BACKGROUND We compared outcomes after breast-conserving therapy (BCT) and mastectomy in multicentric (MC)/multifocal (MF) versus unifocal breast cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS Women with stage I-II disease were classified as having unifocal or MC/MF disease. MC/MF and other prognostic factors were compared using binary logistic regression analysis. Univariate and multivariate analyses (MVAs) fo...

This paper concerns message passing based approaches to sparse Bayesian learning (SBL) with a linear model corrupted by additive white Gaussian noise with unknown variance. With the conventional factor graph, mean field (MF) message passing based algorithms have been proposed in the literature. In this work, instead of using the conventional factor graph, we modify the factor graph by adding so...

Matrix factorization (MF) and Autoencoder (AE) are among the most successful approaches of unsupervised learning. While MF based models have been extensively exploited in the graph modeling and link prediction literature, the AE family has not gained much attention. In this paper we investigate both MF and AE’s application to the link prediction problem in sparse graphs. We show the connection ...

In current scenario of modern technology, we are facing a necessity of noise removal in signal processing. Various approaches are used for the same. This paper describes an intelligent adaptive filtering for noise cancellation. Here ANFIS method is being used for removal of noise from audio speech signals. An audio signal contaminated with noise is taken and inspected with eight types of member...

BACKGROUND The knowledge of the exact location of the mental foramen (MF) in dentate and edentulous mandibles is clinically important when constructing complete dentures, performing anaesthetic block of the lower-anterior teeth area and intervening in the MF nearby area. In edentulous mandibles, the bone resorption after teeth loss makes the mental nerve (MN) prone to damage due to the extreme ...

Using computer-aided modular fixture (CAMF) system to fixture configuration and assembly could save time and be efficient. The MF element library (MFEL) was generally connected with a certain special CAD system, so data exchange should be carried out if different CAD platforms shared it. The MF graphics were divided into many elements, then CSG-based method was used to draw the MF graphics, bas...

Plasticity of feedforward inhibition in the hippocampal mossy fiber (MF) pathway can dramatically influence dentate gyrus-CA3 dialog. Interestingly, MF inputs to CA3 stratum lucidum interneurons (SLINs) undergo long-term depression (LTD) following high-frequency stimulation (HFS), in contrast to MF-pyramid (PYR) synapses, where long-term potentiation (LTP) occurs. Furthermore, activity-induced ...