Abstract Introduction Remote postural assessment, necessary during the pandemic, required strategies to replace its in-person counterpart. Objective Analyze content validity of a protocol for Static Posture Assessment (ARPE) that includes three items, checklist, rater’s manual and ratee’s manual. Methods Six experts in assessment were invited validate items ARPE 10 laypersons evaluated Manual. ...

Objective: To investigate the correlation between lower and higher order sensory functions and manual dexterity as well as to identify the sensory measures that could predict manual dexterity in patients with idiopathic Parkinson’s disease (PD). Materials and methods: In this cross-sectional study, 55 patients with idiopathic PD by mean age of 59.85 ± 11.89 years, and mean Hoehn and Yahr stage ...

Analysis and description of musical expression is a substantial field within musicology. However, manual annotation of large corpora of music, a prerequisite for describing and comparing different artists’ styles, is very laborintensive. Therefore, computer systems are needed that can annotate recordings of different performances automatically, requiring only minimal corrections by the user. In...

OBJECTIVE Image segmentation is an essential step in quantifying the extent of reduced or absent lung function. The aim of this study is to develop and validate a new tool for automatic segmentation of lungs in ventilation and perfusion SPECT images and compare automatic and manual SPECT lung segmentations with reference computed tomography (CT) volumes. METHODS A total of 77 subjects (69 pat...

This paper tackles the issue of verbs in specialised corpora in the view of term extraction. Corpus-based manual descriptions to be used in various applications have highlighted the “deviant” uses of verbs in specialised corpora compared with general uses as well as the need for verb extraction. However, very few attention has been given to verbs both in the terminology theory and automatic ter...