Incarcerated Uterus Presenting as Short Cervix and Placenta Previa by Ali Alhousseini, Salam Zeineddine, Adham Alsamsam, Bernard Gonik, Jacques Abramowicz, Karoline Puder, Homam Saker, Edgar Hernandez-Andrade

“…Retrospective analysis of the ultrasound images showed a retroverted uterus with an elongated cervix compressed towards the anterior vaginal wall. …”
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Contemporaneous Insufficiency Fractures of Bilateral Femoral Necks in an Older Patient Taking Bisphosphonate: A Case Report and Literature Review by Hiroaki Tagomori, Nobuhiro Kaku, Shota Sato, Tsuguaki Hosoyama, Hiroshi Tsumura

“…Despite no history of falls or any other traumatic incidence, the patient reported cooccurrence of pain on both sides of the hip. Imaging revealed bilateral femoral neck fractures. …”
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Myelitis due to Coccidioidomycosis in an Immunocompetent Patient by Tetyana Vaysman, Sean Villaflores, Carlyn Estrella, Suman Radhakrishna, Antonio Liu

“…Upon investigation with lumbar puncture, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) culture, and coccidioidal antibody studies, the patient was found to have acute coccidioidomycosis. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain demonstrated meningeal enhancements suggestive of meningitis, and further MRI study of the cervical spine revealed myelitis. …”
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An Improved Extended Information Filter SLAM Algorithm Based on Omnidirectional Vision by Jingchuan Wang, Weidong Chen

“…Considering the characteristics of omnidirectional images, an improved sparsification rule is also proposed. …”
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Primary Carcinoid Tumor of the Ileal Efferent Limb of an Ileovesicostomy: A Case Report by Adamantios M. Mellis, Daniel C. Parker, David D. Buethe, Gennady Slobodov

“…Evaluation with serum markers, direct visualization utilizing endoscopy, and imaging was without finding of alternate primary or metastatic lesions. …”
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A Rare Case of Tuberculosis with Sacrococcygeal Involvement Miming a Neoplasm by Walid Osman, Meriem Braiki, Zeineb Alaya, Thabet Mouelhi, Nader Nawar, Mohamed Ben Ayeche

“…Computed tomography scan and magnetic resonance imaging of the pelvis revealed a lytic lesion affecting both of sacrum and coccyx causing osseous destruction and suggesting a malignant process. …”
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AHP-based geospatial analysis for landslide susceptibility zonation in Wayanad District by Irshad Tharayil, T Harikrishnan, Bose Mahalingam, Kurniati Titi

“…This study acquired secondary data from Landsat-8 satellite images and GSI (Geological Survey of India). The landslide conditioning factor was assigned with the help of the semi-quantitative Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) Technique. …”
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Poststernotomy Osteomyelitis Presenting with Severe Sepsis and Rhabdomyolysis by Eugene M. Tan, Melissa Lyle, Kelly Cawcutt, Zelalem Temesgen

“…Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings were consistent with sternal osteomyelitis with a 1.5 cm abscess at the inferior sternotomy margin, which was contiguous with pericardial thickening. …”
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Bilateral Vocal Cord Paralysis and Cervicolumbar Radiculopathy as the Presenting Paraneoplastic Manifestations of Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Case Report and Literature Review by Jeffrey C. Yeung, C. Elizabeth Pringle, Harmanjatinder S. Sekhon, Shaun J. Kilty, Kristian Macdonald

“…Flexible nasolaryngoscopy demonstrated BVCP. Cross-sectional imaging of the brain and vagus nerves was negative. …”
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High Spatial Resolution Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry for the Masses: A Novel Orthogonal ToF FIB-SIMS Instrument with In Situ AFM by James A. Whitby, Fredrik Östlund, Peter Horvath, Mihai Gabureac, Jessica L. Riesterer, Ivo Utke, Markus Hohl, Libor Sedláček, Jaroslav Jiruše, Vinzenz Friedli, Mikhael Bechelany, Johann Michler

