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Accurate and automatic segmentation of three-dimensional (3D) individual teeth from cone-beam computerized tomography (CBCT) images is a challenging problem because of the difficulty in separating an individual tooth from adjacent teeth and its surrounding alveolar bone. Thus, this paper proposes a fully automated method of identifying and segmenting 3D individual teeth from dental CBCT images. The proposed method addresses the aforementioned difficulty by developing a deep learning-based hierarchical multi-step model. First, it automatically generates upper and lower jaws panoramic images to overcome the computational complexity caused by high-dimensional data and the curse of dimensionality associated with limited training dataset. The obtained 2D panoramic images are then used to identify 2D individual teeth and capture loose- and tight- regions of interest (ROIs) of 3D individual teeth. Finally, accurate 3D individual tooth segmentation is achieved using both loose and tight ROIs. Experimental results showed that the proposed method achieved an F1-score of 93.35% for tooth identification and a Dice similarity coefficient of 94.79% for individual 3D tooth segmentation. The results demonstrate that the proposed method provides an effective clinical and practical framework for digital dentistry.We study generalization under labeled shift for categorical and general normed label spaces. We propose a series of methods to estimate the importance weights from labeled source to unlabeled target domain and provide confidence bounds for these estimators. We deploy these estimators and provide generalization bounds in the unlabeled target domain.The Support Vector Machine (SVM) is a state-of-the-art classifier that for large datasets is very slow and requires much memory. To solve this defficiency, we propose the Fast Support Vector Classifier (FSVC) that includes 1) an efficient closed-form training without numerical procedures; 2) a small collection of class prototypes instead of support vectors; and 3) a fast method that selects the spread of the radial basis function kernel directly from data. Its storage requirements are very low and can be adjusted to the available memory, being able to classify any dataset of arbitrarily large sizes (31 millions of patterns, 30,000 inputs and 131 classes in less than 1.5 hours). The FSVC spends 12 times less memory than Liblinear, that fails on the 4 largest datasets by lack of memory, being one and two orders of magnitude faster than Liblinear and Libsvm, respectively. Comparing performance, FSVC is 4.1 points above Liblinear and only 6.7 points below Libsvm. The time spent by FSVC only depends on the dataset size (610^-7 sec. per pattern, input and class) and can be accurately estimated for new datasets, while for Libsvm and Liblinear depends on the dataset difficulty. Code is provided.The Tsetlin Machine (TM) is a recent machine learning algorithm with several distinct properties, such as interpretability, simplicity, and hardware-friendliness. Although numerous empirical evaluations report on its performance, the mathematical analysis of its convergence is still open. In this article, we analyze the convergence of the TM with only one clause involved for classification. More specifically, we examine two basic logical operators, namely, the ?IDENTITY?- and ?NOT? operators. Our analysis reveals that the TM, with just one clause, can converge correctly to the intended logical operator, learning from training data over an infinite time horizon. Besides, it can capture arbitrarily rare patterns and select the most accurate one when two candidate patterns are incompatible, by configuring a granularity parameter. The analysis of the convergence of the two basic operators lays the foundation for analyzing other logical operators. These analyses altogether, from a mathematical perspective, provide new insights on why TMs have obtained state-of-the-art performance on several pattern recognition problems.
We previously tested two angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and two dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitors for dual enzyme inhibitory effect. Only two DPP-4 inhibitors, linagliptin and sitagliptin, were able to inhibit ACE.

In the present study, we investigated if other inhibitors of ACE or DPP-4 could simultaneously inhibit the activities of both DPP-4 and ACE.

Forty Sprague Dawley rats were used. The control group received saline only. The other three groups were treated with anagliptin, ramipril, or lisinopril. Two different doses were tested, separated with a 6-day drug-free interval. Angiotensin II (ang II) levels, the activities of ACE, and DPP-4 were measured from blood samples at baseline and days 1, 10, and 14. After the oral glucose challenge, levels of the active form of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) were measured.

Regardless of the dose, anagliptin did not show any inhibitory effect on the activity of ACE or ang II levels. For ramipril and lisinopril, only a high dose of lisinopril was able to produce a modest reduction of the DPP-4 activity, but it was not enough to inhibit the inactivation of GLP-1.

It seems that while most ACE inhibitors cannot affect DPP-4 activity, inhibitors of DPP-4 vary in their effect on ACE activity. The selection of DPP-4 inhibitors under different clinical situations should take into account the action of these drugs on ACE.
It seems that while most ACE inhibitors cannot affect DPP-4 activity, inhibitors of DPP-4 vary in their effect on ACE activity. The selection of DPP-4 inhibitors under different clinical situations should take into account the action of these drugs on ACE.
Castleman disease (CD) of the kidney is extremely rare. In this study, we presented a case of CD of the left kidney and comprehensively described the findings of computed tomography urography.

The case involved unusual imaging characteristics of the focal central cystic area.

