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Murthy S, Yan SD, Alam S, Kumar A, Rangarajan A, Sawant M, Sulaiman H, Yadav BP, Singh Pathani T, Kumar H G A, Kak S, A M V, Kaur B, N R, Mishra A, Elliott E, Delaney MM, Semrau KEA. Improving neonatal health with family-centered, early postnatal care: A quasi-experimental study in India. PLOS Glob Public Health 2023; 3:e0001240. [PMID: 37228043 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0001240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2022] [Accepted: 04/13/2023] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Despite the global decline, neonatal mortality rates (NMR) remain high in India. Family members are often responsible for the postpartum care of neonates and mothers. Yet, low health literacy and varied beliefs can lead to poor health outcomes. Postpartum education for family caregivers, may improve the adoption of evidence-based neonatal care and health outcomes. The Care Companion Program (CCP) is a hospital-based, pre-discharge health training session where nurses teach key healthy behaviors to mothers and family members, including skills and an opportunity to practice them in the hospital. We conducted a quasi-experimental study to assess the effect of the CCP sessions on mortality outcomes among families seeking care in 28 public tertiary facilities across 4 Indian states. Neonatal mortality outcomes were reported post-discharge, collected via phone surveys at four weeks postpartum, between October 2018 to February 2020. Risk ratios (RR), adjusting for hospital-level clustering, were calculated by comparing mortality rates before and after CCP implementation. A total of 46,428 families participated in the pre-intervention group and 87,305 in the post-intervention group; 76% of families completed the phone survey. Among the 33,599 newborns born before the CCP implementation, there were 1386 deaths (NMR: 41.3 deaths per 1000 live births). After the intervention began, there were 2021 deaths out of 60,078 newborns born (crude NMR: 33.6 deaths per 1000 live births, RR = 0.82, 95% CI: 0.76, 0.87; cluster-adjusted RR = 0.82, 95% CI: 0.71, 0.94). There may be a substantial benefit to family-centered education in the early postnatal period to reduce neonatal mortality.
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- Noora Health, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Noora Health, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Data Science, ShriSankhyam Analytics and Research LLP, New Delhi, India
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- Noora Health, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Aurora Health Innovations, Bengaluru, India
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- Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Punjab, Chandigarh, India
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- Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Karnataka, Bengaluru, India
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- Directorate of Public Health & Family Welfare, National Health Mission, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India
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- Noora Health, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Ariadne Labs, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health/Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Ariadne Labs, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health/Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Murthy S, Chandrasekar A, Yan SD, Sudharsanan N, Pant R, Rangarajan A, Mishra N, Mishra D, Sulaiman H, Kaur B, Alam S. Can training over phone calls help improve outcomes for COVID-19 positive patients under home isolation? An analysis of the COVID-19 Care Companion Program in Punjab, India. Clin Epidemiol Glob Health 2023; 20:101236. [PMID: 36743949 PMCID: PMC9884566 DOI: 10.1016/j.cegh.2023.101236] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2022] [Revised: 12/11/2022] [Accepted: 01/20/2023] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Background Phone-supported recovery of COVID-19 patients in home isolation could be an effective way of addressing COVID-19 in contexts with limited resources. The COVID-19 Care Companion Program (CCP) is one such intervention, designed to support patients and their caregivers in remote, evidence-based management of COVID-19 symptoms. Objective To estimate the effect of providing phone-based training to COVID-19 patients and their caregivers on the likelihood of hospitalizations and mortality. Methods A pragmatic randomized trial was conducted to assess the effect of a novel phone-based training program on COVID-19 home-isolated patient outcomes. The analysis compared the outcomes of death and hospitalizations in the teletraining intervention group (CCP) to those receiving standard of care (SoC). Results Logistic regression models adjusted for age, gender, education, occupation, and poverty, as measured by family possession of Below Poverty Line (BPL) card, were used to look at the effect of intervention on hospitalization and mortality. While the CCP intervention had no effect on 21-day mortality (OR 0.64; 95% CI, 0.19 to 2.12), it was associated with a 48% reduction in 21-day hospitalization (OR 0.52; 95% CI, 0.31 to 0.90). Conclusion COVID-19 CCP teletraining intervention reduced the rate of hospitalization, potentially reducing the burden on hospitals.
