Background and PurposeChildren receiving radiotherapy for head-and-neck tumours often experience severe dentofacial side effects. Despite this, recommendations contouring dose constraints to structures are lacking in clinical practice. We report on a survey aiming understand current practice assessment structures.MethodsA digital was distributed European Society Paediatric Oncology members of t...

Background Cine displacement encoding with stimulated echoes (DENSE) provides quantitative imaging of tissue motion with high spatial resolution. Recent results have demonstrated that 3D cine DENSE provides resolution sufficient to quantify the mechanics of the right ventricle (RV) [1]. However, RV analysis currently requires manual anatomical delineation on all cine frames. This research exten...

The delineation of P and T waves is important for the interpretation of ECG signals. We propose a Bayesian detection-estimation algorithm for simultaneous detection, delineation, and estimation of P and T waves. A block Gibbs sampler exploits the strong local dependencies in ECG signals by imposing block constraints on the P and T wave locations. The proposed algorithm is evaluated on the annot...

China has established and implemented marine ecological conservation red line (MECRL) system to strengthen the bottom constraints ensure security. This paper introduces concept of MECRL process overall consideration national delineation, which is defined “spatial-division + differential control measures”. The in Bohai Sea pilot delineation nationwide are introduced. At present, accounts for abo...

BACKGROUND Optimal post-remission strategy for patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is matter of intense debate. Recent reports have shown stronger anti-leukemic activity but similar survival for allogeneic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) from matched sibling donor compared to autologous transplantation (auto-HSCT); however, there is scarcity of literature confronting auto-HSCT with...

Efficient forest management demands detailed, timely information. As high spatial resolution remotely sensed imagery becomes more available, there is a great potential for conducting high accuracy forest inventory and analysis automatically and cost-efficiently. Recent research aimed at providing tree-based forest inventory measurements has generated numerous algorithms for automatic individual...

Automated atlas-based segmentation (ABS) algorithms present the potential to reduce the variability in volume delineation. Several vendors offer software that are mainly used for cranial, head and neck, and prostate cases. The present study will compare the contours produced by a radiation oncologist to the contours computed by different automated ABS algorithms for prostate bed cases, includin...

While the market for auto lending at first appears to be highly competitive, many consumers lack the ability to obtain accurate information about price. In many markets, uninformed consumers can “free ride” off the knowledge of informed consumers. Auto lending, however, differs from traditional markets because price is not transparent and ultimately depends upon both the credit worthiness of th...

Auto burglary is a rising concern for small cities that rely so highly on revenues from malls and shopping. The fear of auto burglary dispels possible business partners, shoppers, and workers. This piece of research was conducted in Shenandoah, a small city near Houston, Texas. Shenandoah has been experiencing a fastgrowing economy and annexation process. The research highlights the potency of ...

BACKGROUND Previous physiological studies have identified factors that are involved in auto-PEEP generation. In our study, we examined how much auto-PEEP is generated from factors that are involved in its development. METHODS One hundred eighty-six subjects undergoing controlled mechanical ventilation with persistent expiratory flow at the beginning of each inspiration were enrolled in the st...