Benchmarking the Robustness of Instance Segmentation Models.

This article presents a comprehensive evaluation of instance segmentation models with respect to real-world image corruptions as well as out-of-domain image collections, e.g., images captured by a different set-up than the training dataset.

Image-to-Image Translation With Disentangled Latent Vectors for Face Editing.

We propose an image-to-image translation framework for facial attribute editing with disentangled interpretable latent directions. Facial attribute editing task faces the challenges of targeted attribute editing with controllable strength and disentanglement in the representations of attributes to preserve the other attributes during edits. For this goal, inspired by the latent space factorization works of fixed pretrained GANs, we design the attribute editing by latent space factorization, and for each attribute, we learn a linear direction that is orthogonal to the others.

The effect of pharmacological treatment in combination with vitamin K on healing in an experimental rat model of osteoporosis.

Objectives: This study aims to compare the effects of teriparatide, zoledronic acid, and their combination therapy with vitamin K on osteoporotic rats.

Materials And Methods: We divided a total of 50 female Sprague-Dawley rats into five groups: A (the control group), B and D (the teriparatide group), and C and E (the zoledronic acid group). Following ovariectomy and subcutaneous heparin administration at a dose of 2 IU/kg for four weeks, osteoporosis was created.

Higher cost of arthroplasty for hip fractures in patients transferred from outside hospitals primary emergency department presentation.

Background: In 2016 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed bundled payments for hip fractures to improve the quality and decrease costs of care. Patients transferred from other facilities may be imposing a financial risk on the hospitals that accept these patients.

Aim: To determine the costs associated with patients that either presented to the emergency department or were transferred from another hospital or skilled nursing facility (SNF) with the diagnosis of a hip fracture requiring operative intervention.

Creation and Validation of a Shorthand Magnetic Resonance Imaging Bone Age Assessment Tool of the Knee as an Alternative Skeletal Maturity Assessment.

Background: In managing pediatric knee conditions, an accurate bone age assessment is often critical for diagnostic, prognostic, and treatment purposes. Historically, the Greulich and Pyle atlas (hand atlas) has been the gold standard bone age assessment tool. In 2013, a shorthand bone age assessment tool based on this atlas (hand shorthand) was devised as a simpler and more efficient alternative.