UNLABELLED For cardiovascular research on rodents, small-animal PET has limitations because of the inherent spatial resolution of the system and because of cardiac motion. A factor analysis (FA) technique for extracting the blood input function and myocardial time-activity curve from dynamic small-animal PET images of the rodent heart has been implemented to overcome these limitations. METHOD...

In this study, we investigated whether antler fermented with lactic acid bacteria (LAB) increases mitochondrial biogenesis and muscle strength in vitro vivo. LAB from a strain library were grown extract agar at the Yakult Central Research Institute of Korea. Isolated LAB, named Lactobacillus curvatus HY7602, used to ferment antlers. Analysis effects (FA) revealed that it enhanced insulin-like g...

• A novel heterogeneous multiview bayesian model for factor analysis. Include Sparse capabilities to automatically select the most relevant features. Work in a Semisupervised way handle unlabelled data as well missing values. It outperforms of state-of-the-art algorithms. Results show great versatility and an interpretability gain. The Bayesian approach feature extraction, known analysis (FA), ...

This paper aims to illustrate a novel approach of complex disease prediction, exemplified by a coronary artery disease (CAD) study that we have developed. This multidisciplinary approach straddles fields of microarray technology and genetics, neural networks (NN), data mining and machine learning, as well as traditional statistical analysis techniques, namely principal components analysis (PCA)...

BACKGROUND Prognostic tools to predict early postoperative motor function recovery (MFR) after thoracolumbar intervertebral disk herniation (IVDH) in paraplegic dogs represent an opportunity to timely implement novel therapies that could shorten recovery times and diminish permanent neurological dysfunctions. HYPOTHESIS Fractional anisotropy (FA) values obtained using diffusion tensor imaging...

Interrelations between cytokines, produced by invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC) and fibroadenoma (FA) of the breast, and angiogenic growth factor VEGF-A, expressed in IDC and FA, were investigated. The analysis of the cytokine profiles of IDC and FA was performed by cultivation of tumor biopsy specimens in vitro. Testing of the cytokine-producing reserve of the tumors for production of VEGF-A was...

The long-term effects of blast exposure are a major health concern for combat veterans returning from the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. We used an optimized diffusion tensor imaging tractography algorithm to assess white matter (WM) fractional anisotropy (FA) in blast-exposed Iraq and Afghanistan veterans (n = 40) scanned on average 3.7 years after deployment/trauma exposure. Vetera...

INTRODUCTION The middle longitudinal fascicle (MdLF) is a long association fiber connecting the superior temporal gyrus (STG) and temporal pole with the angular gyrus through the white matter of the STG, structures which are known to play a crucial role in the pathology of schizophrenia. Functions of MdLF are thought to be related to language and thought processing in the left hemisphere, and w...

Radar high-resolution range profiles (HRRPs) are typical high-dimensional and interdimension dependently distributed data, the statistical modeling of which is a challenging task for HRRP-based target recognition. Supposing that HRRP samples are independent and jointly Gaussian distributed, a recent work [Du L, Liu H W, Bao Z. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2008, 56(5): 1931–1944] appl...

This paper presents a new factor analyzed (FA) similarity measure between two Gaussian mixture models (GMMs). An adaptive hidden Markov model (HMM) topology is built to compensate the pronunciation variations in speech recognition. Our idea aims to evaluate whether the variation of a HMM state from new speech data is significant or not and judge if a new state should be generated in the models....