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Al Horford posted 16 points and 15 rebounds while Joe Johnson scored 19 for Atlanta, which sits comfortably as the No. 5 seed in the Eastern Conference and holds a four-game lead over No. 6 Philadelphia.
Zaza Pachulia scored 10 of his 15 points in the fourth quarter and grabbed 10 rebounds for the Hawks, who have won four straight. Atlanta also avoided a sweep of the three-game season series.
"I'm just happy that we won the game," said Pachulia. "I'm not trying to be humble or anything, I'm just glad we won the game. It was a big game for us. We lost two times to Boston this season so we didn't want to get swept. That was a huge fourth quarter for us, we stayed in our game plan and it worked out."
Paul Pierce led the Celtics with a game-high 25 points with eight rebounds. Rajon Rondo scored 13 with 10 rebounds and Ray Allen added 11 points in the loss, which put the Celtics a half-game behind the Miami Heat for the No. 2 seed in the Eastern Conference and three games behind the Bulls for the top spot.
"I thought there was a point in the third quarter where we had the game in hand," said Pierce. "We could have stretched it and we're playing pretty good defense. I thought we were settled and we could have pushed the lead. But they took it to us in the final quarter."
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Crawford's driving layup started the run, tying the game at 73, and Johnson canned a long three-pointer with 3:17 remaining to give Atlanta a 82-75 edge.
Allen connected on the Celtics' only three-pointer of the fourth quarter with 2:39 remaining to make it a one-possession game. After both teams went cold from the line for the next several minutes, Pachulia made a pair from the line with 36 seconds remaining to give Atlanta a 85-81 lead.
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Allen and Glen Davis both missed three-pointers in the final seconds to end the game.
Atlanta held a 23-21 lead after the back-and-forth first quarter, and the Celtics shot 68 percent from the field in the second to take a 52-44 lead into the break.
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It said challenges remained due to high prices for oil and aviation fuel.
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The airline had reported a 39 percent year-on-year drop in profit in the first quarter.
Rapidly growing AirAsia has set up subsidiary budget carriers in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand. It said each of the fledgling airlines saw significant revenue increases in the quarter.
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Lee's stepfather Ian Rigby and sister Sara McLure appeared on the show this morning and spoke of their anguish following the intelligence and security committee's report.
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Rigby family: Internet firms must alert authorities
Lee Rigby's stepdad and sister criticised social media companies for failing to notify the authorities of users plotting a terror attack.Read the full story ›
Rigby family: Facebook has 'duty of care' to alert authorities
Social media websites like Facebook have "a duty of care" to alert authorities when users reveal their intentions to take part in an act of terrorism, the stepfather of murdered soldier Lee Rigby has told Good Morning Britain.
Ian Rigby criticised Facebook for not sharing more information with authorities when it emerged one of his stepson's killers, Michael Adebowale, had spoken of his plans to murder a solider in an exchange on the social media site ahead of the attack.
Adebowale and Michael Adebolajo drove into the soldier before hacking him to death near Woolwich Barracks in May 2013.
Speaking after the release of a report into the security failings in the run-up to the attack, Mr Rigby said it was "a necessary evil" for social media websites to share information with authorities in extreme cases.
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MPs: Online 'trigger' for terrorist-related content is needed
A similar 'trigger' system to the one currently used by online firms to flag up child sexual exploitation should be used in the fight against terrorism, MPs have recommended.
A report released today found social media firms, most of which are based in the US, argue they do not have to comply with UK law and only are currently obliged to hand over information if it poses an "imminent threat".
It comes after an online exchange between one of Fusilier Lee Rigby's killers, Michael Adebowale, and an overseas extremist in which he set out his plan.
ITV News Correspondent Juliet Bremner reports:
PM: Firms 'need to stop terrorists using online networks'
Internet firms need to act to prevent terrorists from plotting "murder and mayhem" on their networks, the Prime Minister has argued.
David Cameron made the comments after the release of a report by the government's Intelligence and Security Committee, which raised concerns over some social media companys' policies when it came to tackling suspicious behaviour online.
