abdominal wall hernias are common problems found in patients with cirrhosis because of persistently high intra-abdominal pressure. when abdominal hernias are neglected in such patients, they may become larger and could result in cosmetic problems and pressure effects that are also difficult to treat. we found a voluminous mass in the anterior abdominal wall of a 40-year-old patient with cirrhos...

An information hiding algorithm for HEVC is proposed. For 33 kinds of directional prediction modes in the encoding process of 4×4 luminance blocks, intra prediction modes are mapped to the angle values. We are establishing a mapping relationship table between the angle differences and secret information. Modifying the intra prediction modes to embed secret information is based on the mapping. T...

the present study was designed to explore the anti-inflammatory effect of fluvoxamine, as a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (ssri) anti-depressant, on carrageenan-induced paw edema in more details. at first, fluvoxamine was administered intra-peritoneally (2.5, 12.5, 25 and 50 mg kg-1) 30 min before the subplantar injection of carrageenan. fluvoxamine was also injected intra-peritoneally...

three dimensional- high efficiency video coding (3D-HEVC) is the expanded version of the latest video compression standard, namely high efficiency video coding (HEVC), which is used to compress 3D videos. 3D videos include texture video and depth map. Since the statistical characteristics of depth maps are different from those of texture videos, new tools have been added to the HEVC standard fo...

purposes: the aim of this study was to evaluate the intra and inter-examiner reliability and reproducibility of linear measurements in cone-beam tomography (cbct) images taken by calibrated radiologists and periodontists. materials and methods: the alveolar ridge dimensions in selected cbct images were measured by two calibrated radiologists and two periodontists. intra and inter-examiner relia...

We propose a novel probabilistic framework for semantic video indexing. We define probabilistic multimedia objects (multijects) to map low-level media features to high-level semantic labels. A graphical network of such multijects (multinet) captures scene context by discovering intra-frame as well as inter-frame dependency relations between the concepts. The main contribution is a novel applica...