The small and regular cyst-like structures and the hyperdense mass relative to the renal parenchyma in plain scans might help distinguish the CD of the kidney from other hypervascular tumors.
The small and regular cyst-like structures and the hyperdense mass relative to the renal parenchyma in plain scans might help distinguish the CD of the kidney from other hypervascular tumors.Many studies have approved that COVID-19 disease was caused by Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-1(SARS-CoV-1), and has spread as an epidemic from across the world today. Initially, it affects the upper respiratory tract, induces viral infection in the lungs, and causes severe pneumonia in the COVID-19 infected patients. After the infection in the body, changes appear in other biomarkers in the body therby imbalancing the body response studied by the virus's pathophysiology. However, this infection starts comorbidity directly and indirectly in COVID-19 infected patients. During this period of infection, the immune system is also suppressed by the virus and initiates other diseases. The authors focus on the cardiovascular comorbidity study of COVID-19 in the current work. In the comorbidity study of COVID-19, the virus mainly affects hypertension patients. The risk factor of comorbidity of hypertension and cardiovascular disorder is 30.7%, and 11.9% with diabetes mellitus. In this study, we reveal the pathophysiology, treatment, and management of cardiovascular diseases, their risk factor, and medicine results on the COVID-19 infected patients. SARS-CoV-2 primarily targets ACE-2 receptors because this virus receives this receptor as a host for the cellular entry of the virus in the body, these shows down regulations in the maintenance of BP, and the body suffers from multi-organ failure. The other diseases related to CVS are Inflammatory cardiomyopathy, congestive heart failure, irregular heartbeat, embolism events, and Coronary infarction that also affect its pathophysiology.Poloxamer 188 (P188) is an FDA-approved biocompatible block copolymer composed of repeating units of poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) and poly(propylene oxide) (PPO). Due to its amphiphilic nature and high hydrophile-lipophile balance (HLB) value of 29, P188 is used as a stabilizer/emulsifier in many cosmetics and pharmaceuticals preparations. While the applications of P188 as an excipient are widely explored, the data on the pharmacological activity of P188 are scarce. Notably, the neuroprotective potential of P188 has gained a lot of interest. Inflammation inhibitor Therefore, this systematic review is aimed to review evidence to support the neuroprotective potential of P188 in CNS disorders. The PRISMA model was used, and five databases (Google Scholar, SCOPUS, Wiley Online Library, ScienceDirect, and PubMed) were searched with relevant keywords. The research resulted in 11 articles, which met the inclusion criteria. These articles described the protective effects of P188 on traumatic brain injury or mechanical injury in cells, neurotoxicity, Parkinson's disease, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and ischemia/ reperfusion injury from stroke. All the articles were original research in experimental or pre-clinical stages using animal models or in vitro systems. The reported activities demonstrated the potential of P188 as a neuroprotective agent in improving CNS conditions such as neurodegeneration.Autophagy is a mechanism by which unwanted cellular components are degraded through a pathway that involves the lysosomes and contributes to several pathological conditions such as cancer. Gastrointestinal cancers affect the digestive organs from the esophagus to the anus and are among the most commonly diagnosed cancers globally. The modulation of autophagy using pharmacologic agents potentially offers a great potential for cancer therapy. In this review, some commonly used compounds, together with their molecular target and the mechanism through which they stimulate or block the autophagy pathway as well as their therapeutic benefit in treating patients with gastrointestinal cancers, are summarized.
Little is known about the efficacy of programmed cell death protein-1 (PD-1) or programmed cell death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) inhibitors in patients with central nervous system (CNS) metastases.

Assess the difference in efficacy of PD-1 or PD-L1 inhibitors in patients with and without CNS metastases.

From inception to March 2020, PubMed and Embase were searched for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) about PD-1 or PD-L1 inhibitors. Only trails with available hazard ratios (HRs) for overall survival (OS) of patients with and without CNS metastases simultaneously would be included. Overall survival hazard ratios and their 95% confidence interval (CI) were calculated, and the efficacy difference between these two groups was assessed in the meantime.

4988 patients (559 patients with CNS metastases and 4429 patients without CNS metastases) from 8 RCTs were included. In patients with CNS metastases, the pooled HR was 0.76 (95%CI, 0.62 to 0.93), while in patients without CNS metastases, the pooled HR was 0.74 (95%CI, 0.68 to 0.79). There was no significant difference in efficacy between these two groups (Χ
=0.06 P=0.80).

With no significant heterogeneity observed between patients with or without CNS metastases, patients with CNS metastases should not be excluded from PD-1 or PD-L1 blockade therapy. Future research should permit more patients with CNS metastases to engage in PD-1 or PD-L1 blockade therapy and explore the safety of PD-1 or PD-L1 inhibitors in patients with CNS metastases.
With no significant heterogeneity observed between patients with or without CNS metastases, patients with CNS metastases should not be excluded from PD-1 or PD-L1 blockade therapy. Future research should permit more patients with CNS metastases to engage in PD-1 or PD-L1 blockade therapy and explore the safety of PD-1 or PD-L1 inhibitors in patients with CNS metastases.
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