The purpose of this study was to quantify postimplantation migration of percutaneously implanted cylindrical gold seeds ("seeds") and platinum endovascular embolization coils ("coils") for tumor tracking in pulmonary stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR). We retrospectively analyzed the migration of markers in 32 consecutive patients with computed tomography scans postimplantation and at si...

A solution for Discriminative Active Appearance Models is proposed. The model consists in a set of descriptors which are covariances of multiple features evaluated over the neighborhood of the landmarks whose locations are governed by a Point Distribution Model (PDM). The covariance matrices are a special set of tensors that lie on a Riemannian manifold, which make it possible to measure the di...

This paper studies the asymptotic power for the sphericity test in a fixed effect panel data model proposed by Baltagi, Feng and Kao (2011), (JBFK). This is done under the alternative hypotheses of weak and strong factors. By weak factors, we mean that the Euclidean norm of the vector of the factor loadings is O(1). By strong factors, we mean that the Euclidean norm of the vector of factor load...

Now day’s Outlier Detection is used in various fields such as Credit Card Fraud Detection, Cyber-Intrusion Detection, Medical Anomaly Detection, and Data Mining etc. So to detect anomaly objects from various types of dataset Outlier Detection techniques are used, that detects and remove the anomaly objects from the dataset. Outliers are the containments that divert from the other objects. Outli...

Pre-test estimator has been studied to estimate the mean of a normal distribution when non-sample prior information is avaliable. Our aim is to consider pre-test estimator of the mean in thepresence of outliers. A well known procedure to define pre-test estimator of the mean is using thesample mean. However, the sample mean is not a robust location parameter. In order to overcom...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was assessment of defaults and conducted meta-analysis of the efficacy of single-dose oral albendazole against T. trichiura infection. METHODS We searched PubMed, ISI Web of Science, Science Direct, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and WHO library databases between 1983 and 2014. Data from 13 clinical trial articles were used. Each article wa...