Publications by authors named "Wohlfart C"

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  • Cancer is complex and expensive to analyze, often requiring genetic profiling for better treatment strategies.
  • Recent advancements in deep learning have improved the prediction of genetic changes from whole slide images, but transformers have been challenging to implement due to their complexity and data limitations.
  • The new SEQUOIA model, which uses a simplified transformer approach, successfully predicts cancer-related gene information from vast numbers of tumor samples and has shown promise in aiding breast cancer risk assessment and understanding gene expression in specific regions.
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Personalised cancer screening before therapy paves the way toward improving diagnostic accuracy and treatment outcomes. Most approaches are limited to a single data type and do not consider interactions between features, leaving aside the complementary insights that multimodality and systems biology can provide. In this project, we demonstrate the use of graph theory for data integration via individual networks where nodes and edges are individual-specific.

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Cancer is a heterogeneous disease that demands precise molecular profiling for better understanding and management. Recently, deep learning has demonstrated potentials for cost-efficient prediction of molecular alterations from histology images. While transformer-based deep learning architectures have enabled significant progress in non-medical domains, their application to histology images remains limited due to small dataset sizes coupled with the explosion of trainable parameters.

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Aim: To evaluate visual quality and postoperative results as well adverse events in myopic patients undergoing I-CARE anterior-chamber angle-supported phakic intraocular lens (IOL) implantation.

Design: A retrospective, non-randomised, case series.

Participants: Data on 29 eyes (16 patients) receiving I-CARE phakic IOL for high myopia (-11.

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Background: Recently, intraocular lenses (IOLs) with a blue light filter have been introduced to protect the retina from age-related macular degeneration (AMD) after cataract extraction. A reduction of longitudinal chromatic aberration by filtering blue light may enhance patient's visual function. In this study we compared subjective and objective parameters of visual function following implantation of blue light filter (yellow) IOLs and IOLs of the same design without filter.

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Purpose: Open-sky cataract extraction during triple procedure can be associated with higher risk of complications owing to the missing counterbalance by the cornea. Herein, we present a fast and easy technique for visualization of the anterior chamber and the lens in eyes with opaque corneas planed for triple procedure.

Materials And Methods: Four patients with corneal oedema due to Fuchs' endothelial dystrophy and cataract underwent triple procedure.

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Background: Mid-dermal elastolysis is a rare disorder of elastic tissue which is characterized clinically by wrinkling of the skin and histologically by the selective absence of elastic fibers in the mid dermis. Two patients with severe ptosis and a loss of the lateral tarsal suspension are reported.

Patients And Methods: A 36-year-old male patient presented with bilateral ptosis, skin atrophy of the eyelids and a loss of lateral tarsal suspension.

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Kinetic curves for neutralization of adenovirus type 2 with anti-hexon serum revealed no lag periods even when the serum was highly diluted or when the temperature was lowered to 4 degrees C, thus indicating a single-hit mechanism. Multiplicity curves determined with anti-hexon serum displayed a linear correlation between the degree of neutralization and dilution of antiserum. Neutralization values experimentally obtained under steady-state conditions fully fitted a single-hit model based on Poisson calculations.

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A convenient method is described by which the actual or relative number of cells in anchorage culture is determined. After removal of the growth medium, cells are subjected to a double-fixation procedure. The cellular protein content is subsequently quantitatively stained with naphthol blue-black.

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Three adenovirus type 2-specified immunogens elicited neutralizing antibodies when injected into rabbits; these were the fiber, the hexon, and the penton base. Adenovirus type 2 virions, neutralized by antihexon- or anti-penton base antisera, attached to HeLa cells to the same extent as untreated control virus, and after attachment, neutralized viruses also became sensitive to DNase treatment. A fraction of 75 to 80% of the attached antibody-treated virions penetrated the plasma membrane, which should be compared with an 84 to 88% penetration level in the control series.

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Immunization in rabbits with intact, highly purified adenovirus type 2 (Ad2) virions, yielded antisera with high titers of antibodies against the 72 000 dalton DNA-binding protein (DBP). This was established by rocket immunoelectrophoresis when an anti-intact Ad2-antiserum was analyzed against fractions from an ion-exchange chromatogram of soluble antigens remaining after virus isolation from virus-infected HeLa cells. The high anti-DBP titer did not reflect the composition of the immunogen, since no DBP was detectable within virions.

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An alternative method for the determination of specific virus infectivity and quantitative measurement of inhibitory activity of antibodies was developed using an adenovirus system. HeLa cells in 37 ml suspension cultures of 1.5 X 10(7) cells were infected with purified adenovirus 2 (Ad2) at different multiplicities of infection.

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The established positive cooperativity of adenovirus 2 binding to HeLa cells revealed a strong temperature dependence. The degree of cooperativity, quantified by means of Hill coefficients, progressively increased from 10 degrees C to reach a maximum level, which was maintained between 20 and 37 degrees C. On the other hand, negative cooperativity of virion attachment was apparent at 3.

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