Non-rigid registration can automatically quantify small changes in volume of anatomical structures over time by means of segmentation propagation. Here we use a non-rigid registration algorithm based on optimising normalised mutual information to quantify small changes in brain ventricular volume in MR images of a group of ve patients treated with growth hormone replacement therapy and a contro...

background bladder reconstruction in the pediatric population is challenging for many reasons, including perioperative complications and readmissions. objectives on a national scale, determine readmission rates at 30, 60 and 90 days after bladder reconstruction in a pediatric population over a 7-year period, evaluating the influence of hospital and patient-specific variables. patients and metho...

We evaluate the accuracy and precision of different techniques for measuring brain volumes based on MRI. We compare two established software packages that offer an automated image analysis, EMS and SIENAX, and a third method, which we present. The latter is based on the Interactive Watershed Transform and a model based histogram analysis. All methods are evaluated with respect to noise, image i...

primary immunodeficiencies are rare diseases, characterized by an increased susceptibility to infections. early diagnosis and appropriate treatment are critical for reducing morbidity and mortality. given the rarity of these diseases, the awareness of these disorders by physicians is often insufficient, leading to delayed diagnosis and inappropriate treatment which are the major causes of sever...

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a common medical imaging tool that have been used in clinical industry for diagnostic and research purposes. These images are subject to noises while capturing the data that can e ect the image quality and diagnostics.Therefore, improving the quality of the generated images from both resolution and signal to noise ratio (SNR) perspective is critical. Wavelet ...

metabolomics studies provide useful information about health and disease status. metabolite based investigations on various cancers is a powerful approach to diagnosis, prognosis and therapy of cancer diseases. recently by using advanced analytical techniques such as nmr and ms and its hyphenation methods, global metabolic profiling of diseases has been possible. it is predictable that internat...

detection of brain tissues using magnetic resonance imaging (mri) is an active and challenging research area in computational neuroscience. brain mri artifacts lead to an uncertainty in pixel values. therefore, brain mri segmentation is a complicated concern which is tackled by a novel data fusion approach. the proposed algorithm has two main steps. in the first step the brain mri is divided to...

this project aims at collecting and cataloging the information pertaining to the research projects and documents concerning water resource. the data collected along with abstracts were entered into worksheets in compliance with us- marc bibliographic format. they were fed into the computer following the necessary validation process. so far more than 5000 documents (proceedings, research report,...