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Effect of vitamin D deficiency on the development of postoperative atrial fibrillation in coronary artery bypass patients.

Various factors may be responsible for the development of postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF) in coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) patients. In our study, we demonstrated the effect of vitamin D deficiency on the development of POAF. In this prospective case control study, patients undergoing elective, isolated CABG were considered. A total of 15 patients (16.6%) who developed POAF during...

Acute systolic heart failure with normal admission BNP: clinical features and outcomes.

INTRODUCTION: The characteristics and outcomes of patients hospitalized with acute systolic heart failure (HF) and normal admission B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) has not been previously explored.

$\mathtt {Deepr}$: A Convolutional Net for Medical Records.

Feature engineering remains a major bottleneck when creating predictive systems from electronic medical records. At present, an important missing elem...

Machine-learning approach identifies a pattern of gene expression in peripheral blood that can accurately detect ischaemic stroke.

Early and accurate diagnosis of stroke improves the probability of positive outcome. The objective of this study was to identify a pattern of gene exp...

Causality patterns and machine learning for the extraction of problem-action relations in discharge summaries.

Clinical narrative text includes information related to a patient's medical history such as chronological progression of medical problems and clinical...

Procalcitonin as a potential predicting factor for prognosis in bacterial meningitis.

We investigated the potential role of serum procalcitonin in differentiating bacterial meningitis from viral meningitis, and in predicting the prognos...

Predicting early psychiatric readmission with natural language processing of narrative discharge summaries.

The ability to predict psychiatric readmission would facilitate the development of interventions to reduce this risk, a major driver of psychiatric he...

Emergence of gamma motor activity in an artificial neural network model of the corticospinal system.

Muscle spindle discharge during active movement is a function of mechanical and neural parameters. Muscle length changes (and their derivatives) repre...

A mixed-ensemble model for hospital readmission.

OBJECTIVE: A hospital readmission is defined as an admission to a hospital within a certain time frame, typically thirty days, following a previous di...

Application of the removal of pollutants from textile industry wastewater in constructed wetlands using fuzzy logic.

There are more than a hundred textile industries in Turkey that discharge large quantities of dye-rich wastewater, resulting in water pollution. Such ...

Developing Artificial Neural Network Models to Predict Functioning One Year After Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury.

OBJECTIVE: To develop mathematical models for predicting level of independence with specific functional outcomes 1 year after discharge from inpatient...

From binary presumptive assays to probabilistic assessments: Differentiation of shooters from non-shooters using IMS, OGSR, neural networks, and likelihood ratios.

Screening tests are used in forensic science for field testing and directing laboratory analysis of physical evidence. These tests are often binary in...

Re: Robot-assisted Versus Open Radical Prostatectomy: A Contemporary Analysis of an All-payer Discharge Database.

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 s...

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...

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...

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...

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...