BACKGROUND Approximately 100,000 persons with sickle cell disease (SCD) live in the United States, including 15,000 in the Midwest. Unfortunately, many patients experience poor health outcomes due to limited access to primary care providers (PCPs) who are prepared to deliver evidence-based SCD care. Sickle Treatment and Outcomes Research in the Midwest (STORM) is a regional network established ...

We describe a combined nonlinear acoustic echo cancellation and residual echo suppression system. The echo canceler uses parallel Hammerstein branches consisting of fixed nonlinear basis functions and linear adaptive filters. The residual echo suppressor uses an Artificial Neural Network for modeling of the residual echo spectrum from spectral features computed from the far-end signal. We show ...

Introduction: In most fMRI studies, subject motion is assumed to be restricted to such a small amount that susceptibility-induced distortions can be treated as stationary and independent from motion. However, the ultimate goal of this project is to enable fMRI studies during significant head motion by applying prospective motion correction techniques [1]. In this regime, the motion dependence o...

In this paper, we will first take assess of 25 years of interactive real-time music, and introduce the problem of preservation of this music for the future generations, that is to say its ability to be re-performed, and not only to preserve the recordings. We present the state of the art in the field of active preservation of real-time works. We then give an overview of the solutions developed ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE There is a paucity of literature that supports the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers guideline that proton density MR imaging is a core spinal cord sequence. We hypothesized that proton density fast spin-echo imaging is superior to T2 fast spin-echo MR imaging for the detection of cervical cord MS lesions. This study compared the detection rate and conspicuity of c...

The Speex project has been started in 2002 to address the need for a free, open-source speech codec. Speex is based on the Code Excited Linear Prediction (CELP) algorithm and, unlike the previously existing Vorbis codec, is optimised for transmitting speech for low latency communication over an unreliable packet network. This paper presents an overview of Speex, the technology involved in it an...

BACKGROUND AND METHODS In order to provide guidance for using measurements of left ventricular (LV) volume and ejection fraction (LVEF) from different echocardiographic methods a PubMed review was performed on studies that reported reference values in normal populations for two-dimensional (2D ECHO) and three-dimensional (3D ECHO) echocardiography, nuclear imaging, cardiac computed tomography, ...

We present a method to project time-bin qutrits stored in an echo-based quantum memory using several successive partial readouts of the memory. demonstrate how this scheme can be used implement projections onto full set mutually unbiased bases and, therefore, enables characterization arbitrary states. Further, we study integration protocol for case atomic frequency comb spin-wave storage by sim...