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Chapter and Conference Paper
Vagolysis and Mucosal Antrectomy by Contact. Intra-Gastric Nd: YAG Laser Photoradiation
Highly selective vagotomy 7,8 (proximal gastric, parietal cell vagotomy) and lateral seromyotomy 11,12 on the stomach have been found to reduce gastric acid secretion in patients with chronic duodenal ulcer pr...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Measuring Microcirculation Using Spatiotemporal Image Analysis
This paper describes a method for recognizing and measuring the motion of each individual leukocyte in microvessels from a sequence of images. A spatiotemporal image is generated whose spatial axes are paralle...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Cationic Lipid-Nucleic Acid Complexes (Lipoplexes): From Physicochemical Properties to In Vitro and In Vivo Transfection Kits
Lipoplexes are complexes formed spontaneously upon mixing of negatively charged nucleic acids (or other polyelectrolytes such as proteins) with positively-charged lipid assemblies [1]( for definitions see [2]). T...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Cell-Vessel Architecture Model for the Central Respiratory Chemoreceptor
The group of Loeschcke established that the superficial ventrolateral medulla contains chemosensitive regions (see the reviews [1-3]). Later, the group of Nattie conducted experiments of acetazolamide microinj...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Novel Way of Incorporating Large-Scale Knowledge into MRF Prior Model
Based on Markov Random Fields (MRF) theory, Bayesian methods have been accepted as an effective solution to overcome the ill-posed problems of image restoration and reconstruction. Traditionally, the knowledge...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Hierarchical Latent Class Models and Statistical Foundation for Traditional Chinese Medicine
The theories of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) originated from experiences doctors had with patients in ancient times. We ask the question whether aspects of TCM theories can be reconstructed through moder...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
GPU-MEME: Using Graphics Hardware to Accelerate Motif Finding in DNA Sequences
Discovery of motifs that are repeated in groups of biological sequences is a major task in bioinformatics. Iterative methods such as expectation maximization (EM) are used as a common approach to find such pat...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Robust Brain Registration Using Adaptive Probabilistic Atlas
Elastic image registration is widely used to adapt brain images to a common template space, and, in complementary fashion, to adapt an anatomical template to a subject’s anatomy. Although HAMMER is a very accu...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Automatic Determination of Arterial Input Function for Dynamic Contrast Enhanced MRI in Tumor Assessment
Dynamic Contrast Enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) is today one of the most popular methods for tumor assessment. Several pharmacokinetic models have been proposed to analyze DCE-MRI. Most of them depend on an accurate a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Integrative Neural Network Approach for Protein Interaction Prediction from Heterogeneous Data
Protein interactions are essential in discovery of protein functions and fundamental biological processes. In this paper, we aim to create a reliable computational model for protein interaction prediction by i...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Fast Motion Tracking of Tagged MRI Using Angle-Preserving Meshless Registration
Fast tracking of motion is the key step towards tagged MRI-based quantitative cardiac analysis. Existing motion tracking approaches, including the widely used HARP method, are either time consuming or qualitat...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Using Support Vector Regression for Classification
In this paper, a new method to solve the classified problems by using Support Vector Regression is introduced. Proposed method is called as SVR-C for short. In the method, through reconstructing the training s...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Moment+: Mining Closed Frequent Itemsets over Data Stream
Closed frequent itemsets(CFI) mining uses less memory to store the entire information of frequent itemsets thus is much suitable for mining stream. In this paper, we discuss recent CFI mining methods over stream ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
DC-Tree: An Algorithm for Skyline Query on Data Streams
Skyline query asks for a set of interesting points that are non-dominated by any other points from a potentially large set of data points and has become research hotspot in database field. Users usually respec...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Suicidal Risk Evaluation Using a Similarity-Based Classifier
Suicide remains one of the leading causes of death in the world and it is showing an increasing trend. Suicide is preventable by early screening of the risks. But the risk assessment is a complex task due to i...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Constrained Non-rigid Registration Algorithm for Use in Prostate Image-Guided Radiotherapy
A constrained non-rigid registration (CNRR) algorithm for use in updating prostate external beam image-guided radiotherapy treatment plans is presented in this paper. The developed algorithm is based on a mult...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Temporal Dominant Relationship Analysis Method
Recent research on skyline queries has attracted much interest in the database and data mining community. The concept of dominant relationship analysis has commonly used in the context of skyline computation, ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Domain-Domain Interaction Identification with a Feature Selection Approach
The protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are generally assumed to be mediated by domain-domain interactions (DDIs). Many computational methods have been proposed based on this assumption to predict DDIs from av...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Real-Time Nonlinear FEM with Neural Network for Simulating Soft Organ Model Deformation
This paper presents a new method for simulating the deformation of organ models by using a neural network. The proposed method is based on the idea proposed by Chen et al. [2] that a deformed model can be esti...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Comparative Study of Correlation Measurements for Searching Similar Tags
In recent years, folksonomy becomes a hot topic in many research fields such as complex systems, information retrieval, and recommending systems. It is essential to study the semantic relationships among tags ...