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Open AccessSkeleton Ground Truth Extraction: Methodology, Annotation Tool and Benchmarks
Skeleton Ground Truth (GT) is critical to the success of supervised skeleton extraction methods, especially with the popularity of deep learning techniques. Furthermore, we see skeleton GTs used not only for t...
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EMFANet: a lightweight network with efficient multi-scale feature aggregation for real-time semantic segmentation
In recent years, the performance of real-time semantic segmentation has increasingly become a research focus for real-time applications such as autonomous driving. Although large deep models have excellent seg...
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Effects of Propofol Combined with Sufentanil Target-Controlled Intravenous Anesthesia on Expression of Bax, Bcl-2, and Caspase-3 Genes in Spontaneous Hypertensive Rats with Cerebral Hemorrhage: a Prospective Case-Controlled Study
It is a well-known fact that general anesthesia leads to cerebral hemorrhage in patients with spontaneous hypertension apart of the fact that the hypertension is under control. The literature is already floode...
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MDCN: Multi-scale Dilated Convolutional Enhanced Residual Network for Traffic Sign Detection
Detecting small, multi-scale, and easily obscured traffic signs in real-world scenarios presents a persistent challenge. This paper proposes an approach that utilizes a multi-scale feature pyramid module to ca...
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Image steganalysis based on attention augmented convolution
Steganalysis, as the opposite technique to steganography, has been applied to determine whether secret information is embedded in an image. The existing adaptive steganography methods embed secret information ...
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Open AccessThe usage of drainage after primary total hip or knee arthroplasty: best evidence selection and risk of bias considerations
Numerous systematic reviews investigating the benefit of the usage of drainage after primary total hip or knee arthroplasty have been published with divergent conclusions. We aim to determine the best availabl...
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Open AccessEfficacy and safety of a single intra-articular injection of 6 ml Hylan G-F 20 compared to placebo in Chinese patients with symptomatic knee osteoarthritis
Single 6 ml Hylan G-F 20 injection, is indicated for knee osteoarthritis patients who have failed to respond to non-pharmacologic therapy and/or simple analgesics. To obtain more thorough understanding of the ...
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Open AccessThe accelerometer-based navigation system demonstrated superior radiological outcomes in restoring mechanical alignment and component sagittal positioning in total knee arthroplasty
This study aimed to determine whether the accelerometer-based navigation (ABN) could improve the accuracy of restoring mechanical axis (MA), component positioning, and clinical outcomes compared to conventiona...
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Next-generation sequencing-guided molecular-targeted therapy and immunotherapy for biliary tract cancers
Chemotherapy is a standard regimen for advanced or relapsed biliary tract cancer (BTC) with a 5-year overall survival (OS) rate of approximately 5% and a median OS of less than a year. Targeted therapies and i...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Reversible Data Hiding Algorithm in Homomorphic Encrypted Domain Based on EC-EG
This paper proposes a reversible data hiding algorithm in homomorphic encrypted domain based on EC-EG. First, original image is segmented. The square grid pixel group randomly selected by image owner has one r...
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A Lossless Data Hiding Scheme in Public Key Encrypted Domain Based on Homomorphic Key-Switching
This paper proposes a lossless data hiding in encrypted domain (RDH-ED) scheme. To realize the data extraction directly from the encrypted domain without the private key, a key-switching based least-significan...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
PIoU Loss: Towards Accurate Oriented Object Detection in Complex Environments
Object detection using an oriented bounding box (OBB) can better target rotated objects by reducing the overlap with background areas. Existing OBB approaches are mostly built on horizontal bounding box detect...
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Generative steganography with Kerckhoffs’ principle
The distortion in steganography that usually comes from the modification or recoding of the cover image during the embedding process. And it is the embedding distortion that leaves the steganalyzer with possib...
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Plasmon-tunable Au@Ag core-shell spiky nanoparticles for surface-enhanced Raman scattering
A facile synthetic approach has been developed to prepare uniform and size-tunable spiky Au@Ag core-shell nanoparticles (NPs) to tailor the localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) properties. The gradual as...
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The effects of tourniquet use in total knee arthroplasty: a randomized, controlled trial
Tourniquets are still widely used in total knee arthroplasty (TKA), although they may be associated with several adverse effects. An observer-blinded, randomized, controlled trial was performed to evaluate the...
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Open AccessKnee Symptomatic Osteoarthritis, Walking Disability, NSAIDs Use and All-cause Mortality: Population-based Wuchuan Osteoarthritis Study
Knee symptomatic osteoarthritis (SxOA) was associated with all-cause mortality. Walking disability and NSAIDs use have been postulated as potential mechanisms linking knee SxOA to all-cause mortality. Data wer...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Separable Multiple Bits Reversible Data Hiding in Encrypted Domain
This paper proposes a novel scheme of separable multiple bits reversible data hiding in encrypted domain based on LWE (Learning with Errors). Multi-band data could be embedded by recoding the redundancy of cip...
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Open AccessIntra-articular Hyaluronic Acid in Treating Knee Osteoarthritis: a PRISMA-Compliant Systematic Review of Overlap** Meta-analysis
Numerous meta-analyses have been conducted aiming to compare hyaluronic acid (HA) and placebo in treating knee osteoarthritis (OA). Nevertheless, the conclusions of these meta-analyses are not in consistency. ...
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Open AccessOsteoarthritis and all-cause mortality in worldwide populations: grading the evidence from a meta-analysis
The objective of this study is to investigate the association between osteoarthritis (OA) and all-cause mortality in worldwide populations and to develop recommendations according to GRADE evidence levels. Lit...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Location Privacy Preserving Scheme Based on Attribute Encryption
There are only two modes, “public” or “private” to manage the user’s location information in the social network. However, in some cases, users need to inform some people of their exact location, and the other ...
