Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (BTC) have seen a surge in value the recent past and appeared useful investment opportunity for traders. However, their short term profitability using algorithmic trading strategies remains unanswered. In this work, we focus on of BTC against euro yen an eight-year period seven algorithms over periods length 15 30 days. We use classical buy hold (BH) benchmark s...

Inactivation of Secreted Frizzled-Related Protein-1 (SFRP1) and overexpression of β-catenin play important roles in the development and progression of a wide range of malignancies. We sought to determine whether the expression of SFRP1 and β-catenin correlates with clinicopathologic parameters in human biliary tract cancer (BTC) and to evaluate the potential roles of these proteins as prognosti...

The paper presents improved content based image retrieval (CBIR) techniques based on multilevel Block truncation coding using multiple threshold values. Block truncation Coding based features is one of the CBIR methods proposed using color features of image. The approach basically considers red, green and blue planes of image together to compute feature vector. The color averaging methods used ...

Serum carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA 19-9) has been identified as biochemical marker for biliary tract cancer (BTC). The purpose of this study was to evaluate its value as a treatment response marker and its value as a prognostic parameter in patients with unresectable BTC. We analyzed 70 patients with BTC treated with chemotherapy. CA 19-9 levels before and after two treatment courses were anal...

We previously identified novel biomarker candidates in biliary tract cancer (BTC) using serum proteome analysis. Among several candidates, we focused on thrombin light chain which is a 4204 Da peptide as the most promising biomarker for BTC. To move thrombin light chain toward potential diagnostic use, we developed an enzyme immunoassay that enables to measure serum thrombin light chain levels....

In this paper a colour image data compression method using block truncation coding (BTC) and genetic Algorithm (GA) is presented. This compression technique reduces the computational complexity and provides acceptable visual quality reconstructed images. BTC acts as the basic compression technique but it exhibits two disadvantages such as the false contour and blocking effect. Hence error diffu...

INTRODUCTION The worldwide incidence of biliary tract carcinoma (BTC, tumours of the bile ducts and gall-bladder) continues to rise, with the only potentially curative treatment remaining surgical resection or transplantation, possible in only a minority of patients. Late presentation and a paucity of effective treatments mandate the development of techniques for early lesion detection. AREAS...

Reversible data hiding is an efficient way for embedding additional data into cover media, which can reversibly recover the original cover media when the additional data is extracted. It has been widely utilized in secure communication and copyright protection. A reversible data hiding scheme imposed on the quantized coefficients of compressed images based on block truncation coding (BTC) is pr...