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To this end, we propose a recursive estimation and refinement strategy for Stereo-Net to boost its performance of depth estimation. Meanwhile, a multi-space knowledge distillation scheme is designed to help Mono-Net amalgamate the knowledge and master the expertise from Stereo-Net in a multi-scale fashion. Experiments demonstrate that our method achieves the superior performance of monocular depth estimation in comparison with other state-of-the-art methods.Learning intra-region contexts and inter-region relations are two effective strategies to strengthen feature representations for point cloud analysis. However, unifying the two strategies for point cloud representation is not fully emphasized in existing methods. To this end, we propose a novel framework named Point Relation-Aware Network (PRA-Net), which is composed of an Intra-region Structure Learning (ISL) module and an Inter-region Relation Learning (IRL) module. The ISL module can dynamically integrate the local structural information into the point features, while the IRL module captures inter-region relations adaptively and efficiently via a differentiable region partition scheme and a representative point-based strategy. Extensive experiments on several 3D benchmarks covering shape classification, keypoint estimation, and part segmentation have verified the effectiveness and the generalization ability of PRA-Net. Code will be available at https//github.com/XiwuChen/PRA-Net.Automatic hand-drawn sketch recognition is an important task in computer vision. However, the vast majority of prior works focus on exploring the power of deep learning to achieve better accuracy on complete and clean sketch images, and thus fail to achieve satisfactory performance when applied to incomplete or destroyed sketch images. To address this problem, we first develop two datasets that contain different levels of scrawl and incomplete sketches. RO4987655 in vivo Then, we propose an angular-driven feedback restoration network (ADFRNet), which first detects the imperfect parts of a sketch and then refines them into high quality images, to boost the performance of sketch recognition. By introducing a novel "feedback restoration loop" to deliver information between the middle stages, the proposed model can improve the quality of generated sketch images while avoiding the extra memory cost associated with popular cascading generation schemes. In addition, we also employ a novel angular-based loss function to guide the refinement of sketch images and learn a powerful discriminator in the angular space. Extensive experiments conducted on the proposed imperfect sketch datasets demonstrate that the proposed model is able to efficiently improve the quality of sketch images and achieve superior performance over the current state-of-the-art methods.In this paper, we propose a novel form of weak supervision for salient object detection (SOD) based on saliency bounding boxes, which are minimum rectangular boxes enclosing the salient objects. Based on this idea, we propose a novel weakly-supervised SOD method, by predicting pixel-level pseudo ground truth saliency maps from just saliency bounding boxes. Our method first takes advantage of the unsupervised SOD methods to generate initial saliency maps and addresses the over/under prediction problems, to obtain the initial pseudo ground truth saliency maps. We then iteratively refine the initial pseudo ground truth by learning a multi-task map refinement network with saliency bounding boxes. Finally, the final pseudo saliency maps are used to supervise the training of a salient object detector. Experimental results show that our method outperforms state-of-the-art weakly-supervised methods.Histotripsy is a non-invasive, non-ionizing, and non-thermal focused ultrasound ablation method that is currently being developed for the treatment of liver cancer. Promisingly, histotripsy has been shown for ablating primary (hepatocellular carcinoma, HCC) and metastatic (colorectal liver metastasis, CLM) liver tumors in preclinical and early clinical studies. The feasibility of treating cholangiocarcinoma (CC), a less common primary liver tumor that arises from the bile ducts, has not been explored previously. Given that prior work has established that histotripsy susceptibility is based on tissue mechanical properties, there is a need to explore histotripsy as a treatment for CC due to their dense fibrotic stromal components. In this work, we first investigated the feasibility of histotripsy for ablating CC tumors in vivo in a patient-derived xenograft mouse model. The results showed that histotripsy could generate CC tumor ablation using a 1 MHz small animal histotripsy system with treatment doses of 250, 500, and 1000 pulses/point. A second set of experiments compared the histotripsy doses required to ablate CC tumors to HCC and CLM tumors ex vivo. For this, human tumor samples were harvested after surgery and treated ex vivo with a 700 kHz clinical histotripsy transducer. Results demonstrated significantly higher treatment doses were required to ablate CC and CLM tumors compared to HCC, with the highest treatment dose required for CC tumors. Overall, the results of this study suggest that histotripsy has the potential to be used for the ablation of CC tumors while also highlighting the need for tumor-specific treatment strategies.Histotripsy is a novel non-invasive non-thermal, non-ionizing, and precise treatment technique for tissue destruction. Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) improves the detection, characterization, and follow-up of hepatic lesions because it depicts accurately the vascular perfusion of both normal hepatic tissue and hepatic tumors. We present the spectrum of imaging findings of CEUS after histotripsy treatment of hepatic tumors. CEUS provides real-time information, a close approximation to the dimension of the lesion, and clear definition of its margins. Hepatic tumors detected by ultrasound can be potentially treated using B-mode ultrasound-guided histotripsy as well as characterized and monitored with CEUS. CEUS has shown to be very useful after tissue treatment to monitor and assess the evolution of the treated zone. Histotripsy treated zones are practically isoechogenic and slightly heterogeneous, the limits of which are difficult to establish using standard B-mode ultrasound. The use of CEUS after histotripsy showing uptake of contrast protruding into the treated zone is clinically relevant to identify residual tumors and to establish the most appropriate management strategy avoiding unnecessary treatments.
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