A fast and efficient method is presented to extract address lines on both machine printed and handwritten Chinese mail envelopes. The algorithm is based on a bottom-up approach. First, we select out text blocks from connected components (CCs) and immediately group the text blocks into the initial lines. Then, the average text block features are computed to validate the initial text lines and gu...

BACKGROUND To determine the prevalence and severity of bone deficits in a cohort of childhood cancer survivors (CCS) compared to a healthy sibling control group, and the modifiable factors associated with bone deficits in CCS. METHODS Cross-sectional study of bone health in 319 CCS and 208 healthy sibling controls. Bone mineral density (BMD) was measured by dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (D...

The Dutch CATO CCS research community has established an implementation plan for CCS in the Netherlands including a CATO CCS roadmap. The roadmap comprises 26 actions which need to be implemented within the next ten years. The actions address five different CCS themes or issues which need to be covered to successfully implement large-scale CCS. The roadmap has been established in close cooperat...

in order to determine the effects of fish size and weight on its salinity tolerance, the chloride cells (ccs) immunolocalization changes were examined in caspian salmon (salmo trutta caspius) parrs, with the same age (about 2 years old) but different types (type a: 4.88 g, 8.36 cm; type b: 14 g, 11.84 cm; type c: 24.05 g, 14.08 cm). fish survival rate, blood osmolality, gills ccs histological a...

BACKGROUND Childhood cancer survivors (CCS) are at high risk of developing treatment-related late effects, including cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Late effects can be exacerbated by low physical activity (PA) levels. Relationships between PA and cardiovascular risk factors during childhood have not been well described in CCS. PROCEDURE PA and cardiovascular risk factors were measured c...

RATIONALE Dual cell transplantation of cardiac progenitor cells (CPCs) and mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) after infarction improves myocardial repair and performance in large animal models relative to delivery of either cell population. OBJECTIVE To demonstrate that CardioChimeras (CCs) formed by fusion between CPCs and MSCs have enhanced reparative potential in a mouse model of myocardial inf...

Within the context of an oocyte in vitro maturation (IVM) program for reproductive treatment, oocyte cumulus complexes (COCs) derived from follicles <6 mm in patients with PCOS were matured in vitro. Key transcripts related to meiotic maturation (FSHR, LHCGR, EGFR, PGR) and oocyte competence (AREG, ADAMTS, HAS2, PTGS2) were quantified in cumulus cells (CCs) before and after maturation. Control ...

Word spotting is to make searchable unindexed image documents by locating word/words in a doc-ument image, given a query word. This problem is challenging, mainly due to the large numberof word classes with very small inter-class and substantial intra-class distances. In this paper, asegmentation-based word spotting method is presented for multi-writer Persian handwritten doc-...

Hospitalization rates over time of childhood cancer survivors (CCS) provide insight into the burden of unfavorable health conditions on CCS and health care resources. The objective of our study was to examine trends in hospitalizations of CCS and risk factors in comparison with the general population. We performed a medical record linkage study of a cohort of 1564 ≥five-year CCS with national r...