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DFU-VGG, a Novel and Improved VGG-19 Network for Diabetic Foot Ulcer Classifica...

A complication caused by diabetes mellitus is the appearance of lesions in the foot region called Diabetic Foot Ulcers (DFU). Delayed treatment can lead to infection or ulcer ischemia, leading to lower limb amputation in an advanced stage. This article proposes the DFU-VGG, a convolutional neural network (CNN) inspired by convolutional blocks of VGG-19 but with smaller dense layers and batch normalizations oper...

Diabetic Foot Ulcers Classification using a fine-tuned CNNs Ensemble

Diabetic Foot Ulcers (DFU) are lesions in the foot region caused by diabetes mellitus. It is essential to define the appropriate treatment in the early stages of the disease once late treatment may result in amputation. This article proposes an ensemble approach composed of five modified convolutional neural networks (CNNs) - VGG-16, VGG-19, Resnet50, InceptionV3, and Densenet-201 - to classify DFU images. To d...

Effectiveness of intensive physiotherapy for gait improvement in stroke: system...

Introduction: Stroke is one of the leading causes of functional disability worldwide. Approximately 80% of post-stroke subjects have motor changes. Improvement of gait pattern is one of the main objectives of physiotherapists intervention in these cases. The real challenge in the recovery of gait after stroke is to understand how the remaining neural networks can be modified, to be able to provide response stra...

Chronic pancreatitis in children: treat like an adult?

A 15-year-old boy with a medical background of obesity, familial hyperlipidemia and acute recurrent pancreatitis, presented to emergency department reporting a 3-day course of periumbilical abdominal pain and nausea. Pain was noticed on epigastric palpation. Laboratory evaluation revealed leucocytosis, neutrophilia and pancreatic enzymes elevation more than three times the upper limit of normal. An acute recurr...

Hamstring muscles volume of elite football athletes assessed using magnetic res...

Changes in the biophysical properties of the cell membrane are involved in the ...

Neurospora crassa is a non-pathogenic filamentous fungus widely used as a multicellular eukaryotic model. Recently, the biophysical properties of the plasma membrane of N. crassa conidia were thoroughly characterized. They evolve during conidial germination at a speed that depends on culture conditions, suggesting an important association between membrane remodeling and the intense membrane biogenesis that take...

Curry leaf smells better than citrus to females of Diaphorina citri (Hemiptera:...

VALORIZATION OF GLYCEROL INTO BIOFUEL ADDITIVES HETEROPOLYACIDS SUPPORTED IN AC...

Tungstosilicic acid (SiW) immobilized in silica with different amount has got high catalytic activity for the acetalisation of glycerol with butanal. The SiW2-S catalysts showed the highest catalytic activity. All catalysts showed high values of selectivity to five-member ring acetal (about 80-83%). PW2-S showed good catalytic stability. After the forth use, it was observed that the catalytic activity decreased...

Associação da Intensidade de Dor no Tempo Até à Morte dos Doentes Oncológicos R...

Introdução: A dor é uma experiência frequente nos doentes com cancro, especialmente naqueles em fase final de vida. Com este estudo, pretendemos estudar a intensidade de dor nos doentes com cancro avançado, referenciados aos cuidados paliativos, analisar os factores associados à ocorrência de dor moderada ou intensa e avaliar a sua relação com o tempo até à morte destes doentes. Material e Métodos: Estudo prosp...

In-plane magnetic field versus temperature phase diagram of a quasi-2D frustrat...

Motivated by the recent discovery of iron-based superconductors, with high critical temperatures and multiple bands crossing the Fermi level, we address the conditions for the presence of chiral superconducting phases configurations in the in-plane magnetic field versus temperature phase diagram of a quasi-2D frustrated three-band superconductor. Due to Zeeman splitting, the coupled superconducting gap equation...