Publications by authors named "Grazia Raguso"

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  • Some apps like Siri and Cortana make it seem like you can have a real conversation with a machine, but they can’t truly understand feelings.
  • Researchers are looking into ways for machines to recognize emotions in people’s voices, which could help in many areas, like healthcare.
  • A study created a special program to analyze children’s speech, especially to see if they have developmental disorders, and it accurately identified these conditions most of the time.
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We report on a morphological study of 192 breast masses as seen in mammograms, with the aim of discrimination between benign masses and malignant tumors. From the contour of each mass, we computed the fractal dimension (FD) and a few shape factors, including compactness, fractional concavity, and spiculation index. We calculated FD using four different methods: the ruler and box-counting methods applied to each 2-dimensional (2D) contour and its 1-dimensional signature.

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Venous thrombosis of transverse and sigmoid sinuses was diagnosed in a 3-year-old child who is a carrier of the G20210A prothrombin gene mutation. Recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt-PA) treatment was started 9 days following the onset of neurologic signs. Nine days of rt-PA therapy completely dissolved the thrombus.

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