Aspergillus fumigatus induces microRNA-132 in human monocytes and dendritic cells.

Aspergillus fumigatus is responsible for severe and often fatal infections in immunocompromised patients. The human immune response against this pathogenic mould is still not fully understood. Recently, microRNAs (miRNAs) have been characterized as regulators of inflammation and immune response in various diseases.

Quality metric for Parasternal Long AXis B-mode echocardiograms.

This paper presents a method for automatically estimating the quality of Parasternal Long AXis (PLAX) B-mode echocardiograms. The purpose of the algorithm is to provide live feedback to the user on the quality of the acquired image. The proposed approach uses Generalized Hough Transform to compare the structures derived from the incoming image to a representative atlas, thereby providing a quality metric (PQM).

Automated intraventricular septum segmentation using non-local spatio-temporal priors.

Automated robust segmentation of intra-ventricular septum (IVS) from B-mode echocardiographic images is an enabler for early quantification of cardiac disease. Segmentation of septum from ultrasound images is very challenging due to variations in intensity/contrast in and around the septum, speckle noise and non-rigid shape variations of the septum boundary. In this work, we effectively address these challenges using an approach that merges novel computer vision ideas with physiological markers present in cardiac scans.