The application of boron nitride (BN) nanomaterials in various fields received extensive
attention in the past decades, attributed to its extraordinary characteristics: high surface …

The prevalence of diabetes mellitus and its chronic complications continue to increase
alarmingly. Consequently, the massive expenditure on diabetic distal symmetrical …

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the
United States of America and globally. Carotid arterial plaque, a cause and also a marker of …

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) constitutes injury that occurs to the brain as a result of trauma. It
should be appreciated as a heterogeneous, dynamic pathophysiological process that starts …

Purpose: Segmentation is one of the critical steps in analyzing medical images since it
provides meaningful information for the diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment of brain tumors …

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a non-invasive diagnostic imaging tool based on the
detection of protons into the tissues. This imaging technique is remarkable because of high …

Diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) affects up to 50% of patients with diabetes and is a
major cause of morbidity and increased mortality. Its clinical manifestations include …

Hydrogels, water-swollen polymer networks, are being applied to numerous biomedical
applications, such as drug delivery and tissue engineering, due to their potential tunable …

With increasing use of minimally invasive parathyroidectomy (PTx) over traditional bilateral
neck exploration in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT), accurate …

In multiple sclerosis (MS), experimental and ex vivo studies indicate that pathologic intra-
and extracellular sodium accumulation may play a pivotal role in inflammatory as well as …