evaluation of a multiscale enhancement protocol for digital mammography

... M, Jaecques S, Perre G Van der: Followup of implant performance using RSA In Proceedings of the International seminar Prediction and evaluation of total hip replacement performance: can we plan ... 30:278-284 Lannocca M, Varini E, Cappello A, Cristofolini L, Bialoblocka E: Intraoperative evaluation of cementless hip implant stability: A prototype device based on vibration analysis Med Eng ... resonance frequencies of a hip stemfemur system: a finite element analysis In Proceedings of the International seminar Prediction and evaluation of total hip replacement performance: can we plan...

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... psychometric evaluation of a patientreported VAS for the daily assessment of anxiety when used in a clinical trial assessing pharmaceutical treatments for GAD Methods Preliminary Qualitative Study As part ... reliable than asking for a rating at a specific point in time [38] A set of analyses was aimed at providing evidence of the reliability, responsiveness, validity, and utility of the GAVAS The GA-VAS ... reliability of linear analogue scales for evaluating pain Anaesthesia 1976, 31(9):1191-1198 10 Wewers ME, Lowe NK: A critical review of visual analogue scales in the measurement of clinical phenomena...

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... as part of a larger project that examined patterns of below- and above-ground biomass in Eucalyptus populnea woodland ecosystems along a rainfall gradient in northeast Australia [25] Here, data ... Zerihun A. , Montagu K.D., Hoffmann M.B., Bray S.G., Patterns of belowground and aboveground biomass in Eucalyptus populnea woodland communities of northeast Australia along a rainfall gradient, ... global datasets, Schenk and Jackson [19] found no evidence that lateral root spread for trees varies with mean annual rainfall in the range 50 to 1000 mm, which envelopes the rainfall ranges of...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:20

... parasitic capacitance can be lumped to the main capacitance Another alternative is to use a MOS capacitor, which is actually the gate capacitance of a MOS transistor As the gate length of CMOS technology ... Class D Power Amplifier A Class D power amplifier uses a pair of transistors as a pair of switches that defines either a rectangular drain voltage or rectangular drain current waveform It also ... operating at Class A, second stage is operating at Class AB and third stage is operating at Class C Last but not least, the final stage is operating as Class D amplifier The final stage transistor...

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2015, 10:25

... electrocardiography (ECG), images of the GI tract These sensors may have disparate sampling rate and sample data size For example, the pressure and temperature sampled data may be smaller in size and ... http://jwcn.eurasipjournals.com/content/2011/1/54 Page of 12 Table Parameters for evaluating the multi-hop communications Parameters Value Parameters Area Straight line of 30 cm Inefficiency factor a Value ... protocols have been proposed in prior works B-MAC [5], S-MAC [6], T-MAC [10] are examples of typical contention-based MAC protocols They offer the advantages of simplicity, small overhead, small latency,...

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... osteoporosis risk management strategies Trials 2008, 9(1):62 39 Public Health Agency of Canada Canada’s Aging Population: Who are Canada’s Seniors? Division of Aging and Seniors, Health Canada 2002; [http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/seniors-aines/publications/public/various-varies/ ... necessary for the ARIMA analysis to distinguish between treatment effects and secular trends The advantage of using the ARIMA approach for analysis is that it accounts for the three major sources of ... University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 3Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 4Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... The questionnaire was translated to Kiswahili as a language familiar to most Tanzanians Data was gathered by an anonymous questionnaire The knowledge test consisted of 10 items and asked students ... program for other areas in Tanzania Program evaluation Gallant and Maticka-Tydale compared reproductive health education programs applying the following criteria: theory; school level; number of ... Process evaluation of a school-based adolescent sexual heath intervention in rural Tanzania: MEMA kwa Vijana programme Health Educ Res 2006, 22:500-512 18 Todd J, Changalucha J, Ross D, Mosha F, Obasi...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 12:20

... Table I Baseline data for the 58 smear-negative patients (continued) Characteristic Adenopathy Infiltrate and adenopathy Pleural effusion/thickening and infiltrates Pleural effusion and adenopathy ... 55probable TB cases (3 probable TB cases (3 ‡  had military patterns on had miliary patterns on CXR, and had high ADA CXR, and had high ADA levels in pleural effusion, all levels in pleural effusion, ... weight gain after weeks of TB treatment and then defaulted, had died at a secondary hospital weeks later Another patient defaulted TB medication and died weeks later The outcome of the third case...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 03:20

... group are usually combined with a local contrast enhancement algorithm For local contrast enhancement, histogram equalization (HE)-based contrast enhancement algorithms, such as adaptive HE (AHE) ... images To achieve local contrast enhancement with reduced artifacts, Tao and Asari [12] proposed an AINDANE algorithm which is comprised of two separate processes, namely, adaptive luminance and ... Similar to the influence of m on lightness, a smaller (larger) value of m max also leads to a larger (smaller) value of overall lightness Therefore, the parameters mmin and mmax are Page 10 of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 22:20

