Higgs, Penelope Coordination of cell fates is mediated by negative regulatory signaling systems in the Myxococcus xanthus multicellular developmental program 4 BREAK Boll, Joseph Michael A specificity determinant in a response regulator prevents in vivo crosstalk and phosphorylation by non-cognate phosphodonors 5 Pawelczyk, Sonja Prediction of interspecies cross-talk in two-component systems 6 ...

In this work we explore a fully convolutional network (FCN) for the task of liver segmentation and liver metastases detection in computed tomography (CT) examinations. FCN has proven to be a very powerful tool for semantic segmentation. We explore the FCN performance on a relatively small dataset and compare it to patch based CNN and sparsity based classification schemes. Our data contains CT e...

Exponentially weighted moving average control charts and neural networks were used for oestrus detection in dairy cows. The analysis involved 373 cows, each with one verified oestrus event. Model inputs were the traits activity, measured by pedometer, and the period (days) since last oestrus. In total 10,386 records were available, which were partitioned into training and validation subsets to ...

In an e-health environment, medical data is shared electronically between different parties. Improper access to such a data can have the possibility of adversely affecting some participants as this data often represents private and sensitive information that should only be accessed by authorised organizations and individuals. Most existing solutions either focus on user access control or object...

The use of machine learning tools in medical diagnosis is increasing gradually. This is mainly because the effectiveness of classification and recognition systems has improved in a great deal to help medical experts in diagnosing diseases. Such a disease is breast cancer, which is a very common type of cancer among woman. In this paper, breast cancer diagnosis was conducted using least square s...

Due to the increasing prices of medical care, and especially due to cardiovascular injury; scientists are looking for inexpensive and less invasive ways to diagnose myocardial ischemia. Many studies have shown that the variations of the ST-segment in the ECG signal are an indicator for ischemia. For this purpose, this work proposes an approach based on a heart cell group model and principle com...

We have studied the cytotoxicity and DNA cross-linking induced by cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II) (cis-Pt) in a normal, a simian virus 40-transformed, and eight tumor cell lines of human origin. These cell strains were chosen on the basis of their Mer phenotype, i.e., their ability to repair DNA containing 6O-alkylated guanine. The cytotoxicity was assayed by measuring the inhibition of cell p...

background: neonatal sepsis is a major cause of mortality and morbidity, especially in developing countries. the goal of the present study was to determine the bacterial etiology and antibiotic sensitivity patterns of neonatal sepsis.   methods: this cross sectional study was conducted on 208 neonates admitted with clinically suspected sepsis over a period of 30 months. sepsis was divided into ...

introduction: group a beta-hemolytic streptococcus (gabhs) can induce pandas (pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infection). gabhs is the most important and common bacterial cause of acute pharyngitis in iranian children. we studied the role of gabhs (anti-streptococcal antibodies) in suspected cases of pandas in a cross sectional studies. methods: acr...