BACKGROUND & AIMS Early oral nutrition (EON) has been shown to improve recovery of gastrointestinal function, length of stay and mortality after abdominal surgery; however, early oral nutrition often fails during the first week after surgery. Here, a multi-modal early oral nutrition program is introduced to promote recovery of gastrointestinal function and tolerance of oral nutrition. METHODS...

The multiresolution approach is commonly used to speed up the mutual-information (MI) based registration process. Conventionally, a Gaussian pyramid is often used as a multiresolution representation. However, in multi-modal medical image registration, MI-based methods with Gaussian pyramid may suffer from the problem of short capture ranges especially at the lower resolution levels. This paper ...