ubiquicidin (ubi) [29-41] is a synthetic cationic antimicrobial peptide that preferentially binds to bacterial cell membrane at the site of infection. we aimed to assess diagnostic value of 99mtc-ubi [29-41] as a radiopharmaceutical in differentiation of bacterial infection from sterile inflammation in suspected orthopedic implants. nine patients suspected for orthopedic implant infection, all ...

One third of the world's population is thought to have been infected with mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) with new infection occurring at a rate of about one per second. TB typically attacks the lungs. Indication of cavities in upper lobes of lungs shows the high infection. Traditionally, it has been detected manually by physicians. But the automatic technique proposed in this paper focuses on ...

IceCube, a cubic-kilometer array of optical sensors built to detect atmospheric and astrophysical neutrinos between 1 GeV PeV, is deployed 1.45 km 2.45 below the surface ice sheet at South Pole. The classification reconstruction events from in-ice detectors play central role in analysis data IceCube. Reconstructing classifying challenge due irregular detector geometry, inhomogeneous scattering ...

In this study, a general framework integrating a data-driven estimation model with sequential probability updating is suggested for detecting quality faults in water distribution systems from multivariate water quality time series. The method utilizes artificial neural networks (ANNs) for studying the interplay between multivariate water quality parameters and detecting possible outliers. The a...

When incubated with N6-2'-O-dibutyryladenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (dbcAMP), HL-60 cells expressed formyl peptide receptor (FPR) (as assessed by ligand binding) and FPR transcripts in a time- and concentration-dependent fashion. Experiments using dbcAMP analogs modified at either the C-6 or C-8 position indicated that the process was mediated by a protein kinase A type I, and protein kin...

As a preliminary step of many applications, skin detection serves as an irreplaceable role in image processing applications, such as face recognition, gesture recognition, web image ̄ltering, and image retrieval systems. Combining information from multiple color spaces improves the recognition rate and reduces the error rate because the same color is represented di®erently in other color spaces....

This paper describes an application of one-class support vector machine (SVM) novelty detection for detecting seizures in humans. Our technique maps intracranial electroencephalogram (EEG) time series into corresponding novelty sequences by classifying short-time, energy-based statistics computed from one-second windows of data. We train a classifier on epochs of interictal (normal) EEG. During...

BACKGROUND We wished to analyse patterns of use of needle biopsy procedures by BreastScreen Australia (BSA) accredited programs to identify areas for improvement. DESIGN BSA services provided anonymous data regarding percutaneous needle biopsy of screen detected lesions assessed between 2005-2009. RESULTS 12 services, from 5 of 7 Australian states and territories provided data for 18212 les...