Background Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) is recognised as the gold standard technique for the assessment of cardiovascular function in adults. In children, image quality is dependent on compliance with motion control and breath-hold instructions. Inability to maintain repeated breath-holds in a consistent phase of respiration can result in respiratory misregistration errors. There is ...

The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) is conducting the first national study of the quality of the Canadian hospital discharge data contained in the Discharge Abstract Database (DAD). The study is aimed at measuring discrepancies, identifying sources of error, and providing users of the study with statistically reliable information about the data quality of the DAD. The study wil...

driven precast reinforced concrete piles (dprcp) is extensively used as a foundation for bridges constructed over canals in egypt in order to avoid the diversion of water canals. the objectives of this research include identifying the main activities of dprcp execution in the bridge-construction industry in egypt and the risk factors affecting them. in addition, assessment of the effects of the...

Consumer credit risk assessment involves the use of risk assessment tools to manage a borrower’s account from the time of pre-screening a potential application through to the management of the account during its life and possible write-off. The riskiness of lending to a credit applicant is usually estimated using a logistic regression model though researchers have considered many other types of...

conclusions: quality of peripartum care is moderate in lorestan province, therefore, continuous evaluation of quality of care by administrators and hospital staff is essential to improve this quality and will ultimately result in maternal and neonatal health improvement. results: the mean percentages of compatibility with desirable situation were 54%, 57% and 66% in first, second and third stag...

A key factor in designing 3D systems is to understand how different visual cues and distortions affect the perceptual quality of 3D video. The ultimate way to assess video quality is through subjective tests. However, subjective evaluation is time consuming, expensive, and in most cases not even possible. An alternative solution is objective quality metrics, which attempt to model the Human Vis...

Colonoscopy is the cornerstone of colorectal cancer screening programs. There is significant variability in the quality of colonoscopy between endoscopists. Colonoscopy quality assessment tracks various metrics to improve the effectiveness of colonoscopy, aiming at reducing the incidence and mortality from colorectal cancer. Adenoma detection rate is the prime metric, because it is associated w...

The root of schema violations for rdf data generated from (semi-)structured data, often derives from mappings, which are repeatedly applied and specify how an rdf dataset is generated. The dbpedia dataset, which derives from Wikipedia infoboxes, is no exception. To mitigate the violations, we proposed in previous work to validate the mappings which generate the data, instead of validating the g...

For many years the idea that for high information processing systems effectiveness, high quality of data is not less important than the systems’ technological perfection was not widely understood and accepted. The way to understanding the complexity of the data quality notion was also long, as will be shown in this paper. However, progress in modern information processing systems development is...