Auxiliary self-supervision to metric learning for music similarity-based retrieval and auto-tagging.

In the realm of music information retrieval, similarity-based retrieval and auto-tagging serve as essential components. Similarity-based retrieval involves automatically analyzing a music track and fetching analogous tracks from a database. Auto-tagging, on the other hand, assesses a music track to deduce associated tags, such as genre and mood.

Usefulness of tumor pressure as a prognostic factor in cases of hepatocellular carcinoma where the diameter of the tumor is 3 cm or less.

Background: The current study was designed to determine the usefulness of pretreatment tumor pressure as a new prognostic factor in patients with small hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC; 3 cm or smaller in diameter).

Methods: The study included 39 patients with small HCC in whom tumor pressure was determined. They underwent percutaneous ethanol (with Lipiodol) injection therapy (Lp-PEI) or transcatheter arterial embolization (TAE) of the hepatic artery.