The paper addresses the fine retinal-vessel's detection issue that is faced in diagnostic applications and aims at assisting in better recognizing fine vessel anomalies in 2D. Our innovation relies in separating key visual features vessels exhibit in order to make the diagnosis of eventual retinopathologies easier to detect. This allows focusing on vessel segments which present fine changes det...

BACKGROUND Excessive extracellular glutamate produced by cerebral ischemia has been proposed to initiate the cascade toward neuronal cell death. Changes in extracellular glutamate concentration are closely linked to changes in intracellular calcium ion concentration. Dantrolene inhibits calcium release from intracellular calcium stores. In this study, the authors investigated the effects of dan...

In this investigation a suitable algorithm for the detection of cracks in the pressure vessels is presented. The equations of motion for the vessel are obtained and transferred into the wavelet space in a simplified form resulted from time and position approximations. The locations of cracks are randomly distributed in different regions of the structure to cover the whole geometry of the pressu...

Abstract Background Current standard electrocardiogram analysis algorithms cannot predict the presence and extent of coronary artery disease (CAD), especially in stable patients. Objectives This study assessed ability a novel artificial intelligence algorithm (ECGio) to presence, location, severity lesions an unselected patient population. Methods A cohort 1659 outpatients were randomly divided...

Due to the high cost of human labor for maintenance, garbages in rivers often do not receive immediate cleaning, resulting severe water pollution. Those floating simultaneously strip aesthetic and threaten local marine ecosystem. Thence, we developed an unmanned vessel based on Arduino's platform, capable auto-collecting garbage. The includes two modes: operational mode allows individuals manip...

Many countries worldwide promote artificial reef projects to increase and preserve fishery resources; however, how reefs form fisheries is unclear. Nevertheless, specific hydraulic features of may attract fish. We selected an underwater as a research site clarify this hypothesis. In study, environmental conditions around the were modeled quantitatively assessed using numerical analysis. identif...

Poly(2-methoxyethyl acrylate) (PMEA) is a US FDA-approved biocompatible polymer, although there insufficient work on human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) and platelet interaction analysis PMEA-analogous polymers. In this study, we extensively investigated HUVEC–polymer platelet–polymer behavior by measuring the adhesion strength using single-cell force spectroscopy. Furthermore, hydr...