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Open AccessImproved shape-from-template method with perspective space constraints for disappearing features
Inferring the 3D surface shape of a known template from 2D images captured by a monocular camera is a challenging problem. Due to the severely underconstrained nature of the problem, inferring shape accurately...
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Open AccessAdditional suture augmentation to anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction with hamstring autografts bring no benefits to clinical results, graft maturation and graft-bone interface healing
From the perspective of graft protection and early rehabilitation during the maturation and remodeling phases of graft healing, suture augmentation (SA) for anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) has...
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Aging Contrast: A Contrastive Learning Framework for Fish Re-identification Across Seasons and Years
The fields of biology, ecology, and fisheries management are witnessing a growing demand for distinguishing individual fish. In recent years, deep learning methods have emerged as a promising tool for image-ba...
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Avulsion fracture is associated with more pain after anatomic repair procedure for ATFL injury at the talar side
To evaluate the clinical outcomes of anatomic repair procedure for chronic anterior talofibular ligament (ATFL) injury at the talar side, and to compare the outcomes between patients with and without concomita...
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The apex of the deep cartilage is a stable landmark to position the femoral tunnel during remnant-preserving anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction
The aim of this retrospective cohort study was to investigate whether the apex of the deep cartilage (ADC) could help surgeons position the femoral tunnel accurately in remnant-preserving anterior cruciate lig...
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Favourable clinical, arthroscopic and radiographic outcomes after autologous osteoperiosteal transplantation for massive medial cystic osteochondral defects of the talus
The purpose of this study was to retrospectively evaluate the clinical, arthroscopic and radiological outcomes of autologous osteoperiosteal transplantation for massive cystic osteochondral defects of the talus.
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Open AccessIdentification of a novel de novo mutation of SETBP1 and new findings of SETBP1 in tumorgenesis
In the past decade, SETBP1 has attracted a lot of interest on that the same gene with different type or level (germline or somatic) of variants could provoke different pathologic consequences such as Schinzel-Gie...
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Open AccessA novel oxidative-stress related lncRNA signature predicts the prognosis of clear cell renal cell carcinoma
Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is a primary malignant tumour of tubular epithelial origin and is most common in the urinary tract. Growing evidence suggests that oxidative stress (OS), generates high ...
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Open AccessComparison between primary repair and augmented repair with gastrocnemius turn-down flap for acute Achilles tendon rupture: a retrospective study with minimum 2-year follow-up
To explore and compare the clinical outcomes in patients undergoing primary repair versus augmented repair with a gastrocnemius turn-down flap for acute Achilles tendon rupture.
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Open AccessComparing the diagnostic performance of QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus with QFT-GIT, T-SPOT.TB and TST: a systematic review and meta-analysis
QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus (QFT-Plus) is an important test that has emerged in recent years for detecting TB infection. We conducted a review to compare the sensitivity, specificity and positive rate of QFT-Plus...
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The apex of the deep cartilage is a stable landmark to evaluate the femoral tunnel position in ACL reconstruction
To develop a simple and effective method for evaluating the femoral tunnel position using the apex of the deep cartilage (ADC) as the landmark.
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Open AccessChromatin organizer SATB1 controls the cell identity of CD4+ CD8+ double-positive thymocytes by regulating the activity of super-enhancers
CD4+ and CD8+ double-positive (DP) thymocytes play a crucial role in T cell development in the thymus. DP cells rearrange the T cell receptor gene Tcra to generate T cell receptors with TCRβ. DP cells differentia...
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Open AccessA new classification of talocalcaneal coalitions based on computed tomography for operative planning
Current classifications emphasize the morphology of the coalition, however, subtalar joint facets involved should also be emphasized.
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Lung Segmentation via Deep Learning Network and Fully-Connected Conditional Random Fields
Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) benefits to early diagnosis and accurate treatment of lung diseases. As a preprocessing of CAD-based chest radiograph analysis, reliable lung segmentation is a prerequisite step ...
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A more flattened bone tunnel has a positive effect on tendon–bone healing in the early period after ACL reconstruction
The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether a flattened bone tunnel has a positive effect on the tendon–bone healing (TBH) process in the early period after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction.
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Reattachment of the superior peroneal retinaculum versus the bone block procedure for the treatment of recurrent peroneal tendon dislocation: two safe and effective techniques
Clinical outcomes between reattachment of the superior peroneal retinaculum (SPR) and the bone block procedure were compared in this study to elucidate which procedure was safer and more effective.
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Open AccessA small molecule promotes cartilage extracellular matrix generation and inhibits osteoarthritis development
Degradation of extracellular matrix (ECM) underlies loss of cartilage tissue in osteoarthritis, a common disease for which no effective disease-modifying therapy currently exists. Here we describe BNTA, a smal...
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Results and recurrence of pigmented villonodular synovitis of the ankle: does diffuse PVNS with extra-articular extension tend to recur more often?
The aim of this study was to provide the outcomes and to analyze the recurrence of Pigmented Villonodular Synovitis (PVNS) of the ankle joint treated by surgical synovectomy.
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Facile preparation of pristine graphene using urea/glycerol as efficient strip** agents
Large-scale exfoliation of defect-free and few-layer graphene by an inexpensive and environmentally-friendly route has been a significant challenge for a long time. Here we show that high-quality, few-layer gr...
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An Improved Weighted ELM with Hierarchical Feature Representation for Imbalanced Biomedical Datasets
In medical intelligent diagnosis, most of the real-world datasets have the class-imbalance problem and some strong correlation features. In this paper, a novel classification model with hierarchical feature re...
