A Novel Frameshift Mutation of Causing Dominant β-Thalassemia in a Chinese Individual.

We reported a rare β-thalassemia patient, a 41-year-old Chinese male with small cell hypopigmentation anemia, jaundice and splenomegaly as the main clinical symptoms. By using Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS), we identified a novel mutation(c.358_365dup, p.

Absolute and Relative Depth-Induced Network for RGB-D Salient Object Detection.

Detecting salient objects in complicated scenarios is a challenging problem. Except for semantic features from the RGB image, spatial information from the depth image also provides sufficient cues about the object. Therefore, it is crucial to rationally integrate RGB and depth features for the RGB-D salient object detection task.

Which Doctor to Trust: A Recommender System for Identifying the Right Doctors.

Background: Key opinion leaders (KOLs) are people who can influence public opinion on a certain subject matter. In the field of medical and health informatics, it is critical to identify KOLs on various disease conditions. However, there have been very few studies on this topic.

[Dynamic analysis of the lymphocyte subsets in HCV children with different genotypes during treatment].

Objective: To discuss the changes of lymphocyte subsets in HCV children with different genotypes during treatment with pegylated interferon alfa-2b and ribavirin.

Methods: The genotype of 45 HCV infected children were identified by real time PCR. The lymphocyte subsets were dynamically detected by BD FACSCalibur flow cytometer with four color MultiTEST IMK Kit during the treatment.