Immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) treatment has proven successful for advanced melanoma, but is associated with potentially severe toxicity and high costs. Accurate biomarkers for response are lacking. The present work is the first to investigate the value of deep learning on CT imaging of metastatic lesions for predicting ICI treatment outcomes in advanced melanoma.
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December 2024
We experimentally demonstrate that the coacervation of a biopolymer can trigger a hydrodynamic instability when a coacervate is formed upon injection of a xanthan gum dispersion into a cationic surfactant (CTAB) solution. The local increase of the viscosity due to the coacervate formation induces a viscous fingering instability. Three characteristic displacement regimes were observed: a viscous fingering dominated regime, a buoyancy-controlled "volcano" regime and a "fan"-like regime determined by the coacervate membrane dynamics.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOscillatory kinetics coupled to diffusion can produce traveling waves as observed in physical, chemical, and biological systems. We show experimentally that the properties of such waves can be controlled by fluid stretching and compression in a hyperbolic flow. Localized packet waves consisting in a train of parallel waves can develop due to a balance between diffusive broadening and advective compression along the unstable manifold.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: We aim to clarify potential risk factors of complications after uterine artery embolisation (UAE).
Setting: Complications after uterine artery embolisation (UAE) for symptomatic fibroids are rare, but failure of treatment occurs for approximately 13%-24% of patients at 10 years.
Design: We conducted a case-control study including all complications post UAE over 15 years in our specialised unit.