Gastroenterology

Robotic Rehabilitation and Spinal Cord Injury: a Narrative Review.

Mobility after spinal cord injury (SCI) is among the top goals of recovery and improvement in quality of life. Those with tetraplegia rank hand function as the most important area of recovery in their lives, and those with paraplegia, walking. Without hand function, emphasis in rehabilitation is placed on accessing one's environment through technology. However, there is still much reliance on care...

Classification of Informative Frames in Colonoscopy Videos Using Convolutional Neural Networks with Binarized Weights.

Colorectal cancer is one of the common cancers in the United States. Polyps are one of the major causes of colonic cancer, and early detection of polyps will increase the chance of cancer treatments. In this paper, we propose a novel classification of informative frames based on a convolutional neural network with binarized weights. The proposed CNN is trained with colonoscopy frames along with th...

Polyp Segmentation in Colonoscopy Images Using Fully Convolutional Network.

Colorectal cancer is one of the highest causes of cancer-related death, especially in men. Polyps are one of the main causes of colorectal cancer, and...

Crackle and Breathing Phase Detection in Lung Sounds with Deep Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Neural Networks.

In this paper, we present a method for event detection in single-channel lung sound recordings. This includes the detection of crackles and breathing ...

A 3D Convolutional Neural Network Framework for Polyp Candidates Detection on the Limited Dataset of CT Colonography.

Proper training of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) requires annotated training datasets oflarge size, which are not currently available in CT col...

Automatic Delineation of the Clinical Target Volume in Rectal Cancer for Radiation Therapy using Three-dimensional Fully Convolutional Neural Networks.

Accurate, robust, and fast delineation of the clinical target volume (CTV) for the use in radiotherapy of rectal cancer (RC) is highly sought-after. C...

False-positive Troponin I Assay elevation due to occult Mixed Cryoglobulinemic Vasculitis.

A 53-year-old man with active hepatitis C and cirrhosis presented with a vasculitic rash, myalgias, and fatigue, and was found to have an elevated car...

Predicting Corticosteroid-Free Biologic Remission with Vedolizumab in Crohn's Disease.

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Vedolizumab (VDZ) is effective for Crohn's disease (CD) but costly and is slow to produce remission. Early knowledge of whether v...

Detection of high-grade small bowel obstruction on conventional radiography with convolutional neural networks.

The purpose of this pilot study is to determine whether a deep convolutional neural network can be trained with limited image data to detect high-grad...

Hookworm Detection in Wireless Capsule Endoscopy Images With Deep Learning.

As one of the most common human helminths, hookworm is a leading cause of maternal and child morbidity, which seriously threatens human health. Recent...

Potential of artificial intelligence-assisted colonoscopy using an endocytoscope (with video).

A probabilistic pathway score (PROPS) for classification with applications to inflammatory bowel disease.

SUMMARY: Gene-based supervised machine learning classification models have been widely used to differentiate disease states, predict disease progressi...

Identification of recurrent risk-related genes and establishment of support vector machine prediction model for gastric cancer.

This study sought to investigate genes related to recurrent risk and establish a support vector machine (SVM) classifier for prediction of recurrent r...

[Rectal cancer surgery: robotic or laparoscopic?].

Validation of artificial neural networks as a methodology for donor-recipient matching for liver transplantation.

In 2014, we reported a model for donor-recipient (D-R) matching in liver transplantation (LT) based on artificial neural networks (ANNs) from a Spanis...

Deep Learning Electronic Cleansing for Single- and Dual-Energy CT Colonography.

Electronic cleansing (EC) is used for computational removal of residual feces and fluid tagged with an orally administered contrast agent on CT colono...

Short-term outcomes in patients with colon cancer treated with robotic right colectomy.

PURPOSE: To report a single surgeon series of consecutive robotic right colectomies (RRC) performed for non-metastatic right colon cancer.

NLPReViz: an interactive tool for natural language processing on clinical text.

The gap between domain experts and natural language processing expertise is a barrier to extracting understanding from clinical text. We describe a pr...

Does Robotic Beating Heart Connector Totally Endoscopic Coronary Artery Bypass Bridge the Gender Gap in Coronary Bypass Surgery?

OBJECTIVE: Previous studies have shown that women carry a higher risk of morbidity and mortality after coronary artery bypass surgery. We investigated...

Robot-Assisted Versus Laparoscopy-Assisted Proximal Gastrectomy for Early Gastric Cancer in the Upper Location: Comparison of Oncological Outcomes, Surgical Stress, and Nutritional Status.

BACKGROUND: An increasing amount of attention has been paid to minimally invasive function-preserving gastrectomy, with an increase in incidence of ea...