In this paper we propose a way of managing allergy and asthma based on pollen recognition using images from an optical microscope. gist descriptors are extracted as features. Our research can help to automate a time-c...
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In this paper we propose a way of managing allergy and asthma based on pollen recognition using images from an optical microscope. gist descriptors are extracted as features. Our research can help to automate a time-consuming process of pollen grains classification, which is usually performed by highly qualified palynologists, and to create a real-time system of immediate notification about high atmospheric allergenic pollen concentration. Standard machine learning methods are applied and results are compared on different pollen datasets. The best model is support vector machine with 95.2% of accuracy on 9 pollen species and 98.3% on 5 pollen species.
This paper proposes a novel emotion understanding system based on brain activity and "gist' to categorize emotions reflected by natural scenes. According to the intensified relationship of human emotion and t...
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This paper proposes a novel emotion understanding system based on brain activity and "gist' to categorize emotions reflected by natural scenes. According to the intensified relationship of human emotion and the brain activity, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG) are used to analyze and classify emotional states stimulated by a natural scene. The "gist" is used to extract the visual low-level features, which are used as input signals to a classifier for obtaining the high-level emotional gist of a natural scene. Mean opinion scores are used for teaching signals of the classifier. Considering the way a human brain is responding to the same visual stimuli, a machine will be able to extract the emotional features of natural scenes using the "gist' and the EEG signals, judge the emotions reflected by the nature scenes and achieve interaction with a human in terms of emotional sharing through the EEG signals. The experimental results demonstrate that positive and negative emotions can be distinguished. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (gists) are the most common mesenchymal tumors of the gastrointestinal tract. They are positive to c-kit (CD117), more frequent in adult male, and are mostly found in the stomach, more ...
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (gists) are the most common mesenchymal tumors of the gastrointestinal tract. They are positive to c-kit (CD117), more frequent in adult male, and are mostly found in the stomach, more rarely in the colon, rectum and oesophagus. Rectal gist is uncommon, and anal gist is even rarer. Surgery is the treatment of choice for resectable gists, and for other benign or malignant mesenchymal tumours. Surgery treatment consist of abdomino-perineal resection. Preoperative pathological diagnosis and staging are required. We hereafter report the case of one patient with anal gist and discuss the characteristics of this rare entity.
We report a 26-year-old man with 6 years, history of duodenal gastrointestinal stromal tumor (gist) with liver, peritoneum and lung metastases. He presented with left eye ptosis, diplopia, left facial numbness and a l...
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We report a 26-year-old man with 6 years, history of duodenal gastrointestinal stromal tumor (gist) with liver, peritoneum and lung metastases. He presented with left eye ptosis, diplopia, left facial numbness and a left temporal fossa mass that was confirmed to be gist with left skull and left orbit metastases. Craniectomy with cranioplasty, tumor excision and decompression were performed. There was an improvement of his visual symptoms and facial numbness. To our knowledge, this is one of the few reports of surgical management of gist, metastasized to skull and orbit, with good symptomatic relief. Copyright (C) 2011, Asian Surgical Association. Published by Elsevier Taiwan LLC. All rights reserved.
Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (gists) are the most common soft tissue sarcoma, and most feature abnormalities in two genes encoding the receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs), KIT, and PDGFRA. The RTK inhibitor imatinib r...
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (gists) are the most common soft tissue sarcoma, and most feature abnormalities in two genes encoding the receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs), KIT, and PDGFRA. The RTK inhibitor imatinib revolutionized treatment in gist;however, drug resistance remains a challenge. Constitutive autophosphorylation of RTKs is linked to phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt/mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway hyperactivation, which is central to oncogenic signaling, and known to be dysregulated in gist. Preclinical experiments have confirmed that inhibiting the PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway is a rational target for therapy. Early studies using mTOR inhibitors have shown limited success, which may be due to the activation of Akt that occurs following mTORC1 inhibition. Therefore, targeting PI3K or Akt, which lie upstream of mTORC1, may translate into more complete pathway inhibition. Several treatment strategies are currently being developed in phase 1 and 2 clinical trials. Compounds currently in development include pan-Class I PI3K inhibitors, dual PI3K/mTOR inhibitors, and Akt inhibitors. The aim of this review is to highlight the evidence for targeting PI3K/Akt/mTOR-dependent mechanisms in gist and to evaluate the existing preclinical and clinical data supporting this strategy.
Purpose Imatinib mesylate showed a sustained objective response in patients with advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumors (gists) since its introduction in 2001. Here we reported genetic changes during imatinib mesyla...
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Purpose Imatinib mesylate showed a sustained objective response in patients with advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumors (gists) since its introduction in 2001. Here we reported genetic changes during imatinib mesylate treatment especially when the patient had partial response or stationary disease. Materials and methods Between 2001 and June 2005, 44 advanced gist patients were treated with imatinib mesylate. Among them, five patients (11.9%) (four with partial response and one with stationary disease) received surgical treatment during imatinib mesylate treatment. We compared the genetic status of each tumor in the five patients before and after imatinib mesylate treatment. Results Symptomatic gallbladder stone with or without cholecystitis (two patients), lower GI bleeding (one patient), upper GI bleeding (one patient), and enterocutaneous fistula (one patient) comprised the indications for operation. Before imatinib mesylate treatment, four of the five patients displayed deletion mutation and one patient displayed point mutation in exon 11. After treatment, one patient developed second novel missense mutation in exon 17 with acquired resistance since he was administered with only half dose of imatinib mesylate. The other four patients taking the same dose of imatinib mesylate exhibited identical mutation to the previous lesions. Conclusions Necrosis of large and bulky tumors after imatinib mesylate therapy might be the reason of gastrointestinal hemorrhage and enterocutaneous fistula requiring surgical intervention. Imatinib mesylate could induce acquired resistance during treatment and second novel mutation might be the reason.
