computerized detection of lung nodules

... large inventory of normalized mathematical indexes of abnormality It is the pattern of these mathematical indexes of abnormality, obtained from analysis of multiple cardiac cycles of the resting ... assess the performance of the prediction of stenosis independent of the prevalence of stenosis, the positive and negative likelihood ratios (LR) were calculated [24] A value of p

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 10:58

... sensitivity of 84.6% and a specificity of 98.9% for E746-A750 and a sensitivity of 95.2% and a specificity of 98.8% for L858R Kitamura et al [22] reported a sensitivity of 36% and a specificity of 97% ... showing scoring of IHC staining of human NSCLC cell lines and lung cancer patient tumor tissues A score of was considered negative, a score of was considered weakly positive, and a score of or was ... sensitivity of 40% and a specificity of 99% for E746-A750 In the present study, we found a sensitivity of 100% and a specificity of 100% for the L858R exon 21 mutation antibody and a sensitivity of 63%...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... assess the performance of the prediction of stenosis independent of the prevalence of stenosis the positive and negative likelihood ratios (LR) were calculated [20] A value of P < 0.05 was considered ... The coordinates of the curve indicated that the cut-off of 4.0 (as pre-defined by the manufacturer) provided the best combination of sensitivity and specificity for the prediction of hemodynamically ... regression model in the group of patients with MI history was meaningless due to the high prevalence of stenosis in this group of patients But of those patients with a history of MI who did not show...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 16:23

... cut-offs for severity (Table 5) This comparison also showed that a cut-off of 4.0 provided the best compromise of sensitivity and specificity As the negative predictive value at a cut-off of 4.0 ... [0.855-0.952] (Figure 2) The coordinates of the curve indicated that a cut-off of 4.0 provided the best combination of sensitivity and specificity for the prediction of coronary stenosis from the 3DMP ... assess the performance of the prediction of stenosis independent of the prevalence of stenosis the positive and negative likelihood ratios (LR) were calculated [24] A value of P < 0.05 was considered...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 17:20

... http://www.jbiomedsci.com/content/17/1/37 Page of Figure Detection of wild-type and mutant EGFR by primer extension analysis NSCLC DNA samples of wild-type EGFR and ones containing the following ... Cuccurullo F, Sacco R, Buttitta F: EGFR mutations in non-small-cell lung cancer: analysis of a large series of cases and development of a rapid and sensitive method for diagnostic screening with potential ... electrophoresis platform Briefly, 14 μl of Hi-Di™ Formamide (Applied Biosystems) and 0.28 μl of GeneScan™ 120LIZ® Size Standard (Applied Biosystems) were added to μl of primer extension products All...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... application of technetium99m-labeled octreotide acetate scintigraphy in the detection of ectopic adrenocorticotropin-producing bronchial carcinoid lung tumor: a case report Journal of Medical ... tumors occur in approximately 10% of cases of patients with Cushing’s syndrome Although a biochemical diagnosis of Cushing’s syndrome is easily achieved, localization of the tumor is more difficult ... the lower lobe of our patient’s right lung, just above his diaphragm, highly suggestive of an adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)-producing bronchial tumor Esfahani et al Journal of Medical Case...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 02:21

... administration of 0.25 mg/ml)evoked changes in levels of cytokine protein expression (at 2- and 24-hours post treatment) in mouse lung tissue homogenates Simultaneous detection of changes in levels of lung ... histology of LPS-induced lung injury in CD-1 mice Representative histology of LPS-induced lung injury in CD-1 mice H&E staining of left lung lobe from a female mouse following a single i.p injection of ... protein expression in mouse lung tissue homogenates The feasibility of simultaneous measurement of cytokine levels may lend to the elucidation of potential diagnostic markers of compound-induced inflammatory...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 08:21

... chemicals These strains were kindly supplied by Dr T Nohmi of the National Institute of Health Sciences S9 fraction of phenobarbital/5,6-benzoflabone-pretreated male Sprague-Dawley (SD) rat liver ... We compared the mutagenic activity (shown as the number of revertants per nanomolecule of chemicals, rev./nmol) of YG strains with that of the conventional TA strains as shown in Fig YG1041 showed ... Identification of C8-modified deoxyinosine and N2- and C8-modified deoxyguanosine as major products of the in vivo reaction of N-hydroxy-6-aminochrysene with DNA and the formation of the adducts...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 08:40

... and visualized by UV illumination Evaluation of recovery rate of preparation method for viruses in sediment As a surrogate of RNA viruses, Sabin strain of Poliovirus type was spiked into the sediment ... capsid of approximately 25 nm diameter This virus was also used by Gerba et al (1977) for evaluation of the method Recovery rate was evaluated by dividing amount of spiked Poliovirus by amount of ... procedure of Craig et al (2002) with some modifications: mL double-distilled water was used instead of mL 0.1% peptone water; a vortex mixer was used for 15 sec instead of hand - 310 - Journal of Water...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15

