Due to increasing demand for traditional market species of timber, which are dwindling in quantities and quality within the Ghanaian forest, there is the need to introduce lesser-used species (LUS) to serve as substitutes. The success of LUS in the marketplace requires technical information that relates to utilization about the species. This paper examines physical and mechanical properties of ...

In this work, we evaluate laryngeal ultrasound as a technique to study the state and height of the larynx. We first discuss general structural registration in laryngeal ultrasound (LUS) and illustrate the articulation of glottal stop. We then present a method for quantifying change in larynx height using optical flow analysis on laryngeal ultrasound video data. The analysis is quantitatively va...

This paper describes how opt imal video preprocessor performance can be achieved using a software recogni t ion system and a set of control led exper iments. It basical ly involves opt imizing on a constant threshold and then using recognit ion logic designed f r om that threshold to optimize an adaptive threshold function or threshold operator. By using this technique, the video preprocessor c...

Physiotherapists who work in respiratory care spend a great deal of time developing expertise in the use of a range of assessment tools including: observation, palpation, auscultation and percussion. Further specialist skills are needed for the interpretation of arterial blood gas (ABG); chest radiographs (CXR) and computed tomography (CT), in order to ensure the most accurate diagnosis can be ...

BACKGROUND Routine intra-operative cholangiography (IOC) during laparoscopic cholecystectomy is often not performed because of increased operative time, radiation, and failure rate. Laparoscopic ultrasound (LUS) is a less invasive alternative but studies comparing it to IOC have been of small sample size. This study aims to assess the diagnostic accuracy of LUS in detecting common bile duct (CB...

Purpose: To evaluate the accuracy of sonographic measurements of the lower uterine segment (LUS) thickness at term in predicting uterine scar defects in women with previous Cesarean delivery (CD). Methods: Eighty-nine pregnant women who underwent CD between 37 and 41 weeks of gestation from 2013 to 2015 were enrolled in this study and divided into two groups. Group A consisted of women with pre...

PURPOSES Bedside lung ultrasound (LUS) is useful in detecting radio-occult pleural-pulmonary lesions. The aim of our study is to compare the value of LUS with other conventional routine diagnostic tools in the emergency department (ED) evaluation of patients with pleuritic pain and silent chest radiography (CXR). METHODS Ninety patients consecutively admitted to the ED with pleuritic pain and...

Introduction Neonatal lung diseases are often a diagnostic dilemma for the clinician due to the low sensitivity and specificity of clinical signs and symptoms. In the last decade of the previous century the use of ultrasound in the diagnostic work-up of adult respiratory diseases became widely used [1,2]. The purpose of this paper is to update the knowledges on LUS in the most common neonatal r...

Introduction: Emergency department differentiation of pulmonary oedema from chronic obstructive airways disease causing acute breathlessness is inaccurate 25% of the time despite clinical acumen, clinician-reported chest x-ray and ECG. This research investigates whether a basic lung ultrasound protocol (LUS) could improve identification of pulmonary oedema in breathless elderly patients. Method...

In future heterogeneous cellular networks (HCN), cognitive radio (CR) compatible with device to device communication (D2D) technique can be an aid to further enhance system spectral and energy efficiency. The unlicensed smart devices (SDs) are allowed to detect the available licensed spectrum and utilise the spectrum resource which is detected as not being used by the licensed users (LUs). In t...