As part of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) Closer to Zero initiative, a toxicological reference value (TRV) for oral dietary exposure to Cd was established.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) have a significant impact on health concerns. The transition from school to college coincides with various stressors, affecting student health. The objective was to assess the prevalence of unhealthy lifestyles among college-going students and examine the association of composite lifestyle scores with selected demographic variables.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOne of the crucial aspects of cancer research is diagnosis with specificity and accuracy. Early cancer detection mostly helps make appropriate decisions regarding treatment and metastasis. The well-studied transcription factor tumor suppressor protein p53 is essential for maintaining genetic integrity.
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Recent studies in medical image segmentation involve new automatic approaches where active learning models are useful with less training samples. Presence of homogenous and heterogenous intensities for a single anatomical structure in pediatric musculoskeletal MR images affects the accuracy in terms of segmentation and classification of labels. This study addresses the homogeneity in intensity issues and introduces a new pre-training pipeline framework of Multi-level Otsu thresholding image as separate channel for 3D UNet model training.
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