Introduction: Evoked potentials arisen by stimulating the brain can be utilized as a communication tool  between humans and machines. Most brain-computer interface (BCI) systems use the P300 component,  which is an evoked potential. In this paper, we evaluate the use of the hidden Markov model (HMM) for  detection of P300.  Materials and Methods: The wavelet transforms, wavelet-enhanced indepen...

UNLABELLED INTRODUCTION Internal carotid artery (ICA) kinking is a pathological malformation with angulation of the vessel's axis of 90 degrees or less. It is known that kinking causes the reduction of flow within the vessel that may be exacerbated by progressive head rotation up to the point that causes complete cessation of flow. In this article, we report on the case of acute reversible isch...

© Translational Andrology and Urology. All rights reserved. Transl Androl Urol, 2015;4(S1) www.amepc.org/tau muscle marker a-SMA or Schwann cell marker S100) were significantly higher in the three ICA II-treated groups than those in vehicle group in a dose-dependent manner. In addition, the changing trend of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) activity in the penis between groups was sa...

This paper presents two novel applications of ICA in Non Destructive Evaluation by ultrasounds applied to diagnosis of the material consolidation status and to determination of the thickness material profiles in restoration of historical buildings. In those applications the injected ultrasonic pulse is buried in backscattering grain noise plus sinusoidal phenomena; this latter is analyzed by IC...

When a number of speakers are simultaneously active, for example in meetings or noisy public places, the sources of interest need to be separated from interfering speakers and from each other in order to be robustly recognized. Independent component analysis (ICA) has proven a valuable tool for this purpose. However, ICA outputs can still contain strong residual components of the interfering sp...

Background: Expanded-endoscopic endonasal approaches (eEEA) to surgical targets around the internal carotid artery (ICA) remain inspiring and necessitate a special learning curve. Methods: Six formalin-fixed heads were dissected study 360° accessibility manoeuvrability ICAs from distal dural ring (DDR) foramen lacerum (FL) on each side (n=12) via eEEA. The ICA course was divided into three segm...

In this paper, for topology optimization of double layer grids, an efficient optimization method is presented by combination of Imperialist Competitive Algorithm (ICA) and Gravitational Search Algorithm (GSA) which is called ICA-GSA method. The present hybrid method is based on ICA but the moving of countries toward their relevant imperialist is done using the la...

Dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) imaging is widely used for in vivo assessment of the cerebral blood perfusion. In this work, we investigate the use of independent component analysis (ICA) on DCE imaging data for assessment of cerebral blood perfusion, without any prior knowledge of the underlying tissue vasculature and arterial input function. The minimum description length (MDL) criterion and ...

To cite: Bhandarkar AM, Nayak R, Chidambaranathan N, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bcr-2014-208184 DESCRIPTION A 45-year-old non-hypertensive woman presented with a foreign body sensation in the throat of 3 months duration. Endoscopic examination showed a pulsating swelling in the right oropharynx with intact oropharyngeal mucosa (video 1). C...

The purpose of this study was to assess blood flow responses to changes in carbon dioxide (CO2) in the internal carotid artery (ICA), external carotid artery (ECA), and vertebral artery (VA) during normothermic and hyperthermic conditions. Eleven healthy subjects aged 22 ± 2 (SD) yr were exposed to passive whole body heating followed by spontaneous hypocapnic and hypercapnic challenges in normo...