Objective： To evaluate the short-term outcomes of video-assisted thoracic surgery （VATS） for thoracic tumors. Methods： The data of 1,790 consecutive patients were retrospectively reviewed. These patients underwent...Objective： To evaluate the short-term outcomes of video-assisted thoracic surgery （VATS） for thoracic tumors. Methods： The data of 1,790 consecutive patients were retrospectively reviewed. These patients underwent VATS pulmonary resections, VATS esophagectomies, and VATS resections of mediastinal tumors or biopsies at the Cancer Institute ＆ Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences between January 2009 and January 2012. Results： There were 33 patients converted to open thoracotomy （OT, 1.84%）. The overall morbidity and mortality rate was 2.79% （50/1790） and 0.28% （5/1790）, respectively. The overall hospitalization and chest tube duration were shorter in the VATS lobectomy group （n=949） than in the open thoracotomy （OT） lobectomy group （n=753）. There were no significant differences in morbidity rate, mortality rate and operation time between the two groups. In the esophageal cancer patients, no significant difference was found in the number of nodal dissection, chest tube duration, morbidity rate, mortality rate, and hospital length of stay between the VATS esophagectomy group （n=8 1） and open esophagectomy group （n=81）. However, the operation time was longer in the VATS esophagectomy group. In the thymoma patients, there was no significant difference in the chest tube duration, morbidity rate, mortality rate, and hospital length of stay between the VATS thymectomy group （n=41） and open thymectomy group （n=41）. However, the operation time was longer in the VATS group. The median tumor size in the VATS thymectomy group was comparable with that in the OT group. Conclusions： In early-stage （Ⅰ/Ⅱ） non-small cell lung cancer patients who underwent lobectomies, VATS is comparable with the OT approach with similar short-term outcomes. In patients with resectable esophageal cancer, VATS esophagectomy is comparable with OT esophagectomy with similar morbidity and mortality. VATS thymectomy for Masaoka stage I and II thymoma is feasible and safe, and tumor size is not contraindicated. Longer follow-ups are needed to determine the oncologic equivalency of VATS lobectomy, esophagectomy, and thymectomy for thymoma vs. OT.展开更多
In order to reduce noise effectively in the welding defect image and preserve the minutiae information, a noise reduction method of welding defect image based on nonsubsampled contourlet transform(NSCT) and anisotropi...In order to reduce noise effectively in the welding defect image and preserve the minutiae information, a noise reduction method of welding defect image based on nonsubsampled contourlet transform(NSCT) and anisotropic diffusion is proposed. Firstly, an X-ray welding defect image is decomposed by NSCT. Then total variation(TV) model and Catte_PM model are used for the obtained low-pass component and band-pass components, respectively. Finally, the denoised image is synthesized by inverse NSCT. Experimental results show that, compared with the hybrid method of wavelet threshold shrinkage with TV diffusion, the method combining NSCT with P_Laplace diffusion, and the method combining contourlet with TV model and adaptive contrast diffusion, the proposed method has a great improvement in the aspects of subjective visual effect, peak signal-to-noise ratio(PSNR) and mean-square error(MSE). Noise is suppressed more effectively and the minutiae information is preserved better in the image.展开更多
Empirical mode decomposition(EMD) is a new signal decomposition method, which could decompose the non-stationary signal into several single-component intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) and each IMF has some physical mean...Empirical mode decomposition(EMD) is a new signal decomposition method, which could decompose the non-stationary signal into several single-component intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) and each IMF has some physical meanings. This paper studies the single trial extraction of visual evoked potential by combining EMD and wavelet threshold filter. Experimental results showed that the EMD based method can separate the noise out of the event related potentials (ERPs) and effectively extract the weak ERPs in strong background noise, which manifested as the waveform characteristics and root mean square error (RMSE).展开更多
In order to detect cross-sectional age characteristics of cognitive neural mechanisms in audio-visual modal interference inhibition,event-related potentials(ERP) of 14 10-year-old children were recorded while performi...In order to detect cross-sectional age characteristics of cognitive neural mechanisms in audio-visual modal interference inhibition,event-related potentials(ERP) of 14 10-year-old children were recorded while performing the words interference task.In incongruent conditions,the participants were required to inhibit the audio interference words of the same category.The present findings provided the preliminary evidence of brain mechanism for the children's inhibition development in the specific childhood stage.展开更多
