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Open AccessPreoperative prediction of early recurrence in resectable pancreatic cancer integrating clinical, radiologic, and CT radiomics features
To use clinical, radiographic, and CT radiomics features to develop and validate a preoperative prediction model for the early recurrence of pancreatic cancer.
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Open AccessWeight loss from diagnosis of Crohn’s disease to one year post-diagnosis results in earlier surgery
Malnutrition might play a key role in the prognosis of patients with Crohn’s disease (CD). The aim of this study was to explore the impact of weight loss from diagnosis of CD to one-year post-diagnosis on dise...
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Statistical Analysis of Ignition Time and Energy of the TFR-CV Cable Ignition Experiments Using 100 W DC Arc
An ignition experiment was conducted with a cross-linked polyethylene insulated tray flame-retardant polyvinyl chloride sheathed cable by generating a 100 W direct current arc. The experiments generated a seri...
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Open AccessEarly postoperative urinary MCP-1 as a potential biomarker predicting acute rejection in living donor kidney transplantation: a prospective cohort study
We investigated the clinical relevance of urinary cytokines/chemokines reflecting intrarenal immunologic micromilieu as prognostic markers and the optimal measurement timing after living donor kidney transplan...
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Bayesian learning of a search region for pedestrian detection
An efficient pedestrian detection method is proposed for intelligent vehicles in this paper. The proposed method learns the region in which pedestrians are likely to be detected and narrows down the search to ...
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Effects of SiO2 Incorporation Sequence on the Catalytic Properties of Iron-Based Fischer–Tropsch Catalysts Containing Residual Sodium
Fischer–Tropsch synthesis was carried out over industrially important Fe/Cu/K/SiO2 catalysts containing a small amount of residual sodium which originated from the sodium carbonate solution used as a precipitatin...
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Human biometric identification through integration of footprint and gait
Gait recognition has gained attention from the biometric community because it has a couple of advantages over other biometric methods to identify individual humans: (1) it requires no subject contact and (2) g...
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Open AccessAn Efficient Gait Recognition with Backpack Removal
Gait-based human identification is a paradigm to recognize individuals using visual cues that characterize their walking motion. An important requirement for successful gait recognition is robustness to variat...
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Gait recognition using multi-bipolarized contour vector
Gait recognition has recently attracted increasing interest from the biometric community. In this paper, we propose a simple yet powerful new feature called multi-bipolarized contour vector (MBCV) for gait rec...
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A noise robust gait representation: Motion energy image
Gait-based human identification aims to discriminate individuals by the way they walk. A unique advantage of gait as a biometric is that it requires no subject contact and is easily acquired at a distance, whi...
