OBJECTIVE Treatment of malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) remains disappointing, although recent reports suggest that multimodality therapy including surgery may provide a significant survival benefit. The aims of this single institution study were: to investigate clinicopathologic characteristics and potential prognostic factors in MPM patients, and to ascertain whether surgery followed by a...

This paper analyses the problems of passenger transport management in context sustainable mobility and multimodality major Lithuanian cities. The urban system, development, problem areas meeting consumer needs are discussed. article also discusses ways to promote use public services by solving management. attitude residents cities towards importance multimodality. factors that determine decisio...

Nuclear imaging techniques, including primarily positron emission tomography (PET) and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), can provide quantitative information for a biological event in vivo with ultra-high sensitivity, however, the comparatively low spatial resolution is their major limitation in clinical application. By convergence of nuclear imaging with other imaging modalit...

Brain tumors represent a vast group of lesions, originating from different neuronal cells with different degrees of aggressiveness. Despite some technological advances either pre or post-treatment, these tumors may share similar imaging findings and properties, rendering diagnosis/prognosis, an ambiguous process. Gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging remains the gold standard for provi...

Pericardial disease is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with cardiovascular disease. Inflammatory diseases of the pericardium constitute a spectrum ranging from acute pericarditis to chronic constrictive pericarditis. Other important entities that involve the pericardium include benign and malignant pericardial masses, pericardial cysts, and diverticula, as well as cong...

Information can be conveyed between people in a number of ways. People draw on a range of materials (e.g. pen and paper) and physical abilities (e.g. gesturing) in order to express themselves. While machines have become more prevalent as providers of information, the methods used to convey and receive information have undergone some radical changes. This evolution from human-human to machine-hu...

Discoveries in the field of molecular biology over the past two decades have radically altered how bioengineers approach biological and diagnostic imaging. The genetic and biochemical mechanisms underlying cancer, for example, provide new opportunities for detection, classification, and treatment of multiform, complex disease processes. Cancer is a principal application of molecular imaging, as...

Multimodality based methods have shown great advantages in classification of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and its prodromal stage, that is, mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Recently, multitask feature selection methods are typically used for joint selection of common features across multiple modalities. However, one disadvantage of existing multimodality based methods is that they ignore the useful...

Technology can be helpful for family relationships. Media multiplexity theory illustrates that the more technological connections (i.e., multimodality) an individual has with their members, stronger relationship. Yet, this assumes spending time face to (FtF) is equitable multimodality relationship quality. The goal of study examine impact online and offline interactions quality Data are from un...

Meta-learning has gained wide popularity as a training framework that is more data-efficient than traditional machine learning methods. However, its generalization ability in complex task distributions, such multimodal tasks, not been thoroughly studied. Recently, some studies on multimodality-based meta-learning have emerged. This survey provides comprehensive overview of the landscape terms m...