BACKGROUND Macrolane is a stabilized, hyaluronic acid-based gel that has been available since 2007 as a minimally invasive, nonpermanent option for breast enhancement. However, numerous controversies pertaining to its side effects have highlighted the need for studies involving larger groups of patients. OBJECTIVES The authors sought to determine complications of Macrolane injections for brea...

A novel data augmentation method suitable for wearable sensor data is proposed. Although numerous studies have revealed the importance of the data augmentation to improve the accuracy and robustness in machine-learning tasks, the data augmentation method that is applicable to wearable sensor data have not been well studied. Unlike the conventional data augmentation methods, which are mainly dev...

Aortic augmentation index, a measure of central systolic blood pressure augmentation arising mainly from pressure-wave reflection, increases with vascular aging. The augmentation index is influenced by aortic pulse-wave velocity (related to aortic stiffness) and by the site and extent of wave reflection. To clarify the relative influence of pulse-wave velocity and wave reflection on the augment...

BACKGROUND Breast augmentation with subglandular versus subpectoral implants may differentially impact the early detection of breast cancer and treatment recommendations. The authors assessed the impact of prior augmentation on the diagnosis and management of breast cancer in women undergoing mastectomy. METHODS Breast cancer diagnosis and management were retrospectively analyzed in all women...

Global Navigation Satellite (GPS) system has gradually come of age and has found itself a place as standard Navigation equipment in most aircraft. However, data from a GPS Receiver is not reliable enough for it to be used as a primary or sole source of navigation information. As a result GPS only system is allowed to be used only as a supplemental means of navigation for aircraft in the less cr...

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks have made an incredible progress in many Computer Vision tasks. This progress, however, often relies on the availability of large amounts training data, required to prevent over-fitting, which domains entails significant cost manual data labeling. An alternative approach is application augmentation (DA) techniques that aim at model regularization by creating a...

To enable the apple picking robot to quickly and accurately detect apples under complex background in orchards, we propose an improved You Only Look Once version 4 (YOLOv4) model data augmentation methods. Firstly, crawler technology is utilized collect pertinent images from Internet for labeling. For problem of insufficient image caused by random occlusion between leaves, addition traditional ...

Several recent papers have analyzed the potential threat of severe ionosphere spatial gradients on LAAS users [14]. To support this work, a comprehensive methodology has been developed to analyze WAAS Supertruth data as well as both raw and JPL-processed data from the IGS/CORS receiver network to search for anomalous gradients. Anomalous gradients that result from this method are used to popula...

The use of ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) repair with concomitant internal bracing for throwing athletes is a viable treatment option, but must take into account tear location, quality, the expected length athlete's career, desire to advance next level competition, and age. There has been increased interest in UCL injuries overhead due advancements surgical technique, as well improved technolo...