ITV News UK editor Rohit Kachroo reports:
MI5 almost a week late submitting surveillance bid
MI5 was almost a week late in submitting a bid to put Michael Adebowale under heightened surveillance, only submitting it to the Home Office the day before he and Michael Adebolajo murdered Fusilier Lee Rigby, it has emerged.
Despite having a target time of seven days, the government's Intelligence and Security Committee found the application took almost twice that time. If it had been submitted within the target time frame, the report found Adebowale would almost certainly have been under "intrusive" scrutiny in the days leading up to – and the day of – the attack.
The report went on to say while it was "improbable" that any coverage would have uncovered Adebowale's plans, the delay was "significant".
If the application had not taken nearly twice as long as it should have, MI5 would probably have had these techniques in place in the days before the attack.
While post-event analysis has not provided any evidence that these techniques would have revealed anything that might have helped prevent the attack on 22 May 2013, there can be no certainty of this.
Lee Rigby's uncle: 'Don't let his death be in vain'
The uncle of murdered soldier Fusilier Lee Rigby has said he hopes a report into what intelligence services knew ahead of the attack will be used to make a difference.
Raymond Dutton, who lives in Manchester, also admitted he did not believe his nephew's murder could have been prevented, adding: "He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time."
If we're going to safeguard our citizens on the streets of Great Britain then this report needs to be looked into in fine detail.
Hopefully any learning from the report will be put to good use and then Lee's death wouldn't have been in vain.
Lee Rigby killer discussed intent to murder soldier online
Intelligence services have today been cleared of any blame over the brutal killing of soldier Lee Rigby, in an official report which found they could not have prevented the tragedy.
But the report also reveals an online conversation by one of Fusilier Rigby's killers, Michael Adebowale, had discussed in graphic detail his intention to kill a soldier with an overseas extremist on a social media platform, believed to have been Facebook.
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Folksonomy link prediction based on a tripartite graph for tag recommendation
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- Jihad Mohamad Alja'am,
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Nowadays social tagging has become a popular way to annotate, search, navigate and discover online resources, in turn leading to the sheer amount of user-generated metadata. This paper addresses the problem of recommending suitable tags during folksonomy development from a graph-based perspective. The proposed approach adapts the Katz measure, a path-ensemble based proximity measure, for the use in social tagging systems. We model a folksonomy as a weighted, undirected tripartite graph. We then apply the Katz measure to this graph, and exploit it to provide tag recommendations for individual users. We evaluate our method on two real-world folksonomies collected from CiteULike and Last.fm. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method improves the recommendation performance and is effective for both active taggers and cold-start taggers compared to existing algorithms.
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- Title
- Folksonomy link prediction based on a tripartite graph for tag recommendation
- Journal
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
Volume 40, Issue 2 , pp 307-325
- Cover Date
- 2013-04-01
- 10.1007/s10844-012-0227-2
- Print ISSN
- 0925-9902
- Online ISSN
- 1573-7675
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- Folksonomy
- Graph-based ranking
- Link prediction
- Social tagging
- Tag recommendation
- Tripartite graph
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Majdi Rawashdeh (1)
- Heung-Nam Kim (1)
- Jihad Mohamad Alja'am (2)
- Abdulmotaleb El Saddik (1)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, 800 King Edward, Ottawa, ON, Canada, K1N 6N5
- 2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar


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Just south of Euclid on Mayfield Rd., lies a little bit of Italy...Cleveland style. Many Italian immigrants settled here because of Lakeview Cemetery...they were stone masons and headstone carvers! For some authentic Italian food....from pizza to calamari... you have to come here. This street is filled with restaurants, bakeries, and art galleries. In August they celebrate the Feast of the Assumption....which is a party that can't be missed.
(if you travel south on Mayfield straight through Little Italy, up the hill, there's an entrance to Lakeview Cemetery!)
Since 1912, the market on the corner of West 25th Street and Lorain Avenue, has provided patrons with fresh meats, fruits, vegetables, cheeses, and breads, and flowers. The building is distinguished by its clocktower. Whatever you're hungry for, you'll find it here . Over 100 vendors.