文摘Objective： To evaluate the short-term outcomes of video-assisted thoracic surgery （VATS） for thoracic tumors. Methods： The data of 1,790 consecutive patients were retrospectively reviewed. These patients underwent VATS pulmonary resections, VATS esophagectomies, and VATS resections of mediastinal tumors or biopsies at the Cancer Institute ＆ Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences between January 2009 and January 2012. Results： There were 33 patients converted to open thoracotomy （OT, 1.84%）. The overall morbidity and mortality rate was 2.79% （50/1790） and 0.28% （5/1790）, respectively. The overall hospitalization and chest tube duration were shorter in the VATS lobectomy group （n=949） than in the open thoracotomy （OT） lobectomy group （n=753）. There were no significant differences in morbidity rate, mortality rate and operation time between the two groups. In the esophageal cancer patients, no significant difference was found in the number of nodal dissection, chest tube duration, morbidity rate, mortality rate, and hospital length of stay between the VATS esophagectomy group （n=8 1） and open esophagectomy group （n=81）. However, the operation time was longer in the VATS esophagectomy group. In the thymoma patients, there was no significant difference in the chest tube duration, morbidity rate, mortality rate, and hospital length of stay between the VATS thymectomy group （n=41） and open thymectomy group （n=41）. However, the operation time was longer in the VATS group. The median tumor size in the VATS thymectomy group was comparable with that in the OT group. Conclusions： In early-stage （Ⅰ/Ⅱ） non-small cell lung cancer patients who underwent lobectomies, VATS is comparable with the OT approach with similar short-term outcomes. In patients with resectable esophageal cancer, VATS esophagectomy is comparable with OT esophagectomy with similar morbidity and mortality. VATS thymectomy for Masaoka stage I and II thymoma is feasible and safe, and tumor size is not contraindicated. Longer follow-ups are needed to determine the oncologic equivalency of VATS lobectomy, esophagectomy, and thymectomy for thymoma vs. OT.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.60872065)Open Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Advanced Welding and Connection,Harbin Institute of Technology(AWPT-M04)Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions
文摘In order to reduce noise effectively in the welding defect image and preserve the minutiae information, a noise reduction method of welding defect image based on nonsubsampled contourlet transform(NSCT) and anisotropic diffusion is proposed. Firstly, an X-ray welding defect image is decomposed by NSCT. Then total variation(TV) model and Catte_PM model are used for the obtained low-pass component and band-pass components, respectively. Finally, the denoised image is synthesized by inverse NSCT. Experimental results show that, compared with the hybrid method of wavelet threshold shrinkage with TV diffusion, the method combining NSCT with P_Laplace diffusion, and the method combining contourlet with TV model and adaptive contrast diffusion, the proposed method has a great improvement in the aspects of subjective visual effect, peak signal-to-noise ratio(PSNR) and mean-square error(MSE). Noise is suppressed more effectively and the minutiae information is preserved better in the image.
基金Natural Science Fund for Colleges and Universities in Jiangsu Province of China grant number: 10 KJB510003+2 种基金Natural Science Fund in Changzhou grant number: CJ20110023 Open Project of the State Key Laboratory of Robotics and System (HIT), and the State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neurosciences and Learning
文摘Empirical mode decomposition(EMD) is a new signal decomposition method, which could decompose the non-stationary signal into several single-component intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) and each IMF has some physical meanings. This paper studies the single trial extraction of visual evoked potential by combining EMD and wavelet threshold filter. Experimental results showed that the EMD based method can separate the noise out of the event related potentials (ERPs) and effectively extract the weak ERPs in strong background noise, which manifested as the waveform characteristics and root mean square error (RMSE).
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 30807780 and 30700238)
文摘In order to detect cross-sectional age characteristics of cognitive neural mechanisms in audio-visual modal interference inhibition,event-related potentials(ERP) of 14 10-year-old children were recorded while performing the words interference task.In incongruent conditions,the participants were required to inhibit the audio interference words of the same category.The present findings provided the preliminary evidence of brain mechanism for the children's inhibition development in the specific childhood stage.
