Emergency Medicine

Features identification for automatic burn classification.

PURPOSE: In this paper an automatic system to diagnose burn depths based on colour digital photographs is presented.

Prediction of Outcome in Acute Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding Using Gradient Boosting.

BACKGROUND: There are no widely used models in clinical care to predict outcome in acute lower gastro-intestinal bleeding (ALGIB). If available these could help triage patients at presentation to appropriate levels of care/intervention and improve medical resource utilisation. We aimed to apply a state-of-the-art machine learning classifier, gradient boosting (GB), to predict outcome in ALGIB usin...

Proximal tibia fracture in a patient with incomplete spinal cord injury associated with robotic treadmill training.

STUDY DESIGN: One case report of proximal tibia fracture in a patient with incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI) associated with robotic treadmill train...

A medical cost estimation with fuzzy neural network of acute hepatitis patients in emergency room.

Taiwan is an area where chronic hepatitis is endemic. Liver cancer is so common that it has been ranked first among cancer mortality rates since the e...

Demand Forecast Using Data Analytics for the Preallocation of Ambulances.

The objective of prehospital emergency medical services (EMSs) is to have a short response time. By increasing the operational efficiency, the surviva...

Prediction of feature genes in trauma patients with the TNF rs1800629 A allele using support vector machine.

BACKGROUND: Tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α variant is closely linked to sepsis syndrome and mortality after severe trauma. We aimed to identify feature...

Evaluation of the Effect of a Continuous Treatment: A Machine Learning Approach with an Application to Treatment for Traumatic Brain Injury.

For a continuous treatment, the generalised propensity score (GPS) is defined as the conditional density of the treatment, given covariates. GPS adjus...

An Ebola virus-centered knowledge base.

Ebola virus (EBOV), of the family Filoviridae viruses, is a NIAID category A, lethal human pathogen. It is responsible for causing Ebola virus disease...

Comparison of Coopdech®, CoPilot®, Intubrite®, and Macintosh laryngoscopes for tracheal intubation during pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation: a randomized, controlled crossover simulation trial.

UNLABELLED: The aim of the study was to compare the intubation times and success rates of various laryngoscopes during resuscitation in pediatric emer...

Morbidity Rate Prediction of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) Using the Support Vector Machine and the Aedes aegypti Infection Rate in Similar Climates and Geographical Areas.

BACKGROUND: In the past few decades, several researchers have proposed highly accurate prediction models that have typically relied on climate paramet...

Mortality risk prediction in burn injury: Comparison of logistic regression with machine learning approaches.

INTRODUCTION: Predicting mortality from burn injury has traditionally employed logistic regression models. Alternative machine learning methods have b...

Hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers promote systemic hyperfibrinolysis that is both dependent and independent of plasmin.

BACKGROUND: Hyperfibrinolysis plays an integral role in the genesis of trauma-induced coagulopathy. Recent data demonstrate that red blood cell lysis ...

Utilizing Telemedicine in the Trauma Intensive Care Unit: Does It Impact Teamwork?

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to examine the impact of a telemedical robot on trauma intensive care unit (TICU) clinician teamwork (i.e., team...

The Quebec rural emergency department project: a cross-sectional study of a potential two-pronged strategy in the knowledge transfer process.

INTRODUCTION: Health services research generates useful knowledge. Promotion of implementation of this knowledge in medical practice is essential. Pri...

Cytotoxic response of platinum-coated gold nanorods in human breast cancer cells at very low exposure levels.

Because of unique optical behavior gold nanorods (GNRs) have attracted attention for the application in biomedical field such as bio-sensing, bio-imag...

The use of hemostatic agents does not prevent hemorrhagic complications of robotic partial nephrectomy.

PURPOSE: To assess the impact of HA on robotic PN (RPN) outcomes.

Variable importance and prediction methods for longitudinal problems with missing variables.

We present prediction and variable importance (VIM) methods for longitudinal data sets containing continuous and binary exposures subject to missingne...

Bridging a translational gap: using machine learning to improve the prediction of PTSD.

BACKGROUND: Predicting Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a pre-requisite for targeted prevention. Current research has identified group-level ri...

Proliferative activity of a blend of Echinacea angustifolia and Echinacea purpurea root extracts in human vein epithelial, HeLa, and QBC-939 cell lines, but not in Beas-2b cell lines.

Echinacea is used for its immunostimulating properties and may have a role in modulating adverse immune effects of chemotherapy (i.e., use of 5-fluoro...

Partial splenectomy in the era of minimally invasive surgery: the current laparoscopic and robotic experiences.

BACKGROUND: Partial splenectomy (PS) is a spleen-preserving technique that is applied as a result of trauma, focal lesions or hematological conditions...