Health Policy

Identification of Long Bone Fractures in Radiology Reports Using Natural Language Processing to support Healthcare Quality Improvement.

BACKGROUND: Important information to support healthcare quality improvement is often recorded in fre...

Tadalafil Improves Symptoms, Erectile Function and Quality of Life in Patients with Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Suggestive of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (KYU-PRO Study).

OBJECTIVES: Effect of tadalafil on lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS), erectile function and qualit...

Assessment of bacterial quality of honey produced in Tamale metropolis (Ghana).

The bacterial quality of honey from different production sites within Tamale metropolis, Ghana, was ...

An online incremental orthogonal component analysis method for dimensionality reduction.

In this paper, we introduce a fast linear dimensionality reduction method named incremental orthogon...

Deep learning architecture for air quality predictions.

With the rapid development of urbanization and industrialization, many developing countries are suff...

Semi-supervised learning of the electronic health record for phenotype stratification.

Patient interactions with health care providers result in entries to electronic health records (EHRs...

A fuzzy-logic based decision-making approach for identification of groundwater quality based on groundwater quality indices.

Due to inherent uncertainties in measurement and analysis, groundwater quality assessment is a diffi...

Cost-Sensitive Radial Basis Function Neural Network Classifier for Software Defect Prediction.

Effective prediction of software modules, those that are prone to defects, will enable software deve...

Machine-Learning Based Channel Quality and Stability Estimation for Stream-Based Multichannel Wireless Sensor Networks.

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have become more and more diversified and are today able to also sup...

Joint amplitude MEMS based measurement platform for low cost and high accessibility telerehabilitation: Elbow case study.

This paper, presents an inertial and magnetic sensor based technological platform, intended for arti...

Classification of the fragrant styles and evaluation of the aromatic quality of flue-cured tobacco leaves by machine-learning methods.

During commercial transactions, the quality of flue-cured tobacco leaves must be characterized effic...

A rapid integrated bioactivity evaluation system based on near-infrared spectroscopy for quality control of Flos Chrysanthemi.

For quality control of herbal medicines or functional foods, integral activity evaluation has become...

Applying Cost-Sensitive Extreme Learning Machine and Dissimilarity Integration to Gene Expression Data Classification.

Embedding cost-sensitive factors into the classifiers increases the classification stability and red...

Editorial Comment from Dr Kadono to Postoperative urinary incontinence exacerbates nocturia-specific quality of life after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy.

Change in quality of life in older people with dementia participating in Paro-activity: a cluster-randomized controlled trial.

AIM: The aim of this study was to investigate effects of robot-assisted group activity with Paro on ...

Iliac Limb Perigraft Access with Robotic Catheter Assistance for Type 2 Endoleak Embolization.

Retrograde perigraft access to the aneurysmal sac for type 2 endoleak embolization is a relevant alt...

Robot-assisted versus laparoscopic rectal resection for cancer in a single surgeon's experience: a cost analysis covering the initial 50 robotic cases with the da Vinci Si.

PURPOSE: The aim of this study is to compare surgical parameters and the costs of robotic surgery wi...

A computational framework for converting textual clinical diagnostic criteria into the quality data model.

BACKGROUND: Constructing standard and computable clinical diagnostic criteria is an important but ch...

Machine Learning Approach to Automated Quality Identification of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Colony Images.

The focus of this research is on automated identification of the quality of human induced pluripoten...

Robotic ultrasound-guided SBRT of the prostate: feasibility with respect to plan quality.

PURPOSE: Advances in radiation therapy delivery systems have enabled motion compensated SBRT of the ...

HPIDB 2.0: a curated database for host-pathogen interactions.

Identification and analysis of host-pathogen interactions (HPI) is essential to study infectious dis...