Objective(s): In this study, we aimed to evaluate the efficacy of thyroid volume measurement using 99mTc pertechnetate single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) images, acquired by the standardized uptake value (SUV)-shape scheme designed by our expert team.Methods: A total of 18 consecutive patients with Graves’ disease (GD) were subjected to both ultrasonographic and 99mTc pertechnet...

An Automatic Commercial Search Application for TV Broadcasting Using Audio Fingerprinting (August 2012) Yaohua Song, B.S., University of Science and Technology of China Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Zixiang Xiong Nowadays, TV advertising is an important part of our daily life. However, it is usually hard for organizations that produce and pay for the advertisements to confirm whether their c...

Motion capture cannot generate cartoon-style animation directly. We emulate the rubber-like exaggerations common in traditional character animation as a means of converting motion capture data into cartoon-like movement. We achieve this using trajectory-based motion exaggeration while allowing the violation of link-length constraints. We extend this technique to obtain smooth, rubber-like motio...

Techniques to simulate hair in virtual humans focus on hair modeling, hair animation and hair rendering. We propose a system for modeling and animating in real time using standard OpenGL on commodity graphic cards. For styling, we propose a paint tool to determine a set of gray scale images that allow us to establish hair density and hair length values, as well as other useful parameters, and f...

Purpose: This study was aimed to assess the health literacy of COVID-19 for both knowledge level on Covid-19 and protocol compliance by medical non-medical student. Method: rapid action research conducted from July-August 2020. Respondents were Indonesian students who voluntarily fulfilled online questionnaire. A total 208 respondents participated in this (104 each group). Data analysis perform...

background: trichomoniasis, caused by trichomonas vaginalis , is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections in the world. diagnosis of t. vaginalis is performed by different methods, including wet mount, culture, serological methods and pcr, which required laboratory equipments and expert laboratory personnel. the aim of this study was evaluation of immunochromatographic strip test ...

Objective Female sex is a known risk factor for cardiac surgery, and tricuspid valve (TV) disease is more common in women. There are few data on sex-stratified surgical outcomes for isolated TV surgery. An administrative database was used to compare acute in-hospital outcomes between men and women undergoing isolated TV surgery. Methods Patients aged >18 who underwent TV repair or replacement...

quality grading and nutrition value determination of fish are. nowadays necessary for aquatic processing. the present study was conducted to investigate a new, applied and cheap method of fillet quality grading for common carp (cyprinus carpio) using fish size, based on mathematical equations. for this reason, 61 specimens of cultured market size carp were used and after filleting, their moistu...