... group are usually combined with a local contrast enhancement algorithm For local contrast enhancement, histogram equalization (HE)-based contrast enhancement algorithms, such as adaptive HE (AHE) ... images To achieve local contrast enhancement with reduced artifacts, Tao and Asari [12] proposed an AINDANE algorithm which is comprised of two separate processes, namely, adaptive luminance and ... Similar to the influence of m on lightness, a smaller (larger) value of m max also leads to a larger (smaller) value of overall lightness Therefore, the parameters mmin and mmax are Page 10 of...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 00:20

... to apply deformation to a phantom and provides an independent EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing measure of deformation allowing validation of MR imagingbased motion and deformation ... validation of a 3D MR imaging-based motion and deformation tracking technique, applicable to 3D deformation, is presented The validation method, based on marker tracking, was evaluated (and validated) ... larger than T the weight wa = 2.4 Evaluation of Marker Tracking Method Using Simulated Magnitude MR Image Data The marker tracking method was evaluated using simulated magnitude MR image data...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 19:20

... Avantec Inc., A: An’s Cannula B: Casali’s cannula Fig The new coronary cannula maded for this study (A: An’s Cannula) and the coronary cannula used in the work of Casali et al (B: Casali’s cannula) ... area of aorta cardioplegia cannula placed into aorta Inferior Vena Cava(VCI) and pulmonary vein(PV) localized 10 VCI clamped 11 aorta clamped and 4℃ cardioplegia infused at 300 mmHg simultaneously ... were separated, and a ligature material placed around as near as their ostia The coronary cannula are inserted and fixed into the coronary arteries In both groups, the latex balloon was introduced...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 15:20

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Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 18:21

... GCVP of Korea (H9N2) and ARRIAH of Russia (H5N1) At GCVP, commercial layer hens were vaccinated with an AIV vaccine (GCVP, Korea) 10 prepared with an inactivated H9N2 strain (2 HA unit/ Evaluation ... There are many methods available for detecting avian influenza viral antigens or antibodies in the sera of animals Antigen-capture ELISAs targeting AIV NP [3], and RT-PCR-based methods have been ... A/ duck/Italy/775/04 A/ ckicken/It/2 2A/ 98 A/ turkey/Canada/65 A/ chicken/Italy/1067/99 A/ turkey/Italy/9289/02 A/ Macaw/626/80 A/ turkey/Ontario/6118/68 A/ turkey/Scotland/1/70 A/ ostrich/South Africa/01 A/ duck/England/56...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 23:22

... moderator also asked participants to rate the readability, understandability, and format of the COPE sheet using a verbal five-point Likert scale Data collection and analysis All usability sessions ... combination of qualitative analysis to assess the effect of technology on participant reasoning and decision-making, and quantitative analysis to assess data from the demographic questionnaire, ... include usability evaluation as an important step in the development process of knowledge translation interventions Author details Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Faculty of...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... Germany), a qualitative data management software [58], will be used to manage and analyze all qualitative data Quantitative analysis All tests will be two-sided and performed at significance ... to reduce language barriers and drafting all patient educational materials at the appropriate reading level (e.g., fourth grade) to enhance health literacy Surface adaptations are a prerequisite, ... MT, Rask KJ, Zhao L, Parker RM: A randomized trial of medical care management for community mental health settings: the Primary Care Access, Referral, and Evaluation (PCARE) study Am J Psychiatry...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... which a PHQ-9 was administered Data analysis Randomized evaluation We weighted all analyses to control for potential enrollment bias based on age and gender using administrative data on the approached ... Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California, USA 3RAND Health Program, Santa Monica, California, USA 4David Geffen School of Medicine and School of Public Health, University of California ... both randomized evaluation and naturalistically referred patients eligible for panel management per the TIDES care manager protocol We also defined adequate care manager follow-up of panel-eligible...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... range of each measure across included footwear was also reported Intra-rater and inter-rater reliability for all categorical data was evaluated using percentage agreement, and kappa (κ) statistics ... first ray distally along the shoe), medial (greater medial than lateral wear at the heel and forefoot), which may indicate excessive pronation, or lateral (greater lateral than medial wear at the ... footwear can be found in Table Intra-rater reliability Intra-rater ICCs and 95% LOAs for quantitative measures are shown in Table Similar intra-rater reliability was found for both raters across all...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:23

... criteria: talar head palpation, supralateral and infralateral malleolar curvature, calcaneal frontal plane position, prominence in the region of the talonavicular joint, medial arch height and abduction ... will be performed Paratendinous structures (subcutaneous tissue, paratenon, Kager's fat pad, retrocalcaneal and Achilles/precalcaneal bursae, calcaneal cortical outline) will also be assessed The ... covariate analysis when estimating the sample size Statistical analysis Statistical analysis will be undertaken using SPSS version 14.0 (SPSS Corp, Chicago, IL, USA) statistical software All analyses...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:23

... identical to this.’ (case manager/graduate mental health worker, after trial) But others, as we have indicated, questioned some aspects of the protocol as a valid way of interacting with patients, for ... http://www.maxqda.com/ 25 Department of Health: Graduate Primary Care Mental Health Workers: Best3 Practice Guidance London: Department of Health 2003 26 Richards DA, Hughes-Morley A, Hayes RA, Araya R, Barkham ... essentially a convenience sample may have been biased, and more open to considering change in practice from more routine and familiar styles of care We are also aware that we may not have asked all...

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