Diagnostic and prognostic potential of left atrial strain in cardiovascular disease: a narrative review.

Left atrial strain (LAS) was recently introduced as a parameter that reflects on left atrial function. Consequently, changes in LAS can inform the development of cardiovascular diseases, hence providing a window for non-invasive and cost-effective testing of these diseases and their complications at early stages of development, potentially offering a segway towards preventive interventions. LAS has yet to be implemented into standard practice.

Exploring Sentiment, Values, and Misinformation Surrounding Vaccination Legislation on Twitter: A Case Study of California's Passage of SB277.

California remains among a handful of U.S. states with no clause for a personal belief exemption for required vaccines due to passage of SB277.

Symptomatic Response After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy for Symptomatic Gallbladder Polyps: A Patient Questionnaire.

Aim To assess the effect of laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) in relieving the biliary type symptoms in patients with gallbladder polyps (GBPs) and to determine the positive and negative predictive values (PPV, NPV) of abdominal ultrasound (US) for the pre-operative detection. Methods The data were retrieved from our tertiary hepatobiliopancreatic (HPB) center database for all patients who had an LC as a treatment for symptomatic GBPs between 2013 and 2022. The pre-operative US and postoperative histology reports were reviewed.

Factorized visual representations in the primate visual system and deep neural networks.

Object classification has been proposed as a principal objective of the primate ventral visual stream and has been used as an optimization target for deep neural network models (DNNs) of the visual system. However, visual brain areas represent many different types of information, and optimizing for classification of object identity alone does not constrain how other information may be encoded in visual representations. Information about different scene parameters may be discarded altogether ('invariance'), represented in non-interfering subspaces of population activity ('factorization') or encoded in an entangled fashion.