Other research has shown that although the abstract is more information dense, the full text of a scientific article in the biomedical domain has much greater information content.1 We know from observing indexers and studying their indexing process that some of the assigned MeSH concepts do not appear in the abstract. The indexing manual also dictates that the abstract should not be used during...

The detection of small moving targets under motorial background is very difficult. In order to solve this issue, a novel detection algorithm is presented in this paper, which is based on the concept of entropy flow. Firstly, the concept of entropy flow is used to measure image motion; Secondly, 2-dimensional histogram of flow field is applied to estimate the background motion; Finally, the targ...

From recent randomized studies, carotid endarterectomy (CEA) is highly beneficial to the patients with a symptomatic high-grade carotid artery stenosis (70-99%), but the surgical indication for an asymptomatic carotid artery disease remains unsolved. Sixty-three atheromatous plaques (symptomatic 51, asymptomatic 12) were obtained from 57 patients who underwent CEA. The presence of an intraplaqu...

In Finland, mortality from coronary heart disease is high, and much higher in the eastern than in the western counties. Both left and right coronary arteries of 141 children who died under one year of age at the Children's Hospital, University of Helsinki, were investigated. Thirty-two of these children formed a western and 41 an eastern group according to the birthplaces of their grandparents ...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Advanced human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, despite sustained viral suppression by highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), is a risk factor for poor immunologic recovery. However, some patients with advanced infection do show immunologic recovery. In this study, predictive factors of immunologic recovery were analyzed in advanced HIV patients showing sustained v...