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Open AccessDeep neural network trained on gigapixel images improves lymph node metastasis detection in clinical settings
The pathological identification of lymph node (LN) metastasis is demanding and tedious. Although convolutional neural networks (CNNs) possess considerable potential in improving the process, the ultrahigh-reso...
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Open AccessAn annotation-free whole-slide training approach to pathological classification of lung cancer types using deep learning
Deep learning for digital pathology is hindered by the extremely high spatial resolution of whole-slide images (WSIs). Most studies have employed patch-based methods, which often require detailed annotation of...
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Hybrid Aggregation Network for Survival Analysis from Whole Slide Histopathological Images
Understanding of prognosis and mortality is crucial for evaluating the treatment plans for patients. Recent developments of digital pathology and deep learning bring the possibility of predicting survival time...
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Stain Mix-Up: Unsupervised Domain Generalization for Histopathology Images
Computational histopathology studies have shown that stain color variations considerably hamper the performance. Stain color variations indicate the slides exhibit greatly different color appearance due to the...
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Estimating the potential effects of climate change on rice production in Thailand
This study estimates the potential effects of climate change on rice production in Thailand based on historical data from 1989 to 2009. An econometric panel data model is applied to examine the impact of the c...
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Optimization of Zero-Order TSK-Type Fuzzy System Using Enhanced Particle Swarm Optimizer with Dynamic Mutation and Special Initialization
This paper proposes an enhanced particle swarm optimization with dynamic mutation and special initialization, the EPSODM-I, for improving the accuracy of zero-order TSK-type fuzzy systems design. The EPSODM-I ...
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Improve the Accuracy of Recurrent Fuzzy System Design Using an Efficient Continuous Ant Colony Optimization
This paper proposes a new population-based evolutionary optimization algorithm, elite-mixed continuous ant colony optimization with central initialization (EMCACO-C), for improving the accuracy of Takagi–Sugen...
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A Novel Grou** Slotted Aloha Scheme to Enhance Throughput Performance for Wireless Networks
Slotted Aloha (SA) is a conventional distributed contention-based scheme in which the link time is divided into slots of equal duration and the users contend to access by transmitting with a predefined slot-ac...
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Open AccessKlebsiella pneumoniae Isolates from Meningitis: Epidemiology, Virulence and Antibiotic Resistance
Klebsiella pneumoniae (KP) resistance to broad-spectrum cephalosporin (BSC) in meningitis is important because of limited therapeutic options. To investigate the antibiotic resistance, vi...
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Open AccessCombination of cephalosporins with vancomycin or teicoplanin enhances antibacterial effect of glycopeptides against heterogeneous vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (hVISA) and VISA
Eight heterogeneous vancomycin-intermediate S. aureus (h-VISA) and seven VISA clinical isolates confirmed by the population analysis profile/area under the curve ratio (PAP/AUC) were collected. We further perform...
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Open AccessThe role of doxycycline in the therapy of multidrug-resistant E. coli – an in vitro study
This study assessed the in vitro antibacterial activity of combinations of amikacin and doxycycline or tigecycline against multidrug-resistant E. coli isolates. Twenty-four different pulsotypes, including 10 exte...
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Open AccessShort-term glutamine supplementation decreases lung inflammation and the receptor for advanced glycation end-products expression in direct acute lung injury in mice
Glutamine (GLN) has been reported to improve clinical and experimental sepsis outcomes. However, the mechanisms underlying the actions of GLN remain unclear, and may depend upon the route of GLN administration...
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Climate change, sea level rise and rice: global market implications
Climate change will influence yields while sea level rise can inundate producing lands. The research reported investigates the individual and simultaneous effects of these factors on production, trade and cons...
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Open AccessMacrophage migration inhibitory factor regulates interleukin-6 production by facilitating nuclear factor-kappa B activation during Vibrio vulnificus infection
Patients infected with Vibrio vulnificus (V. vulnificus) show severe inflammatory responses characterised by the upregulation of proinflammatory cytokines. Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF), an upstrea...
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Estimating the Potential Water Transfer Prices Using Price Endogenous Theory
The purpose of this paper is to estimate the potential market price for the transfer of water among sectors in the Northern Taiwan region. This region is the major semiconductor and information technology prod...
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Estimating the economic impacts of climate change on infectious diseases: a case study on dengue fever in Taiwan
Researchers of climate change have suggested that climate change and variability has a significant influence on the epidemiology of infectious diseases, particularly vector-borne diseases. The purpose of this ...
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Leakage and Comparative Advantage Implications of Agricultural Participation in Greenhouse Gas Emission Mitigation
The world is moving toward efforts to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions. Reduction efforts may involve the agricultural sector through options such as planting of trees, altering crop and livestock managemen...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Positioning System in Taipei Children’s Museum of Transportation and Communication
This paper presents a 802.11-based positioning system developed and demonstrated in the Taipei Children’s Museum of Transportation and Communication. Our positioning system partitions the service area into sev...
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Optimum Spreading Sequences for Asynchronous CDMA System Based on Nonlinear Dynamical and Ergodic Theories
This chapter presents a tutorial and overview of the interplay among nonlinear dynamical system theory, ergodic theory, and the design and analysis of spreading sequences for CDMA communication systems. We fir...
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Yield Variability as Influenced by Climate: A Statistical Investigation
One of the issues with respect to climate change involves its influence on the distribution of future crop yields. Many studies have been done regarding the effect on the mean of such distributions but few hav...
