Wide-Field-of-View Multispectral Camera Design for Continuous Turfgrass Monitoring.

Sustainably using resources, while reducing the use of chemicals, is of major importance in agriculture, including turfgrass monitoring. Today, crop monitoring often uses camera-based drone sensing, offering an accurate evaluation but typically requiring a technical operator. To enable autonomous and continuous monitoring, we propose a novel five-channel multispectral camera design suitable for integrating it inside lighting fixtures and enabling the sensing of a multitude of vegetation indices by covering visible, near-infrared and thermal wavelength bands.

Clinicopathological variables predictive of clinical outcome in patients with FIGO stage Ib2-IIb cervical cancer treated with cisplatin-based neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by radical hysterectomy.

The aim of this retrospective investigation was to assess the prognostic relevance of some pre-treatment clinical variables and histological findings assessed on the surgical samples of 46 patients with stage Ib(2)-IIb cervical cancer treated with cisplatin-based neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by radical hysterectomy. Seven patients achieved a pathologically documented complete response, 6 had an optimal partial response, 29 had a suboptimal partial response, and 4 had stable disease. As for histological findings on surgical samples, 7 (15.

The clinical outcome of epithelial ovarian cancer patients with apparently isolated lymph node recurrence: a multicenter retrospective Italian study.

Objectives: To assess the clinical outcome of epithelial ovarian cancer patients who developed an apparently isolated lymph node recurrence after primary therapy.

Methods: The authors retrospectively assessed 69 patients with epithelial ovarian cancer who were clinically or pathologically free of disease after primary therapy and who subsequently developed an apparently isolated lymph node recurrence. The median follow-up of survivors was 74.

Lymph-vascular space involvement and outer one-third myometrial invasion are strong predictors of distant haematogeneous failures in patients with stage I-II endometrioid-type endometrial cancer.

The aim of this retrospective study was to assess the predictive value of different clinicopathological variables (patient age, tumour size, FIGO grade, myometrial invasion, lymph-vascular space involvement [LVSI], invasion margins, peri-tumour phlogistic infiltrate and mitotic activity) for the risk of distant haematogenous recurrences in patients with endometrioid-type stage Ib-II endometrial cancer. Between August 1990 and April 2005, 259 patients had undergone laparotomy, peritoneal washing, total abdominal hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, with or without pelvic +/- para-aortic lymphadenectomy for endometrioid-type endometrial cancer. Thirty-six (13.

Brain recurrences in patients with ovarian cancer: report of 12 cases and review of the literature.

The aim of the investigation was to assess 12 cases of brain recurrences among ovarian cancer patients who had undergone surgery followed by platinum-based chemotherapy. Brain lesions were the first recurrence in 4 (33%) patients, the second recurrence in 7 (58%), and the fourth recurrence in one patient. The median time from ovarian cancer diagnosis to brain metastasis detection was 33.

Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) expression in primary tumors and peritoneal metastases from patients with advanced ovarian carcinoma.

Background: Several experimental and clinical data suggest that vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is involved in ovarian carcinogenesis. However, there are no conclusive data about the prognostic value of tissue VEGF expression in this malignancy. The aim of the present investigation was to compare VEGF immunostaining in primary tumors and peritoneal metastases from patients with advanced ovarian carcinoma and to assess whether this parameter has a predictive or prognostic relevance.