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- Seema Murthy
- Aurora Health Innovations, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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- Data Science, ShriSankhyam Analytics and Research LLP, New Delhi, India
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- Aurora Health Innovations, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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- Aurora Health Innovations, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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- Aurora Health Innovations, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Punjab, Chandigarh, Punjab, India
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Cummings P, Petitclerc A, Moskowitz J, Tandon D, Zhang Y, MacNeill LA, Alshurafa N, Krogh-Jespersen S, Hamil JL, Nili A, Berken J, Grobman W, Rangarajan A, Wakschlag L. Feasibility of Passive ECG Bio-sensing and EMA Emotion Reporting Technologies and Acceptability of Just-in-Time Content in a Well-being Intervention, Considerations for Scalability and Improved Uptake. Affect Sci 2022; 3:849-861. [PMID: 36277315 PMCID: PMC9579642 DOI: 10.1007/s42761-022-00147-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2022] [Accepted: 08/13/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Researchers increasingly use passive sensing data and frequent self-report to implement personalized mobile health (mHealth) interventions. Yet, we know that certain populations may find these technical protocols burdensome and intervention uptake as well as treatment efficacy may be affected as a result. In the present study, we predicted feasibility (participant adherence to protocol) and acceptability (participant engagement with intervention content) as a function of baseline sociodemographic, mental health, and well-being characteristics of 99 women randomized in the personalized preventive intervention Wellness-for-Two (W-4-2), a randomized trial evaluating stress-related alterations during pregnancy and their effect on infant neurodevelopmental trajectories. The W-4-2 study used ecological momentary assessment (EMA) and wearable electrocardiograph (ECG) sensors to detect physiological stress and personalize the intervention. Participant adherence to protocols was 67% for EMAs and 52% for ECG bio-sensors. Higher baseline negative affect significantly predicted lower adherence to both protocols. Women assigned to the intervention group engaged on average with 42% of content they received. Women with higher annual household income were more likely to engage with more of the intervention content. Researchers should carefully consider tailoring of the intensity of technical intervention protocols to reduce fatigue, especially among participants with higher baseline negative affect, which may improve intervention uptake and efficacy findings at scale.
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- P. Cummings
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL USA
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- Laval University School of Psychology, 2325 Rue des Bibliothèques, QC, Québec G1V 0A6 Canada
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL USA
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL USA
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, Chicago, IL USA
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, Chicago, IL USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL USA
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, Chicago, IL USA
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL USA
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, Chicago, IL USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL USA
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- Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL USA
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, Chicago, IL USA
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Lakin JR, Arnold CG, Catzen HZ, Rangarajan A, Berger RS, Brannen EN, Cunningham RJ, Schaffer AC, Lamey J, Baker O, Bernacki RE. Early serious illness communication in hospitalized patients: A study of the implementation of the Speaking About Goals and Expectations (SAGE) program. Healthc (Amst) 2021; 9:100510. [PMID: 33517037 DOI: 10.1016/j.hjdsi.2020.100510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2020] [Revised: 11/23/2020] [Accepted: 12/11/2020] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND Early conversations about patients' goals and values in advancing serious illness (serious illness conversations) can drive better healthcare. However, these conversations frequently happen during acute illness, often near death, without time to realize benefits of early communication. METHODS The Speaking About Goals and Expectations (SAGE) Program, adapted from the Serious Illness Care Program, is a multicomponent intervention designed to foster earlier and more comprehensive serious illness conversations for patients admitted to the hospital. We present a quality improvement study of the SAGE Program assessing older adults admitted to a general medicine service at the Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Our primary outcomes included the proportion of patients with at least one documented conversation, the timing between first conversation documented and death, the quality of conversations, and their interprofessional nature. Secondary outcomes assessed evaluations of the training and hospital utilization. RESULTS We trained 37 clinicians and studied 133 patients split between the SAGE intervention and a comparison population. Intervention patients were more likely to have documented serious illness conversations (89.1% vs. 26.1%, p < 0.001); these conversations occurred earlier (mean of 598.9 vs. 180.8 days before death, p < 0.001) and included more key elements of conversation (mean of 6.56 vs. 1.78, p < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS This study demonstrated significant differences in the frequency and quality of serious illness conversations completed earlier in the illness course for hospitalized patients. IMPLICATIONS Programs designed to drive serious illness conversations earlier in the hospital may be an effective way to improve care for patients not reached in the ambulatory setting. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE Prospectively designed trial, non-randomized sample.
