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The correlation coefficients for prediction (Rp) were >0.94, and the residual prediction deviation were >3. #link# The results indicated that smartphone-based micro NIRS can be effectively used to qualitatively and quantitatively analyze adulterants in green tea.The interaction between xanthene dye eosin Y and double stranded DNA has been studied by spectrophotometry. The conventional titration study does not show the interaction in the eosin Y - DNA system. Therefore, the competitive binding assay was carried out. The DNA-targeted ligands proflavine and methylene blue were used as competitors. Multivariate curve resolution - alternative least squares method (MCR-ALS) was applied to analyze the spectrophotometric titration data. The experimental binding isotherms were fitted by Scatchard and McGee equations. The binding constant of eosin Y with DNA was found to be 1.7·104 M-1. It is shown that the competitive binding assay requires consideration of heteroassociation for the correct determination of ligand-DNA binding parameters.In this paper, a highly fluorescent water-soluble CdTe quantum dots (CdTe QDs) stabilized with thioglycolic acid (TGA) were synthesized for the quantitative and selective determination of salbutamol (SAL). When ten different of 2.09 × 10-6 mol L-1 alpha-2 adrenoceptor agonist were added to 4.38 × 10-4 mol L-1CdTe QDs solution, the fluorescence signal of the CdTe QDs quenched obviously by SAL with 57.32% and 0.815% - 7.00% for other nine kinds of veterinary medicine, such as tulobuterol, fenoterol, phenylethanamine A, simatero, penbutolol, clenbuterol, ractopamine, terbutaline and clorprenaline. The result shows that the CdTe QDs is highly sensitive sensor for SAL. The quenching mechanism has been investigated by absorption spectroscopy and KSV at different temperatures, and shew a static quenching process than dynamic quenching. Under the optimal conditions, respectively the straight line equation (F0/F = 0.1491 × 106 C + 1.3078) was found between the relative fluorescence intensity and the concentration of SAL was in the range of 6.27 × 10-8 to 2.09 × 10-7 mol L-1, and the limit of detection was 4.2 × 10-8 mol L-1. The proposed method has been applied to the determination of SAL in pig urine samples.In life systems, sulfurdioxide (SO2) has very important function in several physiological processes, which can be generated endogenously during the biosynthesis of sulfur-containing amino acids. Herein, a ratiometric fluorescence probe CY carried with the structure of hemicyanine dyes has been developed to track SO2 derivatives through Michael-addition reaction. The solution of CY shows significant changes from yellow to colorless after adding the SO32-/HSO3- in day light within 2 min. Successfully, probe CY can detect SO2 derivatives in living cells and seawater. Furthermore, probe CY also be used to monitor the change of SO2 derivatives in seawater. These results give evidence of the potential application of CY in future biomedical diagnosis and marine environment research.Extradomiciliary contacts have been overlooked in the study of TB transmission due to difficulties in identifying actual contacts in large populations. Complex network analysis provides a framework to model the structure of contacts, specially extradomiciliary ones. We conducted a study of incident sputum-positive TB cases and healthy controls occurring in a moderate TB burden city. Cases and controls were interviewed to obtain data regarding the usual locations of residence, work, study, and leisure. Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolated from sputum was genotyped. The collected data were used to build networks based on a framework of putative social interactions indicating possible TB transmission. A user-friendly open source environment (GraphTube) was setup to extract information from the collected data. link2 Networks based on the likelihood of patient-patient, patient-healthy, and healthy-healthy contacts were setup, depending on a constraint of geographical distance of places attended by the volunteers. Using a threshold for the geographical distance of 300 m, the differences between TB cases and controls are revealed. Several clusters formed by social network nodes with high genotypic similarity were characterized. The developed framework provided consistent results and can be used to support the targeted search of potentially infected individuals and to help to understand the TB transmission.Susceptibility tensor imaging (STI) has been proposed as an alternative to diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) for non-invasive in vivo characterization of brain tissue microstructure and white matter fiber architecture, potentially benefitting from its high spatial resolution. In spite of different biophysical mechanisms, animal studies have demonstrated white matter fiber directions measured using STI to be reasonably consistent with those from diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). However, human brain STI is hampered by its requirement of acquiring data at more than 10 head rotations and a complicated processing pipeline. In this paper, we propose a diffusion-regularized STI method (DRSTI) that employs a tensor spectral decomposition constraint to regularize the STI solution using the fiber directions estimated by DTI as a priori. We then explore the high-resolution DRSTI with MR phase images acquired at only 6 head orientations. Compared to other STI approaches, the DRSTI generated susceptibility tensor components, mean magnetic susceptibility (MMS), magnetic susceptibility anisotropy (MSA) and fiber direction maps with fewer artifacts, especially in regions with large susceptibility variations, and with less