Squeeze-MNet: Precise Skin Cancer Detection Model for Low Computing IoT Devices Using Transfer Learning.

Cancer remains a deadly disease. We developed a lightweight, accurate, general-purpose deep learning algorithm for skin cancer classification. Squeeze-MNet combines a Squeeze algorithm for digital hair removal during preprocessing and a MobileNet deep learning model with predefined weights.

Minocycline inhibition of photoreceptor degeneration.

Objective: To determine whether systemic minocycline can protect photoreceptors in experimental retinal detachment (RD).

Methods: Retinal detachment was induced in mice by subretinal injection of sodium hyaluronate, 1.4%.

Modified external needle drainage of subretinal fluid in primary rhegmatogenous retinal detachment: a prospective, consecutive, interventional, single-surgeon study.

Purpose: We describe surgical outcomes in a single-surgeon, consecutive series of patients who received scleral buckle placement for primary retinal detachment using a modified external needle drainage technique.

Methods: Eighty-two eyes of 80 patients with primary retinal detachment underwent scleral buckle placement with modified external needle drainage. Preoperative, postoperative, and surgical data were collected.

A modified iris repair technique and capsular tension ring insertion in a patient with coloboma with cataracts.

Purpose: We describe our successful experience using a capsular tension ring (CTR) and iris repair during cataract surgery in a patient with bilateral coloboma.

Methods: A 67-year-old woman had no history of trauma, but had zonular deficiency and inferonasal iris defects in both eyes. An extracapsular cataract extraction and intraocular lens (IOL) scleral fixation was performed in the left eye.

E2 of hepatitis C virus inhibits apoptosis.

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is the major causative agent of chronic hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma, and can be involved in very long chronic infections up to 30 years or more. Therefore, it has been speculated that HCV possesses mechanisms capable of modulating host defense systems such as innate and adaptive immunity. To investigate this virus-host interaction, we generated HCV replicons containing various HCV structural proteins and then analyzed the sensitivity of replicon-containing cells to the apoptosis-inducing agent, TRAIL.

Neovascularization in branch retinal vein occlusion combined with arterial insufficiency.

The aim of this study is to elucidate the association of neovascularization in branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO) combined with major arterial insufficiency (MAI), compared with BRVO alone. The authors retrospectively reviewed the charts, color photographs, and fluorescein angiograms of 304 patients (308 eyes) who had BRVO from 1990 to 2002 at Hanyang University hospital. Patients with BRVO combined with MAI and patients with BRVO alone were differentiated by angiographic appearance.

Transscleral fixation of a dislocated IOL through sclerotomy.

We describe a technique for knotting a suture to the haptic of a dislocated intraocular lens (IOL) through a sclerotomy site without removing an IOL in 4 patients. The suture was knotted to the haptic from outside the sclera. The remaining suture material was tied together and buried in the sclerotomy site.