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- Joshua R Lakin
- Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA; Ariadne Labs, Brigham and Women's Hospital & Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
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- Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
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- Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Brigham & Women's Physician Organization, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Brigham & Women's Physician Organization, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Clinical Investigation, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA; Ariadne Labs, Brigham and Women's Hospital & Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Lee BY, Wedlock PT, Haidari LA, Elder K, Potet J, Manring R, Connor DL, Spiker ML, Bonner K, Rangarajan A, Hunyh D, Brown ST. Economic impact of thermostable vaccines. Vaccine 2017; 35:3135-3142. [PMID: 28455169 DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2017.03.081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2017] [Revised: 03/29/2017] [Accepted: 03/30/2017] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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BACKGROUND While our previous work has shown that replacing existing vaccines with thermostable vaccines can relieve bottlenecks in vaccine supply chains and thus increase vaccine availability, the question remains whether this benefit would outweigh the additional cost of thermostable formulations. METHODS Using HERMES simulation models of the vaccine supply chains for the Republic of Benin, the state of Bihar (India), and Niger, we simulated replacing different existing vaccines with thermostable formulations and determined the resulting clinical and economic impact. Costs measured included the costs of vaccines, logistics, and disease outcomes averted. RESULTS Replacing a particular vaccine with a thermostable version yielded cost savings in many cases even when charging a price premium (two or three times the current vaccine price). For example, replacing the current pentavalent vaccine with a thermostable version without increasing the vaccine price saved from $366 to $10,945 per 100 members of the vaccine's target population. Doubling the vaccine price still resulted in cost savings that ranged from $300 to $10,706, and tripling the vaccine price resulted in cost savings from $234 to $10,468. As another example, a thermostable rotavirus vaccine (RV) at its current (year) price saved between $131 and $1065. Doubling and tripling the thermostable rotavirus price resulted in cost savings ranging from $102 to $936 and $73 to $808, respectively. Switching to thermostable formulations was highly cost-effective or cost-effective in most scenarios explored. CONCLUSION Medical cost and productivity savings could outweigh even significant price premiums charged for thermostable formulations of vaccines, providing support for their use.
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- Bruce Y Lee
- HERMES Logistics Modeling Team, Baltimore, MD and Pittsburgh, PA, United States; Global Obesity Prevention Center (GOPC) at Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States.
