A robust defect detection method for syringe scale without positive samples.

With the worldwide spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, the demand for medical syringes has increased dramatically. Scale defect, one of the most common defects on syringes, has become a major barrier to boosting syringe production. Existing methods for scale defect detection suffer from large volumes of data requirements and the inability to handle diverse and uncertain defects.

[Association of JMJD3, MMP-2 and VEGF expressions with clinicopathological features of invasive ductal breast carcinoma].

Objective: To examine the expressions of JMJD3, matrix metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in invasive ductal breast carcinoma, their association with the clinicopathological features of the patients and the effect of JMJD3 overexpression on proliferation and MMP-2 and VEGF expressions in breast cancer cells.

Methods: The protein and mRNA expressions of JMJD3, MMP-2, and VEGF in invasive ductal breast carcinoma and paired adjacent tissues were detected by immunohistochemistry and RT-PCR, respectively, and their correlation with the clinicopathological characteristics of the patients was analyzed. Kaplan-Meier survival analysis was used to evaluate the correlation of JMJD3, MMP-2 and VEGF expression levels with the survival of the patients.

OSRI: a rotationally invariant binary descriptor.

Binary descriptors are becoming widely used in computer vision field because of their high matching efficiency and low memory requirements. Since conventional approaches, which first compute a floating-point descriptor then binarize it, are computationally expensive, some recent efforts have focused on directly computing binary descriptors from local image patches. Although these binary descriptors enable a significant speedup in processing time, their performances usually drop a lot due to orientation estimation errors and limited description abilities.

Acupuncture to point Baihui prevents ischemia-induced functional impairment of cortical GABAergic neurons.

Ischemia impairs brain function and networks, in which the vulnerability of GABAergic neurons causes neural excitotoxicity and nerve cell death. Acupuncture presumably improves the outcome of stroke patients; however, cellular mechanisms underlying this improvement remain to be elusive. We have investigated whether electrical stimuli to acupoint Baihui prevent ischemia- induced impairment of cortical GABAergic neurons.