BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Injury to spinal segmental arteries may potentially occur during spinal surgery, particularly during anterior or minimally invasive approaches. Use of a noninvasive radiologic tool to evaluate these arteries before surgery may reduce this risk. MATERIAL AND METHODS We performed spinal CT angiography and reconstructed 3D images of segmental arteries in 41 patients. We cl...

Clavicle fracture is the most frequent trauma of scapular girdle, and involves midshaft in 4 out 5 cases. Non-displaced clavicle fractures whatever location are usually managed non-operatively. Rare open or associated with neurovascular complications surgically. High-energy (floating shoulder, shoulder impaction, multiple trauma) may be surgically, on a case-by-case basis [1, 2]. This was prosp...

The aim of this study was to investigate joint mobility, segmental and general spinal mobility and their interrelationship in 607 women working as homecare personnel. Joint mobility (mainly peripheral) was estimated using the "Beighton" score. Spinal posture and mobility were measured by Debrunner's kyphometer. Passive segmental mobility and pain provocation were estimated manually. Reliability...

Objective: Segmental cystic dilatation of the ureter is extremely rare in adults. This article presents a case segmental left with proximal dilated upper and ipsilateral atrophied kidney, while distal normal calibration. Case: Excision cyst kidney was done. should be considered differential diagnosis intra-abdominal mass.

BACKGROUND Postural rehabilitation emphasizing on motor control training of segmental spinal movements has been proposed to effectively reduce the scoliotic spinal deformities in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS). However, information regarding the impairments of segmental spinal movement control involving segmental spinal stabilizers in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis remains limited. Exam...

credit scoring is a kind of binary classification problem that contains important information for manager to make a decision in particularly in banking authorities. obtained scores provide a practical credit decision for a loan officer to classify clients to reject or accept for payment loan. for this sake, in this paper a data envelopment analysis- discriminant analysis (dea-da) approach is us...

This paper proposes an approach to detect social speech signals by computing segmental features using adaptation of segmental Hidden Markov Models (HMMs). This approach uses segmental HMMs and model adaptation techniques such as Maximum Likelihood Linear Regression (MLLR) and Maximum A Posterior (MAP) in order to acquire specific (or adapted) segmental HMMs that are fine-tuned to detect local r...

There are several methods for analysing the behaviour of underground structures under different loading conditions. Most of these methods have many simplifications; therefore, in some cases, the results are too conservative and a very high safety factor, usually of more than 2 is needed. On the other hand, for stability analysis and the designing of support systems, these methods consider segme...

A semi-continuous segmental probability model, which can be considered as a special form of continuous mixture segmental probability model with continuous output probability density functions sharing in a mixture Gaussian density codebook, is proposed in this paper. The amount of training data required, as well as the computational complexity of the semi-continuous segmental probability model(S...