The type II Monteggia (posterior) lesion is a rare injury which is sometimes associated with ulnohumeral instability. We have reviewed 23 of 28 patients with this injury. A clinical and radiographic assessment was undertaken at follow-up. Functional outcome scores, including the Broberg and Morrey Index and the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder or Hand (DASH), were used. The results from the si...

We investigated the performance of four popular supervised learning algorithms in medical image analysis for white matter hyperintensities segmentation in brain MRI with mild or no vascular pathology. The algorithms evaluated in this study are support vector machine (SVM), random forest (RF), deep Boltzmann machine (DBM) and convolution encoder network (CEN). We compared these algorithms with t...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The Alberta Stroke Program Early CT Score (ASPECTS), a 10-point scale, is a clinical tool for assessment of early ischemic changes after stroke based on the location and extent of a visible stroke lesion. It has been extended for use with MR diffusion-weighted imaging. The purpose of this work was to automate a MR topographical score (MR-TS) using a digital atlas to devel...

Contrast-detail experiments were performed to optimize technique factors for the detection of low-contrast lesions using a silicon diode array full-field digital mammography (FFDM) system under the conditions of a matched average glandular dose (AGD) for different techniques. Optimization was performed for compressed breast thickness from 2 to 8 cm. FFDM results were compared to screen-film mam...

Objective: To assess the validity and responsiveness of the heelchair Circuit, a test to assess manual wheelchair mobility n persons with spinal cord injury (SCI). Design: Longitudinal. Subjects performed the Wheelchair ircuit at the start (T1) and at the end (T3) of inpatient unctional rehabilitation. Construct validity and responsiveness ere assessed. Setting: Eight rehabilitation centers in ...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the neuroprotective effect of epidural hypothermia in rats subjected to experimental spinal cord lesion. METHODS Wistar rats (n = 30) weighing 320-360 g were randomized to two groups (hypothermia and control) of 15 rats per group. A spinal cord lesion was induced by the standardized drop of a 10-g weight from a height of 2.5 cm, using the New York University Impactor, a...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The Network Modification (NeMo) Tool uses a library of brain connectivity maps from normal subjects to quantify the amount of structural connectivity loss caused by focal brain lesions. We hypothesized that the Network Modification Tool could predict remote brain tissue loss caused by poststroke loss of connectivity. METHODS Baseline and follow-up MRIs (10.7±7.5 months ...

BACKGROUND The Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB) is a brief battery of six neuropsychological tasks designed to assess frontal lobe function at bedside [Neurology 55:1621-1626, 2000]. The six FAB tasks explore cognitive and behavioral domains that are thought to be under the control of the frontal lobes, most notably conceptualization and abstract reasoning, lexical verbal fluency and mental fle...

The purpose of this work was to investigate the potential of the normalized axial-shear strain area (NASSA) feature, derived from axial-shear strain elastograms (ASSE), for breast lesion classification of fibroadenoma and cancer. This study consisted of previously acquired in vivo digital radiofrequency data of breast lesions. A total of 33 biopsy-proven malignant tumors and 30 fibroadenoma cas...

In humans, partial-thickness cartilage lesions frequently result in premature osteoarthritis. While rabbits often are used as a model for partial-thickness cartilage lesions, the natural course of cartilage surrounding such a lesion is largely unknown. We developed a rabbit model of a chronic partial-thickness cartilage defect and asked whether these defects led to (1) deterioration of surround...