Effect of topical motesanib in experimental corneal neovascularization model.

Purpose: This study aimed to compare the efficacy of topical bevacizumab and motesanib in an experimental corneal neovascularization model, and find the most effective motesanib dose.

Materials And Methods: In experiments, 42 Wistar Albino rats were randomly divided into six groups (n = 7). Corneal cauterization was applied to all groups except the group 1.

Which is more predictive ovarian sensitivity marker if there is discordance between serum anti-Müllerian hormone levels and antral follicle count? A retrospective analysis.

This retrospective study aims to determine the more predictive ovarian reserve marker when there is discordance between anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) and antral follicle count (AFC) in patients with diminished ovarian reserve (DOR). Patients who underwent ICSI because of DOR were divided into three groups. Group 1: patients with low AMH (<1.

A POSHE-Based Optimum Clip-Limit Contrast Enhancement Method for Ultrasonic Logging Images.

Enabled by piezoceramic transducers, ultrasonic logging images often suffer from low contrast and indistinct local details, which makes it difficult to analyze and interpret geologic features in the images. In this work, we propose a novel partially overlapped sub-block histogram-equalization (POSHE)-based optimum clip-limit contrast enhancement (POSHEOC) method to highlight the local details hidden in ultrasonic well logging images obtained through piezoceramic transducers. The proposed algorithm introduces the idea of contrast-limited enhancement to modify the cumulative distribution functions of the POSHE and build a new quality evaluation index considering the effects of the mean gradient and mean structural similarity.

Temporal Detection of Changes in the Vascularity and Concentration of Pigment Structures of a Skin Lesion.

Changes in morphology of a skin Iesion is indicative of melanoma, a deadly type of skin cancer. This paper proposes a temporal analysis approach to monitor the vascular appearance, the pigment structure, and growth of a skin Iesion. A set of digital images of a patients- skin Iesion acquired during follow-up imaging sessions serves as an input to our proposed system.

Detection of microcalcification with top-hat transform and the Gibbs random fields.

Breast cancer is one of the most common causes of death in women aged 40 and above. Early detection of breast cancer has been one of the prime topics of research in biomedical engineering area. Micro-calcifications (MCs) are the indicators of early stages of breast cancer, and the detection of these MCs will, in turn, lead to diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer at its earliest stages.