Mitral valve replacement in the setting of extensive mitral annular calcification is technically challenging and associated with high mortality and morbidity, including stroke. This is the first published report of direct surgical transcatheter valve implantation with use of a cerebral embolic protection device. ().
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Front Bioeng Biotechnol
December 2024
School of Information Engineering, Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital, Affiliated People's Hospital, Hangzhou Medical College, Hangzhou, China.
Introduction: Accurate image segmentation is crucial in medical imaging for quantifying diseases, assessing prognosis, and evaluating treatment outcomes. However, existing methods often fall short in integrating global and local features in a meaningful way, failing to give sufficient attention to abnormal regions and boundary details in medical images. These limitations hinder the effectiveness of segmentation techniques in clinical settings.
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January 2025
Department of Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
Neuromorphic engineering has emerged as a promising avenue for developing brain-inspired computational systems. However, conventional electronic AI-based processors often encounter challenges related to processing speed and thermal dissipation. As an alternative, optical implementations of such processors have been proposed, capitalizing on the intrinsic information-processing capabilities of light.
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January 2025
American University of Beirut Medical Center, Riad El Solh, PO Box: 11-0236, Beirut, 1107 2020, Lebanon.
Background: Lebanon continues to experience dramatic changes in its medical demography following the ongoing economic crisis of 2019, including brain drain of physicians across different specialties. This paper assesses the landscape of physicians in Lebanon in 2024 to highlight gaps and propose solutions.
Methods: A List of registered physicians is obtained from the Lebanese Order of Physicians (LOP) in Beirut and Tripoli.
Sensors (Basel)
December 2024
Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
Understanding sleep stages is crucial for diagnosing sleep disorders, developing treatments, and studying sleep's impact on overall health. With the growing availability of affordable brain monitoring devices, the volume of collected brain data has increased significantly. However, analyzing these data, particularly when using the gold standard multi-lead electroencephalogram (EEG), remains resource-intensive and time-consuming.
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December 2024
Laboratory of Neuropharmacology and Epigenetics, Department of Drug Addiction Pharmacology, Maj Institute of Pharmacology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Smętna 12, 31-343 Krakow, Poland.
Benzophenone-3 (BP-3), commonly used as a UV filter in personal care products and as a stabilizer, is an alleged endocrine disruptor with potential neurodevelopmental impacts. Despite its abundance in the environment, the studies on its effect on brain development are scarce, especially in terms of multigenerational impact. In this work, for the first time, we examined neurotoxic and pro-apoptotic effects of BP-3 on mouse brain regions (cerebral cortex and hippocampus) in both the first (F) and second (F) generations after maternal exposure to environmentally relevant BP-3 levels.
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