Brassica napus is a vegetable oil crop, commonly known as rapeseed (or canola). It is widely used as a source of oil and protein for food and industrial applications, but also as a remedy, and in a field of attraction or as an ornament due to its diverse flower colors. Every part of rapeseed is useful, even the waste, which could be used to feed animals, or recycled. In this review, the use of rapeseed in these applications is presented, starting with the preparation of oil and protein from the seeds, before their release in the market, to the utilization of natural unprocessed rapeseed. Progress in rapeseed exploitation for food, remedy, energy source, and industrial applications are analyzed to show variability in diverse findings, to provide insights and progressive descriptions of rapeseed usage to other scholars. Moreover, advancements in breeding for rapeseed improvement were described. In the future, strategies could be developed or improved to avoid or decrease crop losses, but also to increase interest in propagating the valuable traits of rapeseed.

Technical advancements significantly improve earlier diagnosis of cervical cancer, but accurate diagnosis is still difficult due to various factors. We develop an artificial intelligence assistive diagnostic solution, AIATBS, to improve cervical liquid-based thin-layer cell smear diagnosis according to clinical TBS criteria. We train AIATBS with >81,000 retrospective samples. It integrates YOLOv3 for target detection, Xception and Patch-based models to boost target classification, and U-net for nucleus segmentation. We integrate XGBoost and a logical decision tree with these models to optimize the parameters given by the learning process, and we develop a complete cervical liquid-based cytology smear TBS diagnostic system which also includes a quality control solution. We validate the optimized system with >34,000 multicenter prospective samples and achieve better sensitivity compared to senior cytologists, yet retain high specificity while achieving a speed of <180s/slide. Our system is adaptive to sample preparation using different standards, staining protocols and scanners.

This paper reports the availability of a high-resolution atlas of the adult rat. The atlas is composed of 9475 cryosectional images captured in 4600 × 2580 × 24-bit TIFF format, constructed using serial cryosection-milling techniques. Cryosection images were segmented, labelled and reconstructed into three-dimensional (3D) computerized models. These images, 3D models, technical details, relevant software and further information are available at our website, http://vchibp.vicp.net/vch/mice/.Key words anatomical atlas; imaging; rat.The rat is extensively used in the scientific research of conditions that have a serious impact on our general population. A detailed anatomical rat atlas will benefit rat studies by providing precise structural information on the whole rat. The rat atlas also provides a framework for integrative study of the physiological and pathological phenotype of the rat, which may provide great insight into the relationship between the structure and function of the rat (Bard, 2005). Some scientists and groups of scientists have made progress on the anatomical rat atlas. But until now, these rat atlases have looked only at regional anatomy (Toga et al. 1995;Bard et al. 1998), or are of low resolution such as the computer tomography atlas (Montgomery et al. 2001). In this study, we have developed a high-resolution Sprague-Dawley (SD) rat atlas that covers the anatomy of the whole rat.Serial cryosection-milling and digital imaging techniques were employed to create the SD rat anatomical atlas. Healthy adult male SD rats were used for the study. After being anaesthetized, depilated and killed via suffocation, the rats were frozen completely in a − 85 ° C ultra freezer for a minimum of 24 h, ensuring that the specimens remained in the correct anatomical posture with both sides symmetrical. The rats were then embedded with a 3% gelatin solution in an embedding box and frozen to − 85 ° C for 48 h. Serial cryosection images of the rats were acquired using the cryosectionmilling imaging system. Thereafter, 9475 horizontal section images (4600 × 2580 × 24-bit TIFF format) of rat anatomy (at 20 µ m thickness) were obtained (Fig. 1).Coronal and sagittal section images were computerized from a horizontal section. Anatomical structures and arterial vessels were segmented using an auto-segmentation program, but most of the inner organs were segmented manually by tracing digital images from these serial cryosection images using Photoshop software (Adobe, USA) under the guidance of an experienced anatomist.Interactive two-dimensional (2D) atlas-viewing software was developed to visualize three orthoslices, featuring zoom, anatomical labelling and organ measurement. A 3D computerized model of rat anatomy was generated using a parallel reconstruction algorithm (Fig. 2) (Liu et al. 2005). An interactive Internet 3D organs browser based on virtual reality modelling language technique was deployed on our website. The cryosection images, 3D models, technical details, relevant software and further information ar...