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Oral cancer is a quite common global health issue. Early diagnosis of cancerous and potentially malignant disorders in the oral cavity would significantly increase the survival rate of oral cancer. Previously reported smartphone-based images detection methods for oral cancer mainly focus on demonstrating the effectiveness of their methodology, yet it still lacks systematic study on how to improve the diagnosis accuracy on oral disease using hand-held smartphone photographic images.
We present an effective smartphone-based imaging diagnosis method, powered by a deep learning algorithm, to address the challenges of automatic detection of oral diseases.
We conducted a retrospective study. First, a simple yet effective centered rule image-capturing approach was proposed for collecting oral cavity images. Then, based on this method, a medium-sized oral dataset with five categories of diseases was created, and a resampling method was presented to alleviate the effect of image variability from hand-held smartp lesion, resampling the cases in training set, and using the HRNet can effectively improve the performance of deep learning algorithm on oral cancer detection. The smartphone-based imaging with deep learning method has good potential for primary oral cancer diagnosis.
This study evaluated the predictive value of gene signatures for biochemical recurrence (BCR) in primary prostate cancer (PCa) patients.
Clinical features and gene expression profiles of PCa patients were attained from Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) and The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) datasets, which were further classified into a training set (n=419), a validation set (n=403). The least absolute shrinkage and selection operator Cox (LASSO-Cox) method was used to select discriminative gene signatures in training set for biochemical recurrence-free survival (BCRFS). Selected gene signatures established a risk score system. Univariate and multivariate analyses of prognostic factors about BCRFS were performed using the Cox proportional hazards regression models. A nomogram based on multivariate analysis was plotted to facilitate clinical application. Kyoto Encyclopedia of Gene and Genomes (KEGG) and Gene Ontology (GO) analyses were then executed for differentially expressed genes (DEGs).
Notably, the risk score could significantly identify BCRFS by time-dependent receiver operating characteristic (t-ROC) curves in the training set (3-year area under the curve (AUC)=0.820, 5-year AUC=0.809) and the validation set (3-year AUC=0.723, 5-year AUC=0.733).
Clinically, the nomogram model, which incorporates Gleason score and the risk score, could effectively predict BCRFS and potentially be utilized as a useful tool for the screening of BCRFS in PCa.
Clinically, the nomogram model, which incorporates Gleason score and the risk score, could effectively predict BCRFS and potentially be utilized as a useful tool for the screening of BCRFS in PCa.The main pathophysiological features of type 2 diabetes are impaired insulin secretion and insulin resistance. Impaired insulin secretion, resulting from reduced beta-cell function/mass, may be more important in Asian individuals, in contrast to the relative importance of insulin resistance in Caucasian individuals. In this JDI UPDATES, we describe the natural history of pancreatic beta-cell function and related factors in East Asian individuals, and discuss recent findings regarding islet morphology, including beta-cell mass.Tadalafil is an effective, reversible, and competitive phosphodiesterase 5 inhibitor mainly used to treat erectile dysfunction. This study investigated the bioequivalence of generic and marketed formulations of 10-mg tadalafil tablets under fasted and fed conditions. This open-label, randomized, single-dose, 2-period crossover study included 53 healthy Chinese men (aged 20-43 years). Plasma samples were collected from 0.5 hours before treatment to 72 hours after each dose and analyzed using ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry. Pharmacokinetic parameters were calculated using noncompartmental analysis. Safety assessments were performed throughout the study. click here For the fasted state, the 90% confidence intervals of the geometric mean ratios between the generic and marketed formulations were 86.1% to 99.1% for the maximum plasma concentration and 88.4% to 100.3% for the area under the plasma concentration-time curve from time 0 to infinity, and the corresponding values under the fed state were and 99.9% to 108.4% and 95.7% to 104.3%, respectively. All data were within the accepted bioequivalence range of 80% to 125%. After consuming high-fat, high-calorie meals in the fed condition, the time to the maximum plasma concentration was similar between the formulations, and area under the plasma concentration-time curve from time 0 to infinity and maximum plasma concentration were 10.2% and 6.55% higher, respectively, for the marketed formulation. Thus, food had no clinically relevant effect on tadalafil exposure following a single oral dose in healthy Chinese men. No serious adverse reactions were reported. These results indicated that the analyzed generic and marketed tadalafil tablets were bioequivalent with similar safety profiles.The forearms of dogs and cats do not only differ anatomically from each other, but there are also differences in prevalence of radius and ulna fractures between the two species. The prevalence of antebrachial fractures is 18.0% in dogs and 2.0-8.0% in cats. Many studies focus solely on the trabecular and cortical bone structure of dogs and the characteristics of the cat are often disregarded. The aim of this study was to evaluate the trabecular