Diffusion models (DM) built from a hierarchy of denoising autoencoders have achieved remarkable progress in image generation, and are increasingly influential in the field of image restoration (IR) tasks. In the meant...
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Diffusion models (DM) built from a hierarchy of denoising autoencoders have achieved remarkable progress in image generation, and are increasingly influential in the field of image restoration (IR) tasks. In the meantime, its backbone of autoencoders also evolved from UNet to vision transformer, e.g. Restormer. Therefore, it is important to disentangle the contribution of backbone networks and the additional generative learning scheme. Notably, DM shows varied performance across IR tasks, and the performance of recent advanced transformer-based DM on PET denoising is under-explored. In this study, we further raise an intuitive question, “{if we have a sufficiently powerful backbone, whether DM can be a general add-on generative learning scheme to further boost PET denoising}”. Specifically, we investigate one of the best-in-class IR models, i.e., DiffIR, which is a latent DM based on the Restormer backbone. We provide a qualitative and quantitative comparison with UNet, SR3 (UNet+pixel DM), and Restormer, on the 25% low dose ${}^{18}\mathrm{F-FDG}$ whole-body PET denoising task, aiming to identify the best practices. We trained and tested on 93 and 12 subjects, and each subject has 644 slices. It appears that Restormer outperforms UNet in terms of PSNR and MSE. However, additional latent DM over Restormer does not contribute to better MSE, SSIM, or PSNR in our task, which is even inferior to the conventional UNet. In addition, SR3 with pixel space DM is not stable to synthesize satisfactory results. The results are consistent with the natural image super-resolution tasks, which also suffer from limited spatial information. A possible reason would be the denoising iteration at latent feature space cannot well support detailed structure and texture restoration. This issue is more crucial in the IR tasks taking inputs with limited details, e.g., SR and PET denoising.
This is the first report of sterile Thai silk fibroin (SF) solution (2-4% (w/v) in water) production at semi-commercial scale under the medical device management system conforming to standard ISO13485:2016. Thai silk ...
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The identification of the parameters of postural control models may aid evaluating the balance control mechanism. A novel approach suggests that the central nervous system adopts an intermittent active feedback contro...
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Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide(NAD)is one of the most important metabolites in mammalian cells(Figure 1 A).Its oxidized form(NAD+)and reduced form(NADH)play a role in many reactions within cells,most prominently in...
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Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide(NAD)is one of the most important metabolites in mammalian cells(Figure 1 A).Its oxidized form(NAD+)and reduced form(NADH)play a role in many reactions within cells,most prominently in the redox reactions that lead to the production of *** functions more broadly than that。
In order to reconstruct a three-dimensional model, a registration process in the three-dimensional space is required. Although, there are many existing methods in finding transformation matrices, there are none that c...
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This paper reports a fabrication method that can make microstructures such as microfluidic channels and nanostructures to generate surface plasmon resonance (SPR) signals in one-step using hot embossing. We first made...
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The lipid bilayer is one of the most important biomolecules that can regulate substances transported in and out of the cells. The lipid bilayer's deformation and transport measurement at the nanoscale has a high p...
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In multichannel speech enhancement, effectively capturing spatial and spectral information across different microphones is crucial for noise reduction. Traditional methods, such as CNN or LSTM, attempt to model the te...
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We demonstrate in situ control of the elastic wave polarization in a surface acoustic wave (SAW). It allows us to create highly reconfigurable SAW microfluidics that can be switched on demand between the acoustohydrod...
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We demonstrate in situ control of the elastic wave polarization in a surface acoustic wave (SAW). It allows us to create highly reconfigurable SAW microfluidics that can be switched on demand between the acoustohydrodynamic (AHD) regime and electrohydrodynamic (EHD) regime for manipulating particles and cells. The control of wave polarization comes from our experimental and theoretical identification of an unexpected shear-horizontal (SH) wave mode in a conventional Rayleigh (R) wave design, which is stereotyped to excite only vertically polarized Rayleigh SAWs. The SH wave mode is predominantly horizontally polarized and can be selectively excited to propagate in the same direction as the Rayleigh SAW. Such a selective wave generation between the SH mode and R mode allows for reconfiguration between AHD and EHD regimes that leads to unprecedented colloidal patterns and assembly dynamics. Such a reconfiguration of the particle manipulation mechanism can be explained by the controllable competition or synergism between the coexisting acoustic and electric fields. Remarkably, in the EHD regime, a virtual zero-boundary electric quadrupole is created, and a novel colloidal diamond-shaped assembly is observed in this piezoelectric-quadrupole trap, which was rarely reported in acoustic or electric microfluidics. The presented in situ control of polarization revolutionizes our understanding of SAW and acoustofluidics, expands its potential by assuming the advantages of AHD and EHD on demand, and inspires new strategies in micro- and nanoscale manufacturing and manipulation, with applications beyond fundamental scientific interest.
The thought of using branched-chain amino acids (BCAA) in the prevention and treatment of certain disorders is becoming increasingly popular. Individual BCAA use has been associated with improving glucose tolerance an...
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The thought of using branched-chain amino acids (BCAA) in the prevention and treatment of certain disorders is becoming increasingly popular. Individual BCAA use has been associated with improving glucose tolerance and liver disease. Previous studies have cited improvements in glucose metabolism with a single dose of L-isoleucine (ILE). However, it is still unclear whether chronic consumption of ILE has any direct benefit. The objective of this study was to examine the influence of chronic ILE supplementation alone or in combination with exercise on fasting serum glucose, insulin, lipids, and lipoprotein cholesterol levels;glucose tolerance;and hepatic lipids in rats. Male Sprague-Dawley rats (n = 40) were divided into Control (low fructose diet);High Fructose diet (HF);HF plus 1.5% ILE (HF + ILE);HF plus exercise (HF + EX);and HF plus 1.5% ILE and exercise (HF + ILE + EX). The HF diets consisted of 70% kcalories from fructose. After 6 weeks of treatment, no significant differences were observed between groups for changes in fasting serum glucose, insulin, lipids, or lipoprotein cholesterol levels. However, hepatic total cholesterol was significantly lower in the HF + ILE + EX compared to the Control and HF, while, the HF + ILE had significantly lower hepatic free cholesterol compared to the HF. We also found no differences between groups for serum glucose response following an oral glucose tolerance test. In conclusion, our study shows that ILE supplementation in rats does not influence serum glucose and lipid biomarkers but may have an influence on lipid metabolic pathways within the liver.
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