High altitude cerebral edema (HACE) is a clinical spectrum of high-altitude illness.The working diagnosis of HACE should be based on the history of rapid ascent with signs of encephalopathy.Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be crucial in the timely diagnosis of the condition.A 38-year-old female was airlifted from Everest base camp due to sudden
Introduction An ongoing outbreak of yellow fever (YF) has been reported in Brazil with 1261 confirmed cases and 409 deaths since July 2017.To date, there is no specific treatment available for YF.Recently published papers Laundry Pedestal describing in vitro and animal models suggest a potential effect of antiviral drugs (approved for the treatment
In order to decrease the communication bandwidth and save the transmitting power in the wireless Autographed endoscopy capsule, this paper presents a new near-lossless image compression algorithm based on the Bayer format image suitable for hardware design.This algorithm can provide low average compression rate ( bits/pixel) with high image quality
Spatial crowdsourcing is an effective and novel method.In crowdsourcing systems, a centralized platform is traditionally used to allocate tasks and select workers.Centralized platforms always face following challenges: 1) How to ensure the rationality of tasks allocating; 2) How to ensure the payments of workers in the system when dishonest request