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Methods Lesion size was independently quantified by 2 experienced observers in total of 120 consecutive CMRs obtained in 30 patients within the first 6 months after AMI using native and contrast-enhanced sequences. Lesion sizes were quantified using a threshold method (cutoff >2SD of remote normal myocardium) on basal, midventricular and apical short-axis left ventricular slices. Lesion size is...

This paper presents an enhanced version of a non−intrusive measure for assessment of speech quality of voice communication systems and evaluates its performance. The new measure, which uses only the output of the system, is based on measuring perception−based objective auditory distances between voiced parts of the output (processed) speech whose quality is to be evaluated to appropriately matc...

There is growing interest in investigating the role of subtle changes in blood-brain barrier (BBB) function in common neurological disorders and the possible use of imaging techniques to assess these abnormalities. Some studies have used dynamic contrast-enhanced MR imaging (DCE-MRI) and these have demonstrated much smaller signal changes than obtained from more traditional applications of the ...

Approaches for measuring semantic similarity between words have been widely employed in various areas such as Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Knowledge Engineering. A new semantic similarity measure is proposed in this paper, which exploits the knowledge retrieved from a semantic network (i.e., WordNet) and the Internet. In particular, the structure information from ...

The volume of stored data increases rapidly. Therefore, the battery of extracted association heavily prohibits the better support of the decision maker. In this context, backboned on the Formal Concept Analysis, we propose to extend the notion of Formal Concept through the generalization of the notion of itemset aiming to consider the itemset as an intent, its support as the cardinality of the ...

By employing a notion of semantic closeness to create a multi-phase mapping between one biomedical taxonomy and another, we are able to determine various levels of proximity for mapping term based structures which may fail to map using traditional mapping techniques. The multi-phase approach allows for defining the appropriateness of applying the maps to various domain problems such as the inve...

It has been suggested that oxygen-derived free radicals may contribute to the myocardial injury associated with ischemia and reperfusion. As the presence of enhanced free radical generation is a prerequisite for such damage, several techniques have been used to provide evidence of increased oxygen free radical production during reperfusion; however, all such techniques have substantial limitati...

For modules over a ring there is an adjunction between the associated sheaf functor AMod −→ Mod(SpecA) and the global sections functor Mod(SpecA) −→ AMod. In this note we develop the graded version of this result. All of this material is taken from EGA.

The aim of this study consists in exploring some new ways of representing and discerning information embodied in our epistemic states. It is based on a presupposition that epistemic state is much more than just a set of propositions. It is a structured entity in which propositions are organized in a tight net of dependencies and justifications. In previous publications I have suggested to forma...