Surgical application of the suboccipital subtonsillar approach to reach the inferior half of medulla oblongata tumors in adult patients

AbstractMedulla oblongata tumors are uncommon in adults.Controversies about their treatment arise regarding the need for histologic diagnosis in this eloquent area of the brain, weighing benefits of a reliable diagnosis and the potential disadvantages of invasive procedures.As a broader variety of pathological findings could be found in this locali

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Speaker Identification Using a Convolutional Neural Network

Speech, a mode of communication between humans and machines, has various applications, including biometric systems for identifying people have access to secure systems.Feature extraction is an important factor in speech recognition with high accuracy.Therefore, we implemented a spectrogram, which is a pictorial representation of speech in terms of

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A blind passenger: a rare case of documented seroconversion in an Angiostrongylus cantonensis induced eosinophilic meningitis in a traveler visiting friends and relatives

Abstract Background Eosinophilic meningitis (EOM) is a rare condition that is caused by various communicable and non-communicable factors.The rat-lungworm Angiostrongylus cantonensis, which is associated with consumption of raw or Apron undercooked paratenic or intermediate hosts, is the most common cause of parasitic eosinophilic meningitis worldw

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