Evaluation of the and Polymorphisms with Autosomal Recessive Nonsyndromic Hearing Loss in Iranian Population.

Introduction: Hearing loss (HL), with more than 100 gene loci, is the most common sensorineural defects in humans. The mutations in two and (Gap Junction Protein Beta 2, 6) genes are responsible for nearly 50% of autosomal recessive nonsyndromic hearing loss. The aim of the present study was to evaluate polymorphisms of 111C>T (rs7329857) and 337G>T (rs7333214) in (encoding connexin 26) and (encoding connexin 32) genes, respectively.

A review on segmentation of knee articular cartilage: from conventional methods towards deep learning.

In this paper, we review the state-of-the-art approaches for knee articular cartilage segmentation from conventional techniques to deep learning (DL) based techniques. Knee articular cartilage segmentation on magnetic resonance (MR) images is of great importance in early diagnosis of osteoarthritis (OA). Besides, segmentation allows estimating the articular cartilage loss rate which is utilised in clinical practice for assessing the disease progression and morphological changes.