abstract  background: at present, differentiation between exudative and transudative pleural  effusion is based solely on laboratory measures and is time-consuming. asimple  bedside method would be of great help to differentiate between these two types of effusions.  we present a new method for this purpose assessed in 46 patients.  methods: standard laboratory tests and our method were tested ...

The automatic exudate segmentation in colour retinal fundus images is an important task in computer aided diagnosis and screening systems for diabetic retinopathy. In this paper, we present a location-to-segmentation strategy for automatic exudate segmentation in colour retinal fundus images, which includes three stages: anatomic structure removal, exudate location and exudate segmentation. In ...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to examine the peritoneal penetration of intravenous doripenem, a novel carbapenem used for the treatment of intra-abdominal infections. PATIENTS AND METHODS Doripenem (500 mg) was administered to 10 patients before abdominal surgery. Venous blood and peritoneal exudate samples were obtained at the end of infusion (0.5 h) and every hour for 6 h afterwards. The drug...

This paper presents a framework for the automated detection of Exudates, an early sign Diabetic Retinopathy. The introduces classification-extraction-superimposition (CES) mechanism enabling generation representative exudate samples based on limited open-source samples. demonstrates how manipulation Yolov5M output vector can be utilized extraction and super-imposition, segueing into development...

Problems with exudate production occur if the wound becomes ‘stuck’ in the inflammatory stage and the production of exudate is overstimulated. Exudate found in chronic wounds (those that fail to heal after six weeks) has a different makeup to that in acute wounds and is often produced in higher quantities. Chronic wound exudate does not have the active growth factors found in acute wound exudat...

Higher plant diversity is often associated with higher soil microbial biomass and diversity, which is assumed to be partly due to elevated root exudate diversity. However, there is little experimental evidence that diversity of root exudates shapes soil microbial communities. We tested whether higher root exudate diversity enhances soil microbial biomass and diversity in a plant diversity gradi...