[Fragments Woven into a Whole: A New Approach to the Diagnosis of Cancer through Mass Spectrometry and Machine-Learning].

Conventionally, a definitive diagnosis of cancer is derived from histopathological diagnostics based on morphological criteria that are difficult to standardize on a quantifiable basis. On the other hand, while molecular tumor markers and blood biochemical profiles give quantitative values evaluated by objective criteria, these parameters are usually generated by deductive methods such as peak extraction. Therefore, some of the data that may contain useful information on specimens are discarded.

Real-time diagnosis of chemically induced hepatocellular carcinoma using a novel mass spectrometry-based technique.

Real-time analyses of hepatocellular carcinoma were performed in living mice to assess the applicability of probe electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry (PESI-MS) in medical diagnosis. The number of peaks and the abundance of ions corresponding to triacylglycerols (TAGs) were higher in cancerous tissues than in noncancerous tissues. Multiple sequential scans of the specimens were performed along a predetermined line extending over the noncancerous region to detect the boundary of the cancerous region.

Analysis of renal cell carcinoma as a first step for developing mass spectrometry-based diagnostics.

Immediate diagnosis of human specimen is an essential prerequisites in medical routines. This study aimed to establish a novel cancer diagnostics system based on probe electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry (PESI-MS) combined with statistical data processing. PESI-MS uses a very fine acupuncture needle as a probe for sampling as well as for ionization.

A theoretical formulation of the electrophysiological inverse problem on the sphere.

The construction of three-dimensional images of the primary current density (PCD) produced by neuronal activity is a problem of great current interest in the neuroimaging community, though being initially formulated in the 1970s. There exist even now enthusiastic debates about the authenticity of most of the inverse solutions proposed in the literature, in which low resolution electrical tomography (LORETA) is a focus of attention. However, in our opinion, the capabilities and limitations of the electro and magneto encephalographic techniques to determine PCD configurations have not been extensively explored from a theoretical framework, even for simple volume conductor models of the head.