Among a total of 1259 patients with oesophageal cancer who underwent surgical resection, intramural metastasis (IMM) was verified in 93 patients (7.4%), of which IMM to the stomach (IMMS) constituted 13 patients (1.0%). In all 13 cases, the primary cancer was located in the middle or lower thoracic oesophagus and all had lymph nodes metastasis, while 12 of the 13 (92.3%) had lymphatic invasion....

Self-reported dietary assessment methods can be challenging to validate, and reporting errors for those with lower health literacy (HL) may be augmented. Interactive multimedia (IMM) based questionnaires could help overcome these limitations. The objectives of this investigation are to assess the comparative validity and sensitivity to change of an IMM beverage intake questionnaire (IMM-BEVQ) a...

In this study, an unscented particle filtering method based on an interacting multiple model (IMM) frame for a Markovian switching system is presented. The method integrates the multiple model (MM) filter with an unscented particle filter (UPF) by an interaction step at the beginning. The framework (interaction/mixing, filtering, and combination) is similar to that in a standard IMM filter, but...

The purpose of the study was to investigate the immunological and biological consequences of neoantigen expression by immunogenic tumor variants (Imm+) following in vitro treatment with the mutagen 1-methyl-3-nitro-1-nitrosoguanidine. The weakly immunogenic murine fibrosarcoma MCA-F was used because we have previously characterized the tumor-specific transplantation antigen expressed by this tu...

In view of the inherent defects in current airport surface surveillance system, this paper proposes an asynchronous target-perceiving-event driven surface target surveillance scheme based on the geomagnetic sensor technology. Furthermore, a surface target tracking and prediction algorithm based on I-IMM is given, which is improved on the basis of IMM algorithm in the following aspects: Weighted...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) coexists in up to 80% of patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC). PSC-IBD tends be mild and responsive mesalamine most patients. However, some may require immunosuppressive (IMM) or biologic therapy treat PSC-IBD. The aims this study are investigate the rates, predictors, outcomes biologic/IMM treatment This was a single center, retrospective PSC from...

Interacting Multiple Model (IMM) algorithm is proved to be useful in tracking maneuvering targets. The tracking accuracy of the IMM can be further improved by modifying IMM to change its transition probabilities adaptively. A fuzzy logic controller (FLC) is designed to change the transition probabilities of IMM adaptively with innovation and rate of innovation as input parameters. The FLC selec...

Debiased converted measurement Kalman filter based IMM (IMM-DCMKF) algorithm is a commonly used maneuvering target tracking algorithm, which is combined with the interacting multiple model (IMM) and the debiased converted measurements Kalman filter (DCMKF). However, the computation complexity of this algorithm is large and the traditional realization of this algorithm using software can’t meet ...