Background: Manual therapy is a commonly used treatment modality. Its effectiveness has been described in the literature, though there is sparse evidence regarding manual therapy and lower extremity dysfunction as it pertains to distance runners. Barefoot run training has gained recent popularity and has been used in prevention of injury by improving run technique. Case description: We report t...

T he description of the Seldinger technique in 1953 created a novel problem—physicians were creating holes in the common femoral artery that now needed to be closed. The first, and still gold standard, method for addressing this problem was the use of manual compression. As the holes got bigger and constraints on physicians’ time became greater, novel solutions to this problem began to emerge. ...

in this research, first of all, the existing problems in fragmentation measurement are reviewed for the sake of its fast and reliable evaluation. then, the available methods used for evaluation of blast results are mentioned. the produced errors especially in recognizing the rock fragments in computer-aided methods, and also, the importance of determination of their sizes in the image analysis ...

BACKGROUND The fifth edition of the American Joint Committee on Cancer staging manual defines new rules for classifying nasopharyngeal carcinoma. The authors tested the value of this new system by applying these rules retrospectively to their previously treated patients and comparing the results with those obtained using the fourth edition of the AJCC staging manual or the Ho staging system. ...

PURPOSE There is increasing evidence that epicardial fat (i.e., adipose tissue contained within the pericardium) plays an important role in the development of cardiovascular disease. Obtaining the epicardial fat volume from routinely performed non-enhanced cardiac CT scans is therefore of clinical interest. The purpose of this work is to investigate the feasibility of automatic pericardium segm...

A randomized trial involving 1,351 new Medicare enrollees was conducted to assess the efficacy of a transtheoretical model (TTM) based manual and multimedia expert system program that delivered guidance and feedback matched to individual stage of readiness to compare Medicare health plans. At 6 months post-intervention, compared to enrollees in the control group, those receiving the manual plus...

We present a novel approach for automatic segmentation of the myocardium in short-axis MRI using deformable medial models with an explicit representation of thickness. Segmentation is constrained by a Markov prior on myocardial thickness. Best practices from Active Shape Modeling (global PCA shape prior, statistical appearance model, local search) are adapted to the medial model. Segmentation p...

This paper presents the results of an investigation of interannotator agreement for the non-native and native French part of the IFCASL corpus. This large bilingual speech corpus for French and German language learners was manually annotated by several annotators. This manual annotation is the starting point which will be used both to improve the automatic segmentation algorithms and derive dia...