Brachytherapy targeted to the peripheral zone with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) guidance is a prostate cancer treatment option with potentially fewer complications than other treatments. Follow-up MRI when failure is suspected is, however, difficult because of radiation-induced changes. Furthermore, MR spectroscopy (MRS) is compromised by susceptibility artifacts from radioactive seeds in t...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of prebiopsy T2-weighted imaging (T2WI), quantitative diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI), and the combination of these magnetic resonance (MR) techniques (T2WI+DWI) in the detection and localization of peripheral zone prostate cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS T2WI and DWI (b value = 800 s/mm2) with an endorectal coil at 1.5 T were performed pr...

Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) for Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) are indispensable since traditional intrusion prevention based techniques are not strong enough to protect MANETs. However, the dynamic environment of MANETs makes the design and implementation of IDSs a very challenging task. In this paper, we present a non-overlapping Zone-Based Intrusion Detection System (ZBIDS) that fits...

An approach for detecting and tracking vehicles are proposed in these paper. Traffic safety applications using vehicle-to-vehicle communication is an emerging and promising area within the environment. By using a single rear-mounted fisheye camera and multiple detection algorithms to find the blind zone of the vehicle. It is driving safety supported system. Furthermore, the effects of fisheye d...

In this prospective, non-randomized phase-I clinical trial, we comparatively studied the performance of six laterally-directed biopsies or the modified fan-shaped biopsies (MFSB), midline sextant biopsies (MB), and transition zone biopsies (TZB) and examine their prostate cancer (PCa) detection rates. A total of 114 patients received combinations of MFSB, MB, and TZB based on prostate gland vol...

A documenZ can be divided inio zones on the basia of ils content. For ezample, a zone can be either tezt or non-tezt. This paper describes an algorithm to classify each given document zone into one of nine diflerent classes. Features for each zone such as run length mean and variance, spatial mean and variance, fraction of the total number of black pizels in the zone, and the zone width ratio f...

The hybrid capture II (HCII) assay is widely used in the detection of human papillomavirus virus (HPV). However, due to the limited number of HPV genotypes, it does not permit a comprehensive typing of viruses and "grey zone" (borderline negative or positive results) are often difficult to interpret. As such, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) should be used in parallel with HCII assays, and conse...