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- HERMES Logistics Modeling Team, Baltimore, MD and Pittsburgh, PA, United States; Global Obesity Prevention Center (GOPC) at Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States
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- HERMES Logistics Modeling Team, Baltimore, MD and Pittsburgh, PA, United States; Global Obesity Prevention Center (GOPC) at Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States; Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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- Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland; Médecins Sans Frontières, New York City, NY, United States
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- Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland; Médecins Sans Frontières, New York City, NY, United States
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- Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, New York City, NY, United States
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- HERMES Logistics Modeling Team, Baltimore, MD and Pittsburgh, PA, United States; Global Obesity Prevention Center (GOPC) at Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States
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- HERMES Logistics Modeling Team, Baltimore, MD and Pittsburgh, PA, United States; Global Obesity Prevention Center (GOPC) at Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States
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- University of Minnesota, St. Paul/Minneapolis, MN, United States
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- Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland; Médecins Sans Frontières, New York City, NY, United States
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- Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland; Médecins Sans Frontières, New York City, NY, United States
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- HERMES Logistics Modeling Team, Baltimore, MD and Pittsburgh, PA, United States; Global Obesity Prevention Center (GOPC) at Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States; Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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Watnick RS, Rodriguez RK, Wang S, Blois AL, Rangarajan A, Ince T, Weinberg RA. Thrombospondin-1 repression is mediated via distinct mechanisms in fibroblasts and epithelial cells. Oncogene 2015; 34:2949-50. [PMID: 26020734 DOI: 10.1038/onc.2015.183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Watnick RS, Rodriguez RK, Wang S, Blois AL, Rangarajan A, Ince T, Weinberg RA. Thrombospondin-1 repression is mediated via distinct mechanisms in fibroblasts and epithelial cells. Oncogene 2014; 34:2823-35. [PMID: 25109329 DOI: 10.1038/onc.2014.228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2014] [Revised: 06/03/2014] [Accepted: 06/21/2014] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Tumor-associated angiogenesis is postulated to be regulated by the balance between pro- and anti-angiogenic factors. We demonstrate here that the critical step in establishing the angiogenic capability of human tumor cells is the repression of a key secreted anti-angiogenic factor, thrombospondin-1 (Tsp-1). This repression is essential for tumor formation by mammary epithelial cells and kidney cells engineered to express SV40 early region proteins, hTERT, and H-RasV12. In transformed epithelial cells, a signaling pathway leading from Ras to Tsp-1 repression induces the sequential activation of PI3 kinase, Rho and ROCK, leading to activation of Myc through phosphorylation, thereby enabling Myc to repress Tsp-1 transcription. In transformed fibroblasts, however, the repression of Tsp-1 can be achieved by an alternative mechanism involving inactivation of both p53 and pRb. We thus describe novel mechanisms by which the activation of oncogenes in epithelial cells and the inactivation of tumor suppressors in fibroblasts permits angiogenesis and, in turn, tumor formation.
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- R S Watnick
- 1] Vascular Biology Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA [2] Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA [3] Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- 1] Vascular Biology Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA [2] Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA [3] Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Vascular Biology Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- 1] Vascular Biology Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA [2] Centre for Cancer Biomarkers CCBIO, Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- 1] Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, USA [2] Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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Mittal S, Sharma A, Kumar R, Dighe R, Rangarajan A. Therapeutic Targeting of Triple Negative Breast Cancer with Combinatorial Inhibition of Notch and RAS/MAPK Pathway. Ann Oncol 2013. [DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdt082.4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Saxena M, Stephens MA, Pathak H, Rangarajan A. Transcription factors that mediate epithelial-mesenchymal transition lead to multidrug resistance by upregulating ABC transporters. Cell Death Dis 2011; 2:e179. [PMID: 21734725 PMCID: PMC3199722 DOI: 10.1038/cddis.2011.61] [Citation(s) in RCA: 272] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Development of multidrug resistance (MDR) is a major deterrent in the effective treatment of metastatic cancers by chemotherapy. Even though MDR and cancer invasiveness have been correlated, the molecular basis of this link remains obscure. We show here that treatment with chemotherapeutic drugs increases the expression of several ATP binding cassette transporters (ABC transporters) associated with MDR, as well as epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) markers, selectively in invasive breast cancer cells, but not in immortalized or non-invasive cells. Interestingly, the mere induction of an EMT in immortalized and non-invasive cell lines increased their expression of ABC transporters, migration, invasion, and drug resistance. Conversely, reversal of EMT in invasive cells by downregulating EMT-inducing transcription factors reduced their expression of ABC transporters, invasion, and rendered them more chemosensitive. Mechanistically, we demonstrate that the promoters of ABC transporters carry several binding sites for EMT-inducing transcription factors, and overexpression of Twist, Snail, and FOXC2 increases the promoter activity of ABC transporters. Furthermore, chromatin immunoprecipitation studies revealed that Twist binds directly to the E-box elements of ABC transporters. Thus, our study identifies EMT inducers as novel regulators of ABC transporters, thereby providing molecular insights into the long-standing association between invasiveness and MDR. Targeting EMT transcription factors could hence serve as novel strategies to curb both metastasis and the associated drug resistance.
