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A new sphincter-preserving operation for low rectal cancer: ultralow anterior resection and colorectal/coloanal anastomosis by supporting bundling-up method
The introductions of total mesorectal excision and double-stapling technique into colorectal surgery have promoted the clinical application of sphincter preservation. However, for the tumors localized on the m...
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Segmentation of Brain Tumors in Multi-parametric MR Images via Robust Statistic Information Propagation
A method is presented to segment brain tumors in multi-parametric MR images via robustly propagating reliable statistical tumor information which is extracted from training tumor images using a support vector ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Matching Functional Connectivity Patterns for Spatial Correspondence Detection in fMRI Registration
A novel method is proposed to match functional connectivity patterns represented by graphs for spatial registration of fMRI data. Different from existing functional connectivity pattern based registration meth...
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Laparoscopic caudal-to-cranial approach for radical lymph node dissection in right hemicolectomy
The present study evaluated the safety and feasibility of this caudal-to-cranial laparoscopic dissection approach for the curative resection of right-sided colon cancer. To the best of our knowledge, no study ...
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Totally laparoscopic complete bursectomy and D2 lymphadenectomy in radical total gastrectomy: an outside bursa omentalis approach
Bursectomy is regarded as a standard surgical procedure during gastrectomy for serosa-positive gastric cancer in Japanese gastric cancer treatment guidelines (Japanese Gastric Cancer Association in Gastric Can...
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Process Chemistry in Antiviral Research
This article reviews antiviral therapies that have been approved for human use during the last decade, with a focus on the process chemistry that enabled access to these important drugs. In particular, process...
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Investigation on terpolymer of ethylene/propylene/ω-bromo-α-olefins catalyzed by titanium complexes
Polyolefins with polar groups exhibited many applications as high-performance materials have been the subject of considerable research. In this study, terpolymers of ω-bromo-α-olefins with ethylene and propyle...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Identification of Temporal Transition of Functional States Using Recurrent Neural Networks from Functional MRI
Dynamic functional connectivity analysis provides valuable information for understanding brain functional activity underlying different cognitive processes. Besides sliding window based approaches, a variety o...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Brain Decoding from Functional MRI Using Long Short-Term Memory Recurrent Neural Networks
Decoding brain functional states underlying different cognitive processes using multivariate pattern recognition techniques has attracted increasing interests in brain imaging studies. Promising performance ha...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Identification of Multi-scale Hierarchical Brain Functional Networks Using Deep Matrix Factorization
We present a deep semi-nonnegative matrix factorization method for identifying subject-specific functional networks (FNs) at multiple spatial scales with a hierarchical organization from resting state fMRI dat...
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Laparoscopic resection for gastrointestinal stromal tumors in esophagogastric junction (EGJ): how to protect the EGJ
Laparoscopic surgery for gastric gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) is now widely performed. However, laparoscopic resection of GIST in the esophagogastric junction (EGJ) is technically difficult and rare...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Multi-instance Deep Learning with Graph Convolutional Neural Networks for Diagnosis of Kidney Diseases Using Ultrasound Imaging
Ultrasound imaging (US) is commonly used in nephrology for diagnostic studies of the kidneys and lower urinary tract. However, it remains challenging to automate the disease diagnosis based on clinical 2D US i...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Adaptive Sparsity Regularization Based Collaborative Clustering for Cancer Prognosis
Radiomic approaches have achieved promising performance in prediction of clinical outcomes of cancer patients. Particularly, feature dimensionality reduction plays an important role in radiomic studies. Howev...
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Quantitative Correlation between Electrical Resistivity and Microhardness of Cu-Ni-Mo Alloys via a Short-Range Order Cluster Model
Strength and electrical resistivity are coupled in metal alloys as both are based upon a similar microstructure mechanism, but the quantitative relationship between them is not known due to the complex microst...
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Open AccessRadiomic features from MRI distinguish myxomas from myxofibrosarcomas
Myxoid tumors pose diagnostic challenges for radiologists and pathologists. All myxoid tumors can be differentiated from each other using fluorescent in-situ hybridization (FISH) or immunohistochemical markers...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A 3D Convolutional Encapsulated Long Short-Term Memory (3DConv-LSTM) Model for Denoising fMRI Data
Function magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data are typically contaminated by noise introduced by head motion, physiological noise, and thermal noise. To mitigate noise artifact in fMRI data, a variety of deno...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Cancer Imaging Phenomics Toolkit (CaPTk): Technical Overview
The purpose of this manuscript is to provide an overview of the technical specifications and architecture of the Cancer imaging Phenomics Toolkit (CaPTk www.cbica.upenn.edu/captk
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“Caudal-to-cranial” plus “artery first” technique with beyond D3 lymph node dissection on the right midline of the superior mesenteric artery for the treatment of right colon cancer: is it more in line with the principle of oncology?
To explore the feasibility and application value of a “caudal-to-cranial” plus “artery first” technique with beyond D3 lymph node dissection on the right midline of the superior mesenteric artery (SMA) for the...
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An Analytical Research about Parameter Influence on Large-Scale Anchorage Region with Multiple CFRP Cables
This study investigates the mechanical properties of carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) cable at the anchoring region where arrange the adhesive material with different mediums aiming at reducing the high ...
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Stochastic programming approach for unidirectional quay crane scheduling problem with uncertainty
Quay crane scheduling is a key aspect of container terminal operation, which can be regarded as a decision-making process with uncertainty. Each task involves stochastic loading and unloading operation times o...
