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Open AccessAssessment of whole-body and regional body fat using abdominal quantitative computed tomography in Chinese women and men
Being overweight or obese has become a serious public health concern, and accurate assessment of body composition is particularly important. More precise indicators of body fat composition include visceral adi...
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Open AccessThe value of the first postoperative diagnostic I-131 scan in patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma
To explore the feasibility of the postoperative diagnostic 131I whole-body planar scans (Dx-WBS) in papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) patients, and to clarify its value for accurate staging, risk stratification, and...
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Open AccessOverestimation of black carbon light absorption due to mixing state heterogeneity
Black carbon (BC) aerosols, which arise from incomplete combustion processes, possess the capacity to absorb solar radiation, thereby contributing significantly to the issue of climate warming. However, accura...
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Multi-stage Optimization of Incentive Mechanisms for Mobile Crowd Sensing Based on Top-Trading Cycles
For collaborative tasks requiring multiple users, in Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS), low user interest in certain tasks usually results in insufficient user re-cruitment. However, the interest of the user directly...
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Deep-learning-based estimation of attenuation map improves attenuation correction performance over direct attenuation estimation for myocardial perfusion SPECT
Deep learning (DL)-based attenuation correction (AC) is promising to improve myocardial perfusion (MP) SPECT. We aimed to optimize and compare the DL-based direct and indirect AC methods, with and without SPEC...
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Open AccessSpatial correlation between producer services agglomeration and carbon emissions in the Yangtze River Economic Belt based on point-of-interest
Agglomeration of the industry significantly impacts economic performance and environmental sustainability. In line with its strategic context of striving to achieve carbon reduction targets, China is making ef...
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Open AccessA method for evaluation of patient-specific lean body mass from limited-coverage CT images and its application in PERCIST: comparison with predictive equation
Standardized uptake value (SUV) normalized by lean body mass ([LBM] SUL) is recommended as metric by PERCIST 1.0. The James predictive equation (PE) is a frequently used formula for LBM estimation, but may cau...
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Attention Guided Retinex Architecture Search for Robust Low-light Image Enhancement
In recent years, learning-based low-light image enhancement approaches have shown superior performance, but they mostly heavily depend on proficient engineering skills and need expensive testing costs to acqui...
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Secondary aerosol formation in winter haze over the Bei**g-Tian**-Hebei Region, China
Severe haze pollution occurs frequently in the winter over the Bei**g-Tian**-Hebei (BTH) region (China), exerting profound impacts on air quality, visibility, and human health. The Chinese Government has tak...
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Genipin attenuates dextran sulfate sodium-induced colitis via suppressing inflammatory and oxidative responses
Genipin is one of the major component in Gardenis fruit, which has long been used in the treatment of many chronic diseases, such as colitis. In the present study, we investigated the protective effects and mecha...
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Learning Multi-scale Retinex with Residual Network for Low-Light Image Enhancement
Existing network-based techniques addressing low-light image enhancement are developed by using the complex network architectures. However, the performance is not ideal, and they cannot give a reasonable inter...
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Open AccessAssociations of psychological distress with positive psychological variables and activities of daily living among stroke patients: a cross-sectional study
Depression and anxiety result in psychological distress, which can further affect mental status and quality of life in stroke patients. Exploring the associations between positive psychological variables and s...
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Open AccessAltered body composition and increased visceral adipose tissue in premenopausal and late postmenopausal patients with SLE
Visceral adipose tissue (VAT) is becoming a recognized cardiovascular (CV) risk factor. This study aimed to evaluate body composition, especially VAT, in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and to explore the a...
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Exploration of a mechanism to form bionic, self-growing and self-organizing neural network
Complex biological neural network is the result of long term evolution. The changes in the external environment will prompt the neural network to change its own structure. In this work, we try to build a bioni...
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Open AccessSex- and age-specific percentiles of body composition indices for Chinese adults using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry
The aims of the study were to develop sex- and age-specific percentiles for lean mass index (LMI), appendicular LMI (aLMI), fat mass index (FMI), and body fat distribution indices in Chinese adults using dual-...
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Relationships between the lean mass index and bone mass and reference values of muscular status in healthy Chinese children and adolescents
This study aimed to analyze the relationships between the lean mass index (LMI) and bone outcomes in Chinese children and adolescents using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) and to establish sex-specific ...
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Comparison of RECIST, EORTC criteria and PERCIST for evaluation of early response to chemotherapy in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer
To compare the Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) 1.1, the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) criteria and the Positron Emission Tomography Response Criteria ...
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Reference data and percentile curves of body composition measured with dual energy X-ray absorptiometry in healthy Chinese children and adolescents
Measurements of body composition by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) have evident value in evaluating skeletal and muscular status in growing children and adolescents. This study aimed to generate age-re...