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St. Vitus Church, the first Slovenian Church in Cleveland was established in what is today known as the St. Clair neighborhood. The church is located at 6104 Glass Avenue and started as the center of Cleveland-Slovenian life since 1893. The church and school are still important institutions in the neighborhood.
My grandmother was baptized here, had her first communion here, was married here, and the Mass of Christian Burial was here.
Within the St Clair Neighborhood is a street called Carl Avenue. This was a typical street in the Slovenian area, which is now a more heavily black area.
The photo included here is the home my grandmother lived in for much of her childhood and teen years. It is a 2.5 story home, which up to three families lived in in the early 1900s.
It is the second home my great grandparents on my grandmother's side owned in the United States (both in Cleveland). Their first, which I have yet to find in Cleveland was a duplex, which they rented half of.
Cleveland's first Slovenian congregation, originally organized in 1893, this church was designed by William Jansen. It was based on Romanesque-Lombard design. It holds up to 1500 people in its sanctuary.
There are two 100-foot towers topped by octagonal cupolas. They tower above the neighborhood and are quite beautiful. The way the church stands above the neighborhood reminds me of how church steeples tower above small towns in Europe.
The school and convent date from earlier in the century. St. Vitus is the headquarters of many Slovenian cultural and fraternal organizations for Greater Cleveland.
Today 6307 is run down.
Unfortunately, the later owners of the home let it fall apart and it is now condemned as a structurally unsafe property. The windows are boarded up and it is falling apart. It is sad how some people just cannot take care of a home.
The neighborhood is a little sketchy today. I saw a lot of junk (old, gross mattresses, chairs, etc.) out on the edge of the road for the garbage men to take away. A lot of the homes are in disrepair.
But, mixed among this dilapidation are recently renovated homes, cute gardens, and some nice cars. It is quite a mix within one neighborhood.
A Slovenian immigrant in 1956 Frank Sterle created the beginnings of a unique restaurant in Cleveland in 1960.
Sterle purchased a small corner cafe in Cleveland's old Slovenian neighborhood, not too far from 6307 Carl Avenue. With expansion after expansion, Frank Sterle's Slovenian Country House grew to occupy a substantial part of the block.
The restaurant is modeled after a Slovenian mountain chalet.
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South of Rocky River and North of Parma, in Cleveland proper is a cute street called Sprecher Ave.
My grandmother lived here from just after her marriage to John Cimperman until she had to go to the hospital for the last four months of her life.
She told me a story about how a relative gave her and her husband the land in the late 1920s, so they could build their own home. Her story went on that they paid the contractors daily for work to build the home, as cash flow was tight. she said that if the workers didn't get paid for a day they stopped working until they did get paid. She said they did not miss a day.
Just up the street from St Vitus Church is a senior community for those aging Slovenes of the community. It is apartment style housing and does not supply nursing home type service. The residents are all old, but must be able to take care of themselves. This apartment community is wonderful for the aging people of the area that grew up in a safe, tightly knit community. Today, they must be concerned with robbery in the home and on the street. The apartment community is safe, new, and clean. It was a wonderful adition to the neighborhood.
I was talking to the preist that did my grandmothers funeral and he said that when he walks down the hallway of this complex he sees older Slovenian women cooking traditional Slovenian food together. He says there are smells that bring back memories of his childhood.
In the late 1800's and early 1900's a number of Slovenians immigrated to the United States looking for opportunity. As they were in their native land, Slovenians were hard workers and family oriented.
My grandmother once told a story about how the immigrants needed to be sponsored to get into the country, so many of the local Slovene tavern and business owners sponsored other Slovenes to enter the country.
Today, Cleveland is home to an estimated 80,000 ethnic Slovenes, the most in the US and perhaps the largest settlement of Slovenes outside of Slovenia. My grandmother and grandfather were born in the US from Slovene immigrants. My mother is 100% Slovene and I am 50%.
