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Open AccessA Soft Supernumerary Robotic Limb with Fiber-Reinforced Actuators
Supernumerary robotic limbs (SRLs) have great potentials to assist human in daily activities and industrial manufacturing by providing extra limbs. However, current SRLs have heavy and rigid structures that ma...
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CNN-Based RGB-D Salient Object Detection: Learn, Select, and Fuse
The goal of this work is to present a systematic solution for RGB-D salient object detection, which addresses the following three aspects with a unified framework: modal-specific representation learning, compl...
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Open AccessImpact of Tocilizumab Monotherapy on Clinical and Patient-Reported Quality-of-Life Outcomes in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Tocilizumab (TCZ) monotherapy has been proven as an effective treatment for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in clinical trials. However, there are limited data available regarding the effectiveness of TCZ monotherap...
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Open AccessImpact of rituximab on patient-reported outcomes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis from the US Corrona Registry
To evaluate the impact of rituximab on patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in a US-based observational cohort of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Patients with active RA, prior exposure to ≥1 tumor necros...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
RGB-D Saliency Detection by Multi-stream Late Fusion Network
In this paper we aim to address the problem of saliency detection on RGB-D image pairs based on a multi-stream late fusion network. With the prevalence of RGB-D sensors, leveraging additional depth information...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Contour Based Shape Matching for Object Recognition
To improve computational efficiency and solve the problem of low accuracy caused by geometric transformations and nonlinear deformations in the shape-based object recognition, a novel contour signature is prop...
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Enhanced phase measurement profilometry for industrial 3D inspection automation
Industrial metrology and inspection systems commonly rely on phase measurement profilometry (PMP) using sinusoidal fringe patterns projecting, yielding dense, and accurate 3D reconstruction regardless of the p...
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Open AccessPerformance analysis of 3-D shape measurement algorithm with a short baseline projector-camera system
A number of works for 3-D shape measurement based on structured light have been well-studied in the last decades. A common way to model the system is to use the binocular stereovision-like model. In this model...
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Migrating Scientific Workflow Management Systems from the Grid to the Cloud
Cloud computing is an emerging computing paradigm that can offer unprecedented scalability and resources on demand, and is gaining significant adoption in the science community. At the same time, scientific wo...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
RAS: A Task Scheduling Algorithm Based on Resource Attribute Selection in a Task Scheduling Framework
With the advent of big data and cloud computing era, scheduling and executing large-scale computing tasks effectively and allocating resources to tasks reasonably are becoming a quite challenging problem. And ...
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The Faltering Solid Organ Donor Pool in the United States (2001–2010)
Organ shortage is the greatest challenge facing the field of organ transplantation today. Use of more organs of marginal quality has been advocated to address the shortage.
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Survival After Liver Transplantation Using Hepatitis C Virus-Positive Donor Allografts: Case-Controlled Analysis of the UNOS Database
Numerous reports have documented reduced graft and patient survival after use of hepatitis C (HCV) seropositive allografts in liver transplantation (OLT). We aimed to examine if the use of a HCV+ liver allogra...
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Hospitalization for Complications of Cirrhosis: Does Volume Matter?
Close to 30,000 people die of cirrhosis in the USA each year. Previous studies have shown a survival advantage with high-volume (HV) hospitals for complex surgical procedures. We examined whether a volume bene...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Keypoint-Based Enhanced Image Quality Assessment
A simple objective quality assessment for enhanced images is proposed. It requires only scale-space keypoint information. Generally, the distribution of keypoints characterizes structural complexity of local r...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Finding Regions of Interest Based on Scale-Space Keypoint Detection
One of the major challenges for modeling visual attention mechanisms is to extract visual cues for automatic detection perceptually important regions in a scene. Here, we propose a simple model for detecting r...
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Current Trends and Short-term Outcomes of Live Donor Nephrectomy: A Population-based Analysis of the Nationwide Inpatient Sample
Recent United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) data suggest that live kidney donation is stagnant. Current practices and trends in laparoscopic donor nephrectomy (LDN) among the transplant community remain lar...
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Alcohol Exposure as a Risk Factor for Adverse Outcomes in Elective Surgery
Alcohol consumption is a well-documented determinant of adverse perioperative outcome. We sought to determine the effect of active alcohol consumption following elective surgery.
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Hospital volume as a surrogate for laparoscopically assisted colectomy
Although laparoscopic colectomy is reported to have favorable outcomes compared with open colectomy, it has yet to gain widespread acceptance in the United States. This study sought to investigate whether hosp...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Optimized Particles for 3-D Tracking
3-D visual tracking is useful for many of its applications. In this paper, we propose two different ways for different system configurations to optimize particle filter for enhancing 3-D tracking performances....
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Model Based Method for Overall Well Focused Catadioptric Image Acquisition with Multi-focal Images
Based on an analysis on the spatial distribution property of virtual features, we propose that the shapes of the best focused image regions in multi-focal catadioptric images can be modeled by a series of neig...
