Viscoelastic support has been previously established as a valuable modeling ingredient to represent the effect of surrounding tissues and organs in a fluid-structure vascular model. In this paper, we propose a complete methodological chain for the identification of the corresponding boundary support parameters, using patient image data. We consider distance maps of model to image contours as th...

This paper describes a computer application of parameter estimation for the three dimensional HIV/AIDS model. The program uses a least square based procedure with standard optimization routines and aims to allow parameter extraction for individual patients. Together with the basic parameter estimation, it is shown how additional information from outside a measurement dataset can be included in ...

The purpose of the present study was to assess body perception in eating disorders and its meaning in therapy. A total of 44 patients, 25 bulimia nervosa and 19 anorexia nervosa, admitted at a specialized in-patient treatment center participated in the present study. Body size estimation procedures (video-distortion and image-marking techniques) and self-report questionnaires were used for the ...

PURPOSE The study aimed to develop an automated method to estimate prescription durations in pharmacoepidemiological studies that may depend on patient and redemption characteristics. METHODS We developed an estimation algorithm based on maximum likelihood estimation for the reverse waiting time distribution (WTD), which is the distribution of time from the last prescription of each patient w...

Introduction: The CT Provide high quality images, especially in low-contrast soft tissue, are another advantage. Along with all the benefits that the CT scans which have, the patient dose of this modality is much greater than other methods. As a result, medical imaging community must ensure that the benefits of radiological examination for each patient are higher than related r...

most of the methods that have been proposed for speed estimation of induction machines require the rotor and the stator resistance to change in the normal operating range. on the other hand, estimation of the rotor resistance requires rotor speed. in this paper, after studying conditions for simultaneous estimation of rotor speed and rotor resistance, a method for simultaneous estimation of rot...

in this article, the discrete time state space model with first-order autoregressive dependent process noise is considered and the recursive method for filtering, prediction and smoothing of the hidden state from the noisy observation is designed. the explicit solution is obtained for the hidden state estimation problem. finally, in a simulation study, the performance of the designed method ...

abstract background: assessment of patients’ views about the observance of their rights and obtaining feedback from them is an integral component of service quality and ensures healthcare ethics. the aim of this study was to assess patients’ awareness of their rights and their satisfaction with observance of their rights, and provide effective strategies to improve the management of patients ‘r...

introduction: in any organization particularly in health care centers, the clients' satisfaction provides the conditions to achieve the pre-determined objectives. one of the ways to get the clients' satisfaction is to follow the clients' takrim plan. to this end, in this article, the clients' takrim plan was studied in health centers affiliated with oil industry organization. methods and materi...