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A geometry-aware multi-coordinate transformation fusion network for optic disc and cup segmentation
The determination of potential glaucoma cases often relies on the vertical cup-to-disc ratio, which is directly derived from segmentation results. This study introduces an approach that leverages the geometric...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Representation, Alignment, Fusion: A Generic Transformer-Based Framework for Multi-modal Glaucoma Recognition
Early glaucoma can be diagnosed with various modalities based on morphological features. However, most existing automated solutions rely on single-modality, such as Color Fundus Photography (CFP) which lacks 3...
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Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of catalpalactone and its analogs
Ten catalpalactone derivatives were designed, synthesized, and their structures were identified by 1H NMR, 13C NMR, and HRMS. All the analogs were evaluated for antimicrobial, cytotoxic activities and insecticida...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Fundus Photograph Defect Repair Algorithm Based on Portable Camera Empty Shot
Fundus photograph is an important basis for ophthalmologists to diagnose retinal diseases. Due to the limitations of the optical system design for portable fundus cameras, there still exist typical image defec...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Template Mask Based Image Fusion Built-in Algorithm for Wide Field Fundus Cameras
When a typical wide field fundus camera takes two fundus images as a pair, two patterns of illumination beams (the top and bottom, left and right) are turned on respectively. Due to the influence of the illumi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Semi-supervised Learning for Nerve Segmentation in Corneal Confocal Microscope Photography
Corneal nerve fiber medical indicators are promising metrics for diagnosis of diabetic peripheral neuropathy. However, automatic nerve segmentation still faces the issues of insufficient data and expensive ann...
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Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of novel stachydrine derivatives as potent neuroprotective agents for cerebral ischemic stroke
Stachydrine is a natural product with multiple protective biological activities, including those involved in preventing cancer, ischemia, and cardiovascular disease. However, its use has been limited by low bi...
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Combination of a novel microtubule inhibitor MBRI-001 and gemcitabine synergistically induces cell apoptosis by increasing DNA damage in pancreatic cancer cell lines
Pancreatic cancer (PC) is a highly malignant cancer with poor prognosis. Although gemcitabine (GEM; 2′,2′-difluoro-deoxycytidine) has been used as the first-line chemotherapeutic agent in PC treatment for deca...
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Open AccessA heterotrimeric SMARCB1–SMARCC2 subcomplex is required for the assembly and tumor suppression function of the BAF chromatin-remodeling complex
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Chapter and Conference Paper
AttenNet: Deep Attention Based Retinal Disease Classification in OCT Images
An optical coherence tomography (OCT) image is becoming the standard imaging modality in diagnosing retinal diseases and the assessment of their progression. However, the manual evaluation of the volumetric sc...
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Synthesis of deuterium-enriched sorafenib derivatives and evaluation of their biological activities
Deuterium substitution has been widely known that can improve the pharmacokinetic profiles due to isotope effect. Herein, a series of deuterated sorafenib derivatives have been synthesized and characterized by 1H...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Two-Stream CNN with Loose Pair Training for Multi-modal AMD Categorization
This paper studies automated categorization of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) given a multi-modal input, which consists of a color fundus image and an optical coherence tomography (OCT) image from a sp...
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Antitumor activity of the microtubule inhibitor MBRI-001 against human hepatocellular carcinoma as monotherapy or in combination with sorafenib
MBRI-001 is a novel synthetic derivative of plinabulin. In this study, our purpose is to investigate the inhibition effects of MBRI-001 on human hepatocellular carcinoma as monotherapy or in combination with s...
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Synthesis and pharmacokinetic property improvement of deuterated plinabulin 9
Plinabulin, a potent microtubule-targeting agent, is derived from marine natural diketopiperazine ‘phenylahistin’. To develop novel plinabulin analogue that could display better pharmacokinetic properties and ...
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Distributions of sediments of the tidal flats in response to dynamic actions, Yangtze (Changjiang) Estuary
Sediment samples with high spatial resolution (432 samples in total) and flow data were collected on the tidal flats in the mouth-bar region of the Yangtze Estuary. The data was collected in July 2005, July 20...