OBJECTIVE Body contouring surgery has become a steadily increasing part of weight loss treatment in the population of patients electing to undergo bariatric surgery. This study aims to elicit factors that can be used to prognosticate which bariatric surgery patients will choose to undergo body contouring procedures. METHODS A database of 381 patients who underwent gastric bypass surgery betwe...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to examine the incidence and predictors of venous thromboembolism following body contouring. METHODS The authors reviewed the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database from 2005 to 2012 for all body contouring cases. A multivariate logistic regression was performed to determine predictors of venous thromboembol...

A modified error-diffusion algorithm that eliminates the false-texture contour phenomenon that usually appears in the halftone images is presented. The main idea behind our modification is to introduce a local filter that can smooth the false-texture contours of the low variation regions in the images generated by the standard error-diffusion algorithm. Experimental results are included.

PURPOSE To evaluate the interobserver variability of gross tumor volume (GTV) - delineation of Dominant Intraprostatic Lesions (DIPL) in patients with prostate cancer using published MRI criteria for multiparametric MRI at 3 Tesla by 6 different observers. MATERIAL AND METHODS 90 GTV-datasets based on 15 multiparametric MRI sequences (T2w, diffusion weighted (DWI) and dynamic contrast enhance...

PURPOSE To develop a computer algorithm to measure myocardial infarct size in gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and to validate this method using a canine histopathological reference. MATERIALS AND METHODS Delayed enhancement MR was performed in 11 dogs with myocardial infarction (MI) determined by triphenyltetrazolium chloride (TTC). Infarct size on in vivo and ex vivo imag...

Glacier mass balance is estimated for South Cascade Glacier and Maclure Glacier using a one-dimensional regression of mass balance with altitude as an alternative to the traditional approach of contouring mass balance values. One attractive feature of regression is that it can be applied to sparse data sets where contouring is not possible and can provide an objective error of the resulting est...

A model of a mobile setup for shape reconstruction is presented. In this technique, the contouring is performed by laser scanning and image processing. The devices of this setup can be moved to examine occluded areas and small details. The algorithm of triangulation method computes the object dimensions from the deformation of a laser line and the camera position. This model improves the perfor...