Technical feasibility of automated blur detection in digital mammography using convolutional neural network.

Background: The presence of a blurred area, depending on its localization, in a mammogram can limit diagnostic accuracy. The goal of this study was to develop a model for automatic detection of blur in diagnostically relevant locations in digital mammography.

Methods: A retrospective dataset consisting of 152 examinations acquired with mammography machines from three different vendors was utilized.

A Simple Non-Contact Optical Method to Quantify In-Vivo Sweat Gland Activity and Pulsation.

Objective: Most methods for monitoring sweat gland activity use simple gravimetric methods, which merely measure the average sweat rate of multiple sweat glands over a region of skin. It would be extremely useful to have a method which could quantify individual gland activity in order to improve the treatment of conditions which use sweat tests as a diagnostic tool, such as hyperhidrosis, cystic fibrosis, and peripheral nerve degeneration.

Methods: An optical method using an infrared camera to monitor the skin surface temperature was developed.

Dynamical properties of the one-dimensional band insulator (NbSe4)3I.

Optical and photoemission experiments reveal unexpected spectral signatures of one-dimensional band insulators. In the model compound (NbSe (4))3I the optical conductivity decays as a power law sigma(1)(omega) approximately omega(-4.25) above a sharp gap edge.

Dimensionality-driven insulator-to-metal transition in the bechgaard salts.

Optical experiments were conducted on a series of organic linear chain conductors with different values of the interchain single-electron transfer integral tb, which quantifies the degree of anisotropy. Electron-electron interactions together with Umklapp scattering resulted in a correlation gap and an insulating state for small tb. An insulator-to-metal transition was observed when tb exceeded a critical value, on the order of the correlation gap Egap.