OBJECTIVE To determine the utility of confocal scanning laser microscopy (CSLM) in the in vivo evaluation of congenital melanocytic nevi (CMNs) that are suggestive of having developed melanoma. DESIGN The CMNs suggestive of melanoma by clinical and dermoscopic examination were imaged by CSLM, and the findings correlated with the features seen on dermoscopic and histologic examination. SETTI...

BACKGROUND Near-infrared confocal scanning laser microscopy (CSLM) represents a novel imaging technique for in vivo microscopic analysis of skin lesions, including pigmented lesions. OBJECTIVES To investigate the feasibility of detecting a clinically amelanotic malignant cutaneous melanoma using CSLM and to explore the use of this technique for assessing its margins. PATIENTS AND METHODS Tw...

The present report presents a method for the correlation of qualitative and quantitative BSE SEM imaging with confocal scanning light microscopy (CSLM) imaging modes applied to bone samples embedded in PMMA. The SEM has a proper digital scan generator: we leave the BSE image unchanged, and match the CSLM image to it, because the CSLM scan mechanism is not digital, though the signal is digitised...

BACKGROUND Spitz nevus is a benign melanocytic lesion sometimes mistakenly diagnosed clinically as melanoma. OBJECTIVE Our aim was to evaluate in vivo reflectance-mode confocal scanning laser microscopy (CSLM) aspects of globular Spitz nevi and to correlate them with those of surface microscopy and histopathology. METHODS A total of 6 Spitz nevi, with globular aspects on epiluminescence obs...

This paper describes our systems for Task 1 of the WMT16 Shared Task on Quality Estimation. Our submissions use (i) a continuous space language model (CSLM) to extract sentence embeddings and cross-entropy scores, (ii) a neural network machine translation (NMT) model, (iii) a set of QuEst features, and (iv) a combination of features produced by QuEst and with CSLM and NMT. Our primary submissio...

A new nondestructive technique, confocal scanning laser microscopy (CSLM), is described which is used to characterize the topography and morphology of polymer coatings. The topography of the coating can be determined even when the coating is completely opaque. When the coating is not completely opaque, CSLM has the distinct advantage of also being able to distinguish between the coating surface...

Language models play an important role in large vocabulary speech recognition and statistical machine translation systems. The dominant approach since several decades are back-off language models. Some years ago, there was a clear tendency to build huge language models trained on hundreds of billions of words. Lately, this tendency has changed and recent works concentrate on data selection. Con...

Confocal Scanning Laser Microscopy (CSLM) has advantages over conven tional light microscopy and electron microscopy. In particular the possibility to perform optical section ing, allowing the disturbance free observation of the three-dimensional internal structure, offers new possibilities in microstructural studies of food sys tems. The technique is further considered to be very valuable in t...