Infection control / Modes of transmission

High performance COVID-19 screening using machine learning.

Since the World Health Organization declared the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic as an international concern of public health emergency in the early 2020, several strategies have been initiated in many countries to prevent healthcare services breakdown and collapse of healthcare structures. The most important strategy was the increased testing, diagnosis, isolation, contact tracing to...

From Outbreaks to Artificial Intelligence: A Comprehensive Review of Monkeypox Virus Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Treatment, Vaccination, and Deep Learning Applications.

After the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, concerns over virus transmission have risen. A state of health emergency was declared in 2022 due to Clade 2 of the monkeypox (MPOX) virus. In August 2024, another emergency was declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) because of the widespread Clade 1b, which caused a more severe and lethal disease. This review synthesizes current MPOX kno...

Modeling and analysis of dengue transmission in fuzzy-fractional framework: a hybrid residual power series approach.

The current manuscript presents a mathematical model of dengue fever transmission with an asymptomatic compartment to capture infection dynamics in th...

Spatiotemporal analysis of airborne pollutants and health risks in Mashhad metropolis: enhanced insights through sensitivity analysis and machine learning.

The study delved into an extensive assessment of outdoor air pollutant levels, focusing specifically on PM, SO, NO, and CO, across the Mashhad metropo...

Improved enzyme functional annotation prediction using contrastive learning with structural inference.

Recent years have witnessed the remarkable progress of deep learning within the realm of scientific disciplines, yielding a wealth of promising outcom...

Machine learning approach and geospatial analysis to determine HIV infection, awareness status, and transmission knowledge among adults in Sub-Saharan Africa.

BACKGROUND: HIV/AIDS remains a major public health challenge, in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). In 2020, 16% of people living with HIV did not know their H...

Biosecurity measures reducing spp. and hepatitis E virus prevalence in pig farms-a systematic review and meta-analysis.

spp. and hepatitis E virus (HEV) are significant foodborne zoonotic pathogens that impact the health of livestock, farmers, and the general public. T...

Human Collaborative Control of Lower-Limb Prosthesis Based on Game Theory and Fuzzy Approximation.

For leg prosthesis user, the soft tissue and skin under the stump of are not accustomed to weight bearing, excessive continuous contact pressure can l...

Advanced analytical methods for multi-spectral transmission imaging optimization: enhancing breast tissue heterogeneity detection and tumor screening with hybrid image processing and deep learning.

Light sources exhibit significant absorption and scattering effects during the transmission through biological tissues, posing challenges in identifyi...

Clade Ib: a new emerging threat in the Mpox outbreak.

Monkeypox, a zoonotic virus in the , has drawn global attention for its impact on public health. In the current Mpox outbreak, a novel clade, Ib, has ...

Sustainable nanomaterials: the role of Cyrene in optimising carbon nanotubes dispersion and filtration efficiency.

This study focuses on the fabrication and characterisation of single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) buckypapers and polyethersulfone (PES) flat-sheet ...

Automated age grading of female Culex pipiens by an optical sensor system coupled to a mosquito trap.

BACKGROUND: The age distribution of a mosquito population is a major determinant of its vectorial capacity. To contribute to disease transmission, a c...

Identification of transcription factor-lipid droplet-related gene biomarkers for the prognosis of post-acute myocardial infarction-induced heart failure.

INTRODUCTION: Patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) are at high risk of progressing to heart failure (HF). Recent research has shown that li...

Schistosomiasis transmission: A machine learning analysis reveals the importance of agrochemicals on snail abundance in Rwanda.

BACKGROUND: Schistosomiasis is an important snail-borne parasitic disease whose transmission is exacerbated by water resource management activities. I...

Acoustic Sensors data transmission integrity and endurance with IoT-enabled location-aware framework.

Environmental monitoring and disaster mitigation are critical applications of underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASNs). However, UASNs face signifi...

Securing healthcare medical image information using advance morphological component analysis, information hiding systems, and hybrid convolutional neural networks on IoMT.

Health care images contain a variety of imaging information that has specific features, which can make it challenging to assess and decide on the meth...

Nerve-Inspired Optical Waveguide Stretchable Sensor Fusing Wireless Transmission and AI Enabling Smart Tele-Healthcare.

Flexible strain monitoring of hand and joint muscle movement is recognized as an effective method for the diagnosis and rehabilitation of neurological...

Integrating graph and reinforcement learning for vaccination strategies in complex networks.

Pandemics like COVID-19 have a huge impact on human society and the global economy. Vaccines are effective in the fight against these pandemics but of...

Development of a visuo-tactile sensor for non-destructive peach firmness and contact force measurement suitable for robotic arm applications.

Precise measurement of firmness was crucial for determining optimal harvesting times, implementing rational storage strategies and minimizing avoidabl...

Integrating Remote Photoplethysmography and Machine Learning on Multimodal Dataset for Noninvasive Heart Rate Monitoring.

Non-contact heart monitoring is crucial in advancing telemedicine, fitness tracking, and mass screening. Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) is a non-c...