Lorain Avenue between West 35th and West 85th Streets is known for it's numerous antique shops. Many are housed in historic landmarks. The is an eclectic mix of eateries, pubs, shops, and entertainment along this stretch of road.
Coventry Village is a popular nightlife district just east of University Circle. It might be described as Cleveland's Greenwhich Village. While this district isn't very large, there are plenty of interesting places to eat and drink. The scene is often referred to as "hippie," but youthful, urban, eclectic, and a little trendy are better terms to describe this district. College students, artists, wrtiters, from throughout Cleveland are attracted to this eclectic strip for nightlife. Tommy's is a well established restaurant here, and an East Side favorite. It offers a very unique and creative vegitarean oriented menu at reasonable prices. Several off-beat stores and gift shops are scattered through Coventry. The most notable is Big Fun; a small toy store for all ages that carries discontinued toys that will take you back to your childhood. The Grog Shop venue is another Coventry establishment where a variety of local or up-and-coming artists perform in the Cleveland area. Sports bars have recently infiltrated the district, as well as some upscale restaurants. Coventry isn't exclusively a nightlife district though. If you are in town and planning on the Warehouse District on a Friday or Saturday evening, Coventry still makes a nice a lunch spot and day trip. Whatever you are into, all are welcome here. The atmosphere is very friendly and the environment is very safe. It is at the intersection of Coventry and Mayfield Roads. The District is also on is on the University Circle/Heights Circulator Bus (821) that links University Circle Rapid station (Red line), Little Italy, Cedar Fairmont, and Shaker Square Rapid station (Green/Blue line).
There is an eclectic mix of retail and restaurants on Clifton Blvd. very near Lakewood worth checking out sometime. It is in a very attractive Cleveland neighborhood, and also very safe. The scene is kind of funky, so it is something different, and not that many people know about it.
A large 24hr restaurant called Gold Coast Cafe has an interesting decor, and excellent pizzas and desserts. Papa Nick's is known for their pizza and pasta, and Tick Tock Tavern is known for its ribs. It's It Deli and Cafe is a typical Cleveland deli. In fact all these restaurants are pretty average, typical places. What's great is that they are not chains, and they are pretty inexpensive. Probably the best restaurant is the Diner on Clifton across the street from the ones mentioned. It is a tiny, but very trendy little place on the corner. It reminds me of a type of place you might find in California.
Besides restaurants, just a few doors down is an interesting boutique vintage store that sells all kinds of funky vintage goods from furniture to clothing called Flower Child (this store is done really well- highly recommended). A fun gift shop called Clifton Web is next door too. There is a nice Starbucks across the street with a patio in the front.
There is a place that's pretty new called Twist - a gay club - between Starbucks and the Diner on Clifton. I've never been there, and don't intend to either, but it looks really cool and very trendy. In the summer the front windows are openned on what looks like a retractable garage door, and the club is completely open to the sidewalk where there are tables and chairs.
This district is at the intersection of Clifton and W.117th. To reach the neighborhood you can either take the Shoreway (Rt. 2) West from downtown (it turns into Clifton Avenue), or get off at the W.117th exit from I-90 and head North to Clifton. If you are coming in town, and think you might want to stay here, there is a Day's Inn in Lakewood within walking distance.
'Amish Country' makes for a great day trip, though don't go on a Sunday, as you'll find that practically everything is closed! You can drive an hour or two, in several different directions from Cleveland (on Interstate 77 or 271) and find yourself in another world... literally. It's farm country where you'll find Amish people living. This religious faction lead a very primitive lifestyle - with no electricity, no vehicles (there transportation is a horse-drawn buggy) You'll find yourself in beautiful green, grassy surroundings, with craft shops and cheese-houses, where the Amish sell their wares.... and if you make it there, you HAVE to sample the Amish wine. It is unbelievably cheap and really rather good.
Coventry....Well this is just an interesting street with all sorts of little shops, cafe's and bars. There is even a great art movie theatre. I also recommend going into 'La cave da vin' a cozy little wine bar. And in the evening try the 'Night Kitchen' at the Dobama theatre for some interesting theatre productions...
