Background Currently, the rate of recurrence or metastasis (ROM) remains high in rectal cancer (RC) patients treated with the standard regimen. The potential of diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) in predicting ROM risk has been reported, but the efficacy is insufficient. Aims This study investigated the potential of a new sequence called readout-segmented echo-planar imaging (RS-EPI) DWI in predicting the ROM risk of patients wi...

Dike-ponds in fisheries often present multiple pond conditions such as pure, suspended sediment, water bloom, semidry conditions, etc. However, the impact of these conditions on the performance of extracting dike-pond from remote sensing images has not been studied. To solve this problem, we explore the existence of such impacts by comparing the performance of four rule-based methods in two groups of test regions. The first gr...