on behalf of the image biomarker standardisation initiative The image biomarker standardisation initiative (IBSI) is an independent international collaboration which works towards standardisation of image biomarkers. Reproducibility and validation of studies in quantitative image analysis/ radiomics is a major challenge for the field (Gillies et al., 2015; Hatt et al., 2016; Yip and Aerts, 2016...

One of the most interesting findings of hypertension research in the past 10 years has been that the cardiovascular protective effects of antihypertensive drugs depend not only on the mean blood pressure (BP) values achieved during treatment but also on the consistency of BP control between on-treatment visits. This was suggested in 2007 by the observation that in patients with hypertension and...

One of the most interesting findings of hypertension research in the past 10 years has been that the cardiovascular protective effects of antihypertensive drugs depend not only on the mean blood pressure (BP) values achieved during treatment but also on the consistency of BP control between on-treatment visits. This was suggested in 2007 by the observation that in patients with hypertension and...

INTRODUCTION Subcutaneous trunk abscesses are frequent, and current treatment options generally involve incision. By contrast, the standard care for breast abscesses is ultrasound-guided drainage. The aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of ultrasound-guided drainage combined with antibiotics in the treatment of subcutaneous abscesses on the trunk. MATERIAL AND METHODS In this pr...

cities in lowand middle income countries. We don’t yet know how effective PRN treatment might be when retreatment is guided by visual acuity alone, as both visual acuity and retinal thickness were measured at each visit in these trials. Although intermittent regimes reduce the number of injections, patients still have to be reviewed every 1–2 months, which leads to very busy clinics; this is al...

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An important issue in fault-tolerant asynchronous computing is the respective power of an object type with respect to another object type. This question has received a lot of attention, mainly in the context of the consensus problem where a major advance has been the introduction of the consensus number notion that allows ranking the synchronization power of base object types (atomic registers,...

introduction: lung cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer related deaths in the world. the incidence of lung cancer is increasing in india and there is a need to understand the natural history of this disease. aim of the study: to study the clinico- pathological- radiological profile of patients diagnosed with lung cancer from january 2013 to may 2015 at a tertiary care teaching hospital...

conclusions relaxation with guided imagery had a positive effect on mediating anxiety and depression in breast cancer patients. results the experimental group showed significant decreases in insomnia (-0.34 ± 0.83, p < 0.05), pain (-0.28 ± 0.58, p < 0.05), anxiety (-3.56 ± 2.94, p < 0.00), and depression (-2.38 ± 2.70, p < 0.00) between the pretest and the posttest. comparing the two groups, st...

the evaluate the diagnostic value of image guided fine needle aspiration (fna) in breast lesions, the cytologic results of 401 patients were studied. all patients had either unpalpable masses or lesions who were hardly possible to localize by palpation and fna was performed by single radiologist under ultrasound guide in all cases. the cytologic results were divided into four categories (inconc...