D espite the increasing number of scientific publications, many physicians find themselves with less and less time to read what others have written. Selection, reading, and critical appraisal of publications is, however, necessary to stay up to date in one's field. This is also demanded by the precepts of evidence-based medicine (1, 2). Besides the medical content of a publication, its interpre...

Although deep learning has historical roots going back decades, neither the term “deep learning” nor the approach was popular just over five years ago, when the field was reignited by papers such as Krizhevsky, Sutskever and Hinton’s now classic 2012 (Krizhevsky, Sutskever, & Hinton, 2012)deep net model of Imagenet. What has the field discovered in the five subsequent years? Against a backgroun...

In view of recent applications in cardiovascular and functional brain imaging, this work revisits the basic performance characteristics of spiral imaging in direct comparison to echo-planar imaging (EPI) and conventional rapid gradient-echo imaging. Using both computer simulations and experiments on phantoms and human subjects at 2.9 T, the study emphasizes single-shot applications and addresse...

Decisions in healthcare should be based on information obtained according to the principles of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM). An increasing number of systematic reviews are published which summarize the results of prevalence studies. Interpretation of the results of these reviews should be accompanied by an appraisal of the methodological quality of the included data and studies. The critical a...

Contents: 1. Introduction: Suitability issues in mass appraisal methodology (Kauko & d'Amato) 2. Mass-appraisal practice and recommendations (Borst & Thompson, Siniak) 3. Orthodox methods (des Rosiers, Francke, Renigier) 4. Heretic methods (Kauko, d'Amato, Stumpf Gonzales) 5. Comparison of tools using a set of specific criteria (all authors) 6. Conclusions 1 1. Introduction: Suitability issues ...

To evaluates the effectiveness of schroth exercise with a brace to accelerate changes in cobb angle cases idiopathic scoliosis. This study is literature review narrative method. The research was conducted by tracing and analyzing articles relevant topics raised. data used this secondary data. Sources obtained form or journals topic using Pubmed, Proquest, Google Scholar databases keywords "idio...