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HOUSTON - He spent 17 years as a prosecutor and 12 years as a state district judge, but now Mike Anderson s faces one of his biggest challenges yet - taking over a Harris County District Attorney s Office which has faced turmoil, controversy and criticism.
On Tuesday, as he officially took his oath of office, he said it s a new time and the slate is once again clean.
We ll bring back the honor that this office absolutely must have, Anderson said.
He replaces Pat Lykos, a Republican, who served four years. Many of his supporters, including former District Attorney Johnny Holmes, are expecting him to be tough.
He has already promised to personally try the man accused of killing a Bellaire police officer on Christmas Eve. During her tenure, Lykos did not personally try anyone.
I ve committed to personally prosecute cases in which a police officer is killed in the line of duty and as far as any way that time will permit me to do that, I will, Anderson said.
He has not ruled out making it a death penalty case either.
Based on what I ve been told from investigators and so forth, it would take a heck of a lot of mitigating evidence for it not to be, he said.
Anderson vows to be tougher than his predecessor on DWI cases as well as the prosecution of smaller drug cases, even if that means more people in jail.
He also wants to work on restoring morale.
A number of assistant district attorneys moved on while Lykos was in charge. Anderson could not say whether any of them will be coming back but said his office is combing through applications.


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TUPPER LAKE-The L.P. Quinn Elementary School cafeteria was packed the afternoon of March 16 during a public hearing over the proposed Adirondack Club & Resort project in Tupper Lake.
Dozens of community members, business owners, politicians and other leaders from throughout the Adirondacks spoke during the afternoon and evening hearings. The overwhelming majority were in support of the Adirondack Club and Resort project proposed for the Big Tupper Ski Area.
Melissa McManus of the Tupper Lake Revitalization Committee asked the state Adirondack Park Agency to send a message that "appropriate development can happen here, that Adirondacks are still open for business and that there is in fact hope for Adirondack communities like Tupper Lake."
APA Chairman Curt Stiles and several commissioners attended the meeting, as did lead developer Michael Foxman and his partners.
Many of the speakers at the hearing cited the economic woes in Tupper Lake, including the lack of jobs, the decline of once thriving industries and the closure of many local businesses in their appeal for a speedy APA approval of the project.
Supporters argued that the resort, which would include a revamped ski area and a subdivision, would bring in hundreds of jobs and reverse Tupper Lake's declining economic trends.
Others speakers emphasized the need for increased private sector investment in the region to replace government jobs that have or will be slashed as a result of the state's fiscal problems.
Ricky Dattola, a speaker who said he was in favor of the resort proposal, asked everyone who supported the project to stand up. Nearly everyone who was seated rose to their feet.
Dozens of ACR supporters wore homemade signs on their shirts that read, "Yes ACR," while others brandished homemade posters and flags in a show of support.
Mary Sparks is a former principal of L.P. Quinn Elementary and a lifelong resident of Tupper Lake.
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Need help woth routine
Aright guys need some help here. Next week I start my new job working for a real estate company from 8-3 everyday then at night i have work at ups from 5-11.
Heres what i do now...
friday-whatever i feel like doing really/varies
Workouts usually last any where from an hour to hour and a half. I have a full gym at my house with DB's up to 60.
Any ideas on how I could switch this up? I was thinking a MWF split and then I can do whatever on the weekends cuz I dont work then. My days are gonna be super long so I was gonna work out at night after ups. I'm pretty clueless as to how I can set this up to hit every muscle group on a regular basis.