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- M Saxena
- Department of Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, Karnataka, India
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Mittal S, Dey D, Subramanyam D, Kumar R, Rangarajan A. 863 The role of Notch and Ras/MAPK signaling pathways in the progression of human breast cancer. EJC Suppl 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/s1359-6349(10)71657-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Abstract
Density estimation for observational data plays an integral role in a broad spectrum of applications, e.g., statistical data analysis and information-theoretic image registration. Of late, wavelet-based density estimators have gained in popularity due to their ability to approximate a large class of functions, adapting well to difficult situations such as when densities exhibit abrupt changes. The decision to work with wavelet density estimators brings along with it theoretical considerations (e.g., non-negativity, integrability) and empirical issues (e.g., computation of basis coefficients) that must be addressed in order to obtain a bona fide density. In this paper, we present a new method to accurately estimate a non-negative density which directly addresses many of the problems in practical wavelet density estimation. We cast the estimation procedure in a maximum likelihood framework which estimates the square root of the density radicalp, allowing us to obtain the natural non-negative density representation ( radicalp)(2). Analysis of this method will bring to light a remarkable theoretical connection with the Fisher information of the density and, consequently, lead to an efficient constrained optimization procedure to estimate the wavelet coefficients. We illustrate the effectiveness of the algorithm by evaluating its performance on mutual information-based image registration, shape point set alignment, and empirical comparisons to known densities. The present method is also compared to fixed and variable bandwidth kernel density estimators.
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- A M Peter
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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Kodipaka S, Vemuri B, Rangarajan A, Leonard C, Schmallfuss I, Eisenschenk S. Kernel Fisher discriminant for shape-based classification in epilepsy. Med Image Anal 2006; 11:79-90. [PMID: 17157051 PMCID: PMC2267687 DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2006.10.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2005] [Revised: 10/18/2006] [Accepted: 10/27/2006] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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In this paper, we present the application of kernel Fisher discriminant in the statistical analysis of shape deformations that indicate the hemispheric location of an epileptic focus. The scans of two classes of patients with epilepsy, those with a right and those with a left anterior medial temporal lobe focus (RATL and LATL), as validated by clinical consensus and subsequent surgery, were compared to a set of age and sex matched healthy volunteers using both volume and shape based features. Shape-based features are derived from the displacement field characterizing the non-rigid deformation between the left and right hippocampi of a control or a patient as the case may be. Using the shape-based features, the results show a significant improvement in distinguishing between the controls and the rest (RATL and LATL) vis-a-vis volume-based features. Using a novel feature, namely, the normalized histogram of the 3D displacement field, we also achieved significant improvement over the volume-based feature in classifying the patients as belonging to either of the two classes LATL or RATL, respectively. It should be noted that automated identification of hemispherical foci of epilepsy has not been previously reported.
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- S. Kodipaka
- Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611
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- Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611
- * Corresponding author Email address: (B.C.Vemuri)
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- Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611
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- Department of Radiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611
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- Department of Neurology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611
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Rangarajan A, Syal R, Selvarajah S, Chakrabarti O, Sarin A, Krishna S. Activated Notch1 signaling cooperates with papillomavirus oncogenes in transformation and generates resistance to apoptosis on matrix withdrawal through PKB/Akt. Virology 2001; 286:23-30. [PMID: 11448155 DOI: 10.1006/viro.2001.0867] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Invasive cervical tumors, a major subset of human epithelial neoplasms, are characterized by the consistent presence of papillomavirus oncogenes 16 or 18 E6 and E7 products. Cervical tumors also consistently exhibit cytosolic and nuclear forms of Notch1, suggesting the possible persistent activation of the Notch pathway. Here we show that activated Notch1 synergizes with papillomavirus oncogenes in transformation of immortalized epithelial cells and leads to the generation of resistance to anoikis, an apoptotic response induced on matrix withdrawal. This resistance to anoikis by activated Notch1 is mediated through the activation of PKB/Akt, a key effector of activated Ras in transformation. We suggest that activated Notch signaling may serve to substitute for the lack of activated Ras mutations in the majority of human cervical neoplasms.
