Practice and enlightenment of the construction of multi-agent collaborative loose medical alliance under the background of Yangtze River Delta integration / 中华医院管理杂志

Health service is an important part of the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta. Taking the cooperation practice between Shanghai Tenth People′s Hospital and Suzhou Yinshanhu Hospital as an example, this article introduced the multi-agent cooperation mode of the loose medical alliance including the government, urban hospitals and cross provincial grassroots medical institutions. Among them, the local government provided policy, fund guarantee and guidance, the urban hospital exported management ideas, medicine talents and technologies, and the primary hospital conducted dual training by inviting in and going out to achieve double growth. Through the high gap cooperation between tertiary hospital and primary hospital, Yinshanhu hospital had been comprehensively developed. The loose medical alliance with multi subject coordination and cross region could give full play to the advantages of the loose healthcare alliance mode, achieve multi-win, and have reference significance for promoting the regional integration of medical and health services in the Yangtze River Delta.

Scientific publications in critical care medicine journals from East Asia: a 10-year survey of the literature

Objective: The quantity and quality of publications in critical care medicine from East Asia haven't been reported. This study aimed to investigate the contribution of publications from East Asia

Methods: Articles from China, Japan and South Korea in 2005 to 2014 were retrieved from Web of Science and Pubmed. The number of publications, impact factor, citation, and article types were analyzed

Results: There were 3076 publications from East Asia [1720 from China, 913 from Japan, and 443 from South Korea]. There were a significant decrease in publications from Japan [p = 0.024] and significant increases from China [p = 0.000] and South Korea [p = 0.009]. From 2006, the number of articles from China exceed Japan. China had the highest total impact factor [6618.48] and citation [18416], followed by Japan [4566.03; 15440] and South Korea [1998.19; 5599]. Japan had the highest mean impact factor [5.00] and citations [16.91], followed by South Korea [4.51; 12.64] and China [3.85; 10.71]

Conclusions: China and South Korea`s contributions to critical care medicine had significant increases during the past 10 years, while Japan had a significant decrease. China was the most productive region in East Asia since 2006. Japan had the highest quality research output

Advances in medical image registration based on mutual information / 生物医学工程学杂志

The matching algorithm based on mutual information, which has the advantages of high speed, good automation and superion accuracy, is widely used in medical image registration. In this paper are presented the basic conception of mutual information, the transform model, the insert value algorithm, the optimization algorithm and the strategy in computing mutual information. Furthermore, we introduce some efficient methods for solving the problems in registration technique based on mutual information, and look forward to the future research work.