Background: The prevalence of patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumourgst (gist) who fail currently available treatments imatinib and sunitinib (third-line treatment-eligible gist) is unknown, but is expected to ...
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Background: The prevalence of patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumourgst (gist) who fail currently available treatments imatinib and sunitinib (third-line treatment-eligible gist) is unknown, but is expected to be below an ultra-orphan disease threshold of 2/100,000 population used in England and Wales. Our study was designed to estimate the prevalence and absolute number of UK patients with unresectable/metastatic gist at first-,second-and eventually third-line treatment. Methods: Our open population model estimates the probability that the prevalence of UK third-line treatment-eligible gist patients will remain under the ultra-orphan disease threshold. Model parameters for incidence, proportion of unresectable/ metastatic disease and survival estimates for gist patients were obtained from a targeted literature review and a UK cancer register. The robustness of the results was checked through differing scenarios taking extreme values of the input parameters. Results: The base-case scenario estimated a prevalence of third-line treatment-eligible gist of 1/100,000 and a prevalence count of 598 with a 99.9% likelihood of being below the ultra-orphan disease threshold. The extreme scenarios, one-way and probabilistic sensitivity analyses and threshold analysis confirmed the robustness of these results. Conclusions: The prevalence of third-line treatment-eligible gist is very low and highly likely below the ultra-orphan disease threshold.
The discovery of activated KIT mutations in gastrointestinal (GI) stromal tumors (gists) in 1998 triggered a sea change in our understanding of these tumors and has ushered in a new paradigm for the use of molecular g...
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The discovery of activated KIT mutations in gastrointestinal (GI) stromal tumors (gists) in 1998 triggered a sea change in our understanding of these tumors and has ushered in a new paradigm for the use of molecular genetic diagnostics to guide targeted therapies. KIT and PDGFRA mutations account for 85-90% of gists;subsequent genetic studies have led to the identification of mutation/epimutation of additional genes, including the succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) subunit A, B, C, and D genes. This review focuses on integrating findings from clinicopathologic, genetic, and epigenetic studies, which classify gists into two distinct clusters: an SDH-competent group and an SDH-deficient group. This development is important since it revolutionizes our current management of affected patients and their relatives, fundamentally, based on the gist genotype.
Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (gists) are the most common mesenchymal neoplasms originating from the gastrointestinal tract with gain of function mutations in receptor tyrosine kinases KIT or platelet derived growth...
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (gists) are the most common mesenchymal neoplasms originating from the gastrointestinal tract with gain of function mutations in receptor tyrosine kinases KIT or platelet derived growth factor receptor A (PDGFRA). The main effective treatment for gists is tyrosine kinase inhibitors, such as imatinib mesylate. However, gists respond to imatinib treatment eventually develop acquired resistance, which is a main obstacle for gists therapy. Therefore, it's urgent to have a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying the imatinib resistance in gists to develop novel therapeutic strategies. X-linked inhibitor of apoptosis (XIAP) is the most potent apoptosis inhibitor among the inhibitor of apoptosis protein (IAP) family members. Increased cellular expression of XIAP often leads to drug resistance in cancers. Here we report that XIAP is induced upon imatinb treatment in gist882 cells, leading to imatinib-induced autophagy. Imatinib-induced autophagy was impaired in XIAP-knockout cells generated by CRISPR/Cas9 system demonstrated by the decreasing of LC3 lipidation. XIAP knockout sensitizes gist882 cells to imatinib-induced apoptotic cell death, suggesting that XIAP protects gist882 cells from imatinib-induced cell death by inducing autophagy. Thus, the resistance of the gist882 cells to imatinib appears to be, in part, due to the increasing of XIAP and subsequent induction of autophagy. (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
BackgroundThe aim of the study is to clarify if a classification based on the time of occurrence of associated malignancies in gist patients can help in the understanding of the clinical controversies observed in thes...
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BackgroundThe aim of the study is to clarify if a classification based on the time of occurrence of associated malignancies in gist patients can help in the understanding of the clinical controversies observed in these *** retrospectively reviewed all the patients diagnosed with gist tumors between January 1999 and October 2016. They were divided into gist patients associated with other tumors (A-gist) and those not associated (NA-gist). A-gist patients were also divided into four types according to the proposed *** 104 gist patients, 32 (30.7%) (A-gist group) had at least one additional primary malignancy. The most frequent location of the associated malignancy was the GI tract (26%). Compared to NA-gist, A-gist were more often asymptomatic with a lower risk of recurrence. The maincause of death in NAgist was gist itself, being associated tumors the main cause of death in A-gist group. No differences were found in DFS and OS between A-gist and *** use of the proposed classification classifies gist patients with associated malignancies in different subtypes that differ substantially in terms of incidence, type of neoplasms associated, cause of the association and prognosis.
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