Recent research has suggested that there is no general similarity measure which can be applied parameter free on arbitrary databases. In contrast the optimal combination of similarity measures and parameters must be identified for each new image repository. This optimization loop is time consuming and depends on the experience of the designer as well as the knowledge of the medical expert. It w...

Using two new immunoradiometric assays for thyrotropin, we measured thyrotropin levels in serum of patients suffering from various clinically and biochemically diagnosed thyroid disorders, and in healthy controls. A thyroliberin Stimulation test was performed in all patients and controls. Thyrotropin levels were measured using a solid phase IRMA in 339 patients and a coated tube sandwich assay ...

This research work is to develop an efficient and powerful medical search engine to classify and search the radiographic medical images. It focuses on bag of visual words image representation and a similarity matching technique to represent match and retrieve the similar images. This work addresses the issues in content based image retrieval for medical images. In this system can handles differ...

Large efforts have been made for general applications of content-based image retrieval (CBIR). Established CBIRsystems globally evaluate color, texture, and also shape for retrieval. In medical imaging, local image characteristics are fundamental for image interpretation, which is based on a large amount of a-priori knowledge. Therefore, CBIR is rather seldom applied to medical images. Successf...

Seagrasses are threatened worldwide due to anthropogenic and natural disturbances disrupting the multiple feedbacks needed maintain these ecosystems. If disturbance is severe enough, seagrass systems may undergo a regime shift degraded system state that resistant recovery. In Florida Bay, Florida, United States, two recent, large-scale (a drought-induced die-off in 2015 Hurricane Irma 2017) hav...

This paper evaluates the contribution of waves to total predicted storm surges in a Hurricane Irma hindcast, using ADCIRC+SWAN and ADCIRC models. The is quantified by subtracting water levels hindcasted from those ADCIRC+SWAN, OWI meteorological forcing both Databases level time series, wave characteristic high-water marks are used validate model performance. Based on application our methodolog...

This investigation examined the hypothesis that acute heavy resistance exercise (AHRE) would increase overnight concentrations of circulating human growth hormone (hGH). Ten men (22 +/- 1 yr, 177 +/- 2 cm, 79 +/- 3 kg, 11 +/- 1% body fat) underwent two overnight blood draws sampled every 10 min from 1700 to 0600: a control and an AHRE condition. The AHRE was conducted from 1500 to 1700 and was ...

Two monoclonal antibodies (MAb 53, MAb D7) were produced, each having specificity for Factor VIII-related antigen (FVIIIR:Ag), but exhibiting no inhibitory effect on either procoagulant activity or the ability of von Willebrand factor to agglutinate platelets in the presence of the antibiotic ristocetin. For quantification of FVIIIR:Ag, we used the antibodies in a competitive enzyme-linked immu...