The purpose of this observational study was to evaluate the accuracy of Gustilo's classification of open tibial fractures in children. Pre- and post-debridement (using the parameters of Gustilo's classification) wound gradings in 27 children with a mean age of 10 years (3 to 15 years) who had sustained an open tibial fracture were compared. Pre-operative Polaroid photographs of the wound were t...

In resent years, remote sensing technologies are utilized in disaster management as a means of information gathering in a large scale disaster. QuickBird captured a clear image of Bam City, eight days after the 2003 Bam, Iran, earthquake. The city was also observed by QuickBird about three months before the event. In this paper, we perform building damage detection based on land cover classific...

introduction: application of light transmitting posts to restore greatly damaged endodontically treated teeth has been increased. it is suspected that light intensity decreases as it passes throughout different materials. this can reduce the degree of conversion required for adequate bond strength throughout the length of these posts. the objective of this study was to evaluate the amount of li...

CONTEXT Morbid obesity is associated with various co-morbidities, including chronic venous insufficiency. Bariatric surgery is the only effective treatment for morbid obesity, but with potential risks and possible complications, including venous thromboembolism. OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of clinical and ultrasonographic signs of chronic venous insufficiency in morbid obese patient...

This study aimed to identify the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health categories addressed by the assessment tools commonly used in post-stroke rehabilitation and characterize patients based on its evaluation model. [Subjects and Methods] An exploratory, descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted involving 35 individuals with chronic post-stroke hemiparesis....

Accuracy assessment for remote sensing classification is commonly based on using an error matrix, or confusion table, which needs reference, or ‘ground truthing’, data to support. When undertaking change detection using numerous multi-temporal images, it is often difficult to make the accuracy assessment by the ‘traditional’ method, which typically requires simultaneous collection of reference ...

Among the applications of a radar system, target classification for ground surveillance is one of the most widely used. This paper deals with micro-Doppler Signature (μ-DS) based radar Automatic Target Recognition (ATR). The main goal for performing μ-DS classification using speech processing tools was to investigate whether automatic speech recognition (ASR) techniques are suitable methods for...

In medical literature, the detecting of post-operative patient status is very important topic. In this paper, An Automatic System based Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) for Detecting of Postoperative Patient Status (A_LDA_ANN_DPPS) is introduced. This automatic system consists of three stages, which are feature extraction and feature reduction stage, classi...