MENTAL HEALTH PRIORITIES IN VIETNAM: A MIXED-METHODS ANALYSIS

Mental health priorities in Vietnam: a mixed-methods analysis

Abstract Background The Mental Health Country Profile is a tool that was generated by the International Mental Health Policy and Services Project to inform policy makers, professionals and other key stakeholders about important issues which need to be considered in mental health policy development.The Mental Health Country Profile contains four dom

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A metal artifact reduction algorithm in CT using multiple prior images by recursive active contour segmentation.

We propose a novel metal artifact reduction (MAR) algorithm for CT images that completes a corrupted sinogram along the metal trace region.When metal implants are located inside a field of view, they create a barrier to the transmitted X-ray beam due to the high attenuation of metals, which significantly degrades the image quality.To fill in the me

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Treating anxiety after stroke (TASK): the feasibility phase of a novel web-enabled randomised controlled trial

Abstract Background Anxiety affects a quarter of strokes.It can be disabling even after mild stroke and transient ischaemic attack (TIA).It is not feasible to deliver conventional psychological therapies to the large population of anxious stroke and TIA patients.We are testing the feasibility of a web-enabled randomised controlled trial (RCT) to co

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