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Objective
Patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) often experience significant delay between symptom onset and diagnosis for reasons that are incompletely understood. We investigated associations between demographic, medical, and socioeconomic factors and axSpA diagnostic delay.
Methods
We identified patients meeting modified New York criteria for ankylosing spondylitis (AS) or 2009 Assessment...
Differentiable rendering of translucent objects with respect to their shapes has been a long‐standing problem. State‐of‐the‐art methods require detecting object silhouettes or specifying change rates inside translucent objects—both of which can be expensive for translucent objects with complex shapes.
In this paper, we address this problem for translucent objects with no refractive or reflective boundaries...