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Open AccessApproximating Intermediate Feature Maps of Self-Supervised Convolution Neural Network to Learn Hard Positive Representations in Chest Radiography
Recent advances in contrastive learning have significantly improved the performance of deep learning models. In contrastive learning of medical images, dealing with positive representation is sometimes difficu...
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A Hospital-Based Infant Safe Sleep Intervention and Safe Sleep Practices Among Young Women: A Prospective Longitudinal Study
The rates of sudden unexpected infant death (SUID) are still high in the U.S. The longitudinal effects of SUID preventive education on infant safe sleep practices are less known. The current study evaluated th...
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Open AccessCheSS: Chest X-Ray Pre-trained Model via Self-supervised Contrastive Learning
Training deep learning models on medical images heavily depends on experts’ expensive and laborious manual labels. In addition, these images, labels, and even models themselves are not widely publicly accessib...
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CT Kernel Conversion Using Multi-domain Image-to-Image Translation with Generator-Guided Contrastive Learning
Computed tomography (CT) image can be reconstructed by various types of kernels depending on what anatomical structure is evaluated. Also, even if the same anatomical structure is analyzed, the kernel being us...
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How do Family Economic Contexts Affect Children’s Subjective Well-Being? A Study of South Korea
The aim of this research is to examine the relationship between family economic contexts and children’s subjective well-being using a child-centric perspective and to examine the mediation effects of basic psy...
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Blood-compatible and biodegradable polymer-coated drug-eluting stent
A drug-eluting stent (DES) is a metal stent that has been coated with a drug known to suppress restenosis. To prepare a novel DES, a bare metal stent (BMS) was coated with sirolimus (SRL) in a blood-compatible...
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Surfactant-free nanoparticles of doxorubicin-conjugated poly(DL-lactide-co-glycolide)
Doxorubicin (DOX)-conjugated poly(DL-lactide-co-glycolide)(PLGA) was synthesized and nanoparticles were prepared without the use of a surfactant. The DOX content in the nanoparticles ranged from 1.2 to 4.75% (w/w...
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Insulin-incorporated chitosan nanoparticles based on polyelectrolyte complex formation
Insulin-incorporated nanoparticles were prepared by polyelectrolyte complex formation using low-molecular weight water soluble chitosan (LMWSC). Insulin-incorporated nanoparticles showed spherical shapes with ...
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Methotrexate-incorporated polymeric micelles composed of methoxy poly(ethylene glycol)-grafted chitosan
In this study, methotrexate (MTX)-encapsulated polymeric micelles using methoxy poly(ethylene glycol) (MPEG)-grafted chitosan (ChitoPEG) copolymer were prepared. The MTX-incorporated polymeric micelles of Chit...
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Preparation and characterization of nanoparticles using poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-poly(ε-caprolactone) and poly(ethylene glycol)-poly(ε-caprolactone) block copolymers with thermosensitive function
Thermosensitive nanoparticles were prepared via the self-assembly of two different poly(ε-caprolactone)-based block copolymers of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-b-poly(ε-caprolactone) (PNPCL) and poly(ethylene glyco...
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All-trans retinoic acid-associated low molecular weight water-soluble chitosan nanoparticles based on ion complex
The purpose of this study is to develop novel nanoparticles based on polyion complex formation between low molecular weight water-soluble chitosan (LMWSC) and all-trans retinoic acid (atRA). LMWSC nanoparticles e...
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Transesterification and compatibilization in the blends of bisphenol-A polycarbonate and poly(trimethylene terephthalate)
Melt blending of Bisphenol A polycarbonate(PC) and poly(trimethylene terephthalate)(PTT) was carried out over the entire composition range. The mixing time was varied up to 90 min. The resulting samples were a...
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Preparation of a hydrophobized chitosan oligosaccharide for application as an efficient gene carrier
To prepare chitosan-based polymeric amphiphiles that can form nanosized core-shell structures (nanoparticles) in aqueous milieu, chitosan oligosaccharides (COSs) were modified chemically with hydrophobic chole...