structure parameters [bone volume fraction per total volume (BV/TV), bone surface per total volume (BS/BV), trabecular number (Tb.N), trabecular thickness (Tb.Th), trabecular separation (Tb.Sp), connectivity density (Conn. D), degree of anisotropy (DA)] and the diaphyseal cortical bone density (Mean Density) of the antebrachium in cats and small dogs to visualise their differences. For this purpose, a total of 32 forearms of cats (n = 8) and small dogs (n = 8) were evaluated using microcomputed tomography and the findings were compared. The results of the study showed that cats had higher values for BV/TV, Tb.Th, Tb.Sp, DA and Mean Density and lower values for BS/BV, Tb.N and Conn.D at radius and ulna compared to dogs. According to the results of this study, the higher bone volume fraction (BV/TV), thicker trabeculae (Tb.Th), increased anisotropy (DA) and significantly higher diaphyseal cortical density (Mean Density) could contribute to the lower fracture risk of the antebrachium in cats compared to small dogs.This study was conducted to present a comprehensive and integrative computed tomography (CT) - anatomical cross sections atlas of skull, volumetric properties of the paranasal sinuses, and morphometric values for surface cranial nerves in the adult Arabian horse. Ten heads of Arabian horse breed were used. The different structures in the nasal, oral and cranial cavities were determined and labelled in the anatomical sections and their corresponding CT scan images. Three paranasal sinuses namely maxillary, conchofrontal and sphenopalatine sinuses were identified in the CT scan images. The caudal maxillary sinus was the largest paranasal sinus with 131.93 ± 7.67 cm3 volume and the sphenopalatine sinus 13.3 ± 1.2 cm3 volume was the smallest one. The infraorbital foramen was located 4.16 ± 0.18 cm and 4.70 ± 0.35 cm far away from the most rostral point of the facial crest and alveolar root, respectively. The mean distance between the mental foramen and most lateral incisive tooth was 3.12 ± 0.29 cm. These results including present CT scan-cross-sectional atlas, paranasal sinuses volume and morphometric properties would be applicable in practice for more precise diagnosis of head lesions and blocking the surface terminal branches of the cranial nerves during surgical operations in this valuable horse's breed.This retrospective study has been conducted to validate the performance of deep learning-based survival models in glioblastoma (GBM) patients alongside the Cox proportional hazards model (CoxPH) and the random survival forest (RSF). Furthermore, the effect of hyperparameters optimization methods on improving the prediction accuracy of deep learning-based survival models was investigated. Of the 305 cases, 260 GBM patients were included in our analysis based on the following criteria demographic information (i.e., age, Karnofsky performance score, gender, and race), tumor characteristic (i.e., laterality and location), details of post-surgical treatment (i.e., time to initiate concurrent chemoradiation therapy, standard treatment, and radiotherapy techniques), and last follow-up time as well as the molecular markers (i.e., O-6-methylguanine methyltransferase and isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 status). Experimental results have demonstrated that age (Elderly > 65 hazard ratio [HR] = 1.63; 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.213-2.18; p value = 0.001) and tumors located at multiple lobes ([HR] = 1.75; 95% [CI] 1.177-2.61; p value = 0.006) were associated with poorer prognosis. In contrast, age (young less then 40 [HR] = 0.57; 95% [CI] 0.343-0.96; p value = 0.034) and type of radiotherapy (others include stereotactic and brachytherapy [HR] = 0.5; 95%[CI] 0.266-0.95; p value = 0.035) were significantly related to better prognosis. Furthermore, the proposed deep learning-based survival model (concordance index [c-index] = 0.823 configured by Bayesian hyperparameter optimization), outperformed the RSF (c-index = 0.728), and the CoxPH model (c-index = 0.713) in the training dataset. Our results show the ability of deep learning in learning a complex association of risk factors. Moreover, the remarkable performance of the deep-learning-based survival model could be promising to support decision-making systems in personalized medicine for patients with GBM.Organic electrode materials with abundant resources, environmental friendliness and recyclability play a crucial role in rechargeable lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). However, the inferior electrical conductivity and unsatisfactory long-term cycling performance seriously impede their large-scale application in LIBs. Herein, a novel salen-based porous framework polymer (SPP) with a large conjugated skeleton was constructed and utilized as anode for LIBs. Owing to its unique architecture with a large conjugated skeleton facilitating the electron transport, rich pores accelerating the organic electrolyte infiltration, and stable skeleton structure improving the long-term cycling performance, SPP delivered a high specific capacity of 337 mA h g-1 at 0.1 C (1 C=250 mA g-1 ) after 100 cycles, and robust rate capacity of 95.5 mA h g-1 at 32 C. Importantly, an impressive long-term cycling performance with a storage capacity of 155.7 mA h g-1 at 8 C after 4000 cycles was obtained, showing a durable cyclic stability of SPP. Furthermore, the lithium storage mechanism of SPP was evaluated by ex-situ X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, manifesting that the multiple active sites of C=N, -OH, and benzene ring were responsible for the superior lithium storage performance. The novel SPP presented in this work should be a promising organic electrode for energy storage applications.