T ransparency of faculty-compensated outside activities is vital for maintaining the public’s trust. Many medical schools have recently required public disclosure of their faculties’ compensated outside activities. We evaluated the accuracy of the disclosure of US medical school deans who served as directors of for-profit companies in 2009 because we could independently verify the compensated o...

Digital subtraction angiography, whether based on traditional X-ray or MR, su ers from patient motion artifacts. Until now, the usual remedy is to pixel shift by hand, or in some cases performing a global pixel shift semi-automatically. This is time consuming, and cannot handle rotations or local varying deformations over the image. We have developed a fully automatic algorithm that provides fo...

This paper presents new methods for use of dense motion fields for motion compensation of interlaced video. The motion is estimated using previously decoded field-images. An initial motion compensated prediction is produced using the assumption that the motion is predictable in time. The motion estimation algorithm is phase-based and uses two or three field-images to achieve motion estimates wi...

We study a low complexity, motion-compensated recursive video denoising scheme in the wavelet domain. To preserve weak spatial textures, both spatial and temporal filtering are carried out in the wavelet domain. We justify the proposed approach by evaluating the relative increase of mean squared error (MSE) with respect to the optimal estimator. Various multiresolution motion estimation schemes...

Chronic hepatitis B virus (CHB) infection is a burden on global healthcare and is associated with a higher risk of serious sequelae, including cirrhosis and hepatocel‐ lular carcinoma. The clinical application of entecavir as a treatment for CHB has produced positive outcomes, and so is an attractive form of pharmacological therapy. However, little data exists comparing the safety and efficacy ...