The paper presents an overview of cases in which the analysis of the internal structure and mechanical properties of fibre reinforced composites is performed based on the micro-computed X-ray tomography (micro-CT) rec...
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Wernicke encephalopathy (WE) is a seldom encountered yet significant neuropsychiatric ailment resulting from a deficiency in thiamine (vitamin B1). While commonly linked with chronic alcoholism or insufficient dietary...
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Hypertension is highly prevalent among older adults, and its global incidence is increasing primarily due to the aging population. With the development of information and communication technology, smart blood pressure...
Hypertension is highly prevalent among older adults, and its global incidence is increasing primarily due to the aging population. With the development of information and communication technology, smart blood pressure monitors have been developed to offer more personalized guidance to users. A smart blood pressure monitor must provide users with professional guidance, such as monitoring pregnancy-induced hypertension for pregnant women and brain health indicators for older adults. This increases user willingness and engagement. In this study, we developed a smart blood pressure monitor system called “BP-ExerGuide” to provide a personalized exercise safety guideline for older adults in the community's smart gym. In this scenario, all smart gym devices are equipped with RFID sensors, and members can use their personal RFID cards to start a blood pressure measurement. Only when the blood pressure value meets the safety criteria for exercise, can they use the exercise devices. If an individual's blood pressure is too high, BP-ExerGuide acts like a sports coach, advising seniors to take a rest first and then start exercising once they meet the safety guidelines. The system also integrates exercise logs and blood pressure logs into a smart healthcare platform for seniors to track their physiological changes. Overall, the BP-ExerGuide system provides older adults with a safer and more personalized exercise experience while monitoring their blood pressure levels. This system improves the willingness of seniors to exercise regularly and thus promotes better health and well-being.
Background: Quantification of cardiac motion on pre-treatment CT imaging for stereotactic arrhythmia radiotherapy patients is difficult due to the presence of image artifacts caused by metal leads of implantable cardi...
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Background: Quantification of cardiac motion on pre-treatment CT imaging for stereotactic arrhythmia radiotherapy patients is difficult due to the presence of image artifacts caused by metal leads of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs). The CT scanners’ onboard metal artifact reduction tool does not sufficiently reduce these artifacts. More advanced artifact reduction techniques require the raw CT projection data and thus are not applicable to already reconstructed CT images. New methods are needed to accurately reduce the metal artifacts in already reconstructed CTs to recover the otherwise lost anatomical information. Purpose: To develop a methodology to automatically detect metal artifacts in cardiac CT scans and inpaint the affected volume with anatomically consistent structures and values. Methods: Breath-hold ECG-gated 4DCT scans of 12 patients who underwent cardiac radiation therapy for treating ventricular tachycardia were collected. The metal artifacts in the images caused by the ICD leads were manually contoured. A 2D U-Net deep learning (DL) model was developed to segment the metal artifacts automatically using eight patients for training, two for validation, and two for testing. A dataset of 592 synthetic CTs was prepared by adding segmented metal artifacts from the patient 4DCT images to artifact-free cardiac CTs of 148 patients. A 3D image inpainting DL model was trained to refill the metal artifact portion in the synthetic images with realistic image contents that approached the ground truth artifact-free images. The trained inpainting model was evaluated by analyzing the automated segmentation results of the four heart chambers with and without artifacts on the synthetic dataset. Additionally, the raw cardiac patient images with metal artifacts were processed using the inpainting model and the results of metal artifact reduction were qualitatively inspected. Results: The artifact detection model worked well and produced a Dice score of 0.9
Many commonly studied species now have more than one chromosome-scale genome assembly, revealing a large amount of genetic diversity previously missed by approaches that map short reads to a single reference. However,...
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Although high-entropy materials are attracting considerable interest due to a combination of useful properties and promising applications,predicting their formation remains a hindrance for rational discovery of new **...
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Although high-entropy materials are attracting considerable interest due to a combination of useful properties and promising applications,predicting their formation remains a hindrance for rational discovery of new *** approaches are based on physical intuition and/or expensive trial and error *** computational methods rely on the availability of sufficient experimental data and computational *** learning(ML)applied to materials science can accelerate development and reduce *** this study,we propose an ML method,leveraging thermodynamic and compositional attributes of a given material for predicting the synthesizability(i.e.,entropy-forming ability)of disordered metal carbides.
In this paper, some adaptive single-step methods like Trapezoid (TR), Implicit-mid point (IMP), Euler-backward (EB), and Radau IIA (Rad) methods are implemented in Maple to solve index-1 nonlinear Differential Algebra...
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A coarse-grained spring network model is proposed for the prediction of the mechanical response of metallic glasses as a function of the microstructure prior to loading. This model describes the mechanical response of...
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A coarse-grained spring network model is proposed for the prediction of the mechanical response of metallic glasses as a function of the microstructure prior to loading. This model describes the mechanical response of metallic glasses using a network of parallel springs that can break and reform, mimicking atomic rearrangements during deformation. We compare predictions of the spring network model for stress versus strain to results from numerical simulations of athermal quasistatic, uniaxial tensile deformation of Cu50Zr50 metallic glasses using Lennard-Jones (LJ) and embedded atom method (EAM) atomic interactions. We show that both the LJ and EAM models possess qualitatively similar stress σ versus strain γ curves. By specifying five parameters [ultimate strength, strain at ultimate strength, slopes of σ(γ) at γ=0 and at large strain, and strain at fracture where σ=0], we demonstrate that the spring network model can accurately describe the form of the stress-strain curves during uniaxial tension for the computational studies of Cu50Zr50, as well as recent experimental studies of several Zr-based metallic glasses.
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) achieved significant progress in several areas enabling computers to perform complex decision-making tasks. Applied to quantitative trading, DRL trading agents can optimize their deci...
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