OBJECTIVES To prospectively evaluate quantitative airway wall measurements of thin-section CT for the diagnosis of Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome (BOS) following lung transplantation. MATERIALS AND METHODS In 141 CT examinations, bronchial wall thickness (WT), the wall area percentage (WA%) calculated as the ratio of the bronchial wall area and the total area (sum of bronchial wall area an...

Treena I. Burgess, Centre for Phytophthora Science and Management, School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA 6150, Australia; Janet L. Webster and Juanita A. Ciampini, Department of Environment and Conservation, Science Division, Locked Bag 104, Bentley D.C., WA 6983, Australia; Diane White and Giles E. StJ. Hardy, Centre for Phytophthora Science and Manag...

Recent work on evaluating representation learning architectures in NLP has established a need for evaluation protocols based on subconscious cognitive measures rather than manually tailored intrinsic similarity and relatedness tasks. In this work, we propose a novel evaluation framework that enables large-scale evaluation of such architectures in the free word association (WA) task, which is fi...

(1993). Weighted averaging partial least squares regression (WA-PLS): definition and comparison with other methods for species-environment calibration. ABSTRACT A multivariate calibration method is proposed that relates to correspondence analysis as partial least squares (PLS) relates to principal components analysis. The new method extends and improves the weighted averaging (WA) method for in...

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S.R. Drake, T.A. Eisele, M. A. Drake, D.C. Elfving, S.L. Drake and D.B. Visser U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Tree Fruit Research Laboratory, 1104 N. Western Ave., Wenatchee, WA 98801 Tree Top Inc., P.O. Box 248, Selah, WA 98942 Department of Food Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695 Washington State University, Tree Fruit Research and Exte...

Address: 1Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Seattle, WA 98195, USA, 2Department of Pathology, University of Washington, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Seattle, WA 98195, USA, 3Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washington, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Seattle, WA 98195, USA and 4Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Nort...