We present a scalable method for brain cell identification in multiview confocal light sheet microscopy images. Our algorithmic pipeline includes a hierarchical registration approach and a novel multiview version of semantic deconvolution that simultaneously enhance visibility of fluorescent cell bodies, equalize their contrast, and fuses adjacent views into a single 3D images on which cell ide...

Introduction. Medical education curriculum improvements can be achieved by evaluating students’ performance. Medical students have to pass two undergraduate comprehensive examinations, basic science and preinternship, in Iran. To measure validity of the students’ mean score in comprehensive basic science exam (CBSE) for predicting their performance in later curriculum phases. Methods. This de...

Two evaluative criteria for probabilistic forecasting performance, consistency with the axioms of probability theory and external correspondence with the events that ultimately occur, are distinguished. The mean probability, or Brier score (PS), is the scoring rule most commonly used to quantify external correspondence. A review is made of methods for decomposing PS into components that represe...

BACKGROUND For some phenomena the mean of population distributions predicts the proportion of people exceeding a threshold value. AIMS To investigate whether in depression, too, the population mean predicts the number of individuals at the extreme end of the distribution. METHOD We used data from the European Outcome in Depression International Network (ODIN) study from populations in Finla...

introduction. medical education curriculum improvements can be achieved by evaluating students’ performance. medical students have to pass two undergraduate comprehensive examinations, basic science and preinternship, in iran. to measure validity of the students’ mean score in comprehensive basic science exam (cbse) for predicting their performance in later curriculum phases. methods. this desc...

Abstract Introduction Aortic valvular calcium score (AVCS) is useful in patients with aortic stenosis for whom echocardiography was not conclusive grading its severity. Transcatheter valve implantation (TAVI) an established procedure of treatment symptomatic severe AS. The burden calcification has been associated some TAVI related complications (as perivalvular leaks), but at the same time it w...