1.Study on detection value of noninvasive cerebral hemodynamics and serum nerve function indexes in patients with craniocerebral injury
Xuegan YAO ; Dexue ZOU ; Zhuwei YAO ; Weili XU ; Sujuan YANG ; Chunrong LI ; Zhanjing ZHAO
International Journal of Laboratory Medicine 2016;37(7):880-882
Objective To study and investigate the detection value of noninvasive cerebral hemodynamics and serum nerve func‐tion indexes in the patients with craniocerebral injury .Methods Totally 64 patients with craniocerebral injury in our hospital from September 2013 to May 2015 were selected as the observation group ,meanwhile 64 healthy persons with the same age were selected as the control group .Then the noninvasive cerebral hemodynamics and serum nerve function indexes were compared between the two groups ,furthermore the detection results in the observation group were compared among the patients with different severity de‐grees and intracranial pressures .Results The middle cerebral artery blood flow indexes of the observation group were all higher than those of the control group ,the serum nerve function indexes were also higher than those of the control group ,and the middle cerebral artery blood flow indexes and serum nerve function indexes of the observation group had obvious differences among the pa‐tients with different severity degrees and intracranial pressures too (P< 0 .05) ,showing statistical significance .Conclusion The noninvasive cerebral hemodynamics and serum nerve function indexes have highe detection value in the patients with craniocerebral injury ,and have active clinical role for the understand of disease severity degree and intracranial pressure situation .
2.Differentiation of benign and malignant breast lesions using texture analysis of conventional MRI:a preliminary study
Zhuwei ZHANG ; Ting HUA ; Tingting XU ; Jiping YAO ; Jian GONG ; Qing GUAN ; Jianping RUAN ; Guangyu TANG
Chinese Journal of Radiology 2017;51(8):588-591
Objective To investigate the diagnostic value of texture analysis derived from conventional MR imaging in differentiating benign and malignant breast lesions. Methods Thirty-six patients with malignant breast lesion and 33 patients with benign breast lesion were retrospectively analyzed in our study. All patients underwent conventional MR imaging including axial T1WI, T2WI, and contrast-enhanced T1WI before surgery. Texture features were calculated from manually drawn ROIs by using MaZda software. The feature selection methods included mutual information (MI), Fishers coefficient, classification error probability combined with average correlation coefficients (POE + ACC) and the combination of the above three methods(FPM). These methods were used to identify the most significant texture features in discriminating benign breast lesion from malignant breast lesion. The statistical methods including raw data analysis (RDA), principal component analysis (PCA), linear discriminant analysis (LDA) and nonlinear discriminant analysis (NDA) were used to distinguish malignant breast lesion from benign breast lesion. The results were shown by misclassification rate. Results In the three kinds of sequences, the texture features for differentiating malignant breast lesion and benign breast lesion were mainly from T2WI which had the lowest misclassification rate 4.35%(3/69). The misclassification rates of the feature selection methods were similar in MI, Fisher coefficient and POE+ACC (15.94%to 56.52%for MI;17.39%to 56.52%for Fisher coefficient and 17.39%to 56.52%for POE+ACC). However, the misclassification rate of the combination of the three methods (4.35%to 53.62%for FPM) was lower than that of any other kind of method. In the statistical methods, NDA (4.35% to 27.54%) had lower misclassification rate than RDA (33.33% to 56.52%), PCA (33.33% to 53.62%) and LDA (15.94% to 44.93%). Conclusion Texture analysis of conventional MR imaging can provide reliably objective basis for differentiating benign from malignant breast lesions.
3.Virulence-associated gene detection and analysis of Staphylococcus aureus isolates from pediatric patients′ feces
Xiaolan AI ; Yan LONG ; Bingshao LIANG ; Shuwen YAO ; Yunfeng LIU ; Fei GAO ; Jialiang MAI ; Zhile XIONG ; Zhuwei LIANG ; Jielin WANG ; Xiantang CHEN ; Min YANG ; Sitang GONG ; Zhenwen ZHOU
Chinese Journal of Laboratory Medicine 2021;44(4):291-297
Objective:To investigate the multilocus sequence typing feature of the virulence-associated genes of Staphylococcus aureus(S. aureus) separated from the clinical specimens of a multi-center cohort children in Guangzhou area. Methods:A total number of 412 Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated from 2 059 non-repeated fecal specimens of children by three groups′ researchers in Guangzhou Women and Children′s Medical Center from August 2018 to November 2018. While collecting specimens, patient clinical information is also properly collected and preserved. After extracting the DNA of the strain, the virulence-associated genes were detected by polymerase chain reaction (PCR), including the staphylococcal enterotoxin (SE) genes ( sea, seb, sec, sed, see) and the Panton-Valentine leucocidin-encoding gene ( pvl).The multi-locus sequence typing (MLST) method was performed to reveal the MLST feature of these genes and the statistical difference were examined by the the χ 2 test. Results:Among the 412 isolates of S. aureus, 256 strains (256/412, 62.1%) contains at least one SE gene. Among the enterotoxin gens, the sec (125/412, 30.3%), seb(98/412, 23.8%)and sea (66/412, 16.0%)genes were the three most prevalent members of SEs. The frequency of pvl gene in Staphylococcus aureus was 18.7%(77/412).Among them, the frequency of Staphylococcus aureus sea gene isolated from patients with gastroenteritis (58/319, 18.2%) was significantly higher than that from the non-gastroenteritis group (8/93, 8.6%)(χ2=4.912, P=0.027). The frequency of Staphylococcus aureus pvl gene isolated from the patients with pneumonia (8/21, 38.1%) was greater than that from the non-pneumonia group (6/47, 12.8%)(χ2=4.252, P=0.039). In addition, the virulence-associated gene of S. aureus was closely related to the specific ST type, 82.4% (28/34) of ST6 carried sea gene, all ST338 and ST59 carried seb gene, 96% (48/50) ST45 carried sec gene, and the pvl gene carrying rate of ST338 was 5/5. Conclusions:The SEA toxin produced by ST6 Staphylococcus aureus may be closely related to the diagnosis of gastroenteritis in children. The frequency of pvl virulence gene in Staphylococcus aureus in children with community-acquired pneumonia was higher than that in the non-pneumonia group, and closely related to the CC59.