Hospital-Based Medicine

Development of two artificial neural network models to support the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in hospitalized patients in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) remains a worldwide public health problem. Diagnostic algorithms to identify the best combination of diagnostic tests for PTB in each setting are needed for resource optimization. We developed one artificial neural network model for classification (multilayer perceptron-MLP) and another risk group assignment (self-organizing map-SOM) for PTB in hospitalized patients in...

Bio-SCoRes: A Smorgasbord Architecture for Coreference Resolution in Biomedical Text.

Coreference resolution is one of the fundamental and challenging tasks in natural language processing. Resolving coreference successfully can have a significant positive effect on downstream natural language processing tasks, such as information extraction and question answering. The importance of coreference resolution for biomedical text analysis applications has increasingly been acknowledged. ...

Natural Language Processing for Cohort Discovery in a Discharge Prediction Model for the Neonatal ICU.

OBJECTIVES: Discharging patients from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) can be delayed for non-medical reasons including the procurement of home...

Hand synergies: Integration of robotics and neuroscience for understanding the control of biological and artificial hands.

The term 'synergy' - from the Greek synergia - means 'working together'. The concept of multiple elements working together towards a common goal has b...

Diagnosis of Acute Coronary Syndrome with a Support Vector Machine.

Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is a serious condition arising from an imbalance of supply and demand to meet myocardium's metabolic needs. Patients typ...

A novel mathematical model to predict prognosis of burnt patients based on logistic regression and support vector machine.

OBJECTIVE: To develop a mathematical model of predicting mortality based on the admission characteristics of 6220 burn cases.

A Case of Influenza Associated Fulminant Myocarditis Successfully Treated with Intravenous Peramivir.

We report the case of a patient with fulminant myocarditis caused by influenza A virus, who presented with acute-onset heart failure and cardiogenic s...

canSAR: an updated cancer research and drug discovery knowledgebase.

canSAR (http://cansar.icr.ac.uk) is a publicly available, multidisciplinary, cancer-focused knowledgebase developed to support cancer translational re...

Automated Reconciliation of Radiology Reports and Discharge Summaries.

We study machine learning techniques to automatically identify limb abnormalities (including fractures, dislocations and foreign bodies) from radiolog...

Data-driven Temporal Prediction of Surgical Site Infection.

Analysis of data from Electronic Health Records (EHR) presents unique challenges, in particular regarding nonuniform temporal resolution of longitudin...

Enucleation is Better for a Giant Hemangioma Proximal to the Hepatic Portal Vascular Structures.

The aim of this study is to compare the effect of liver enucleation with resection of a giant hemangioma proximal to the hepatic portal vascular struc...

Hypercalcemia of Malignancy.

A 60-year-old man initially presented with pain in the right upper quadrant in October 2010. A computed tomography (CT) scan of the abdomen pelvis com...

Robotic, laparoscopic and open surgery for gastric cancer compared on surgical, clinical and oncological outcomes: a multi-institutional chart review. A study protocol of the International study group on Minimally Invasive surgery for GASTRIc Cancer-IMIGASTRIC.

INTRODUCTION: Gastric cancer represents a great challenge for healthcare providers and requires a multidisciplinary treatment approach in which surger...

Development of sediment load estimation models by using artificial neural networking techniques.

This study aims at the development of an artificial neural network-based model for the estimation of weekly sediment load at a catchment located in no...

Feasibility of 30-day hospital readmission prediction modeling based on health information exchange data.

INTRODUCTION: Unplanned 30-day hospital readmission account for roughly $17 billion in annual Medicare spending. Many factors contribute to unplanned ...

Epidermal Sutureless Closure of the Umbilical Base Following Laparoscopic Colectomy for Colon Cancer.

At our institute, a non-suturing method for closure of the umbilical epidermis has been used in laparoscopic colorectal resection to prevent umbilical...

Statistical Machines for Trauma Hospital Outcomes Research: Application to the PRospective, Observational, Multi-Center Major Trauma Transfusion (PROMMTT) Study.

Improving the treatment of trauma, a leading cause of death worldwide, is of great clinical and public health interest. This analysis introduces flexi...

An Ambient Intelligence Framework for End-User Service Provisioning in a Hospital Pharmacy: a Case Study.

End-user development is a new trend to provide tailored services to dynamic environments such as hospitals. These services not only facilitate daily w...

Robotic distal pancreatectomy versus conventional laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy: a comparative study for short-term outcomes.

Robotic system has been increasingly used in pancreatectomy. However, the effectiveness of this method remains uncertain. This study compared the surg...

Identification of Risk Factors for Initial Elevated Vancomyin Trough Concentrations.

Recent literature suggests that elevated vancomycin trough concentrations (>20 µg/mL) may be associated with an increased risk of nephrotoxicity and ...