Gastroenterology

Identifying tumor in pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms from Ki67 images using transfer learning.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has clear guidelines regarding the use of Ki67 index in defining...

Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Polyp Detection for Colonoscopy: Initial Experience.

Intravenous infusion of magnesium sulfate is not associated with cardiovascular, liver, kidney, and metabolic toxicity in adults.

BACKGROUND: Magnesium (Mg) deficiency contributes to the pathophysiology of numerous diseases. The t...

Prevalence and genotypes of Giardia lamblia from stray dogs and cats in Guangdong, China.

Giardia lamblia is a worldwide zoonotic intestinal parasite that infects humans and a wide range of ...

A survey on Barrett's esophagus analysis using machine learning.

This work presents a systematic review concerning recent studies and technologies of machine learnin...

Predicting heat stress index in Sasso hens using automatic linear modeling and artificial neural network.

There is an increasing use of robust analytical algorithms in the prediction of heat stress. The pre...

An application of cascaded 3D fully convolutional networks for medical image segmentation.

Recent advances in 3D fully convolutional networks (FCN) have made it feasible to produce dense voxe...

Patient-specific and global convolutional neural networks for robust automatic liver tumor delineation in follow-up CT studies.

Radiological longitudinal follow-up of tumors in CT scans is essential for disease assessment and li...

Autonomously Controlled Magnetic Flexible Endoscope for Colon Exploration.

A Functional Signature Ontology (FUSION) screen detects an AMPK inhibitor with selective toxicity toward human colon tumor cells.

AMPK is a serine threonine kinase composed of a heterotrimer of a catalytic, kinase-containing α and...

Obesity as an independent predictive factor for pathologic complete response after neoadjuvant chemoradiation in rectal cancer.

PURPOSE: The predictive role of obesity on pathologic complete response (pCR) after neoadjuvant chem...

Impact of the off-clamp endoscopic robot-assisted simple enucleation (ERASE) of clinical T1 renal tumors on the postoperative renal function: Results from a matched-pair comparison.

PURPOSE: To evaluate the surgical and functional outcomes of a matched-paired series of on-clamp vs ...

Spatial aggregation of holistically-nested convolutional neural networks for automated pancreas localization and segmentation.

Accurate and automatic organ segmentation from 3D radiological scans is an important yet challenging...

A Systematic Machine Learning Based Approach for the Diagnosis of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Risk and Progression.

Prevention and diagnosis of NAFLD is an ongoing area of interest in the healthcare community. Screen...

Application of artificial intelligence using a convolutional neural network for detecting gastric cancer in endoscopic images.

BACKGROUND: Image recognition using artificial intelligence with deep learning through convolutional...

Effects of Sub-lethal Concentrations of Silver Nanoparticles on a Simulated Intestinal Prokaryotic-Eukaryotic Interface.

Nanotechnology applications are expected to bring a range of benefits to the food sector, aiming to ...

Automated diagnosis of focal liver lesions using bidirectional empirical mode decomposition features.

Liver is the heaviest internal organ of the human body and performs many vital functions. Prolonged ...

Carboxybetaine-modified succinylated chitosan-based beads encourage pancreatic β-cells (Min-6) to form islet-like spheroids under in vitro conditions.

In vitro, pancreatic β-cells tend to reduce their ability to aggregate into islets and lose insulin-...

Pro-inflammatory cytokines after an episode of acute pancreatitis: associations with fasting gut hormone profile.

INTRODUCTION: Pro-inflammatory cytokines, such as interleukin (IL)-6, tumour necrosis factor (TNF)α,...

Inflammatory bowel disease patients experiencing a loss of response to infliximab regain long-term response after undergoing granulocyte/monocyte apheresis: A case series.

Up to 50% of patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) or Crohn's disease (CD) experience a loss of resp...

Serum Vitamin D Levels in Treatment-naïve Chronic Hepatitis B Patients.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: According to the demographic health survey conducted in 2015, Egypt had 1...