UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Statistical parametric mapping (SPM) procedure is an objective tool to analyze 18F-fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose-positron-emission tomography (FDG-PET) images and a useful complement to visual analysis. However, SPM requires a comparison to control data set that cannot be obtained in healthy children for ethical reasons. Using adults as controls showed some limitations. The ...

INTRODUCTION Fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron-emission tomography (18F-FDG-PET) is widely used to help localize the hypometabolic epileptogenic focus for presurgical evaluation of drug-refractory epilepsy patients. Two voxel-based brain mapping methods to interpret 18F-FDG-PET, statistical parametric mapping (SPM) and three-dimensional stereotactic surface projection (3D-SSP), improve th...

Resolution of acute inflammation is an active process locally controlled by a novel genus of specialized pro-resolving mediators (SPM) that orchestrate key resolution responses. Hence, it is of general interest to identify individual bioactive mediators and profile their biosynthetic pathways with related isomers as well as their relation(s) to classic eicosanoids in mammalian tissues. Lipid me...

With excellent thermal conductivity and unique two-dimensional structure, the graphene heat dissipation film (GHDF) has been a potential photoacoustic (PA) material for multiple applications. In this study, we apply GHDF into laser ultrasonic detection of seismic physical model (SPM). The PA effect is theoretically analyzed experimentally demonstrated. physically attached to upper surface SPM, ...

In the recent digital age, support vector machines (SVMs) that use a spatial pyramid matching (SPM) kernel have been around the globe for image classification. Although this is popular, there exists many problems in its use; for examples, nonlinear SVMs have a high complexity in training and testing. Applying the algorithms to big datasets, which holds many images, greater than a thousand is a ...