Negative pressure has been utilized in medical practice, exemplified by methods like cupping therapy. This study aimed to determine the effect of pressure and time duration of cupping therapy on the stratum corneum (S...
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(数字)9798350386844
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(纸本)9798350386851
Negative pressure has been utilized in medical practice, exemplified by methods like cupping therapy. This study aimed to determine the effect of pressure and time duration of cupping therapy on the stratum corneum (SC) and deeper epidermis layer (ED) thickness. Three volunteer participants with healthy palms and no scars or wounds were allocated. Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) records the thickness of skin layers using 105 mmHg and 145 mmHg negative pressure with 5 and 10 minutes duration. We analyzed the paired T-test for the SC thickness changes before and after cupping therapy. We found that there is a significant increase in SC with negative pressure 105 mmHg and 5 minutes duration (0.032 ± 0.005 to 0.036 ± 0.005, P < 0.05), and with negative pressure 145 mmHg and 10 minutes duration (0.037 ± 0.005 to 0.038 ± 0.005, P < 0.05). This indicates that cupping therapy has a discernible impact on the thickness of SC.
In the past few years, there has been significant growth in the development and use of artificial neural networks (ANNs). At present ANN technologies are used in such areas of science as pattern recognition, medicine,...
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The aim of the work is to present the development trends of high performance computers. The analysis focused on system architecture, processors and computing accelerators used. Particular attention was paid to interco...
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This article reports work-in-progress of a parallel kinematic robot development for construction with main focus on the concept phase. We assume the weight distribution of the proposed structure enables integration of...
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In this paper, a novel machine learning derived control performance assessment (CPA) classification system is proposed. It is dedicated for a wide class of PID-based control industrial loops with processes exhibiting ...
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One major hurdle for the deployment of autonomous vehicles in rural environments is achieving accurate localization in areas with tree-canopied roads or outdated point cloud maps. The presence of limited visibility an...
One major hurdle for the deployment of autonomous vehicles in rural environments is achieving accurate localization in areas with tree-canopied roads or outdated point cloud maps. The presence of limited visibility and high variability renders standalone sensor localization unreliable in such situations. To tackle these issues, this paper presents a sensor fusion-based localization framework that integrates data from GNSS, LiDAR, INS, and vehicle odometry. The proposed approach uses a loosely-coupled Extended Kalman Filter for sensor fusion and a weighted gate approach for accurate state estimations. Compared to a state-of-the-art technique, the proposed method achieves a reduction of around 71% in maximum lateral deviations. This method successfully enables a safe and reliable localization in challenging scenarios that are frequently found in the rural and inter-urban sectors.
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Baron, GrzegorzStanczyk, UrszulaDepartment of Graphics
Computer Vision and Digital Systems Faculty of Automatic Control Electronics and Computer Science Silesian University of Technology Akademicka 2A Gliwice44-100 Poland
Discretisation often constitutes a part of initial data preparation stage. It translates continuous domain of features into granular, by assigning a number of intervals to represent attributes' values by nominal c...
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Driver drowsiness electroencephalography (EEG) signal monitoring can timely alert drivers of their drowsiness status, thereby reducing the probability of traffic accidents. Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have sho...
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In this work, an attempt is made for the first time to use the measurement pattern generated by morphological transformation quantified by Hausdorff fractal dimension (HFD) and classified with ensemble learning based ...
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(数字)9798350395440
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(纸本)9798350395457
In this work, an attempt is made for the first time to use the measurement pattern generated by morphological transformation quantified by Hausdorff fractal dimension (HFD) and classified with ensemble learning based on bagging. The proposed work uses three morphological transformations for image preprocessing: hit-and-miss transform (HMT), white (WHT), and black top-hat (BHT). The pattern texture of US breast images is described by extracting the HFD from the regions of interest (ROI) after the ultrasound (US) images have been preprocessed. The main objective of this study was achieved by comparatively analyzing the classification performance of features using the Random Forest (RF), Extra Trees (ET) classifier, and bagging ensemble method based on XGBoot classifier. In presented study, the XGBoost classifier and BHT image processing method give an accuracy of 89.8% in a binary classification, benign versus malignant breast cancer.
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