Dermatology

Dense deconvolution net: Multi path fusion and dense deconvolution for high resolution skin lesion segmentation.

BACKGROUND: Dermoscopy imaging has been a routine examination approach for skin lesion diagnosis. Accurate segmentation is the first step for automatic dermoscopy image assessment.

Fractional Carbon Dioxide Laser in Combination with Topical Corticosteroid Application in Resistant Alopecia Areata: A Case Series.

INTRODUCTION: Intradermal steroid injections are used as treatment option in resistant alopecia areata. However, it is difficult and quite painful to treat large areas of alopecia with this modality.

The correlations between serum amphiregulin and other clinicopathological factors in colorectal cancer.

BACKGROUND: Amphiregulin (AREG) is one of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) ligands and plays the important roles in tumor progression and m...

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation combined with continuous renal replacement therapy in cutaneous burn and inhalation injury caused by hydrofluoric acid and nitric acid.

RATIONALE: Hydrofluoric acid (HF) is a highly corrosive agent and can cause corrosive burns. HF can penetrate deeply into tissues through intact skin ...

Percutaneous kyphoplasty versus posterior spinal fixation with vertebroplasty for treatment of Kümmell disease: A case-control study with minimal 2-year follow-up.

This is a retrospective case-control study.The aim of this study was to compare the surgical results of percutaneous kyphoplasty (KP) and posterior sp...

Successful treatment with afatinib for pancreatic metastasis of lung adenocarcinoma: a case report.

Metastatic lung cancer of the pancreas is rare and optimal treatment protocols have not been determined. An asymptomatic 53-year-old man with primary ...

KAI1/CD82, Metastasis Suppressor Gene as a Therapeutic Target for Non-Small-Cell Lung Carcinoma.

Lung cancer is the most frequent malignancy and the leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide; it is the second most common cancer, comprising 1...

A comparative phase III clinical study to evaluate efficacy and safety of TrastuRel™ (biosimilar trastuzumab) and innovator trastuzumab in patients with metastatic human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-overexpressing breast cancer.

INTRODUCTION: The present study for biosimilar trastuzumab was a multicentric, randomized, two-arm parallel-group, comparative phase III study in pati...

Antiphospholipid Syndrome with Antiβ2glicoprotein-1 Antibodies as the Cause of Recurrent Tibial Vein Thrombosis in SAPHO syndrome.

The antiphospholipid antibody syndrome is defined by the presence of antiphospholipid antibodies in patients with recurrent venous or arterial thrombo...

In vitro activity of kombucha tea ethyl acetate fraction against species isolated from seborrhoeic dermatitis.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Seborrheic dermatitis is a chronic and recurrent superficial dermatitis in which species play an important role. There are di...

[Remission of Advanced Gastric Cancer with Concurrent Portal Vein Tumor Thrombosis via Chemotherapy - A Case Report].

The following is a case report of moderately differentiated tubular adenocarcinoma of the stomach with widespread thrombosis of the portal vein, for w...

Stereotactic robot-assisted MRI-guided laser thermal ablation of radiation necrosis in the posterior cranial fossa: technical note.

Laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) is a minimally invasive procedure used to treat a variety of intracranial lesions. Utilization of robotic as...

Toward robot-assisted hard osteolytic lesion treatment using a continuum manipulator.

In this paper, we describe the design and fabrication of an actuation unit for controlling a continuum dexterous manipulator (CDM). The actuation unit...

A deep bag-of-features model for the classification of melanomas in dermoscopy images.

Deep learning and unsupervised feature learning have received great attention in past years for their ability to transform input data into high level ...

Classification of large-scale fundus image data sets: a cloud-computing framework.

Large medical image data sets with high dimensionality require substantial amount of computation time for data creation and data processing. This pape...

Automated analysis of food-borne pathogens using a novel microbial cell culture, sensing and classification system.

We hereby report the design and implementation of an Autonomous Microbial Cell Culture and Classification (AMC(3)) system for rapid detection of food ...

Prediction of Growth Factor-Dependent Cleft Formation During Branching Morphogenesis Using A Dynamic Graph-Based Growth Model.

This study considers the problem of describing and predicting cleft formation during the early stages of branching morphogenesis in mouse submandibula...

Self-Organizing Map (SOM) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) Models for the Prediction of Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR/ ErbB-1) Inhibitors.

EGFR (ErbB-1/HER1) kinase plays an important role in cancer therapy. Two classification models were established to predict whether a compound is an in...

Community-acquired bacteremia in adult patients. analysis of 645 episodes.

Bacteremia is an important cause of morbimortality. This study describes the episodes of communityacquired bacteremia in adult patients registered at ...

Cocaine-induced vasculitis with cutaneous manifestation: A recurrent episode after 2 years.

Cocaine is a popular recreational drug in the United States, and up to 70% of the seized cocaine contains levamisole which is an antihelminthic that c...