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- A Rangarajan
- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, 560065, India
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Bansal R, Staib L, Chen Z, Rangarajan A, Knisely J, Nath R, Duncan J. A minimax entropy registration framework for patient setup verification in radiotherapy. Comput Aided Surg 2000; 4:287-304. [PMID: 10631372 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0150(1999)4:6<287::aid-igs1>3.0.co;2-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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In external beam radiotherapy (EBRT), patient setup verification over the entire course of fractionated treatment is necessary for accurate delivery of a specified dose to the tumor. We are working on the development of a minimax entropy registration framework for patient setup verification using dual portal images and the treatment planning 3D CT dataset. In this paper, we present an overview of our registration framework, where an iteratively and automatically estimated segmentation of the portal image is utilized to more accurately and robustly register the portal image to the 3D treatment-planning CT data. In addition, we describe initial testing of this approach. We note that, due to low resolution and low contrast of the portal images, this registration presents a difficult problem. We also note that the registration of the images in our proposed method is guided by the bony structure visible in the portal and the 3D CT images. However, since the prostate can move with respect to the pelvic bone, we propose using ultrasound images to quantify this movement.
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- R Bansal
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8042, USA.
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We have developed a new mutual information-based registration method for matching unlabeled point features. In contrast to earlier mutual information-based registration methods, which estimate the mutual information using image intensity information, our approach uses the point feature location information. A novel aspect of our approach is the emergence of correspondence (between the two sets of features) as a natural by-product of joint density estimation. We have applied this algorithm to the problem of geometric alignment of primate autoradiographs. We also present preliminary results on three-dimensional robust matching of sulci derived from anatomical magnetic resonance images. Finally, we present an experimental comparison between the mutual information approach and other recent approaches which explicitly parameterize feature correspondence.
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- A Rangarajan
- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Yale University, CT, USA.
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The softassign quadratic assignment algorithm is a discrete-time, continuous-state, synchronous updating optimizing neural network. While its effectiveness has been shown in the traveling salesman problem, graph matching, and graph partitioning in thousands of simulations, its convergence properties have not been studied. Here, we construct discrete-time Lyapunov functions for the cases of exact and approximate doubly stochastic constraint satisfaction, which show convergence to a fixed point. The combination of good convergence properties and experimental success makes the softassign algorithm an excellent choice for neural quadratic assignment optimization.
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- A Rangarajan
- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, 332 BML, Yale University, School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8042, USA
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Rangarajan A, Gleason P. Young unwed fathers of AFDC children: do they provide support? Demography 1998; 35:175-86. [PMID: 9622780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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We examine the support provided by fathers of children born to disadvantaged teenage mothers. Our sample includes the fathers of 6,009 children born over a two-year period to 3,855 teenage mothers receiving AFDC in three economically depressed inner cities. These fathers provide little social and economic support to their children. Support declines as their children age from infants to toddlers and as fathers' relationships with the mothers grow more distant. Fathers' employment status and educational attainment positively affect the amount of economic support that they provide but do not strongly influence the amount of social support they provide.
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- A Rangarajan
- Mathematica Policy Research, Princeton, NJ 08543, USA.