... periods may result to the development of oseltamivir-resistant influenza viruses Furthermore, Japan is at the top of the list of countries for per capita consumption of Oseltamivir (Soderstrom et al., ... and 200.06, respectively Quantifications of OP, OC and OC-D3 were based on calibration curves from to 1000 ng/L The limit of detection (LOD) and limit of quantification (LOQ) values for OP, OC ... ST-2 from the 34th week of 2009 to the 7th week of 2010 period were obtained from Osaka Prefectural Institute of Public Health (2010) An index value gives the total number of influenza cases (average)...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2013, 17:15

... combination of bands 5, and which is of great efficacy for the aims of our analysis In Figures and the set of bands 5, and are depicted respectively for the month of May 1994 and March 1997 The fusion of ... algorithms for the detection of waste areas using LANDSAT TM images It is worth of noting that the 30 meters spatial resolution of the Landsat-TM sensor makes the process of detecting waste areas ... number of clusters, the Deterministic Annealing algorithm can start with an over-dimensioned number of clusters At high temperatures, all centers collapse to a unique point (the center of mass of...

Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 16:33

... either 100 pg of DENV-1-, ng of DENV-2-, 100 pg of DENV3- or ng of DENV-4-infected C6 ⁄ 36 cells total RNA was used for cocktail PCR The primer cocktail was composed of 100 nm each of 1G1P1, 1G3P6, ... for probes or primers for the detection of that pathogen against that host background It was found that 99.99% of all possible 11-mers, 70% of all 15-mers and 5% of all 18-mers are present in ... characterization of the virus These results provide a demonstration of the high projected sensitivity of human-blind dengue primers and the operation of the primer cocktail strategy for dengue virus detection...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 19:20

... profiles of the four histopathological subtypes of lung cancer cells in relation to gene networks and statistical analysis would be a valuable and meaningful undertaking Because the analysis of ... subtypes of lung cancer cells plus a normal control lung cell line (MRC-9) From this, we identified 19 candidate genes for subtype-specific markers Second, we quantified the expression of these ... expression profiling of the 19 genes using four validation cell lines (RERF-LC-MS [AD], LC1/sq [SQ], 86-2 [LC], and MS-1-L [SC]) and the normal control (MRC-9) The results of expression profiling...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 04:20

... the development of variations of the traditional 2D-gel approach, and the application of these has resulted in the identification of potential new biomarkers for early detection of disease Differential ... 70% (107 of 153) of sera from patients with benign disease and PSA levels of >4 ng/ml, and could accurately predict the presence of cancer in 95% of the patients tested, including 18 of 21 men ... the detection of tumour-specific markers The invention of LASER CAPTURE MICRODISSECTION (LCM) greatly improved the specificity of 2D-PAGE for biomarker discovery, as it provided a means of rapidly...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 05:20

... we classified each lung by zone: upper, middle, and lower, resulting in a total of six zones per patient The upper zones were defined as areas of the lung above the level of the carina; the middle ... integrating diagnostic evaluation of the lung, but the results of our study even suggest that MRI could replace CT in assessing lung tuberculosis in some subsets of patients such as children, women, ... Gieseke J, von Falkenhausen M, Morakkabati N, Schild H: Lung MRI at 3.0T: A Comparison of Helical CT and High-Field MRI in the Detection of Diffuse Lung Disease Eur Radiol 2005, 15:324-328 Eichinger...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 12:20

... amplification of the 3¢ end of the b-gal gene The presence of similar amounts of genomic DNA in the reactions was controlled by concomitant addition of primers that amplify a 200 bp region of the RNA ... isolation by FACS of living cells expressing low levels of antigen Discussion The potential of scFvs for demonstrating the presence of targeted protein antigens in the cytoplasm of mammalian cells ... intracellular forms of antigen To analyze how these scFvs linked to EGFP or d1-EGFP behave in case of low and constant expression of b-gal, we took advantage of the availability of two cell lines,...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 18:20

... Statistics of the BioScope corpus The 2nd and 3d columns show the total number of cues within the datasets; the 4th and 5th columns show the percentage of negated and speculative sentences 70% of the ... children (starting from the root of the subtree) to the rule pattern subtree Nodes of type *scope* and * match any number of nodes, similar to the semantics of Regex Kleene star (*) Results As ... the rule tree; neighboring identical siblings of type *scope* or * are replaced by a single node of the corresponding type Figure shows an example of this transformation The rule tree pruning...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 04:20

... achieved a recall of 55.1%, a precision of 71.9% and a resulting F-measure of 62.4% for the detection of the class nonreferential The overall classification accuracy was 75.1% The advantage of using a ... subject of subj verb prep preposition before indirect object indirect object of verb that it is subject of ind obj obj direct object of verb that it is subject of obj verb verb that it is object of ... parts of speech and lemmata of words in the context of it (obtained automatically) Other features encode the presence or absence of, resp the distance to, certain element sequences indicative of...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 02:20

... precision and the recall of DL1 Because a of DL1 is the same as that of DL0, the number of problems detected as errors by a is given by Eq.4 In the case of DL1, problems judged by ~ of DL0 are judged ... number of correct detections in Eq.6 is T p ( G g + H h ) Therefore the precision P0 is as follows: (1) Po 3.2 Calculation of the identifying strength of the written word and the number of problems ... precision of judgments by the default evidence of DL0 drops in this case, but that of DL1 does not Therefore, our method is better than the original one even if the number of elements of the homophone...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 03:20