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working at UPS can be a w/o in itself. but anyway. my split would be
monday chest/abs
tuesday bi's/calves/shoulder
weds. off
thursday tris/quads/hams
friday back/abs/traps
saturday and sunday maybe cardio unless your planning on doing cardio after your lifts. take notice that there are no two similar body parts being used on the same dayor back to back e.g. bi's and back or tris and chest. the reason for this is, if you do chest then try and do tris, they will already be pre-xhausted when you worked your chest. same thing when you do back then bi's
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I think if I were in your position, I would do two of my workouts on the weekends. It seems like during the week you will be pretty tired, so maybe try to squeeze in 2-3 of your workouts then, maybe something along the lines of keeping your current split but doing something like:
Sat: Chest/Biceps
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Apparatus for measuring electrical characteristics of biological tissues includes an autonomous capsule with an external surface having openings, a plurality of electrodes located within the openings, and a processor in communication with the plurality of electrodes for generating electrical characteristics. A method for measuring electrical characteristics of biological tissues includes the steps of introducing into the digestive tract an autonomous electrode configuration, selecting sets of electrodes for measurement, introducing a current into the selected electrodes, collecting electrical data from the selected electrodes, and calculating electrical characteristics from the collected data.
1. A method for measuring electrical impedance of a biological lumen, the method comprising:
introducing into said biological lumen an autonomous device, said device including a plurality of electrodes;
collecting electrical data from said plurality of electrodes;
calculating electrical impedance from said collected data; and
selecting a maximum impedance value among a plurality of impedance values,
wherein said introducing of said device is accomplished by swallowing.
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selecting a pair of electrodes that are in contact with gastrointestinal tract in an autonomous in-vivo device including a plurality of electrodes;
collecting electrical data from the selected electrodes; and
selecting a maximum impedance value among a plurality of impedance values.
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13. Apparatus for measuring electrical characteristics of biological tissues, comprising:
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a processor that receives a plurality of impedance values from said electrodes, said impedance values being received from at least two sets of electrodes, wherein the processor selects the a maximum impedance value among said plurality of impedance values, and
wherein said electrical characteristics include at least conductivity values.
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This application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 10/218,164, entitled "METHOD FOR MEASUREMENT OF ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF TISSUE" filed Aug. 14, 2002 now U.S. Pat No. 6,584,348, which in turn is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 09/583,275, entitled "MEASUREMENT OF ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF TISSUE" filed May 31, 2000 now abandoned, each of which are incorporated entirely by reference herein.
The present invention relates to in-vivo measurement systems in general and specifically to a device for internal measurements of electrical characteristics of a biological lumen.
Physiological tissues are typified by specific electrical impedance characteristics. Variance in types of epithelial tissue, for example, may be recognized by differences in electrical characteristics (Gonzales-Correa C A et al., "Virtual biopsies in Barrett's esophagus using an impedance probe", Annals of NY Academy of Sciences, Vol. 873, April 1999, pp. 313–321).
Changes of this characteristic impedance can provide essential information about the tissue, and the entire organism. This concept has been the springboard for a great deal of research into predicting pathological conditions, especially cancer (Blad B and Baldetorp B, "Impedance spectra of tumor tissue in comparison with normal tissue: a possible clinical application for electrical impedance tomography", Physiological Measurements, Vol. 17 Suppl 4A, November 1996, pp. 105–115). For example, the early detection of colon cancer may be possible by examining differences in electrical properties of surface colonic epithelium (Davies R J et al., "Colonic epithelial impedance analysis in a murine model of large-bowel cancer", Archives of Surgery, Vol. 124(4), April 1989, pp. 480–484). These measurements are generally done using an endoscope or a probe with electrodes at the end.
Similarly, breast cancer may be predictable based on impedance differences in normal and pathological tissue (Chauveau N et al., "Ex vivo discrimination between normal and pathological tissues in human breast surgical biopsies using bioimpedance spectroscopy", Annals of NY Academy of Sciences, Vol. 873, April 1999, pp. 42–50; and Jossinet J, "A Variability of impedivity in normal and pathological breast tissue, Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, Vol. 34(5), September 1996, pp. 346–350).
