Objective To investigate the diagnostic value of tissue polypeptide specific antigen (TPS),CYFRA21-1 and soluble tumor necrosis factor receptor (STNFR) in patients with lung cancer.Methods The serum levels of TPS,CYFRA21-1 and STNFR were determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) in 72 patients with lung cancer,54 patients with benign diseases and 32 healthy adults.Results The levels of the 3 tumor markers in lung cancer group were significantly higher than those of the benign disease group and healthy control group,and the serum levels of this 3 tumor markers corresponding increased with the high TNM stage.The detectable rates of TPS (80.5%) and STNFR (81.9%) in serum of lung cancer were higher than CYFRA21-1(65.3%),and in TNM I group,the detectable rates of TPS (57.1%) and STNFR (57.2%) were higher than CYFRA21-1 (25.6%) too.Conclusion The TPS,CYFRA21-1 and STNFR can be used as a very useful and sensitive tumor marker in the diagnosis of lung cancer.The TPS and STNFR are better than CYFRA21-1 in clinical use.

Precision registration of serial sections is an important step for 3-D image reconstruction. It directly affects the accuracy of the reconstructed result and parameter computation. This problem has been studied and demonstrated by many investigators, but the whole process has not yet reached good performance. In this paper, we discussed the registration of serial sections image of mandible and put forward a method of the soft registration-based transformation on the basis of the hard registration in consideration of the speciality of 3-D image reconstruction for the serial sections of mandible. Employing control points and using Affine Transformation and Extended Hough Transformation, we solved the problem of displacement on 3-D image reconstruction for serial secons and paved the way for reconstructing the mandible microstructure with reality. The results of experiments indicate that the 3D image reconstructed after registration has only a little distortion.
Humans ; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted ; Imaging, Three-Dimensional ; Mandible ; diagnostic imaging ; Tomography, X-Ray Computed

BACKGROUNDIn recent years, new progress has been made in research of tumor markers. And namely tissue polypeptide specific antigen (TPS), cytokeratin 19-fragments (CYFRA21-1) and soluble tumor necrosis factor receptor (STNFR) are new tumor markers that have been used in clinical application. The aim of this study is to determine and compare the diagnostic value of 4 kinds of tumor markers, TPS, carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), CYFRA21-1 and STNFR in patients with lung cancer.

METHODSThe serum levels of TPS, CEA, CYFRA21-1 and STNFR were determined in 72 patients with lung cancer, 54 patients with pulmonary benign diseases and 32 healthy adults by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).

RESULTSThe levels of the four tumor markers in lung cancer group were significantly higher than those in benign disease group (P < 0.005) and healthy control group (P < 0.001). Among the four markers, STNFR had the highest sensitivity (81.9%), CYFRA21-1 had the highest specificity (91.5%) and TPS had the highest accuracy (83.5%).

CONCLUSIONSTPS, CYFRA21-1 and STNFR can be used as very useful and sensitive tumor markers in the diagnosis of lung cancer, in which CYFRA21-1 may be the most useful tumor marker for clinical application.