The effectiveness of continuous regional arterial infusion therapy using protease inhibitors and antibiotics for severe acute pancreatitis has been previously reported. Carbapenem antibiotics, which have a broad antibacterial spectrum, and nafamostat mesilate are often used for this therapeutic approach. We investigated the compatibility of various carbapenem antibiotics with nafamostat mesilat...

Fundamental frequency (F0) estimation is important in speech processing such as speech coding, synthesis, recognition and so on. A present F0 estimation method performs well under clean condition, however the performance deteriorates significantly in noisy environment. As a result, robust F0 estimation against additive noise is demanded. We have previously proposed F0 estimation methods based o...

BACKGROUND Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is considered the treatment of choice for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), and studies have shown that there is a correlation between patient adherence and treatment outcomes. Newer CPAP machines can track adherence, hours of use, mask leak, and residual apnea-hypopnea index (AHI). Such data provide a strong platform to examine OSA outcomes in...

This work is devoted to a first exploration of Mueller polarimetric imaging for the detection of residual cancer after neoadjuvant treatment for the rectum. Three samples of colorectal carcinomas treated by radiochemotherapy together with one untreated sample are analyzed ex vivo before fixation in formalin by using a multispectral Mueller polarimetric imaging system operated from 500 to 700 nm...

The power spectrum estimation plays a significant role in the marine monitoring and the quality of spectrum will seriously affect the results of marine monitoring. There have been various algorithms on power spectrum estimation, one of which is Burg algorithm. Though this method can effectively improve the resolution of spectral estimation, it will cause the shifting of peak frequency and the s...

Spectral subtraction has the drawback that it introduces an unpleasant residual noise. This noise is a result of under-subtraction which occurs due to high variance of noise magnitude spectrum estimates. In this study we investigate a number of smoothing techniques that can be employed to reduce this variability. We extend the scope of this paper by using the phase spectrum in a novel manner al...

Turbulent flow distal to arterial stenoses producers bruits with a characteristic sound spectrum, analysis of which has permitted accurate non-invasive assessment of the residual lumen diameter of the stenosis in the case of the human carotid artery. In contrast, investigators working with in vitro elastic models of arteries or with excised vessels have reported finding mainly resonant spectra ...

Consistent and accurate estimation of stellar parameters is great importance for information retrieval in astrophysical research. The span a wide range from effective temperature to rotational velocity. We propose estimate the directly spectral signals coming HARPS-N spectrograph pipeline before any spectrum-processing steps are applied extract 1D spectrum. an attention-based model parameters, ...

OBJECTIVES To assess the incidence of symptomatic tubal tonsil hypertrophy (TTH) after adenoidectomy and to attempt to differentiate the clinicoradiographic presentation of TTH from that of recurrent or residual adenoid. DESIGN Retrospective case series review. SETTING Pediatric otolaryngology practice in a tertiary care hospital. PATIENTS The charts of all patients scheduled to undergo r...

We demonstrate low residual timing jitter of 10 GHz pulses from a 1.55 ?m optical frequency comb generator based on a doubly-resonant electro-optic modulator. The comb spectral phase is shown to be linear but of different slopes for the two sides of the optical spectrum. The linear phase delay predicts well the measured timing delay of the two pulse trains from the comb generator. The pulse tim...