Many other conditions may be predictable based on electrical impedance changes. For example, esophagus impedance may be related to Barrett's esophagus, a disorder in which the normal squamous mucosa of the esophagus is replaced by columnar epithelium (Gonzales-Correa C A et al., "Virtual biopsies in Barrett's esophagus using an impedance probe", Annals of NY Academy of Sciences, Vol. 873, April 1999, pp. 313–321). Changes in oral impedance may be related to changes in oral mucosa (Nicander B L et al., "Electrical impedance. A method to evaluate subtle changes of the human oral mucosa", European Journal of Oral Science, Vol. 105(6), December 1997, pp. 576–582). Other diagnoses using this principle include tissue injury (Paulsen K D et al., "In vivo electrical impedance spectroscopic monitoring of the progression of radiated-induced tissue injury", Radiation Research, Vol. 152(1), July 1999, pp. 41–50), lung ventilation (Frerichs I et al., "Monitoring regional lung ventillation by functional electrical impedance tomography during assisted ventillation", Annals of NY Academy of Sciences, Vol. 873, April 1999, pp. 493–505), and ischemic tissue (Casa O et al., "In vivo and in situ ischemic tissue characterization using electrical impedance spectroscopy", Annals of NY Academy of Sciences, Vol. 873, April 1999, pp. 51–58).
Measurement of impedance characteristics of tissue is typically accomplished through the use of a probe with electrodes or by implanting electrodes (Lehrer A R et al., "Electrical resistance of genital tissues during reproductive events in cows, and its possible on-farm applications: A review", Wiener Tierarztliche Monatsschrift, Vol. 78, 1991, pp. 317–322). The electrodes may be attached to the end of an enteroscope for measurements of the intestines. Additional techniques have been developed as well. One of these techniques is termed "electrical impedance tomography", or EIT (Brown B H et al., "Applied potential tomography: possible clinical applications", Clinical Physiology and Physiological Measurements, Vol. 6(2), May 1985, pp. 109–121). This method involves resistivity distribution changes following ingestion of conducting or insulating fluids. In addition, body composition may be analyzed by total body conductivity (Galvard H, et al., "Differences in body composition between female geriatric hip fracture patients and healthy controls: body fat is a more important explanatory factor for the fracture than body weight and lean body mass", Aging (Milano), Vol. 8(24), August 1996, pp. 282–286; and Yasiu T, et al., "Body composition analysis of cachetic rabbits by total body electrical conductivity", Nutrition and Cancer, Vol. 32(3), 1998, pp. 190–193).
The present invention describes apparatus and method for measuring electrical characteristics of a biological lumen.
There is thus provided, in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention, apparatus for measuring electrical characteristics of biological tissues which includes a capsule with an external surface having openings, a plurality of electrodes located within the openings, and a processor in communication with the electrodes for generating electrical characteristics.
The apparatus may further include an imager for imaging an area of interest within the biological tissue.
The capsule may be autonomous, and it may be introduced by swallowing or by placing it in a desired location in the body.
The electrical characteristics may include impedance or conductivity values or any other relevant electrical characteristics as determined by the user. The biological tissue may be the small intestine or the interior of any portion of the digestive tract.
The plurality of electrodes includes at least two electrodes. Electrodes may be metallic rings, where the openings are slits, or they may be metallic spheres or cups, where the openings are round. Electrodes may protrude through the openings or they may be flush with the external surface of the capsule.
The invention further describes a method for measuring electrical characteristics of a digestive tract in a body, including the following steps: introducing into the digestive tract an autonomous electrode configuration, selecting sets of electrodes for measurement, introducing a current into the selected electrodes, collecting electrical data from selected electrodes, and calculating electrical characteristics from collected data. The autonomous configuration may be located on the external surface of a capsule, and it may be introduced into the digestive tract by swallowing.
A further embodiment of the present invention includes the step of transmitting the electrical characteristics to a wireless receiver outside the body.
In one embodiment of the present invention the step of collecting includes obtaining a voltage between the two selected electrodes. Electrical characteristics may be impedance or conductivity values.
Furthermore, one embodiment of the present invention includes the step of measuring a time parameter. Another embodiment further includes the step of determining a distance within the digestive tract.
The present invention will be understood and appreciated more fully from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the appended drawings in which:
The present invention is a capsule with external electrodes. It may be autonomous, in that it moves through the digestive system without external control, and it may be introduced into the body by swallowing or by placing it in a desired location in the body.