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Hyder F, Rothman DL, Mason GF, Rangarajan A, Behar KL, Shulman RG. Oxidative glucose metabolism in rat brain during single forepaw stimulation: a spatially localized 1H[13C] nuclear magnetic resonance study. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 1997; 17:1040-7. [PMID: 9346428 DOI: 10.1097/00004647-199710000-00005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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In the alpha-chloralose-anesthetized rat during single forepaw stimulation, a spatially localized 1H[13C] nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopic method was used to measure the rate of cerebral [C4]-glutamate isotopic turnover from infused [1,6-(13)C]glucose. The glutamate turnover data were analyzed using a mathematical model of cerebral glucose metabolism to evaluate the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle flux (V(TCA)). During stimulation the value of V(TCA) in the sensorimotor region increased from 0.47 +/- 0.06 (at rest) to 1.44 +/- 0.41 micromol x g(-1) x min(-1) (P < 0.01) in the contralateral hemispheric compartment (24 mm3) and to 0.65 +/- 0.10 micromol x g(-1) x min(-1) (P < 0.03) in the ipsilateral side. Each V(TCA) value was converted to the cerebral metabolic rates of glucose oxidation (oxidative-CMR(glc)) and oxygen consumption (CMR(O2)). These rates were corrected for partial-volume based on activation maps obtained by blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The percent increase and the absolute value of oxidative-CMR(glc) in the activated regions are similar to values reported previously for total-CMR(glc) using the same activation paradigm. This indicates that the large majority of energy required for brain activation, in going from the resting to an activated state, is supplied by glucose oxidation. The level of activity during stimulation is relevant to awake animals because the oxidative-CMR(glc) (1.05 +/- 0.28 micromol x g(-1) x min(-1); current study) is in the range of total-CMR(glc) previously reported for awake rats undergoing physiologic activation (0.7-1.4 micromol x g(-1) x min(-1)). It is concluded that oxidative glycolysis is the main source of energy for increased brain activity and a positive BOLD fMRI signal-change occurs in conjunction with a large increase in CMR(O2).
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- F Hyder
- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, U.S.A
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We present a novel method for the geometric alignment of autoradiographs of the brain. The method is based on finding the spatial mapping and the one-to-one correspondences (or homologies) between point features extracted from the images and rejecting non-homologies as outliers. In this way, we attempt to account for the local, natural and artifactual differences between the autoradiograph slices. We have used the resulting automated algorithm on a set of left prefrontal cortex autoradiograph slices, specifically demonstrated its ability to perform point outlier rejection, validated its robustness property using synthetically generated spatial mappings and provided an anecdotal visual comparison with the well-known iterated closest-point (ICP) algorithm. Visualization of a stack of aligned left prefrontal cortex autoradiograph slices is also provided.
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- A Rangarajan
- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520-8042, USA.
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Daniel B, Rangarajan A, Mukherjee G, Vallikad E, Krishna S. The link between integration and expression of human papillomavirus type 16 genomes and cellular changes in the evolution of cervical intraepithelial neoplastic lesions. J Gen Virol 1997; 78 ( Pt 5):1095-101. [PMID: 9152428 DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-78-5-1095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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We have matched a PCR assay which detects disruptions in the E2 reading frame of human papillomavirus type 16, with RNA in situ hybridization patterns and shown that in 15 out of 16 cervical intraepithelial neoplastic (CIN) III lesions and in 19 out of 19 tumours, the E2 gene is disrupted with no detectable E2 transcripts. Varying levels of E6-E7 transcripts are detected in CIN III lesions, with stronger signals in tumours. The cytokeratin profile of most tumours: cytokeratin 10-, 14- and 19-positive and 4-, 13- and 18-negative, is also detected in CIN III lesions. The changes in levels of alpha 2, beta 1 and beta 4 integrins, CD44 and E-cadherin occur during the evolution of high-grade CIN lesions. Increases in the levels of expression of CD44 and E6-E7 transcripts, coupled with changes in the cellular localization of the Notch protein, define the transition from CIN III lesions to tumours.
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- B Daniel
- National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India.
