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Feasibility and Safety of Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Biliary Drainage (EUS-BD) for Malignant Biliary Obstruction Associated with Ascites: Results of a Pilot Study
It has been suggested that EUS-BD may be a feasible and safer alternative to percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTBD) after failed ERCP in patients with ascites. To date, no study has specifically eva...
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Cardiac surgery for ascending aortic dissection has a good short-term and medium-term prognosis in a paired-matched analysis
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Multi-Channel Satellite Image Analysis Using a Variational Approach
Currently, meteorological satellites provide multichannel image sequences including visible, temperature and water vapor channels. Based on a variational approach, we propose mathematical models to address som...
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Variational second order flow estimation for PIV sequences
We present in this paper a variational approach to accurately estimate simultaneously the velocity field and its derivatives directly from PIV image sequences. Our method differs from other techniques that hav...
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Multi-Channel Satellite Image Analysis Using a Variational Approach
Currently, meteorological satellites provide multichannel image sequences including visible, temperature and water vapor channels. Based on a variational approach, we propose mathematical models to address som...
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Robust detection and ordering of ellipses on a calibration pattern
The aim of this work is to accurately estimate from an image the parameters of some ellipses and their relative positions with respect to a given pattern. The process is characterized because it is fully autom...
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Lack of effect of the ghrelin gene-derived peptide obestatin on cardiomyocyte viability and metabolism
Obestatin is a recently discovered peptide encoded by the ghrelin gene that opposes ghrelin effects on food intake and gastrointestinal function. The biological activity of obestatin depends on amidation at it...
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3D Motion Estimation Using a Combination of Correlation and Variational Methods for PIV
Estimation of motion has many applications in fluid analysis. Lots of work has been carried out using Particle Image Velocimetry to design experiments which capture and measure the flow motion using 2D images....
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Second Order Variational Optic Flow Estimation
In this paper we present a variational approach to accurately estimate the motion vector field in a image sequence introducing a second order Taylor expansion of the flow in the energy function to be minimized...
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Symmetric Optical Flow
One of the main technique used to recover motion analysis from two images or to register them is variational optical flow, where the pixels of one image are matched to the pixels of the second image by minimiz...
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Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma and multiple thoraco-lumbar lateral meningoceles: two rare pathological entities in a patient with NF-1
Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (EHE) is a rare vascular soft-tissue tumour of intermediate malignancy. Neurofibromatosis type I (NF-1) is a genetic syndrome associated with soft tissue sarcoma and higher ris...
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3D Geometry Reconstruction from a Stereoscopic Video Sequence
The aim of this work is to propose a method for recovering the 3D geometry of a video sequence taken from a pair of stereo cameras. The cameras are rigidly situated in a fixed position and there are some objec...
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Bone Tissue Engineering Using Starch Based Scaffolds Obtained by Different Methods
The materials to be used as scaffolds in tissue engineering must fulfill a number of complex requirements, such as, biocompatibility, appropriate porous structure, mechanical properties and suitable surface ch...
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Metabolism and Anti-HIV Activity of Phosphoramidate Derivatives of D4T-MP with Variations in the Amino Acid Moiety
The metabolism of different phosphoramidate prodrugs of d4T-MP, in which the phosphate group is linked to a phenyl group and the alkyl ester of an amino acid was studied in crude CEM cell extracts. Significant...
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Polygraphic study in man to differentiate sleep-inducing action of hypnotics
A procedure is described for the clinical assay of hypnotics and a comparative study of two drugs in humans: Hoe 264 (Hoechst) and heptobarbital (Medomin R) is reported. This procedure measures the changes in ...
