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Etelos Marketplace Debuts New Features That Make It Easier for ...
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These improvements provide enhanced usability for developers, distributors and consumers of Web-based business solutions. This update makes it even easier ...OTC:ETLO

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Dell Seeks, May Receive 'Cloud Computing' Trademark
InformationWeek, NY -
By J. Nicholas Hoover Like the term Web 2.0, "cloud computing" is quickly becoming a meme without borders. And like the old one, the new phrase with the ...
Dell makes grab for the Cloud Computing trademark iTWire
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Murad Improves Shopping Experience with Bazaarvoice Ratings ...
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Bazaarvoice was named to the 2007 Red Herring Global 100 and 2006 Red Herring Top 100 lists and received the 2006 ClickZ Marketing Innovation of the Year ...
Purewire Launches Web Security-as-a-Service for Businesses
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?Today?s dynamic and interactive Web environment is the new threat vector of choice, and the security industry as a whole is a decade late in innovating ...
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Purewire Closes $2 Million in Funding, Appoints Thomas E. Noonan ... Business Wire (press release)
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FDA advisers must abide by new financial limits
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In 2006, researchers reviewed 221 meetings by 16 boards. They found that disclosure of conflicts of interest at advisory committee hearings was commonplace ...
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Consumer Reports Investigation Reveals Government Among Biggest ...
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'Brangelina' baby-picture sale practice stinks
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Sonnenschein Rebuilds Its IT Data Model
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With every attorney we brought on board, our need for a new data model intensified -- so we started the search again late in 2006 with the same requirements ...

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Microsoft: Instant Messengers Connected by Less Than Seven People
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[PDF] Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning? -
B Alexander - Learning, 2006 - middlebury.edu
... 7 Bryan Alexander, ?Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning??
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Wikis, blogs and podcasts: a new generation of Web-based tools for virtual collaborative clinical … -
MN Boulos, I Maramba, S Wheeler? - BMC Medical Education, 2006 - biomedcentral.com
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New indices for text: PAT Trees and PAT arrays
GH Gonnet, RA Baeza-Yates, T Snider - 1992 - portal.acm.org
... Automatic information extraction from semi-structured Web pages by ... algorithms, January
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[BOOK] Linked -
AL Barabasi - 2002 - Perseus Publishing
... Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, the nation's foremost expert in the new science of networks,
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J Davies, D Fensel, F Van Harmelen - 2003 - Chichester, England; Hoboken, NJ: J. Wiley

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A compilation of molecular biology web servers: 2006 update on the Bioinformatics Links Directory -
JA Fox, S McMillan, BF Ouellette - Nucleic Acids Research, 2006 - Oxford Univ Press
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Seven good reasons for mobile agents
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Weaving a Web of trust
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Attributive concept descriptions with complements -
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Elasticity Imaging Identifies Cancers And Reduces Breast Biopsies

Article Date: 03 Dec 2006 - 10:00am (PST)
A new ultrasound technique allows radiologists to accurately distinguish benign from malignant breast lesions. Using elasticity imaging, researchers correctly identified both cancerous and harmless lesions in nearly all of the cases studied. The findings were presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

"In our work, elasticity imaging has been found to have high specificity," said Richard G. Barr, M.D., Ph.D., professor of radiology at Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine and radiologist at Southwoods X-Ray and MRI in Youngstown. "If our results can be reproduced in a large, multicenter trial, this technique could significantly reduce the number of breast biopsies required."

The American Cancer Society (ACS) estimates that 212,920 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States this year. Early detection through screening is the best way to combat cancer at its early, most treatable stage. While mammography is the standard breast cancer screening exam, screening with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or ultrasound may be more effective for high-risk patients or women with dense breast tissue. MRI and ultrasound depict more breast lesions than mammography but have low specificity, meaning they are less effective at distinguishing benign from malignant lesions, resulting in a high number of invasive biopsies. ACS reports that 80 percent of breast lesions biopsied are found to be benign.

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Elasticity imaging is a modification of a routine ultrasound exam. It is like a manual self-exam but much more sensitive. The noninvasive technique works by gauging how much tissue moves when pushed, and it can detect how soft or stiff an object is. "There are no needles," Dr. Barr explained. "The patient does not notice any difference from a standard ultrasound."

Dr. Barr used a real-time, free-hand, elasticity imaging technique in correlation with a routine ultrasound exam to study 166 lesions identified and scheduled for biopsy in 99 patients. Lesions were measured for the largest length on both the standard ultrasound image and the elasticity image. Lesions where the elasticity image was smaller than the standard image were characterized as benign, and lesions where the elasticity image was larger were characterized as malignant.

Ultrasound-guided biopsies were performed on 80 patients with 123 lesions. Biopsy showed that elasticity imaging correctly identified all 17 malignant lesions and 105 of 106 benign lesions, for a sensitivity of 100 percent and a specificity of 99 percent.

"Our ability to find lesions in the breast has increased significantly over the last 10 years but at the expense of an increased number of biopsies," Dr. Barr said. "This technique could significantly reduce the number of biopsies and increase the confidence of women that a detected lesion is truly benign."

He anticipates that elasticity imaging will also help in detecting cancers, but did not evaluate that capability for this study. Dr. Barr and colleagues are planning to expand their research in an international, multicenter trial beginning in January 2007.

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RSNA is an association of more than 40,000 radiologists, radiation oncologists, medical physicists and related scientists committed to promoting excellence in radiology through education and by fostering research, with the ultimate goal of improving patient care. The Society is based in Oak Brook, Ill.

The data in these releases may differ from those in the printed abstract and those actually presented at the meeting, as researchers continue to update their data right up until the meeting.

Contact: Maureen Morley
Radiological Society of North America
 
 
 
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