In this paper, we present an approach to construct an optical character recognition (OCR) system for recognizing rotated printed Chinese characters. Our system includes preprocessing, feature extraction, candidates selection, and target character recognition. The proposed system has a three-stage structure designed mainly to reduce the time complexity in the recognition process. Our goal is to ...

To asses the role of virus load in the pathogenesis of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome, the serum Dobrava virus RNA load in 46 patients was measured with a novel quantitative real-time reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction assay and compared to the disease severity. The level of viremia, detected in 26 patients, ranged from 10(2)-10(8) copies/mL of serum. The patients with sever...

In the US, more people are diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma (BCC) than any other cancer, but treatment of advanced tumors is frequently complicated by drug resistance. Interestingly, 20-29% human BCC reported to shrink spontaneously in absence through an unknown mechanism. With case studies suggesting a role for immune activation this tumor regression, we hypothesize that T cells recruited g...