Background & Objective: Concentration of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) is a known risk factor for cardiovascular disease which is r...

The attempts to count the passing people by the image processing have been made some time ago. But the conventional methods could not count the passing people accurately unless there were very few of the passing people through the gate at one time. In this paper, we propose an automatic method of counting the passing people by using the mathed of the template matching process. In proposed metho...

Abstract Background/Introduction Pulmonary artery aneurysm (PAA), defined as a pulmonary (PA) diameter >40 mm, is common finding among arterial hypertension (PAH) patients. Although often asymptomatic, PAA may lead to life-threatening complications such left main coronary compression or PA dissection. Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) regularly employed for risk assessment in PAH Howe...

BACKGROUND NT-proBNP measurements aid in the evaluation of patients with suspected heart failure (HF) and may facilitate risk stratification in patients with HF and acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Point-of-care (POC) assays may provide more timely results and potentially improve patient outcomes. METHODS We evaluated the analytical performance of the Response Biomedical Corporation whole blood...

BACKGROUND Accurate breast volume assessment is a prerequisite to preoperative planning, as well as intraoperative decision making in breast reconstruction surgery. The use of three-dimensional surface imaging (3D scanning) to assess breast volume has many advantages. However, before employing 3D scanning in the field, the tool's validity should be demonstrated. The purpose of this study was to...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the feasibility of five-dimensional Long Bone (5D LB), a new technique that automatically archives, reconstructs images, and measures lengths of fetal long bones, to assess whether the direction of volume sweep influences fetal long bone measurements in three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound and 5D LB, and to compare measurements of fetal long bone lengths obtained with 5D LB a...

Recently, because the quality of laboratory analyses has increased along with the need for quality improvement, several external quality control bodies have adapted performance specifications using the Desirable Biological Variation Database, termed "Ricos goals"; these criteria are more stringent than those presented in CLIA 88. In this study, we aimed to validate newly introduced serum separa...

In modern distributed object systems, reference parameters are passed to a remote method based on their runtime type. We argue that such type-based parameter passing is limiting with respect to expressiveness, readability, and maintainability, and that parameter passing semantics should be decoupled from parameter types. We present declarative parameter passing, an approach that fully decouples...

To the Editor: Iohexol is regarded as an accurate filtration marker for measuring GFR. Recently, Soveri et al concluded that plasma clearance of iohexol could be considered a valid alternative to the gold standard, urinary clearance of inulin. Because inulin urinary clearance is cumbersome and costly, iohexol and iothalamate clearance have become popular in Europe and the United States, respect...

BACKGROUND The value of therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) for paclitaxel (PTX) was recently demonstrated in the largest TDM trial ever conducted in oncology. The trial demonstrated significant reduction in neuropathy when using TDM. Dose adjustment for PTX was based on time above a threshold concentration (Tc>0.05). Tc>0.05 must be calculated with a pharmacokinetic model and complex nonlinear m...