Critical Care

A Boolean Consistent Fuzzy Inference System for Diagnosing Diseases and Its Application for Determining Peritonitis Likelihood.

Fuzzy inference systems (FIS) enable automated assessment and reasoning in a logically consistent manner akin to the way in which humans reason. However, since no conventional fuzzy set theory is in the Boolean frame, it is proposed that Boolean consistent fuzzy logic should be used in the evaluation of rules. The main distinction of this approach is that it requires the execution of a set of stru...

Cytokine profiles in peritoneal dialysis effluent predicts the peritoneal solute transport rate in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis patients.

Cytokine profiles in peritoneal dialysis effluent (PDE) vary among patients of continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD), which may indicate the therapeutic efficiency of CAPD. We examined the cytokine profiles of PDE with stable CAPD and analyzed their relation with the peritoneal solute transport rate (PSTR). The peritoneal equilibration test (PET) was performed to evaluate peritoneal sol...

Estimation of extravascular lung water using the transpulmonary ultrasound dilution (TPUD) method: a validation study in neonatal lambs.

Increased extravascular lung water (EVLW) may contribute to respiratory failure in neonates. Accurate measurement of EVLW in these patients is limited...

Comparison of estimated glomerular filtration rate equations at the time of hemodialysis initiation.

BACKGROUND: Estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) is one of the most important guidelines in deciding the optimal timing of dialysis initiation....

Causal Phenotype Discovery via Deep Networks.

The rapid growth of digital health databases has attracted many researchers interested in using modern computational methods to discover and model pat...

Development and Preliminary Evaluation of a Prototype of a Learning Electronic Medical Record System.

Electronic medical records (EMRs) are capturing increasing amounts of data per patient. For clinicians to efficiently and accurately understand a pati...

Bio-inspired homogeneous multi-scale place recognition.

Robotic mapping and localization systems typically operate at either one fixed spatial scale, or over two, combining a local metric map and a global t...

Pain Intensity Recognition Rates via Biopotential Feature Patterns with Support Vector Machines.

BACKGROUND: The clinically used methods of pain diagnosis do not allow for objective and robust measurement, and physicians must rely on the patient's...

Using Arden Syntax for the creation of a multi-patient surveillance dashboard.

OBJECTIVE: Most practically deployed Arden-Syntax-based clinical decision support (CDS) modules process data from individual patients. The specificati...

Real alerts and artifact classification in archived multi-signal vital sign monitoring data: implications for mining big data.

Huge hospital information system databases can be mined for knowledge discovery and decision support, but artifact in stored non-invasive vital sign (...

Using Arden Syntax Medical Logic Modules to reduce overutilization of laboratory tests for detection of bacterial infections-Success or failure?

OBJECTIVE: Bacterial infections frequently cause prolonged intensive care unit (ICU) stays. Repeated measurements of the procalcitonin (PCT) biomarker...

Improvement in the Prediction of Ventilator Weaning Outcomes by an Artificial Neural Network in a Medical ICU.

BACKGROUND: Twenty-five to 40% of patients pass a spontaneous breathing trial (SBT) but fail to wean from mechanical ventilation. There is no single a...

Accuracy of Robotic Radiosurgical Liver Treatment Throughout the Respiratory Cycle.

PURPOSE: To quantify random uncertainties in robotic radiosurgical treatment of liver lesions with real-time respiratory motion management.

Sleep stage classification with ECG and respiratory effort.

Automatic sleep stage classification with cardiorespiratory signals has attracted increasing attention. In contrast to the traditional manual scoring ...

Pathology Image of the Month:Cough and Shortness of Breath in a Noncompliant Patient with HIV/AIDS.

A 37- year-old man with human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) was admitted to the intensive care unit following a...

Levosimendan improves exercise performance in patients with advanced chronic heart failure.

AIMS: Cardiopulmonary exercise test (CPET) provides parameters such as peak VO and ventilation/CO production (VE/VCO) slope, which are strong prognost...

Application of a UPLC-MS/MS method to the protein binding study of TM-2 in rat, human and beagle dog plasma.

TM-2 known as a potential antitumor drug is a novel semi-synthetic taxane derivative. As drug-protein interactions contribute to insights into pharmac...

Fuzzy Modeling to Predict Severely Depressed Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction following Admission to the Intensive Care Unit Using Clinical Physiology.

Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) constitutes an important physiological parameter for the assessment of cardiac function, particularly in the...

Detection of abnormalities in ultrasound lung image using multi-level RVM classification.

The classification of abnormalities in ultrasound images is the monitoring tool of fluid to air passage in the lung. In this study, the adaptive media...

Respiratory gas exchange during robotic-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy.

STUDY OBJECTIVE: Robotic-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy requires patients to be secured in a steep Trendelenburg position for several hours. Adde...