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BACKGROUND: To address the aging population in China, local governments began to encourage the establishment of formal care services and supplement informal care in 2015, thereby increasing the availability of different types of long-term care (LTC). In this study, nationwide survey data were accessed to identify factors influencing the types of LTC utilization by older adults in China. METHODS: D...
INTRODUCTION: Evaluating retinal fundus image for diabetic retinopathy (DR) assessment is used to reduce the risk of blindness among diabetic patients. To do this, DR staging is one of the challenging tasks in screening DR that includes the assessment of disease severity or progression. We introduce a novel Radiomics and machine learning algorithm (MLA) framework that analyzes localized vascular l...
This scoping review examines the existing literature on the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in screening for eye diseases, with a focus on...
BACKGROUND: The internet, social media, and digital health tools have transformed access and receipt of medicines information (MI), complementing or r...
BACKGROUND: Heart failure (HF) affects 1-3% of adults globally with high hospital re-admission rates and healthcare costs. Research aims to improve th...
BACKGROUND: Accurate and timely disease detection is essential in modern healthcare. Conventional imaging methods such as computed tomography (CT), ma...
Groundwater is the principal source of drinking and agricultural water supply in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta (VMD), yet it is increasingly threatened ...
Early detection of tumors constitutes a cornerstone of cancer prevention and control. Medical assessments alongside emerging screening modalities prov...
INTRODUCTION: With an aging population in the United States, the demand for joint arthroplasty procedures continues to rise. As patient volumes increa...
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: General purpose vision-language models (VLMs) demonstrate impressive capabilities, but their opaque training on uncurated i...
BACKGROUND: Artificial intelligence (AI) tools have revolutionized various aspects of education and health care in recent years. Their influence exten...
BACKGROUND: Social determinants of health (SDoH) are critical drivers of health outcomes but are often underdocumented in structured electronic health...
Food microbiology education faces significant challenges including prohibitive costs, safety concerns, and limited accessibility, as traditional labor...
BACKGROUND: Japan faces an unprecedented demographic shift, characterized by the world's most rapidly aging population and a projected surge in annual...
Cystinosis is a rare lysosomal storage disorder that affects approximately 1 in 100,000 to 200,000 live births worldwide. Long-term graft success in c...
OBJECTIVES: In the face of pandemics resulting from infectious disease, improving community resilience has become increasingly vital. China's sudden e...
Primary healthcare (PHC) plays an important role in the healthcare system, yet the shortage of qualified primary healthcare physician (PHP) restricts ...
INTRODUCTION: Current CALR mutation screening in myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) faces a trade-off between coverage and cost: allele-specific qPCR...
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Cardiac masses (CMs), though rare, include a wide spectrum of benign and malignant lesions that require distinct therapeutic...
BACKGROUND: Heart failure (HF) decompensation is the leading cause of hospitalisations in developed countries and the third most common cause in Brazi...