Publications by authors named "T Layer"

Purpose: To analyze the incisional hernia recurrence rate at a long-term follow-up using a biosynthetic long-term absorbable mesh in patients with a higher risk of surgical infection in a contaminated surgical field.

Methods: This was a retrospective multicentric study. All patients undergoing incisional hernia repair between 2016 and 2018 at 6 participating university centers were included.

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Background: Classification algorithms for positron emission tomography (PET) images support computational treatment planning in radiotherapy. Common clinical practice is based on manual delineation and fixed or iterative threshold methods, the latter of which requires regression curves dependent on many parameters.

Methods: An improved statistical approach using a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) is proposed to obtain initial estimates of a target volume, followed by a correction step based on a Markov random field (MRF) and a Gibbs distribution to account for dependencies among neighboring voxels.

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