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Deshpande N, Chopra A, Rangarajan A, Shashidhara LS, Rodrigues V, Krishna S. The human transcription enhancer factor-1, TEF-1, can substitute for Drosophila scalloped during wingblade development. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:10664-8. [PMID: 9099715 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.16.10664] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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The human transcription enhancer factor-1 (TEF-1) belongs to a family of evolutionarily conserved proteins that have a DNA binding TEA domain. TEF-1 shares a 98% homology with Drosophila scalloped (sd) in the DNA binding domain and a 50% similarity in the activation domain. We have expressed human TEF-1 in Drosophila under the hsp-70 promoter and find that it can substitute for Sd function. The transformants rescue the wingblade defects as well as the lethality of loss-of-function alleles. Observation of reporter activity in the imaginal wing discs of the enhancer-trap alleles suggests that TEF-1 is capable of promoting sd gene regulation. The functional capability of the TEF-1 product was assessed by comparing the extent of rescue by heat shock (hs)-TEF-1 with that of hs-sd. The finding that TEF-1 can function in vivo during wingblade development offers a potent genetic system for the analysis of its function and in the identification of the molecular partners of TEF-1.
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- N Deshpande
- National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR Center, Bangalore 560012, India
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Lee SJ, Rangarajan A, Gindi G. Bayesian image reconstruction in SPECT using higher order mechanical models as priors. IEEE Trans Med Imaging 1995; 14:669-680. [PMID: 18215871 DOI: 10.1109/42.476108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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While the ML-EM algorithm for reconstruction for emission tomography is unstable due to the ill-posed nature of the problem. Bayesian reconstruction methods overcome this instability by introducing prior information, often in the form of a spatial smoothness regularizer. More elaborate forms of smoothness constraints may be used to extend the role of the prior beyond that of a stabilizer in order to capture actual spatial information about the object. Previously proposed forms of such prior distributions were based on the assumption of a piecewise constant source distribution. Here, the authors propose an extension to a piecewise linear model-the weak plate-which is more expressive than the piecewise constant model. The weak plate prior not only preserves edges but also allows for piecewise ramplike regions in the reconstruction. Indeed, for the authors' application in SPECT, such ramplike regions are observed in ground-truth source distributions in the form of primate autoradiographs of rCBF radionuclides. To incorporate the weak plate prior in a MAP approach, the authors model the prior as a Gibbs distribution and use a GEM formulation for the optimization. They compare quantitative performance of the ML-EM algorithm, a GEM algorithm with a prior favoring piecewise constant regions, and a GEM algorithm with their weak plate prior. Pointwise and regional bias and variance of ensemble image reconstructions are used as indications of image quality. The authors' results show that the weak plate and membrane priors exhibit improved bias and variance relative to ML-EM techniques.
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- S J Lee
- Dept. Diagnostic Radiol. & Electr. Eng., State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook, NY
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Gindi G, Lee M, Rangarajan A, Zubal IG. Bayesian reconstruction of functional images using anatomical information as priors. IEEE Trans Med Imaging 1993; 12:670-680. [PMID: 18218461 DOI: 10.1109/42.251117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Proposes a Bayesian method whereby maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimates of functional (PET and SPECT) images may be reconstructed with the aid of prior information derived from registered anatomical MR images of the same slice. The prior information consists of significant anatomical boundaries that are likely to correspond to discontinuities in an otherwise spatially smooth radionuclide distribution. The authors' algorithm, like others proposed recently, seeks smooth solutions with occasional discontinuities; the contribution here is the inclusion of a coupling term that influences the creation of discontinuities in the vicinity of the significant anatomical boundaries. Simulations on anatomically derived mathematical phantoms are presented. Although computationally intense in its current implication, the reconstructions are improved (ROI-RMS error) relative to filtered backprojection and EM-ML reconstructions. The simulations show that the inclusion of position-dependent anatomical prior Information leads to further improvement relative to Bayesian reconstructions without the anatomical prior. The algorithm exhibits a certain degree of robustness with respect to errors in the location of anatomical boundaries.
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- G Gindi
- Dept. of Diagnostic Radiol., Yale Univ., New Haven, CT
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