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Bone age assessment based on different MRI modalities of the proximal humerus epiphysis: the comparisons of T1WI, T2WI, and PDWI
Bone age assessment (BAA) is crucial in various fields, including legal proceedings, athletic competitions, and clinical medicine. However, the use of X-ray methods for age estimation without medical indicatio...
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Rhinoplasty with Mortise–Tenon Cartilaginous Framework for Caudal Septal Cartilage Defects
Rhinoplasty for caudal septal cartilage defects is a challenge due to the difficulty of fixation of the grafts.
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Simultaneous determination of diquat, paraquat, glufosinate, and glyphosate in plasma by liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry: from method development to clinical application
Diquat (DQ), paraquat (PQ), glufosinate (GLU), and glyphosate (GLYP) are commonly used herbicides that have been confirmed to be toxic to humans. Rapid and accurate measurements of these toxicants in clinical ...
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Adult age estimation from the sternum using maximum intensity projection images of CT and data mining in a Chinese population
This study aimed to explore and develop data mining models for adult age estimation based on CT reconstruction images from the sternum. Maximum intensity projection (MIP) images of chest CT were retrospectivel...
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Automated bone age assessment from knee joint by integrating deep learning and MRI-based radiomics
Bone age assessment (BAA) is a crucial task in clinical, forensic, and athletic fields. Since traditional age estimation methods are suffered from potential radiation damage, this study aimed to develop and ev...
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Clinical Application of Botulinum Toxin A on Nasal Reconstruction with Expanded Forehead Flap for Asian Patients
Because of its unique advantages, frontal expansion has become a common tool for Asian nasal reconstruction, but it has the limitations of prolonging the duration and pain in the expansion area. Based on the f...
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Open AccessDesigning a framework for entrepreneurship education in Chinese higher education: a theoretical exploration and empirical case study
Entrepreneurship education (EE) has rapidly evolved within higher education and has emerged as a pivotal mechanism for cultivating innovative and entrepreneurial talent. In China, while EE has made positive st...
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Preparation and properties of silicone thermoplastic elastomer and its molecular dynamics study
In this paper, the silicone rubber (SR)/thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) composites and its compatibilizers were studied by molecule dynamics simulation and experiment. Three compatibilizers, fluorosilicone ru...
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SAR ship detection network based on global context and multi-scale feature enhancement
With the rapid development of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) technology, SAR image ship detection plays a crucial role in fields such as marine environment monitoring and maritime traffic control. Due to the l...
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Machine Learning Supported the Modified Gustafson’s Criteria for Dental Age Estimation in Southwest China
Adult age estimation is one of the most challenging problems in forensic science and physical anthropology. In this study, we aimed to develop and evaluate machine learning (ML) methods based on the modified G...
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Comparing the Effectiveness of Betamethasone and Triamcinolone Acetonide in Multimodal Cocktail Intercostal Injection for Chest Pain After Harvesting Costal Cartilage: A Prospective, Double-Blind, Randomized Controlled Study
There has been no previous study on the availability of different glucocorticoid varieties used in the multimodal cocktail for harvesting autologous costal cartilage. This randomized controlled trial (RCT) was...
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Machine learning and deep learning enabled age estimation on medial clavicle CT images
The medial clavicle epiphysis is a crucial indicator for bone age estimation (BAE) after hand maturation. This study aimed to develop machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) models for BAE based on medial...
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Ultra-precision milling and grinding for large-sagittal MgF2 aspheric optical elements
Ultra-precision machining for large-sagittal aspheric optical elements has become one of the research hotspots in the world’s processing and manufacturing field in recent years. This paper mainly studies the p...
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Letter on Nasal Reconstruction Using Rib Grafting with Cold Light Source Technology
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The intestinal microbiota of a Risso’s dolphin (Grampus griseus): possible relationships with starvation raised by macro-plastic ingestion
Ingesting marine plastics is increasingly common in cetaceans, but little is known about their potential effects. Here, by utilizing 16S rRNA gene sequencing, we profiled the intestinal bacterial communities o...
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Deep learning enables automatic adult age estimation based on CT reconstruction images of the costal cartilage
Adult age estimation (AAE) is a challenging task. Deep learning (DL) could be a supportive tool. This study aimed to develop DL models for AAE based on CT images and compare their performance to the manual vis...
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Chemoselective chromium-catalysed cross-coupling enables three-component tertiary alkane synthesis
The development of multiple-component cross-coupling reactions is a challenge due to issues of selectivity and efficiency. In the present study, we report a chromium-catalysed, multicomponent cross-coupling re...
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Atmospheric Pressure Air Plasma Treatment to Improve Dyeability with Cortex Phellodendri Plant Powder Dye: An Ecofriendly and Energy-Efficient Approach for Silk Processing
This paper explores the effects of a dielectric barrier discharge atmospheric pressure air plasma and citric acid (CA) pretreatment on dyeing gray mulberry silk plain fabrics with a cortex phellodendri plant p...
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Forensic age estimation in adults by pubic bone mineral density using multidetector computed tomography
Radiology plays a crucial role in forensic anthropology for age estimation. However, most studies rely on morphological methods. This study aims to investigate the feasibility of using pubic bone mineral densi...
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Semi-supervised automatic dental age and sex estimation using a hybrid transformer model
Teeth-based age and sex estimation is an important task in mass disasters, criminal scenes, and archeology. Although various methods have been proposed, most of them are subjective and influenced by observers’...
