Background and purpose: We developed an automatic method to segment cardiac substructures given a radiotherapy planning CT images to support epidemiological studies or clinical trials looking at cardiac disease endpoints after radiotherapy.Material and methods: We used Earrings a most-similar atlas selection algorithm and 3D deformation combined wi
Alumina ceramics are widely used because of chemical corrosion resistance.Although alumina ceramics can resist many strong acids and organic acids, be corroded easily by HF due to silicon components Old Fashioned Glasses in raw materials.This work aimed to reveal the effect of La2O3 on HF/HCl resistance of the alumina ceramic containing SiO2.The X-
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the population of Peru living in the vicinity of active or former mining operations that could be exposed to lead from contaminated soil.METHODS: Geographic coordinates were compiled for 113 active mines, 138 ore processing plants and 3 smelters, as well as 7743 former mining sites.The population living within 5 km of these s
Upper airway obstruction (UAO) due to adenotonsillar hypertrophy represents one of the rare causes of pulmonary hypertension in children.We report a case of adenotonsillar hypertrophy, managed at pediatric and otorhinolaryngology departments in Bugando Medical Centre (BMC), northwestern Tanzania, with complete remission of symptoms of pulmonary hyp
The objective of this work is image classification, whose purpose is to group images into corresponding semantic categories.Four contributions are made as follows: (i) For computational simplicity and efficiency, we directly adopt raw image patch vectors as local descriptors encoded by CBN Tincture Fisher vector (FV) subsequently; (ii) For obtainin