The aim of this review is to report on the value of 11C-choline PET imaging as a diagnostic procedure for metastasis-directed therapies. Furthermore, the role of 11C-choline PET/CT as a diagnostic tool for monitoring castration-resistant prostate cancer patients treated with systematic therapy is assessed. Finally, the role of 11C-choline PET/CT in the prediction of survival in both castration-...

This paper proposes an initialization for an agglomerative system applied to speaker diarization in the meeting environment. The initialization is based on a previous clustering of the temporal sequence generated by the estimation of the Time Delay of Arrival (TDOA) among pair of sensors. That initial clustering has the purpose of obtaining initial classes with speaker information from a sole s...

One solution to the integration of additional characteristics, e.g. time and scale, into GIS datasets is to model them as extra geometric dimensions perpendicular to the spatial ones, creating a higher-dimensional model. While this approach has been previously described and advocated, it is scarcely used in practice because of a lack of high-level construction algorithms and accompanying implem...

This report presents a concept design for the algorithms part of the STL and outlines the design of the supporting language mechanism. Both are radical simplifications of what was proposed in the C++0x draft. In particular, this design consists of only 41 concepts (including supporting concepts), does not require concept maps, and (perhaps most importantly) does not resemble template metaprogra...

Unit testing is an essential part in high quality software development. The prerequisite of the system-wide test is that all components are working correctly. Such components are checked by unit tests which are focused on small part of code. Unit tests are isolated from other code fragments and are frequently programmed by using third party tools. In this paper we show how to minimalize the num...

Trajectories, representing the movements of objects in the real world, carry significant stop/move semantics. The detection of trajectory stops poses a critical problem in the study of moving objects and becomes even more challenging due to the inevitable noise recorded along with true data. To extract stops with a variety of shapes and sizes from single trajectories with noise, this paper pres...

Background and Purpose: Annually affecting millions of women, vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC) is commonly described by signs and symptoms of vulvovaginal inflammation in the presence of Candida species. Today, the detection of the virulence factors plays a major role in the understanding of pathogenesis of candidiasis and helps produce new anticandidial drugs to improve its treatment efficiency....