PURPOSE To evaluate prospectively the value of size, shape, margin and density in discriminating between benign and malignant CT screen detected solid non-calcified pulmonary nodules. MATERIAL AND METHODS This study was institutional review board approved. For this study 405 participants of the NELSON lung cancer screening trial with 469 indeterminate or potentially malignant solid pulmonary ...

Rationale and Objective. To compare logistic regression and artificial neural network for computer-aided diagnosis on breast sonograms. Materials and Methods. Ultrasound images of 24 malignant and 30 benign masses were analyzed quantitatively for margin sharpness, margin echogenicity, and angular variation in margin. These features and age of patients were used with two pattern classifiers, log...

This paper examines the profitability and consistency of the second leading export oriented industry of Bangladesh. The secondary data of the five leading companies namely, Fu-Wang, Monno, Shinepukur, Standard and RAK Ceramics are collected from the annual reports of 2006-2012 from their websites. The collected data are processed and analyzed by SPSS 19 to make interpretations by ANOVA outputs....

Objectives The study considers how online home-based businesses offer opportunities for ethnic entrepreneurs to ‘break out’ of the traditional highly competitive and low margin sectors they are often associated with. Prior Work Previous studies have found a positive association between ethnic minorities high levels of entrepreneurship (Levie, 2007) and between home computer use and entrepreneur...

We 2 present a method for face class modeling in the eigenfaces space using a large-margin classifier like SVM. Another issue addressed is how to select the number of eigenfaces to achieve a good classification rate. As the experimental evidence show, generally one needs less eigenfaces than usually considered. We will present different strategies and discuss their effectiveness in the case of ...

This paper presents a new method for computing the stability margin of two-dimensional (2-D) continuous systems. The method is based on the computation of the Hermite matrix in 2-D continuous systems, one of its partial derivatives and their resultant. The theoretical result is illustrated by examples.

Purpose of the study: The objectives study were to critically analyze financial performance Salalah Mills Company (SMC), examine income statement position company, and profitability improvements Company.Design/Methodology/Approach: secondary data was obtained from annual reports through for period 2015 2019. collected analysed using ratios involving excel SPSS, evaluate (SMC) profitability. Fin...

High-resolution sedimentological and micropaleontological studies of several deep-sea cores retrieved from the levees of the Celtic and Armorican turbidite systems (Bay of Biscay — North Atlantic Ocean) allow the detection of the major oscillations of the British–Irish Ice Sheet (BIIS) and ‘Fleuve Manche’ palaeoriver discharges over the last 30,000 years, which were mainly triggered by climate ...

PURPOSE To determine whether topographical measurements of the parapapillary region analyzed by machine learning classifiers can detect early to moderate glaucoma better than similarly processed measurements obtained within the disc margin and to improve methods for optimization of machine learning classifier feature selection. METHODS One eye of each of 95 patients with early to moderate gla...