Research field (2)：
Biomedical engineering
, Biomedical engineering
Research keywords (5)：
Computer-aided surgery
, Computer-aided diagnosis
, Medical image analysis
, Statistical shape analysis
, Machine learning
Research theme for competitive and other funds (7)：
2021 - 2024 Data-driven CT image harmonization and hierarchical modeling in multi-institutional databases for musculoskeletal disease analysis
2021 - 2024 Automated organ segmentation in 3D medical images: Is uncertainty estimation by artificial intelligence useful for improving accuracy?
2019 - 2023 Decision support for total hip arthroplasty surgery by integration of deep learning, simulations, and statistical models
2019 - 2021 Explicit shape knowledge-based feature augmentation for disease progression analysis: application in liver fibrosis prediction
2016 - 2019 Estimation of patient-specific muscle fiber arrangement using clinical CT and statistical modeling of the fiber arrangement
2014 - 2019 Fundamental Technologies for Integration of Function and Pathology in Multidisciplinary Computational Anatomy
2016 - 2018 Differential-Topology-Based Optimization of High Precision Radiation Treatment Planning in Multi-Variate Functions
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Papers (20)：
Yi Gu, Yoshito Otake, Keisuke Uemura, Mazen Soufi, Masaki Takao, Hugues Talbot, Seiji Okada, Nobuhiko Sugano, Yoshinobu Sato. Bone mineral density estimation from a plain X-ray image by learning decomposition into projections of bone-segmented computed tomography. Medical Image Analysis. 2023. 90. 102970-102970
D. Morita, S. Mazen, S. Tsujiko, Y. Otake, Y. Sato, T. Numajiri. Deep-learning-based automatic facial bone segmentation using a two-dimensional U-Net. International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. 2023
Tetsuro Tani, Masaki Takao, Mazen Soufi, Yoshito Otake, Norio Fukuda, Hidetoshi Hamada, Keisuke Uemura, Yoshinobu Sato, Nobuhiko Sugano. Rotational-motion measurement of the sacroiliac joint using upright MRI scanning and intensity-based registration: is there a sex difference?. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery. 2023. 18. 1. 79-84
Makoto Iwasa, Masaki Takao, Mazen Soufi, Keisuke Uemura, Yoshito Otake, Hidetoshi Hamada, Yoshinobu Sato, Nobuhiko Sugano, Seiji Okada. Artificial intelligence-based volumetric analysis of muscle atrophy and fatty degeneration in patients with hip osteoarthritis and its correlation with health-related quality of life. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery. 2023. 18. 1. 71-78
Kimihiro Shimatani, Mazen Soufi, Yoshinobu Sato, Shingo Yamamoto, Akihiro Kanematsu. Why upright standing men urinate more efficiently than in supine position: A morphological analysis with real-time magnetic resonance imaging. Neurourology and urodynamics. 2022. 41. 5. 1074-1081
Yi Gu, Yoshito Otake, Keisuke Uemura, Masaki Takao, Mazen Soufi, Seiji Okada, Nobuhiko Sugano, Hugues Talbot, Yoshinobu Sato. Enhancing Quantitative Image Synthesis through Pretraining and Resolution Scaling for Bone Mineral Density Estimation from a Plain X-ray Image. 2024
Masachika Masuda, Mazen Soufi, Yoshito Otake, Keisuke Uemura, Sotaro Kono, Kazuma Takashima, Hidetoshi Hamada, Yi Gu, Masaki Takao, Seiji Okada, et al. Automatic hip osteoarthritis grading with uncertainty estimation from computed tomography using digitally-reconstructed radiographs. Int. J. Comput. Assist. Radiol. Surg. 2023. 19. 5. 903-915
Ganping Li, Yoshito Otake, Mazen Soufi, Masashi Taniguchi, Masahide Yagi, Noriaki Ichihashi, Keisuke Uemura, Masaki Takao, Nobuhiko Sugano, Yoshinobu Sato. Hybrid Representation-Enhanced Sampling for Bayesian Active Learning in Musculoskeletal Segmentation of Lower Extremities. CoRR. 2023. abs/2307.13986
Yi Gu, Yoshito Otake, Keisuke Uemura, Masaki Takao, Mazen Soufi, Yuta Hiasa, Hugues Talbot, Seiji Okata, Nobuhiko Sugano, Yoshinobu Sato. MSKdeX: Musculoskeletal (MSK) decomposition from an X-ray image for fine-grained estimation of lean muscle mass and muscle volume. MICCAI (7). 2023. abs/2305.19920. 497-507
Yi Gu, Yoshito Otake, Keisuke Uemura, Mazen Soufi, Masaki Takao, Nobuhiko Sugano, Yoshinobu Sato. BMD-GAN: Bone mineral density estimation using x-ray image decomposition into projections of bone-segmented quantitative computed tomography using hierarchical learning. Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2022 - 25th International Conference. 2022. abs/2207.03210. 644-654
Education (4)：
2014 - 2017 Kyushu University Department of Health Sciences Medical Quantum Science
2012 - 2014 Kyushu University Department of Health Sciences Medical Quantum Science
2012 - 2012 Kyushu University Department of Health Sciences Medical Quantum Science
2005 - 2011 Damascus University Faculty of Mechnical and Electrical Engineering Biomedical Engineering
Work history (3)：
2018/02 - 現在 Nara Institute of Science and Technology Division of Information Science Assistant Professor
