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Analysis of 126 hospitalized elder maxillofacial trauma victims in central China
Background: The aim of this study was to analyzed the characteristics and treatment of maxillofacial injuries in
the elder patients with maxillofacial injuries in central China.
Material and Methods: We retrospectively analyzed the characteristics and treatment of maxillofacial injuries in
the patients over the age of 60 to analyze the trends and clinical characteristics of maxillofacial trauma in elder
patients from the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University (from 2010 to 2013) in central China and to
present recommendations on prevention and management.
Results: Of the 932 patients with maxillofacial injuries, 126 aged over 60 years old accounting for 13.52% of all
the patients (male:female, 1.74:1; mean age, 67.08 years old). Approximately 52% of the patients were injured by
falls. The most frequently observed type of injuries was soft tissue injuries (100%), followed by facial fractures
(83.05%). Of the patients with soft tissue injuries, the abrasions accounted the most, followed by lacerations. The
numbers of patients of midface fracture (60 patients) were almost similar to the number of lower face fractures (66
patients). Eighty two patients (65.08%%) demonstrated associated injuries, of which craniocerebral injuries were
the most prevalent. One hundred and four patients (82.54%) had other systemic medical conditions, with cardiovascular diseases the most and followed by metabolic diseases and musculoskeletal conditions. Furthermore, the
study indicated a relationship between maxillofacial fractures and musculoskeletal conditions. Only 13 patients
(10.32%) sustained local infections, of whom had other medical conditions. Most of the facial injuries (85.71%) in
older people were operated including debridement, fixing loose teeth, reduction, intermaxillary fixation and open
reduction and internal fixation (ORIF).
Conclusions: Our analysis of the characteristics of maxillofacial injuries in the elder patents may help to promote
clinical research to develop more effective treatment and possibly prevent such injuries
ProtoDiv: Prototype-guided Division of Consistent Pseudo-bags for Whole-slide Image Classification
Due to the limitations of inadequate Whole-Slide Image (WSI) samples with
weak labels, pseudo-bag-based multiple instance learning (MIL) appears as a
vibrant prospect in WSI classification. However, the pseudo-bag dividing
scheme, often crucial for classification performance, is still an open topic
worth exploring. Therefore, this paper proposes a novel scheme, ProtoDiv, using
a bag prototype to guide the division of WSI pseudo-bags. Rather than designing
complex network architecture, this scheme takes a plugin-and-play approach to
safely augment WSI data for effective training while preserving sample
consistency. Furthermore, we specially devise an attention-based prototype that
could be optimized dynamically in training to adapt to a classification task.
We apply our ProtoDiv scheme on seven baseline models, and then carry out a
group of comparison experiments on two public WSI datasets. Experiments confirm
our ProtoDiv could usually bring obvious performance improvements to WSI
classification.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures, and 3 table
Demonstration of Deutsch's Algorithm on a Stable Linear-Optical Quantum Computer
We report an experimental demonstration of quantum Deutsch's algorithm by
using linear-optical system. By employing photon's polarization and spatial
modes, we implement all balanced and constant functions for quantum computer.
The experimental system is very stable and the experimental data are excellent
in accordance with the theoretical results.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figure
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