Tooth numbering with polygonal segmentation on periapical radiographs: an artificial intelligence study.

Objectives: Accurately identification and tooth numbering on radiographs is essential for any clinicians. The aim of the present study was to validate the hypothesis that Yolov5, a type of artificial intelligence model, can be trained to detect and number teeth in periapical radiographs.

Materials And Methods: Six thousand four hundred forty six anonymized periapical radiographs without motion-related artifacts were randomly selected from the database.

Characterization and functional insights of the novel RC-type plasmid pAnox1 from Anoxybacillus gonensis 05S15.

The plasmid pAnox1, isolated from Anoxybacillus gonensis 05S15, was sequenced and characterized as a circular, double-stranded DNA molecule of 1592 base pairs with a GC content of 40.01 %. Despite its cryptic nature and small genome, bioinformatic analyses identified conserved motifs associated with replication-related proteins, though BLAST searches revealed no significant homology with other plasmids.

Machine learning models for discriminating clinically significant from clinically insignificant prostate cancer using bi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging.

Purpose: This study aims to demonstrate the performance of machine learning algorithms to distinguish clinically significant prostate cancer (csPCa) from clinically insignificant prostate cancer (ciPCa) in prostate bi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using radiomics features.

Methods: MRI images of patients who were diagnosed with cancer with histopathological confirmation following prostate MRI were collected retrospectively. Patients with a Gleason score of 3+3 were considered to have clinically ciPCa, and patients with a Gleason score of 3+4 and above were considered to have csPCa.

Detection of the Fixed Prostheses on Panoramic Images: An Artificial Intelligence Based Study.

Objective: To investigate the effectiveness of using YOLO-v5x in detecting fixed prosthetic restoration in panoramic radiographs.

Study Design: Descriptive study. Place and Duration of the Study: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Eskisehir, Turkiye from November 2022 to April 2023.

Ohmic heating application with different electric fields on inactivation of Listeria monocytogenes in protein-enriched cow milk.

The aim of this study was to determine the effects of an ohmic heating (OH) process with different electric field intensities on Listeria monocytogenes inactivation in protein-enriched cow milk. Protein powder was added at rates of 2.5%, 5% and 7.

State-of-the-art Prostate Imaging.

Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in men. In addition to methods such as prostate-specific antigen test, digital rectal examination, and transrectal ultrasonography, magnetic resonance imaging has an important role for accurate and reproducible diagnosis. However, guidance in targeted biopsies and recent use in determining localization for treatment increase its importance.

Use of Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS) in the Treatment of Primary Spontaneous Pneumothorax (PSP) in Children.

Introduction: This study aims to review the primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP) patients we have treated and to discuss the results in terms of PSP treatment management and video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) use in the light of the literature.

Methods: The study was designed retrospectively and conducted at a tertiary referral university hospital between January 1, 2015 and May 1, 2021. Patients under the age of 18 years with a diagnosis of pneumothorax (PTX) were included in the study.

Growth, tolerance and safety outcomes with use of an extensively hydrolyzed casein-based formula in infants with cow's milk protein allergy.

Objective: To evaluate growth, tolerance and safety outcomes with use of an extensively hydrolyzed casein-based formula (eHCF) in infants with cow's milk protein allergy (CMPA).

Methods: A total of 226 infants (mean ± SD age: 106.5 ± 39.

Separation and identification of different therapeutic pharmaceutical drugs on humic acid-based HPLC column: Method optimization using central composite design.

Multimode chromatographic separations are highly desirable in pharmaceutical and environmental sciences. Current study deals with the application of newly developed mixed-mode end capped-immobilized humic acid onto an aminopropyl silica based chromatographic column for separation and identification of six drugs belonging to different therapeutic groups for its applicability in pharmaceutical industries. For this, central composite design was used to evaluate the separation and resolution by optimization of three most effective parameters (acetonitrile%, flow rate, and pH of mobile phase).

What has changed in children's appendicitis during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Background: The present study aimed to investigate the changes in the course of acute appendicitis during the pandemic period by comparing the cases treated during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic with those in the pre-pandemic period.

Methods: The study was conducted with 601 children aged 1-18 years who were operated for acute appendicitis between May 1, 2019, and February 29, 2020 (Group I) and between March 1 and December 31, 2020 (Group II). The demographic and disease characteristics as well as the treatment processes were compared between the groups.

Are maxillary sinus variations related to maxillary sinus diameters?

Objectives: The reasons why the maxillary posterior region is challenging for dentists are its structure and anatomical variations. For this reason, it is necessary to have complete knowledge about the anatomy of this region. In dentistry, necessary information for the desired evaluation in this region can be provided by CBCT.