“…This provides roughness information, and will also allow true three dimensional chemical images to be reconstructed from SIMS measurements.…”
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A Case of Fibrous Pseudotumor in the Scrotum: Challenge for Diagnosis and Testicular Preservation by Hirotake Kodama, Shingo Hatakeyama, Teppei Matsumoto, Toshikazu Tanaka, Hirotaka Horiguchi, Yuka Kubota, Hayato Yamamoto, Atsushi Imai, Takahiro Yoneyama, Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Takuya Koie, Chikara Ohyama

“…Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging revealed paratesticular tumors. Testicular tumor marker levels were within normal limits. …”
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Accuracy of Pelvic Ultrasound in Diagnosing Adnexal Torsion by Labib Ghulmiyyah, Anwar Nassar, Dib Sassine, Sally Khoury, Joseph Nassif, Hadi Ramadan, Elie Najem, Ghina Berjawi

“…Pelvic or intravaginal ultrasound remains the first-line imaging modality used for diagnosis and evaluation of suspected ovarian/adnexal torsion. …”
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Marchiafava-Bignami Disease: a Reality. A Case Report by Masleidy Valladares Valle, Juan Ibrahim García Leonard, Ada Sánchez Lozano

“…The case of a 55-year-old patient is reported, alcoholic, who attended with generalized epileptic seizures and impaired level of consciousness. Magnetic resonance imaging of the skull revealed demyelination of the corpus callosum, white and gray matter of the parietal and frontal lobes, leading to the diagnosis of acute Marchiafava-Bignami type A disease. …”
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A Case of Scopulariopsis brevicaulis Endocarditis with Mycotic Aneurysm in an Immunocompetent Host by Kelly Cawcutt, Larry M. Baddour, Mary Burgess

“…We describe a case of an immunocompetent 65-year-old male with a history of mitral valve repair with prosthetic ring placement who developed acute left posterior knee pain. Imaging showed a left popliteal artery aneurysm and thrombus, and further evaluation with transesophageal echocardiogram demonstrated two large, mobile mitral valve vegetations. …”
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Linking Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s Disease by Géraldine Gelders, Veerle Baekelandt, Anke Van der Perren

“…Numerous postmortem, brain imaging, epidemiological, and animal studies have documented the involvement of the innate and adaptive immunity in neurodegeneration. …”
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A Case of Trapezium Avascular Necrosis Treated Conservatively by Evangelos Petsatodis, Konstantinos Ditsios, Panagiotis Konstantinou, Iosafat Pinto, Lazaros Kostretzis, Ioannis Theodoroudis, Mayia Pilavaki

“…The clinical presentation and the imaging findings indicated avascular osteonecrosis of the trapezium. …”
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Simultaneous Pose and Correspondence Estimation Based on Genetic Algorithm by Haiwei Yang, Fei Wang, Zhe Li, Hang Dong

“…Simulation results with synthetic data and experiments on real images prove the effectiveness and robustness of our proposed method.…”
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Stress landscape of folding brain serves as a map for axonal pathfinding by Akbar Solhtalab, Ali H. Foroughi, Lana Pierotich, Mir Jalil Razavi

“…Model predictions are supported by in vivo diffusion tensor imaging of the human brain.…”
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Monitoring, Diagnosis, and Power Forecasting for Photovoltaic Fields: A Review by S. Daliento, A. Chouder, P. Guerriero, A. Massi Pavan, A. Mellit, R. Moeini, P. Tricoli

“…Research contributions are classified into the following five macroareas: (i) electrical methods, covering monitoring/diagnosis techniques based on the direct measurement of electrical parameters, carried out, respectively, at array level, single string level, and single panel level with special consideration to data transmission methods; (ii) data analysis based on artificial intelligence; (iii) power forecasting, intended as the ability to evaluate the producible power of solar systems, with emphasis on temporal horizons of specific applications; (iv) thermal analysis, mostly with reference to thermal images captured by means of unmanned aerial vehicles; (v) power converter reliability especially focused on residual lifetime estimation. …”
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Self-Correction Ship Tracking and Counting with Variable Time Window Based on YOLOv3 by Chun Liu, Jian Li

“…YOLOv3 pretraining model is used for model training with sample images for ship detection. The ship detection model is built by adjusting and optimizing parameters. …”
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