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Observing Intellectual Need and its Relationship with Undergraduate Students’ Learning of Calculus
The concept of intellectual need, which proposes that learning is the result of students wrestling with a problem that is unsolvable by their current knowledge, has been used in instructional design for many y...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: Federated learning enables big data for rare cancer boundary detection
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Open AccessFederated learning enables big data for rare cancer boundary detection
Although machine learning (ML) has shown promise across disciplines, out-of-sample generalizability is concerning. This is currently addressed by sharing multi-site data, but such centralization is challenging...
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Common Equipment in Interventional Radiology
Before beginning a procedure in interventional radiology, it is important to consider the imaging modality and instruments needed to complete the task. The ability to use imaging to perform a diagnostic or the...
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Arterial and Venous Access
Arterial and venous access may serve both diagnostic and therapeutic roles in different patients. Obtaining vascular access is based on several general principles that factor in the patient, the puncture, and ...
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Peripheral Vascular Intervention
Peripheral arterial disease refers to the development of atherosclerotic plaque leading to the narrowing of arteries outside the heart. Approximately 16% of adults aged over 55 years have peripheral arterial d...
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Interventional Radiology: The Early Days and Innovation
Interventional radiology is a relatively new field, having only come into existence approximately half a century ago. Starting with the Seldinger technique in 1953, it took over a decade for momentum to get be...
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Embolization Materials and Principles
From the layperson’s perspective, the formation of an embolus is more associated with potentially fatal medical conditions, such as a myocardial infarction, stroke, or pulmonary embolism. Radiologist Dr. Sadek...
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Open AccessAß40 displays amyloidogenic properties in the non-transgenic mouse brain but does not exacerbate Aß42 toxicity in Drosophila
Self-assembly of the amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide into aggregates, from small oligomers to amyloid fibrils, is fundamentally linked with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). However, it is clear that not all forms of Aβ are eq...
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Open AccessFederated learning in medicine: facilitating multi-institutional collaborations without sharing patient data
Several studies underscore the potential of deep learning in identifying complex patterns, leading to diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers. Identifying sufficiently large and diverse datasets, required for tra...
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Multi-institutional Deep Learning Modeling Without Sharing Patient Data: A Feasibility Study on Brain Tumor Segmentation
Deep learning models for semantic segmentation of images require large amounts of data. In the medical imaging domain, acquiring sufficient data is a significant challenge. Labeling medical image data requires...
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The Leakage-Resilience Dilemma
Many control-flow-hijacking attacks rely on information leakage to ...
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ShapeShifter: Robust Physical Adversarial Attack on Faster R-CNN Object Detector
Given the ability to directly manipulate image pixels in the digital input space, an adversary can easily generate imperceptible perturbations to fool a Deep Neural Network (DNN) image classifier, as demonstra...
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Open AccessTheropod courtship: large scale physical evidence of display arenas and avian-like scrape ceremony behaviour by Cretaceous dinosaurs
Relationships between non-avian theropod dinosaurs and extant and fossil birds are a major focus of current paleobiological research. Despite extensive phylogenetic and morphological support, behavioural evide...
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Accuracy of Ultrasound and Noninvasive Markers of Fibrosis to Identify Patients with Cirrhosis
Accurate identification of patients with cirrhosis using noninvasive markers of fibrosis is useful for esophageal varices and hepatocellular carcinoma surveillance programs. The aims of our study were to chara...
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Thermal Versus Impedance-Based Ablation of Renal Cell Carcinoma: A Meta-analysis
Percutaneous radiofrequency ablation (RFA) of renal carcinoma has become an established treatment modality. However, thermal (TB) versus impedance-based (IB)-RF generators have not been previously compared.
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Complications and Reinterventions in Uterine Artery Embolization for Symptomatic Uterine Fibroids: A Literature Review and Meta Analysis
To perform a literature review of the spectrum of complications associated with UAE relative to surgery and compare the risk of reintervention as well as minor, major, and overall complications.
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Differences between experts’ and students’ conceptual images of the mathematical structure of Taylor series convergence
Taylor series convergence is a complicated mathematical structure which incorporates multiple concepts. Therefore, it can be very difficult for students to initially comprehend. How might students make sense o...
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The Metropolitan Philadelphia Indicators Project: Measuring a Diverse Region
The Metropolitan Philadelphia Indicators Project (MPIP) is a multidisciplinary research initiative that gathers and makes available data describing the Philadelphia Metropolitan Region. Comprised of 353 munici...
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The Role of Sonic Hedgehog Reemergence During Gastric Cancer
Sonic Hedgehog (Shh) signaling has been extensively studied for its role in developmental biology and cancer biology. The association between Shh and cancer development in general is well established but the f...
