Intratumoral heterogeneity has been suggested to be an important resistance mechanism leading to treatment failure. We hypothesized that radiologic images could be an alternative method for identification of tumor heterogeneity. We tested heterogeneity textural parameters on pretreatment FDG-PET/CT in order to assess the predictive value of target therapy. Recurred or metastatic non-small cell ...

AIM The study was conducted to estimate the contribution of edible byproducts of Barbari kids to their live and carcass weight as well as to assess textural and color characteristics and microbiological status of these byproducts. MATERIALS AND METHODS Percent live weight, Percent carcass weight, Texture, color, and microbiological analysis was done for edible byproducts viz. liver, heart, ki...

The main objective of this study was to apply a method for the mapping and analysis of land cover changes in a Mediterranean area in southern Spain (Granada Province). The province of Granada is a complex and very heterogeneous area made up of numerous land covers that are difficult to map due to spectral similarities. The inherent difficulty of the mapping of areas with the abovementioned char...

BACKGROUND: The use of polysaccharide based edible coatings as a barrier against the solute entry high caloric constituents, such sucrose, is suitable strategy to develop pro-healthy osmo-dehydrated products. OBJECTIVE: This work aims study effect calcium alginate film over drying kinetics strawberries during an osmotic dehydration (OD) treatment at 60°Brix, 4 h, 40°C (sucrose). Also, textural ...

Saturated hydraulic conductivity Ksat is a fundamental characteristic in modeling flow and contaminant transport in soils and sediments. Therefore, many models have been developed to estimate Ksat from easily measureable parameters, such as textural properties, bulk density, etc. However, Ksat is not only affected by textural and structural characteristics, but also by sample dimensions e.g., i...

Remote sensing is a field that has wide use, leading to the fact that it has a great importance. Therefore performance of selected features plays a great role. In order to gain some perspective on useful textural features, we have brought together state-of-art textural features in recent literature, yet to be applied in remote sensing field, as well as presenting a comparison with traditional o...

In this paper we propose a novel method for the construction of textural features which are invariant with respect to 2D Euclidean motion and strictly increasing grey scale transformations. Our approach is based on a group averaging technique with relational kernel functions. In order to allow for comparison the evaluation of our approach was done on two image data sets taken from the Brodatz a...

the jajarm karst bauxite deposit is located about 175 km southwest of bojnourd. the deposit has been developed as a stratiform horizon along the contact of triassic dolomites and the jurassic shales and sandstone. in this study, the textural elements of the jajarm bauxites are classified into matrix and separated textures based on morphological and genetic criteria. pelitomorphic and microgranu...

isotopic and microthermometry results from sheikh-darabad cu-au indices in mianeh region, east-azarbaijan province, indicate cenozoic post-magmatic activities with developed adularia facies through an extended and neogene related alteration that is given rise to occurring silica vein systems as the main hosting locations for epithermal mineralization. the research evidence also has been coincid...