Segmentation of liver tumors from Computerized Tomography (CT) images remains a challenge due to the natural variation in tumor shape and structure as well as the noise in CT images.A key assumption is that the performance of liver tumor segmentation depends on the characteristics of multiple features extracted from multiple filters.In this paper,
Objectives: To describe patterns of nonprescribed use of tranquilizers by students aged 10 to 18 years and assess the sociodemographic characteristics of these adolescents and their use of other substances.Methods: A randomized and stratified sample of 47,979 students from state and private schools of the 27 Brazilian state capitals completed a sel
The abundance of insects in Burmese amber illustrates a highly diverse insect community of the mid-Cretaceous, but the records of crickets are relatively rare.Here, Bracelets we erect two new genera with two new species, Birmanioecanthus haplostichus gen.et sp.nov.and Apiculatus cretaceus gen.et sp.nov., based on two new specimens from northern Mya