11 November 2023.

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Salimi Y, Mansouri Z, Sanaat A, Amini M, Shiri I, Zaidi H "Fully automated abdominal CT contrast media phase detection using organ segmentation and machine learning" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 4-11 November 2023.

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Amini M, Salimi Y, Mansouri Z, Saberi A, Shiri I, Zaidi H "Density dedicated deep learning model for mammogram mass segmentation" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 4-11 November 2023.

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Sanaat A, Mazandarani HR, Amini M, Mansouri Z, Salimi Y, Shiri I, Zaidi H "Brain PET partial volume correction without using prior anatomical information based on diffusion probabilistic models" IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 4-11 November 2023.

Published abstracts

Zaidi H, B-A. Jonsson, and S. Mattsson "Organ volume quantitation by means of SPECT: Analysis of different correction techniques and collimator selection". Abstract of the World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering. Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL. Physics in Medicine and Biology, pp 728 (1994).

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Merdas H, Zaidi H, A. Saoucha, and MA. Flower "Accurate determination of I-124 concentrating volume using MWPC PET images". Abstract of the World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering. Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL. Physics in Medicine and Biology pp 726 (1994)

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K. Meghzifene, N. Ighilahriz, M. Belmessaoud, S. Bairi, and Zaidi H "Diagnostic X-Ray performance: A survey in Algiers" Abstract of the World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering. Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL. Physics in Medicine and Biology pp 328 (1994)

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Zaidi H, "SPECTPLAN: A Quantitative SPECT Imaging-based 3-D dosimetry methodology for use in radioimmunotherapy treatment planning". In 6th World Congress of Nuclear Medicine and Biology. Sydney, AUSTRALIA. Eur. J. Nucl. Med. (Supplement) pp 75 (1994)

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Zaidi H, "Reflections on International Collaboration in Medical Physics". In V International Conference on Applications of Physics in Medicine and Biology. Trieste, ITALY. Physica Medica Vol. XII, No. 3, pp 197 (1996)

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Zaidi H, "Advanced Educational Uses of the World-Wide Web in Medical Physics". Oral Presentation In The World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Nice, FRANCE, 14-19 September 1997. Medical and Biological Engineering & Computing, Vol 35 (Supplement, Part 2), pp 1242 (1997)
Display the slides of the presentation

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Belluzzo D, V.Bettinardi, M.C.Gilardi, F.Fazio, T.Spinks, K, Thielemans, C.Morel, C.Labbe, Zaidi H, R.Levkowitz, A.Bental, M.Jacobson, G.Mitra, D.S.Hague, P.Valente, A.Zverovich, M.Wilks, S.Kaiser, C.Rietbrock "Parallel PETscan system (PARAPET)". in Conf. Proc Consorzio Interuniversitario, Istituto Nazionale Biostrutture e Biosistemi, 3J Convegno Nazionale, Venezia 26-28 Novembre 1998, pp V (1998)

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Zaidi H, C. Labbe, and C. Morel "Applications of Monte Carlo techniques in positron emission tomography" Oral presentation at the Annual meeting of the Swiss Physical Society, Berne 25-26 February 1999, Switzerland.

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Zaidi H, "Comparative evaluation of five scatter correction techniques for 3D PET imaging" Oral Presentation at the Annual Congress of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine, Paris, France - September 2-6 2000, Eur. J. Nucl. Med. Vol 8, pp 1001 (2000)

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Zaidi H, "Parameterisation of the scatter component in 3D PET: A Monte Carlo study". Oral presentation at the 2nd annual congress of the Swiss Society of Nuclear Medicine (SSNM), Lugano, Switzerland 17-19 Mai 2001. Nuklearmedizin Vol 40, pp A125 (2001)

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Zaidi H, "Further investigation of the effect of the photon cross section library on the simulation of PET data". Poster presentation at the 2nd annual congress of the Swiss Society of Nuclear Medicine (SSNM), Lugano, Switzerland 17–19 Mai 2001. Nuclearmedizin Vol 40, pp A128 (2001)

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Zaidi H, C. Laemmli, M. Allaoua, P. Gries, D. O. Slosman "Optimizing attenuation correction in clinical cerebral 3D PET: which method to use?" Annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, Toronto, Canada - June 23-27 2001, J. Nucl. Med. Vol 42, pp 195-196P (2001)

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Zaidi H, M Diaz-Gomez, M-L Montandon, DO Slosman, "Magnetic resonance imaging-guided attenuation correction in 3D brain positron emission tomography" (2002)8th International Conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain, June 2-6, 2002, Sendai, JAPAN. Available on CD-Rom in NeuroImage, Vol. 16, No. 2 Abstract No 504

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M-L Montandon, Zaidi H, M Diaz-Gomez, DO Slosman, "Experimental evaluation of SPM analyses in PET neuroactivation studies" (2002) 8th International Conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain, June 2-6, 2002, Sendai, JAPAN. Available on CD-Rom in NeuroImage, Vol. 16, No. 2 Abstract No 501

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M-L Montandon, Zaidi H, and DO Slosman, "Statistical parametric mapping based assessment of the impact of model-based scatter correction on 18F-FDG 3D brain PET in healthy subjects" Annual Congress of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam, The Netherlands- August 23-28 2003, Eur. J. Nucl. Med. Mol. Imaging, Vol 30, Suppl 2, pp S292.
Poster Prize Nominee and selected for presentation in the Highlights of EANM2003

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M R Ay, M Adib and Zaidi H, "Development of a Monte Carlo simulation package for scintillation cameras operating in single-photon and coincidence imaging modes" Annual Congress of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam, The Netherlands- August 23-28 2003, Eur. J. Nucl. Med. Mol. Imaging, Vol 30, Suppl 2, pp S326-327.

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Zaidi H, M-L Montandon, and DO Slosman, "Effect of the attenuation map on quantitative analysis of clinical 3D brain PET images" Annual Congress of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam, The Netherlands- August 23-28 2003, Eur. J. Nucl. Med. Mol. Imaging, Vol 30, Suppl 2, pp S331.

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Montandon M-L, Ruest T and Zaidi H, "Transmission template-guided attenuation correction in 3D brain PET" 51st Annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 19-23, 2004, J. Nucl. Med. Vol 45, Suppl No 5, 160P

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Zaidi H, T Ruest, F Schoenahl, and M-L Montandon, "Comparative assessment of brain MR image segmentation algorithms and their impact on partial volume effect correction in PET " 52nd Annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, Toronto, Canada, June 18-22, 2005, J Nucl Med. Vol 46, No 5, Supplement 2, 454P.

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D Soloviev, C Tamburella, S Albrecht, Miralbell R, Zaidi H, Vees H, Ratib O and Buchegger F, "Captive solvent ¹¹C-acetate synthesis in GMP conditions". ESRR'06 - European Symposium on Radioph