Amino acids analysis reveals serum methionine contributes to diagnosis of the Kawasaki disease in mice and children.

Background: Kawasaki disease (KD) patients often lack early and definitive diagnosis due to insufficient clinical criteria, whereas biomarkers might accelerate the diagnostic process and treatment.

Methods: The KD mouse models were established and thirteen amino acids were determined. A total of 551 serum samples were collected including KD patients (n = 134), HCs (n = 223) and KD patients after intravascular immunoglobulin therapy (IVIG, n = 194).

Irregular Scene Text Detection Based on a Graph Convolutional Network.

Detecting irregular or arbitrary shape text in natural scene images is a challenging task that has recently attracted considerable attention from research communities. However, limited by the CNN receptive field, these methods cannot directly capture relations between distant component regions by local convolutional operators. In this paper, we propose a novel method that can effectively and robustly detect irregular text in natural scene images.