BACKGROUND: There is recent evidence showing that obesity is associated with gastroesophageal reflux disease and esophageal dysmotility, although symptoms are not always present. AIMS: This is a ...

Abstract: High-resolution natural image matting plays an important role in image editing, film-making and remote sensing due to its ability of accurately extract the foreground from a natural ...

Department of Surgery, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People’s Hospital, Shanghai, China Objective: This study aims to evaluate the clinical efficacy of laparoscopic hiatal hernia ...

Elon Musk says he's planning to ramp up production of his Neuralink brain chips in 2026 and will automate the procedure to implant them into humans. Neuralink "will start high-volume production of ...

Abstract: In ultra-high resolution image segmentation task for robotic platforms like AAVs and autonomous vehicles, existing paradigms process a downsampled input image through a deep network and the ...

Background: High-resolution esophageal manometry (HRM) is essential for diagnosing esophageal motility disorders, affecting 10%-15% of patients with dysphagia. Current interpretation via the Chicago ...

Imagine trying to spot an object just 30 centimeters wide from hundreds of kilometers above Earth. Years ago, I remember when “satellite view” meant blurry green blobs on a screen. Now, we can see ...

Department of Infection Biology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom; ...

Interpreting timed barium esophagram (TBE) results with a multimetric classification tree is more accurate for identifying disorders of achalasia than conventional interpretation, according to ...

Background: Gastroesophageal reflux disease has a prevalence of 12% in the Brazilian population. Its treatment includes hygienic-dietary changes, use of medications and, in selected cases, surgery ...