Bone mineral density [BMD] generally correlates with bone strength. BMD testing is used to assess bone density and diagnose osteoporosis. The HU scale is a linear transformation of the original linear attenuation coefficient measurement in to one in which the radio-density of distilled water at standard pressure and temperature is defined as Zero Hounsfield Unit while the radio-density of air a...

The existing 3D deep learning methods adopt either individual point-based features or local-neighboring voxel-based features, and demonstrate great potential for processing data. However, the models are inefficient due to unordered nature of point clouds suffer from large information loss. Motivated by success recent point-voxel representation, such as PVCNN DRINet, we propose a new convolution...

Recent advances on 3D object detection heavily rely how the data are represented, i.e., voxel-based or point-based representation. Many existing high performance detectors because this structure can better retain precise point positions. Nevertheless, point-level features lead to computation overheads due unordered storage. In contrast, is suited for feature extraction but often yields lower ac...

Albinism is a genetic condition associated with abnormalities of the visual system. Defects in melanin production cause underdevelopment of the fovea, reduced retinal cell numbers and abnormal routing of ganglion cell nerve fibres at the optic chiasm. We examined 19 subjects with albinism and 26 control subjects to determine whether retinal abnormalities affect the structure of the visual corte...

BACKGROUND National Strategic Plans (NSPs) for HIV have become foundational documents that frame responses to HIV. Both Global Fund and PEPFAR require coordination with NSPs as a component of their operations. Despite the role of NSPs in country planning, no rigorous assessment of NSP targets and performance outcomes exists. We performed a quantitative analysis of the quality of NSP indicators ...