Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) procedure is composed of circumferential mucosal incision and submucosal dissection. A variety of endoscopic accessories are required to perform mucosal incision and submucosal dissection safely. As a result of the improvements in ESD devices and peripheral equipment and development of the ESD technique, ESD procedures have been performed extensively world...

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Biometric authentication using mobile devices is becoming a convenient and important means to secure access to remote services such as telebanking and electronic transactions. Such an application poses a very challenging pattern recognition problem: the training samples are often sparse and they cannot represent the biometrics of a person. The query features are easily affected by the acquisiti...

Understanding of the widespread biological importance of carotenoids is increasing. Accompanying this is the developing recognition that the interaction of carotenoids with other molecules, such as proteins, is also essential. Here the significance of carotenoid-protein interactions with respect to biological function is reviewed for three well characterised carotenoprotein complexes; crustacya...

Infrared thermography has been used as a key means for the identification of overheating defects in power cable accessories. At present, analysis thermal imaging pictures relies on human visual inspections, which is time-consuming and laborious requires engineering expertise. In order to realize intelligent, autonomous recognition infrared images taken from electrical equipment, previous studie...