Objective: This study was designed to determine the correlation between heamatological parameters by Sysmex KX-21N automated hematology analyzer with the manual methods. Method: Sixty (60) subjects were randomly selected from both apparently healthy subjects and those who have different blood disorders from the University of Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria. T...

Introduction: The present study aimed to suggest an unsupervised method for the segmentation of visceral adipose tissue (VAT) and subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) in axial magnetic resonance (MR) images of the abdomen. Materials and Methods: A self-organizing map (SOM) neural network was designed to segment the adipose tissue from other tissues in the MR images. The segmentation of SAT and VA...

Despite the enormous success that manual and automated refactoring has enjoyed during the last decade, we know little about the practice of refactoring. Understanding the refactoring practice is important for developers, refactoring tool builders, and researchers. Many previous approaches to study refactorings are based on comparing code snapshots, which is imprecise, incomplete, and does not a...

This paper addresses implementation requirements for a fully automated substation data integration and fault analysis for power system transmission lines. The approach is based on measurements from substation intelligent electronic device recordings. The proposed architecture provides a transparent approach to substation data management, analytics functions, as well as the visualization of the ...

RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES The aims of this study were to develop and validate an automated method to segment the renal cortex on contrast-enhanced abdominal computed tomographic images from kidney donors and to track cortex volume change after donation. MATERIALS AND METHODS A three-dimensional fully automated renal cortex segmentation method was developed and validated on 37 arterial phase co...

BACKGROUND Sholl analysis remains one of the most commonly used methods to quantify neuronal dendritic complexity and is therefore a key analysis tool in neurobiology. While initially proposed when the quantification of neuronal structure was undertaken manually, the advent of software packages allowing automated analysis has resulted in the introduction of several semi and fully automated meth...

Reference multimedia corpora for use in automated indexing algorithms require lots of manual work. The Camomile project advocates the joint progress of automated annotation methods and tools for improving the benchmark resources. This paper shows some work in progress in interactive visualization of annotations, and perspectives in harnessing the collaboration between manual annotators, algorit...

BACKGROUND We evaluated the efficacy of white blood cell (WBC) differential counts in severely leukopenic samples by the Hematoflow method and by automated hematology analyzers and compared the results with manual counts. METHODS EDTA-anticoagulated blood samples (175 samples) with WBC counts of 40-990/µL were selected. Hematoflow differential counts were performed in duplicates employing flo...

ificity estimate of the new technique is unreliable and the decrease in sensitivity, compared to microaneurysm detection alone, is unknown. The comparisons made between different automated systems [ 1 , table 1] are also flawed. Different automated systems have been evaluated using different image sets and grading methods. Manual graders, even those operating to a common protocol, are known to ...