background: there are conficting reports regarding the association between coronary artery disease (cad) and mild cognitive  impairment (mci). volumetric magnetic resonance imaging (mri) investigations have been considered as an objective biomarker for  mci. in this study, we determined the relationship between the regional brain volumes and the extent of cad in mci patients and  cognitively no...

To characterize the complex morphological variations that occur naturally in human neuroanatomy so that their confounding eeect can be minimized in the identiication of brain structures in medical images, a computational framework has evolved in which individual anatomies are mod-eled as warped versions of a canonical representation of the anatomy, known as an atlas. To realize this framework, ...

We implemented a lossless compression method tailored to brain volumes. By making use of the particular characteristics of these images, we sought to improve compression ratios compared to other general encoders. We exploit global and local symmetries of sub-bands after wavelet decomposition to achieve intra-band prediction. We also implement a shift-based inter-slice DPCM prediction scheme tha...

the patient with head trauma is a challenge for the emergency physician and for the neurosurgeon. currently traumatic brain injury constitutes a public health problem. knowledge of the various supportive therapeutic strategies in the pre-hospital and pre-operative stages is essential for optimal care. the immediate rapid infusion of large volumes of crystalloids to restore blood volume and bloo...