UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Statistical parametric mapping (SPM) procedure is an objective tool to analyze 18F-fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose-positron-emission tomography (FDG-PET) images and a useful complement to visual analysis. However, SPM requires a comparison to control data set that cannot be obtained in healthy children for ethical reasons. Using adults as controls showed some limitations. The ...

With the widespread application of wind turbines, the Maintenance issue gets growing concern. Bearings play a critical role in industrial applications. It is necessary to effectively monitor their health status. The shock pulse method (SPM) can detect the incipient fault of bearings and prevent the fault consequence effectively. However, many researchers used laboratory data to validate the SPM...

Gray matter volumetry (i.e., atlas-based volumetry [1, 2]) and morphometry (i.e., voxel-based morphometry (VBM) [3]) using three-dimensional T1-weighted magnetic resonance images (3D-T1WIs) with spatial normalization have been used to estimate local brain volume in normal subjects [4 –7] and in patients (e.g., in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) [8], epilepsy[9], diabetes [10], and panic disorder [11])...

Multi-muscle EMG time-series are highly correlated and time dependent yet traditional statistical analysis of scalars from an EMG time-series fails to account for such dependencies. This paper promotes the use of SPM vector-field analysis for the generalised analysis of EMG time-series. We reanalysed a publicly available dataset of Young versus Adult EMG gait data to contrast scalar and SPM vec...

The computerized brain atlas (CBA) and statistical parametric mapping (SPM) are two procedures for voxel-based statistical evaluation of PET activation studies. Each includes spatial standardization of image volumes, computation of a statistic, and evaluation of its significance. In addition, smoothing and correcting for differences of global means are commonly performed in SPM before statistic...

Monitoring river plume dynamics and variations in complex coastal areas can provide useful information to prevent marine environmental damage. In this work, the Robust Satellite Techniques (RST) approach has been implemented and tested on historical series of Aqua Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data to monitor, for the first time, Suspended Particulate Matter (SPM) anomal...

objective: evaluation activity was conducted using three spearmint genotypes (wg-spm-engl, spm-fran and spm-eas) and one standard check (wgsm-03) at wondo genet, awassa, debre zeit and allagae during 2012 and 2013 for two years. methods: the treatments were arranged in randomized complete block design with four replications. data on leaf to stem ratio, leaf yield/ha, essential oil content and e...

A mechanism is presented explammg a reported heavy-atom-Induced magnetic field effect as a consequence of nonequihbrmm tnplet sublevel population m an mtermedlate euclplex. The tnplet exclplex spm polanzatlon IS induced by sublevel-selective mtersystem crossmg from the ewlplex trIplet to Its smglet ground state and IS decreased by an external magnetic field. The theory accounts almost quantltat...