The purpose of this longitudinal study was to evaluate the short- and long-term changes in dental arch dimensions in patients treated with rapid maxillary expansion (RME) followed by fixed edge-wise appliances. The records of 112 patients in the treated group (TG) were compared with those of 41 untreated controls. Serial dental casts were available at three different intervals: pretreatment (T1...

Histomorphometric analyses of the mandible and femur were performed in senescence-accelerated mice (SAM) using SAMP6 as a senile osteoporosis (OP) model, SAMP8 as a temporomandibular joint osteoarthritis (TMJOA) model, and SAMR1 as control. Thirty-six male mice at 2 or 4 months of age (6 for each strain and age) were used. The cortical thickness index (CTI), bone area (B.Ar/T.Ar), trabecular wi...

PURPOSE To determine, based on preoperative imaging findings, which patients treated with endovascular abdominal aneurysm repair are at high risk for the development of persistent type II endoleaks. MATERIALS AND METHODS Preoperative computed tomography (CT) angiographies of 136 patients, treated endovascularly, were retrospectively examined for possible anatomic predictors of type II endolea...

The classification of erythrocytes plays an important role in the field of hematological diagnosis, specifically blood disorders. Since the biconcave shape of red blood cell (RBC) is altered during the different stages of hematological disorders, we believe that the three-dimensional (3-D) morphological features of erythrocyte provide better classification results than conventional two-dimensio...

The Gaussian model of discontinuous percolation, recently introduced by Araújo and Herrmann [Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 035701 (2010)], is numerically investigated in three dimensions, disclosing a discontinuous transition. For the simple cubic lattice, in the thermodynamic limit we report a finite jump of the order parameter J=0.415±0.005. The largest cluster at the threshold is compact, but its ex...

The area and the perimeter of a planar object are two useful features to describe the shape of the object, and again the motion of it. This paper deals with the estimation of the two features from a discrete binary image. The area can often be accurately estimated by counting the number of pixels inside the object. However, the estimation of the perimeter is a problem, since many possible conto...

By a new Monte Carlo algorithm we evaluate the sidedness probability pn of a planar Poisson-Voronoi cell in the range 3 ≤ n ≤ 1600. The algorithm is developed on the basis of earlier theoretical work; it exploits, in particular, the known asymptotic behavior of pn as n → ∞. Our pn values all have between four and six significant digits. Accurate n dependent averages, second moments, and varianc...

Chromosome image analysis is composed of image preparation, image analysis, and image diagnosis. General procedure of chromosome image analysis includes of image preprocessing in the first step, image segmentation, feature extraction, and image classification in the last step. This paper presents the preliminary results that use probabilistic neural network to classify chromosome image into 24 ...