Target graphic recognition based on angular point and minimum inertia axis and its application in medicine / 医疗卫生装备

Objective To classify and identify several kinds of basic graphics in medicine, and to explore the practical application.Methods The method combining angular points and minimum inertia axis was applied to execute the study.The necessity to draw a minimum inertia axis through the centroid was determined based on the number of the angular points,and the category of the target graphic was judged by comparing its perimeter and area with the theoretical value of the known graphics. Results The method had high recognition rates for simulation and actual graphics, and was irrelevant to the position,scale and rotation of the graphic.Conclusion The method based on angular points and minimum inertia axis gains advantages when used to recognize the tablet and capsule on the platform.

Evaluation of the capacity of personal protection on poison emergency items in Chinese disease control and prevention institutes / 中华预防医学杂志

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To analyze the capacity of personal protection on poison emergency items in Chinese disease control and prevention institutes.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Evaluation analysis based on data obtained from investigating personal protection equipments and professional knowledge quizzing about personal protection in poisoning control of 57 different level centers for disease control and prevention selected from China by a multi-stage stratified sampling.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>All 80.70% of the institutes possessed the protection equipments, provincial, municipal, county level institutes were 100.00%, 95.24%, 66.67%, respectively, with significant statistical difference (H = 7.94, P < 0.05). The average level of the type of individual protective equipments in disease control and prevention institutes was (5.42 +/- 4.00) kinds, the average points in category of provincial, municipal, county level institutes were (11.33 +/- 3.67), (6.52 +/- 3.16), (3.47 +/- 3.10) kinds, being statistically significant (F = 17.30, P < 0.05); type difference counts of disease control and prevention institutes in economic development, secondary, less-developed regions were (6.41 +/- 4.03), (3.55 +/- 3.35), (6.45 +/- 4.07) kinds, with statistical significance (F = 3.70, P < 0.05). Protection equipments chiefly possessed were latex gloves, gauze masks and C-protective clothing. Protective clothing and respiratory protective equipments were insufficient evidently. The average points in testing personal protection basic knowledge were (71.39 +/- 12.52) points; there were no differences between different institutes with different economic regions, levels, technical posts and title degrees.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>Certain advances have been achieved in recent years in personal protection capacity of institutes for disease control and prevention, but far from the actual demands, and maybe no enough effective response on emergency occurred.</p>

Development and application of poison databank and poisonous animal and plants sample databank / 中华预防医学杂志

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To establish a comprehensive,easily approached, operated, and searched internet poison databank as to providing professional poison data and knowledge of effective treatment for those consented such as medical staff, and emergency response team in the shortest time.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>We established a computer poison databank, by adopting B/S structure, using SQL Server databank, and explore technology, in which all information may easily be explored and obtained by users.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>The database integrated the information in relating to the substances identifiers, physical and chemical properties, toxicology data, clinical manifestation while intoxication, emergency response guides, effective treatment, anything related to the special antidotes, preventive measures, poison analysis, and manufacturers of chemicals, pharmaceuticals, herbs, pesticides, animal, plant, bacteria, fungi, productions and toxins. Otherwise some information about poison control organizations and experts, literatures about poison case reports, poison incidents, were also involved in the system, which can also provide a shortcut, convenient, and exact search.</p><p><b>CONCLUSIONS</b>The databank might be easily used on several fields, providing important information with acute poison incidents disposal and clinic treatment.</p>

Automatic extraction and segmentation of the intracranial structure from cerebral computed tomography / 南方医科大学学报

This paper describes a new method for extracting and segmenting intracranial structure from serial images of cerebral computerized tomography automatically. A region growing- and morphology-based approach was first developed to extract intracranial structures from the serial images of cerebral computerized tomography, and focusing on the problems of parameter initialization of the expectation maximization (EM) algorithm, an improved EM algorithm based on parameter- limited GMM was presented to segment the intracranial structures successfully. Experimental results of the algorithm showed that this method was effective for all cerebral computerized tomography images from bottom to top of the cerebrum.