BACKGROUND AND METHODS We report the case of a young woman with delayed cerebral infarction and intracranial hypertension following subarachnoid hemorrhage requiring hemicraniectomy, who underwent multimodality neuromonitoring of the contralateral hemisphere before and after craniectomy. RESULTS Intracranial hypertension was preceded by signs of ischemia and impaired brain metabolism diagnose...

BACKGROUND Evaluation of changes in tumor size from images acquired by ultrasound (US), computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a common measure of cancer chemotherapy efficacy. Tumor size measurement based on either the World Health Organization (WHO) criteria or the Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) is the only imaging biomarker for anti-cancer drug...

BACKGROUND Multimodality treatment of head and neck cancer in rural India is not always feasible due to lack of infrastructure and logistics. AIM To demonstrate the feasibility of multimodality treatment for head and neck cancer in a community setting in rural India. SETTING AND DESIGN Community cancer center, retrospective review. MATERIALS AND METHODS This article focuses on practice en...

Today's medical imaging technologies are expected to furnish anatomic, physiologic, molecular, and genomic information for accurate disease diagnosis, prediction of treatment response, and development of highly specific and sensitive drugs and imaging agents. However, none of the current imaging methods used in humans provides comprehensive medical imaging. To harness the strengths of different...

Klatskin-type cholangiocarcinoma is a rare tumor, bearing a very poor prognosis: at diagnosis, most patients can only undergo palliation. Evaluation of outcome, mean survival and quality of life was performed in patients with unresectable hilar cholangiocarcinoma treated with multimodality approach in comparison with surgical palliation, biliary stenting or brachytherapy alone. Twenty-six patie...

Due to the availability of technology, there has been a shift from traditional assessment methods to e-assessment methods designed to support learning. With this development there is a need to address the suitability and effectiveness of the e-assessment interface. One development in the e-assessment interface has been the use of the multimodal metaphor. However, the associated effectiveness of...

A simulator study was conducted to compare 16 younger (mean age 22 years) and 16 older (mean age 68 years) drivers’ ratings of workload (time, visual, psychological stress) and performance of navigation and button-pushing (identi® cation of vehicle or road hazards) tasks under both highand low-load driving conditions when simple or complex advanced traveller information (ATI) was presented visu...

We introduce the notion of symmetric multimodality for dialogue systems in which all input modes (eg. speech, gesture, facial expression) are also available for output, and vice versa. A dialogue system with symmetric multimodality must not only understand and represent the user's multimodal input, but also its own multimodal output. We present the SmartKom system, that provides full symmetric ...

Sharing common understanding of the structure of information among people, enable reuse of domain ontology and make domain assumption explicit are the reasons why we develop the multimodality image retrieval system. Sport News Ontology is the explicit formal specification of terms in the sport news domain and relation among them. We incorporate the terms with the “garden resource” in DBpedia to...

In a Bayesian analysis of nite mixture models, the symmetry and multi-modality of the posterior distribution of the parameters makes it diicult to interpret or summarize. The common practice of making parameters identii-able by imposing artiicial constraints biases parameter estimates and generally fails to solve the problem of multimodality. We suggest a solution which involves permuting sampl...