OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether the presence of uterorectal adhesions demonstrated by transvaginal sonography (TVS) could aid as a simple sonographic predictor for deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) of the rectum in patients with symptoms suggestive of endometriosis. METHODS This was a prospective multicenter study of women scheduled for laparoscopy because of symptoms suggestive of endometr...

Articulatory Phonology views speech as an ensemble of constricting events (e.g. narrowing lips, raising tongue tip), gestures, at distinct organs (lips, tongue tip, tongue body, velum, and glottis) along the vocal tract. This study shows that articulatory information in the form of gestures and their output trajectories (tract variable time functions or TVs) can help to improve the performance ...

Background: Müllerian anomalies are associated with infertility. Hysteroscopy as the gold standard for evaluating Müllerian anomalies is an invasive, expensive and risky procedure which requires enough experience. Transvaginal sonography (TVS) and hysterosalpingography (HSG) are less invasive procedures, but there is little known about the accuracy of these tests. The aim of this stud...

A novelty signal processing method is proposed for a technical vision system (TVS). During data acquisition of an optoelectrical signal, part this random electrical fluctuation voltages. Information theory (IT) well-known field that deals with processes. based on using the Shannon Entropy feature extractions optical patterns presented. IT implemented in structural health monitoring (SHM) to aug...

We investigate the irregularity strength (s(G)) and total vertex irregularity strength (tvs(G)) of circulant graphs Cin(1, 2, . . . , k) and prove that tvs(Cin(1, 2, . . . , k)) = ⌈ n+2k 2k+1 ⌉ , while s(Cin(1, 2, . . . , k)) = ⌈ n+2k−1 2k ⌉ except if either n = 2k + 1 or if k is odd and n ≡ 2k + 1(mod4k), then s(Cin(1, 2, . . . , k)) = ⌈ n+2k−1 2k ⌉ + 1.

BACKGROUND Traditional vital signs (TVS), including systolic blood pressure (SBP), heart rate (HR) and their composite, the shock index, may be poor prognostic indicators in geriatric trauma patients. The purpose of this study is to determine whether lactate predicts mortality better than TVS. METHODS We studied a large cohort of trauma patients age ≥ 65 years admitted to a level 1 trauma cen...

Background: To compare and find diagnostic accuracy and efficacy of trans-vaginal and transabdominal sonographic techniques in female pelvic pathologies and to compare both the procedures against the gold standard of biopsy. Methods: In this comparative study two hundred patients with clinical evidence of pelvic disease of gynaecologic origin and patients with suspected ectopic pregnancy alread...

OBJECTIVE To report rates of compliance with an ovarian cancer screening protocol using serum CA125 and transvaginal sonography (TVS), performed semiannually on an alternating schedule, among participants at average or intermediate risk for developing ovarian cancer. METHODS Two hundred ninety-two women at average or intermediate risk for developing ovarian cancer were randomly assigned to ar...

OBJECTIVE To determine if human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA can be detected on the transvaginal sonography (TVS) probe in the emergency department (ED) and whether the current barrier method plus disinfection can prevent HPV contamination of the TVS probe. METHODS This was a two-part cross-sectional study. In the first part, surveillance samples were taken from the TVS probe for HPV DNA detectio...