Reference Ranges of Age-Based Liver, Spleen, Pancreas, and Kidney Size in Conjunction with Waist Circumference in Children.

Objective: In the initial phases of parenchymal diseases, the only finding would be an increase in organ size. We aimed to provide percentile charts of solid intraabdominal organ sizes by age for Turkish children on contrast-enhanced computed tomography images and reveal relative size ratios.

Materials And Methods: A total of 800 abdominal computed tomography examinations of otherwise healthy children (468 males, 332 females) were enrolled.

Accuracy of different dental age estimation methods for determining the legal majority of 18 years in the Turkish population.

Objectives: Radiographic evaluation of the third molar maturation is used to estimate dental age, especially in adolescence. This study aimed to assess the application of three age estimation methods (Cameriere's third molar maturity index (I), Demirjian's maturation stages, and The London Atlas) to determine whether an individual is 18 years or older (adult) or younger than 18 years (minor).

Materials And Methods: The dental age was estimated using the I, Demirjian's maturation stages, and The London Atlas methods on panoramic radiograms of a total of 500 Turkish individuals aged 14-22 years.

Chromatographic evaluation of tocols and sterols of processed canola oil and deodorizer distillate.

Tocopherols and tocotrienols in the combined form are known as tocols. Changes of total and individual tocols and sterols concentration of canola oil and deodorizer distillate (DD) during different processing stages were evaluated with the application of gas chromatography (GC) and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). For sterols analysis, GC coupled with flame ionization detector (FID) was used while tocols in canola oil samples and DD, normal phase (NP) HPLC was applied.

Processing impact on tocopherols and triglycerides composition of soybean oil and its deodorizer distillate evaluated by high-performance liquid chromatography.

In the present study, high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) was used for the separation of tocopherols and triglycerides of processed soybean oil and deodorizer distillate (DD). The results of normal and reversed-phase modes of HPLC revealed that concentrations of tocopherols and triglycerides content were decreased during the neutralization, bleaching, and deodorization processes. The loss of individual tocopherols ranged between 55.

Covid-19: Correlation of Early Chest Computed Tomography Findings With the Course of Disease.

Objective: To investigate the role of chest computed tomography (CT) examinations acquired early after initial onset of symptoms in predicting disease course in coronavirus disease 2019.

Methods: Two hundred sixty-two patients were categorized according to intensive care unit (ICU) admission, survival, length of hospital stay, and reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction positivity. Mean time interval between the onset of symptoms and CT scan was 5.

Normative values of thymus in healthy children; stiffness by shear wave elastography.

Purpose: Thymus grows after birth, reaches maximal size after the first few years and involutes by puberty. Because of the postnatal developmental and involutional duration, we aimed toinvestigate normal stiffness values of mediastinal thymus by shear wave elastography (SWE) in different age groups of children and discuss imaging findings of thymus.

Methods: We prospectively examined 146 children (90 girls, 56 boys) who underwent a thyroid or neck ultrasound examination.

Discrimination of β-thalassemia and iron deficiency anemia through extreme learning machine and regularized extreme learning machine based decision support system.

The symptoms of Iron Deficiency Anemia (IDA) and β-thalassemia (β-TT) disease are similar and the distinction between them is time consuming and costly. There are several indices used to differentiate IDA from β-thalassemia disease. Complete Blood Count (CBC) is a rapid, inexpensive and accessible test for the diagnosis of anemia and is used as a primary test.

Association Between Anxiety, Depression, and Salivary Cortisol Levels in Patients with Recurrent Aphthous Stomatitis.

Objective: Recurrent aphthous stomatitis (RAS) is the most common ulcerative disease of the oral mucosa that commonly affects the general population. The objective of this study was to conduct a research in assesing the relationship between psychological disorders including anxiety, depression and salivary cortisol levels in patients with RAS.

Methods: Thirty-nine patients suffering from minor RAS were enrolled in the study after obtaining an informed consent.

New potential humic acid stationary phase toward drug components: Development of a chemometric-assisted RP-HPLC method for the determination of paracetamol and caffeine in tablet formulations.

A new humic acid based stationary phase has been used, for the first time, to achieve the separation and quantification of paracetamol and caffeine in pharmaceutical preparations under reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography conditions. Central composite design was applied as a powerful tool to optimize the most dominant parameters that influence the resolution of reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography, that is, mobile phase composition (acetonitrile percentage in water), flow rate, and column temperature. The optimum conditions were obtained as 21.