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Prediction of additional hospital days in patients undergoing cervical spine surgery with machine learning methods.

BACKGROUND: Machine learning (ML), a subset of artificial intelligence (AI), uses algorithms to analyze data and predict outcomes without extensive human intervention. In healthcare, ML is gaining attention for enhancing patient outcomes. This study focuses on predicting additional hospital days (AHD) for patients with cervical spondylosis (CS), a condition affecting the cervical spine. The resear...

The Future Role of Radiologists in the Artificial Intelligence-Driven Hospital.

Increasing population and healthcare costs make changes in the healthcare system necessary. This article deals with ChatGPT's perspective on the future role of radiologists in the AI-driven hospital. This perspective will be augmented by further considerations by the author. AI-based imaging technologies and chatbots like ChatGPT can help improve radiologists' performance and workflow in the futur...

Clinicosocial determinants of hospital stay following cervical decompression: A public healthcare perspective and machine learning model.

OBJECTIVE: Post-operative length of hospital stay (LOS) is a valuable measure for monitoring quality of care provision, patient recovery, and guiding ...

Ensemble machine learning for predicting in-hospital mortality in Asian women with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI).

The accurate prediction of in-hospital mortality in Asian women after ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) remains a crucial issue in medical re...

Development of a long noncoding RNA-based machine learning model to predict COVID-19 in-hospital mortality.

Tools for predicting COVID-19 outcomes enable personalized healthcare, potentially easing the disease burden. This collaborative study by 15 instituti...

Predictive modeling of multi-class diabetes mellitus using machine learning and filtering iraqi diabetes data dynamics.

Diabetes is a persistent metabolic disorder linked to elevated levels of blood glucose, commonly referred to as blood sugar. This condition can have d...

RSV Severe Infection Risk Stratification in a French 5-Year Birth Cohort Using Machine-learning.

BACKGROUND: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) poses a substantial threat to infants, often leading to challenges in hospital capacity. With recent pha...

Developmental Prediction of Poststroke Patients in Activities of Daily Living by Using Tree-Structured Parzen Estimator-Optimized Stacking Ensemble Approaches.

Poststroke injuries limit the daily activities of patients and cause considerable inconvenience. Therefore, predicting the activities of daily living ...

Pre-hospital glycemia as a biomarker for in-hospital all-cause mortality in diabetic patients - a pilot study.

BACKGROUND: Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) presents a significant healthcare challenge, with considerable economic ramifications. While blood glucose...

Development of a Predictive Model for Survival Over Time in Patients With Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Using Ensemble-Based Machine Learning.

As of now, a model for predicting the survival of patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest has not been established. This study aimed to develop a...

Physics-Informed Transfer Learning to Enhance Sleep Staging.

OBJECTIVE: At-home sleep staging using wearable medical sensors poses a viable alternative to in-hospital polysomnography due to its lower cost and lo...

Predicting in-hospital mortality among patients admitted with a diagnosis of heart failure: a machine learning approach.

Existing risk prediction models for hospitalized heart failure patients are limited. We identified patients hospitalized with a diagnosis of heart fai...

Deep learning assists detection of esophageal cancer and precursor lesions in a prospective, randomized controlled study.

Endoscopy is the primary modality for detecting asymptomatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) and precancerous lesions. Improving detection r...

Predicting central choroidal thickness from colour fundus photographs using deep learning.

The estimation of central choroidal thickness from colour fundus images can improve disease detection. We developed a deep learning method to estimate...

Automated analysis of knee joint alignment using detailed angular values in long leg radiographs based on deep learning.

Malalignment in the lower limb structure occurs due to various causes. Accurately evaluating limb alignment in situations where malalignment needs cor...

iAFPs-Mv-BiTCN: Predicting antifungal peptides using self-attention transformer embedding and transform evolutionary based multi-view features with bidirectional temporal convolutional networks.

Globally, fungal infections have become a major health concern in humans. Fungal diseases generally occur due to the invading fungus appearing on a sp...

Non-invasive prediction for pathologic complete response to neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy in lung cancer using CT-based deep learning: a multicenter study.

Neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy has revolutionized the therapeutic strategy for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and identifying candidates likely r...

Effectiveness and safety of robot-assisted versus fluoroscopy-assisted pedicle screw implantation in scoliosis surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

This study aimed to assess the effectiveness and safety of robot-assisted versus fluoroscopy-assisted pedicle screw implantation in scoliosis surgery....

A machine learning approach for predicting treatment response of hyponatremia.

Hyponatremia leads to severe central nervous system disorders and requires immediate treatment in some cases. However, a rapid increase in serum sodiu...

Effect of insurance status on perioperative outcomes after robotic pancreaticoduodenectomy: a propensity-score matched analysis.

The influence of Medicaid or being uninsured is prevailingly thought to negatively impact a patient's socioeconomic and postoperative course, yet litt...