In vivo measurement systems which are known in the art typically include swallowable electronic capsules which collect data and which transmit the data to a receiver system. These intestinal capsules, which are moved through the digestive system through the action of peristalsis, are often called "Heidelberg" capsules and are utilized to measure pH, temperature ("Coretemp") and pressure throughout the intestines. They have also been utilized to measure gastric residence time, which is the time it takes for food to pass through the stomach and intestines.
The intestinal capsules typically include a measuring system and a transmission system, where the transmission system transmits the measured data at radio frequencies to the receiver system. The receiver system is usually located outside the body. Alternate systems can store all the data within a storage device in the capsule. The data can then be read after the capsule exits the gastro-intestinal (GI) tract.
In U.S. Pat. No. 5,604,531, which is incorporated herein by reference, the common assignees of the present application describe a swallowable capsule that can pass through the entire digestive tract, including the small intestine, and operate as an autonomous video endoscope. A block diagram of the system of U.S. Pat. No. 5,604,531 is illustrated in
The in vivo video camera system typically comprises a swallowable capsule 10 for viewing inside the digestive system and for transmitting at least video data, a reception system 12 typically located outside a patient, and a data processor 14 for processing the video data. The data processor 14 typically operates two monitors, a position monitor 16 on which the current location of the capsule 10 within the digestive system is displayed and an image monitor 18 on which the image currently viewed by the capsule 10 is displayed.
The reception system 12 can either be portable, in which case the data it receives is temporarily stored in a storage unit 19 prior to its processing in data processor 14, or it can be stationary and close to the data processor 14. The capsule typically comprises an illumination source 42, an imager 46, and a transmitter 41.
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The capsule 10′ is typically made from plastic material, and is fabricated with small openings 21 for electrodes 20. The electrodes 20 are placed through the openings 21 so that part of each electrode 20 remains within the interior portion of the capsule 10′, and part of each electrode 20 protrudes out from the other side of the opening 21. Alternatively, electrodes 20 may be flush with the surface of the capsule 10′. The electrodes 20 may be spherical in shape, or they may be fabricated in other shapes and forms, such as cup-shaped electrodes 20′ as in
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The multiplexer 26, in direct communication with microprocessor 36, then selects another pair of electrodes 20B for impedance calculations. Every possible combination of electrode pairs is selected. Microprocessor 36 then selects the maximum impedance value from among the electrode pairs and this value is transmitted through transmitter 41 to a receiver located outside the body. The transmitted value is proportional to a characteristic impedance value for the region being measured, and is used for comparison with values obtained from other regions within the digestive tract. A similar method may be employed for other electrode configurations.
Measurements may be made at any point along the digestive tract, although the smaller diameter sections will have more contact with the electrodes. Measurements are taken at periodic intervals, for example every 0.1 second. The location of the capsule within the digestive tract at the time of measurement is determined by a telemetric system, as described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,604,531. Changes in impedance may also signal passage of the capsule through different segments of the digestive tract, such as the pylorus or various organs. For example, differences in pH values along the tract, such as the stomach versus the intestines, will result in changes in impedance measurements. These values may also aid the telemetry system of U.S. Pat. No. 5,604,531 in confirming the location of the capsule 10′ along the path of the digestive tract.
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These values can be used to calculate the velocity of the capsule, for example using a method similar to the one described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,116,119, which is incorporated herein by reference. U.S. Pat. No. 5,116,119, entitled "Method and Apparatus for Measuring Liquid Flow", describes a method of measuring liquid flow by electromagnetic radiation within a chamber of known dimensions. The momentary attenuation of the electromagnetic radiation by the liquid is measured so as to determine the momentary volume and velocity of the liquid. Similarly, the present invention utilizes electrical properties to determine velocity.
Other information may also be obtained from the cross-correlation. For example, the length of a segment from some known reference point, such as the pylorus, can be calculated.
It will be appreciated by persons skilled in the art that the present invention is not limited by what has been particularly shown and described herein above. Rather the scope of the invention is defined by the claims which follow:
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