erroneous quantifications. In addition, the DRSTI method allows us to distinguish more structural features that could not be identified in DTI, especially in deep gray matters. DRSTI enables a more accurate susceptibility tensor estimation with a reduced number of sampling orientations, and achieves better tracking of fiber pathways than previous STI attempts on in vivo human brain.Segmentation of medical images, particularly late gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (LGE-MRI) used for visualizing diseased atrial structures, is a crucial first step for ablation treatment of atrial fibrillation. However, direct segmentation of LGE-MRIs is challenging due to the varying intensities caused by contrast agents. Since most clinical studies have relied on manual, labor-intensive approaches, automatic methods are of high interest, particularly optimized machine learning approaches. To address this, we organized the 2018 Left Atrium Segmentation Challenge using 154 3D LGE-MRIs, currently the world's largest atrial LGE-MRI dataset, and associated labels of the left atrium segmented by three medical experts, ultimately attracting the participation of 27 international teams. In this paper, extensive analysis of the submitted algorithms using technical and biological metrics was performed by undergoing subgroup analysis and conducting hyper-parameter analysis, offering an overall picture o community.Motion artifacts are a major factor that can degrade the diagnostic performance of computed tomography (CT) images. In particular, the motion artifacts become considerably more severe when an imaging system requires a long scan time such as in dental CT or cone-beam CT (CBCT) applications, where patients generate rigid and non-rigid motions. link3 To address this problem, we proposed a new real-time technique for motion artifacts reduction that utilizes a deep residual network with an attention module. Our attention module was designed to increase the model capacity by amplifying or attenuating the residual features according to their importance. We trained and evaluated the network by creating four benchmark datasets with rigid motions or with both rigid and non-rigid motions under a step-and-shoot fan-beam CT (FBCT) or a CBCT. Each dataset provided a set of motion-corrupted CT images and their ground-truth CT image pairs. The strong modeling power of the proposed network model allowed us to successfully handle motion artifacts from the two CT systems under various motion scenarios in real-time. As a result, the proposed model demonstrated clear performance benefits. In addition, we compared our model with Wasserstein generative adversarial network (WGAN)-based models and a deep residual network (DRN)-based model, which are one of the most powerful techniques for CT denoising and natural RGB image deblurring, respectively. Based on the extensive analysis and comparisons using four benchmark datasets, we confirmed that our model outperformed the aforementioned competitors. Our benchmark datasets and implementation code are available at https//github.com/youngjun-ko/ct_mar_attention.Methods for deep learning based medical image registration have only recently approached the quality of classical model-based image alignment. The dual challenge of both a very large trainable parameter space and often insufficient availability of expert supervised correspondence annotations has led to slower progress compared to other domains such as image segmentation. Yet, image registration could also more directly benefit from an iterative solution than segmentation. We therefore believe that significant improvements, in particular for multi-modal registration, can be achieved by disentangling appearance-based feature learning and deformation estimation. In this work, we examine an end-to-end trainable, weakly-supervised deep learning-based feature extraction approach that is able to map the complex appearance to a common space. https://www.selleckchem.com/ on thoracoabdominal CT and MRI image registration show that the proposed method compares favourably well to state-of-the-art hand-crafted multi-modal features, Mutual Information-based approaches and fully-integrated CNN-based methods - and handles even the limitation of small and only weakly-labeled training data sets.As the main treatment for cancer patients, radiotherapy has achieved enormous advancement over recent decades. However, these achievements have come at the cost of increased treatment plan complexity, necessitating high levels of expertise experience and effort. The accurate prediction of dose distribution would alleviate the above issues. Deep convolutional neural networks are known to be effective models for such prediction tasks. Most studies on dose prediction have attempted to modify the network architecture to accommodate the requirement of different diseases. In this paper, we focus on the input and output of dose prediction model, rather than the network architecture. Regarding the input, the non-modulated dose distribution, which is the initial quantity in the inverse optimization of the treatment plan, is used to provide auxiliary information for the prediction task. Regarding the output, a historical sub-optimal ensemble (HSE) method is proposed, which leverages the sub-optimal models during the training phase to improve the prediction results. The proposed HSE is a general method that does not require any modification of the learning algorithm and does not incur additional computational cost during the training phase. Multiple experiments, including the dose prediction, segmentation, and classification tasks, demonstrate the effectiveness of the strategies applied to the input and output parts.
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