Histogram skewness is useful and easily computed in neural hardware

Is Feature-Oriented Verification Useful for Hardware?

The structure of designs too often fails verification. Isolating fragments of designs that impact a particular property can make verification significantly more tractable. Because performing this isolation is challenging, verifiers often rely on the modular structure of the design for guidance. Unfortunately, the portions of designs that impact properties often span several modules. As a result...

Histogram analysis- a useful tool for tissue characterization in brain CT

Introduction: Pixel value in computed tomography (CT) gives the average linear attenuation coefficient of the scanned material in the path of the x-ray beam, being normalized to that of water. It is known that attenuation coefficient or HU value is a function of the chemical characteristic of the material and of the x-ray energy. The CT image shows the HU value by a shade of gr...

Gastric Adenocarcinoma: Is Computed Tomography (CT) Useful in Preoperative Staging?

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Although multiple studies testing the accuracy of CT in the preoperative staging of gastric adenocarcinoma have been carried out, their results are controversial. Whilst some authors claim that CT is an accurate method for preoperatively staging gastric cancer, others have advocated the contrary. Because of this discrepancy we have retrospectively reviewed preoperative CT...

Thyroxin Is Useful to Improve Sperm Motility

Objective The aim of this study was to evaluate the non-genomic action of thyroxin on sperm kinetic and its probable use to improve sperm recovery after applying an enrichment method like “swim-up” in comparison with the available one, pentoxifylline. MaterialsAndMethods This is an experimental study. A total of 50 patients were recruited, followed by infertility consultation. Conventional sper...

Is computed tomography of the head useful before lumbar puncture?