基于边界特征的乳腺肿瘤超声图像识别

通过对乳腺肿瘤边界特征的分析，得到边界的特征量似圆度，面积比率，长宽比组成的特征矢量，最后用反向传播人工神经网络（BP）的算法对经病理证实的119幅乳腺良、恶性肿块超声图像进行分类识别。BP神经网络对良、恶性肿瘤正确识别率分别为89．7％、73．5N。量化后的乳腺超声图像肿瘤轮廓特征结合BP神经网络可以比较有效的用于肿瘤的良、恶性识别。     

Effects of sino-aortic denervation on spectral characteristics of blood pressure and pulse interval variability: a wide-band approach

Sino-aortic denervation (SAD) is employed in cats to evaluate the baroreflex influence on blood pressure (BP) and pulse interval (PI) spectral components from 0·00008 to 0·9 Hz as assessed by FFT wide-band spectra and their 1/f modelling; and the linear coupling between BP and PI and between systolic and diastolic BP as assessed by coherence analysis. Specific procedures have been developed to obtain an effective smoothing of spectra and coherence functions. SAD induced an increase in BP powers from 0·03 to 0·0006 Hz and a power reduction of most of the remaining BP components; a reduction of PI powers at all frequencies; marked deviations of BP spectra from the 1/f trend; a reduction of the coherence between BP and PI from 0·12 to 0·5 Hz and a coherence enhancement at lower frequencies. These findings indicate that the arterial baroreflex modulates both fast and slow spectral components of BP and PI; homogeneously enhances PI fluctuations at all frequencies; produces differentiated effects on BP fluctuations along the frequency axis; and at low frequencies exerts the buffering action on BP through strategies which reduce the BP-PI linear link.     

Mucopolysaccharidosis type II (Hunter disease): Identification and characterization of eight point mutations in the iduronate-2-sulfatase gene in Japanese patients

Mucopolysaccharidosis type II (Hunter disease) is a lysosomal storage disorder caused by a deficiency of the enzyme iduronate-2-sulfatase. Varied clinical phenotypes of this disease have been described. To identify mutations in individual patients and to examine possible correlations between mutations and clinical phenotypes, we analyzed the iduronate-2-sulfatase gene in Japanese patients with different clinical phenotypes. Five missense mutations, S333L (severe), R468Q (severe), R468L (severe), W337R (intermediate), R48P (mild), and three nonsense mutations, W345X (severe), R443X (intermediate), Q531X (mild), were identified by the RT-PCR method. Transient expression in the enzyme-deficient fibroblasts revealed that all five missense mutant enzymes were synthesized as the normal-size precursor (73 kD), and the nonsense mutant enzymes were synthesized as truncated ones (W345X:54 kD, R443X:59 kD, and Q531X:69 kD), although stable mature enzymes (45–56 kD) were not detected by Western blot analysis. Further more, expression of the eight mutant cDNAs resulted in severe reductions of iduronate-2-sulfatase enzyme activity in comparison with a normal cDNA. © 1995 Wiley-Liss, Inc.     

细胞低温显微图象的计算机处理及定量分析

本文用计算机图象处理技术对细胞显微图象进行处理和定量分析,求出了细胞面积在低温保存中极其重要的参数。实验证明,计算机测量比人工精度高,误差小,同时新颖的标号去噪方法也非常有效。     

一种股骨头假体个性化设计方法研究

为解决人工髋关节置换手术后假体无菌松动等并发症,适应假体个性化快速设计和制造的需求,对假体设计方法进行研究.采用医用CT技术、计算机辅助设计和有限元计算分析相结合的方法,依据患者股骨髓腔解剖形状和置换要求设计髋关节假体;用有限元软件ANSYS建立股骨的三维有限元模型,并自主开发计算机程序计算得到股骨的材料参数,在股骨有限元模型中实现股骨材料的非均匀及各向异性描述;用计算机仿真植入了定制髋假体的股骨--假体系统后的接触问题;分析对比股骨在术前术后的应力、应变大小及分布,检验假体设计的合理性;定量地确定股骨在手术后所产生的应力遮挡效应的程度,研究结果表明这种假体设计和分析方法更为合理、可靠,为优化设计假体和评估假体植入后的长期稳定性提供了基本方法.     

磷酸化蛋白质组学方法在信号网络解析中的应用

信号转导是细胞对各种外界刺激的应答反应，蛋白磷酸化或去磷酸化是信号从胞外流向胞内并导致细胞效应过程中的关键机制。磷酸化蛋白质组学(phosphoproteomics)是采用蛋白质组学的分析方法，研究细胞中所有磷酸化蛋白质及其修饰过程，从整体上观察细胞中被修饰的磷酸化蛋白质的状态及其变化，进而分析特定磷酸化修饰对生命过程的调控作用及其分子机制。     

Allergic conversion of protective mucosal immunity against nasal bacteria in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis

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Evaluation of activities in the health services

For planning or co-ordinating health services it is necessary to have reference points for evaluating similar departments in which homogeneous or equivalent activities are carried out. It is also necessary to consider the cost/benefit of the services. The paper presents several new indices of performance which may be applied to this problem and which enable quantitative comparisons to be made between hospitals and between departments. These indices include assessment of electrical hazards and service ability of equipment as well as the ratio of technical support staff to inpatient stay. The indices have been evaluated in a few large hospitals and found to be an effective management tool.     

Empirically derived pain-patient MMPI subgroups: Prediction of treatment outcome

Fifty-seven male chronic pain patients admitted to an inpatient multimodal pain treatment program at a Midwestern Veterans Administration hospital completed the MMPI, Profile of Mood States (POMS), Tennessee Self-Concept Scale (TSCS), Rathus Assertiveness Schedule (RAS), activity diaries, and an extensive pain questionnaire. All patients were assessed both before and after treatment, and most also were assessed 2–5 months prior to treatment. No significant changes occurred during the baseline period, but significant improvements were evident at posttreatment on most variables: MMPI, POMS, TSCS, RAS, pain severity, sexual functioning, and activity diaries. MMPI subgroup membership, based on a hierarchical cluster analysis in a larger sample, was not predictive of differential treatment outcome. Possible reasons for comparable treatment gains among these subgroups, which previously have been shown to differ on many psychological and behavioral factors, are discussed.This paper originally was presented at the Fourth World Congress on Pain, Seattle, Washington, September, 1984.     

An Epstein-Barr virus-producer line Akata: Establishment of the cell line and analysis of viral DNA

An Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-producer line, designated Akata, was established from a Japanese patient with Burkitt's lymphoma. The Akata line possessed the Burkitt's-type chromosome translocation, t(8q-; 14q+), and was derived from the tumor cell. Akata cells produced a large quantity of transforming virus upon treatment of cells with anti-immunoglobulin antibodies (Takada, 1984). Southern blot analysis of viral DNA indicated that the Akata EBV is nondefective and more representative of wild-type viruses. Akata cells should be useful as a source of EBV.