Transcutaneous electrical stimulation (TES) enables functional movements of human limbs by applying electrically generated pulses to pairs of electrodes placed on the skin surface. New TES technology uses multi-channel configurable electrodes that can dynamically distribute the stimulation current across the skin surface. Such systems require a quantitative understanding of the spatial and temp...

Background Right ventricular (RV) T1 quantification is desirable in managing congenital heart disease and pulmonary hypertension patients where RV fibrosis is implicated. RV T1 quantification is technically difficult because of the thin trabeculated mobile wall of complex geometry, impacted by adjacent blood and epicardial fat, plus proximity to sternal wires in some cases. Prior work has measu...

In this work, we present a technique to semi-automatically quantify the epicardial fat in non-contrasted computed tomography (CT) images. The epicardial fat is very close to the pericardial fat, being separated only by the pericardium that appears in the image as a very thin line, which is hard to detect. Therefore, an algorithm that uses the anatomy of the heart was developed to detect the per...

Nutritional characteristics, like fat and carbohydrates, may influence how frequently individuals consume various foods. Further, food consumption may vary by gender or by whether an individual exhibits restrained eating. Men and women may prefer different foods, and high dietary restraint may increase avoidance of foods that are believed to cause weight gain like foods high in fat and rapidly ...

OBJECTIVES To validate near-infrared (NIR)-based optical spectroscopy measurements of hepatic fat content using a minimally invasive needle-like probe with integrated optical fibers, enabling real-time feedback during percutaneous interventions. The results were compared with magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) as validation and with histopathology, being the clinical gold standard. Additiona...

This thesis describes the methods used to construct a pipeline for the automatic and robust segmentation of adipose tissue in the abdominal region of human men. The segmentation is done into 3 classes: subcutaneous adipose tissue, visceral adipose tissue and other tissue. The MRI data is preprocessed to remove the field of non-uniformity in intensity levels that are present on MR images. A nove...

Whales are unique in that the supply of blood to the brain is not by the internal carotid arteries, but by way of thoracic and intra-vertebral arterial retia. We found in the harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) that these retia split up into smaller anastomosing vessels and thin-walled sinusoid structures that are embedded in fat. The solubility of nitrogen is at least six times larger in fat t...

arguments for the recognition of cultural diversity have led to a fundamental question in political theory: on what basis the process of political decision making should be formed to accommodate cultural diversity as a permanent feature of contemporary societies? the aim of this paper is to examine whether 'dialogue' can be employed as a means in such a process. the first section of this paper...

Abstract The research in this paper aims to set up a new consumer profile definition method based on fuzzy technology and AHP. result of the study could be applied garment recommendation systems for special consumer. Consumer profiles are chosen as objects. AHP research, which provide using define profiles. We tall–short fat–thin by weights methods. building that can used consumer-oriented inte...