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Open AccessEvaluation of respiratory samples in etiology diagnosis and microbiome characterization by metagenomic sequencing
The application of clinical mNGS for diagnosing respiratory infections improves etiology diagnosis, however at the same time, it brings new challenges as an unbiased sequencing method informing all identified ...
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Article
Open AccessCharacterization of respiratory microbial dysbiosis in hospitalized COVID-19 patients
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused a global pandemic of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). However, the microbial composition of the respiratory tract and other infected ...
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Open AccessMultiple approaches for massively parallel sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 genomes directly from clinical samples
COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) has caused a major epidemic worldwide; however, much is yet to be known about the epidemiology and evolution of the virus partly due to the scarcity of full-length SARS-CoV-...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
TexNet: Texture Loss Based Network for Gastric Antrum Segmentation in Ultrasound
Gastric Antrum (GA) cross-sectional area measurement using ultrasound imaging is an important point-of-care (POC) application in intense care unit (ICU) and anesthesia. GA in ultrasound images often show subst...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
ARS-Net: Adaptively Rectified Supervision Network for Automated 3D Ultrasound Image Segmentation
3D Ultrasound (3DUS) has been widely used in clinical diagnosis. However, volume segmentation of 3DUS is very challenging due to relatively poor image quality and usually small datasets. We propose an efficien...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Virtual Total Knee Replacement System Based on VTK
In this paper we present a surgery planning software of total knee replacement (TKR). It was established initially based on the open source package —Visualization Toolkit (VTK). The main innovative feature of ...
