Calcifications (calcium build-ups) in breast regions are frequently found in breast screening examinations. It is estimated that 90% of nonpalpable intraductal breast cancers are detectable morphologically by the pres...
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The use computer games in cognitive rehabilitation programs is a new trend by health professionals. In this perspective, nine computer games were developed for cognitive stimulation of the elderly people with cognitiv...
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Colorectal cancer (CRC) has a high incidence in the world, being the third leading cause of cancer-related mortality in the United States. Ninety percent of the malignant tumors can be cured if diagnosed in the early ...
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(纸本)9781467345613
Colorectal cancer (CRC) has a high incidence in the world, being the third leading cause of cancer-related mortality in the United States. Ninety percent of the malignant tumors can be cured if diagnosed in the early stages of localized disease and this motivates a great interest in the development and design of experimental models for CRC detection, staging and monitoring. The aim of this work was to use VEGFR2 (vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2)-targeted ultrasound contrast agent (UCA) coupled to an endoluminal ultrasound biomicroscopy (eUBM) system to diagnose colon tumors and to analyze tumor vasculature. Colon tumors were induced in mice by using azoxymethane/dextran sulfate sodium and according to histopathology, 55% of colon tumors were adenomas and 45% were adenocarcinomas. Images of the lesion were obtained before and 2-15 minutes after VEGFR2-targeted UCA injection into the mice tail. Compared to post-mortem histopathology, all colonic lesions (lymphoid hyperplasias, ulcerations, thickened mucosa and tumors) were correctly diagnosed by eUBM. In addition, when coupled to a VEGFR2-targeted UCA, the eUBM system provided hyperechoic image areas compatible with intense VEGFR2 staining by immunohistochemical diagnosis. The results suggest that eUBM associated to UCA is a promising tool for histopathologycal and molecular imaging, and could be used to diagnose, stage and monitor colon tumor morphology and vasculature.
Calcifications (calcium build-ups) in breast regions are frequently found in breast screening examinations. It is estimated that 90% of nonpalpable intraductal breast cancers are detectable morphologically by the pres...
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Calcifications (calcium build-ups) in breast regions are frequently found in breast screening examinations. It is estimated that 90% of nonpalpable intraductal breast cancers are detectable morphologically by the presence of calcifications. This work performs a morphological analysis of regions of interest related to breast calcifications by extraction of a set of features that help the health care provider in the automatic classification of these calcifications. The results are being validated in a controlled test that simulates calcifications in order to consider morphological information that characterizes the geometrical characteristics. This allows one to assign an object signature and hence to approximate the test conditions to real calcifications.
The use computer games in cognitive rehabilitation programs is a new trend by health professionals. In this perspective, nine computer games were developed for cognitive stimulation of the elderly people with cognitiv...
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The use computer games in cognitive rehabilitation programs is a new trend by health professionals. In this perspective, nine computer games were developed for cognitive stimulation of the elderly people with cognitive deficit.
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer in the world and the third leading cause of cancer-related mortality in United States. Most malignant tumors are cured if diagnosed and properly treated during t...
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(纸本)9781457712531
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer in the world and the third leading cause of cancer-related mortality in United States. Most malignant tumors are cured if diagnosed and properly treated during the disease early stage. CRC risk increases in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), a chronic inflammatory condition affecting about five million people worldwide. Mice models of CRC and IBD are used to understand the pathogenic mechanisms, to establish therapeutic and preventive measures and to evaluate diagnostic tools. The development of minimally invasive tools to detect and monitor colon diseases could improve the studies in mice models for IBD and CRC. This has motivated the use endoluminal ultrasound biomicroscopy (eUBM) to image colon lesions in mice models for CRC and IBD, in vivo. An eUBM system was employed using a 40 MHz transducer attached to a microcomputer controlled front-end electronics. The transducer rotates inside a catheter and ultrasound cross-sectional colon images were obtained with the catheter inserted into the working channel of flexible bronchofiberscope. Water, injected through the catheter, was the ultrasound coupling medium. All colonic tissue layers in control mice (mucosa, muscularis mucosae, submucosa and muscularis externa) were detected by eUBM. Small adenomas and invasive adenocarcinomas were well visualized in eUBM images of CRC and IBD mouse models. All eUBM images correlated well with the post-mortem colon histology sections.
Vertical ground reaction force (vGRF) has been commonly used in human gait analysis making possible the study of mechanical overloads in the locomotor system. This study aimed at applying the principal component (PC) ...
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Vertical ground reaction force (vGRF) has been commonly used in human gait analysis making possible the study of mechanical overloads in the locomotor system. This study aimed at applying the principal component (PC) analysis and two Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), multi-layer feed forward (FF) and self organized maps (SOM), for classifying and clustering gait patterns from normal subjects (CG) and patients with lower limb fractures (FG). The vGRF from a group of 51 subjects, including 38 in CG and 13 in FG were used for PC analysis and classification. It was also tested the classification of vGRF from five subjects in a treatment group (TG) that were submitted to a physiotherapeutic treatment. Better results were obtained using four PC as inputs of the ANN, with 96% accuracy, 100% specificity and 85% sensitivity using SOM, against 92% accuracy, 100% specificity and 69% sensitivity for FF classification. After treatment, three of five subjects were classified as presenting normal vGRF.
This study evaluated the long-term effects of deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus (DBS-STN) on gait initiation. Six Parkinson's disease (PD) patients who had undergone DBS-STN and 31 control subjects...
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This study evaluated the long-term effects of deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus (DBS-STN) on gait initiation. Six Parkinson's disease (PD) patients who had undergone DBS-STN and 31 control subjects were evaluated. PD subjects were assessed at two different time periods: 11.3 ± 10.3 (P1) and 78.9 ± 10.6 (P2) months after surgery. Subjects under stimulation were tested in two conditions: without medication and with medication. Principal components (PC) analysis was separately applied on vertical, anterior-posterior and medial-lateral ground reaction force (GRF) from gait initiation, during the anticipatory postural adjustment (APA) phase. Three PC scores were chosen by the scree test for each GRF component. The higher loading factors pointed to major differences between controls and PD patients on maximum APA amplitude for vertical and anterior-posterior GRF. Friedman test showed a significant difference in standard distance among conditions (P = 0.006), with the post-hoc test recognizing differences only between P1 and P2 in the medication-on condition. All distances increased in the follow-up evaluation (P2), when considering the same medication condition, indicating a worsening in gait initiation after 7 years of follow-up.
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