Infectious Disease

Screening of Therapeutic Agents for COVID-19 Using Machine Learning and Ensemble Docking Studies.

The current pandemic demands a search for therapeutic agents against the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Here, we present an efficient computational strategy that combines machine learning (ML)-based models and high-fidelity ensemble docking studies to enable rapid screening of possible therapeutic ligands. Targeting the binding affinity of molecules for either the isolated SARS-CoV-2 S-protein at i...

Natural Language Processing for Rapid Response to Emergent Diseases: Case Study of Calcium Channel Blockers and Hypertension in the COVID-19 Pandemic.

BACKGROUND: A novel disease poses special challenges for informatics solutions. Biomedical informatics relies for the most part on structured data, which require a preexisting data or knowledge model; however, novel diseases do not have preexisting knowledge models. In an emergent epidemic, language processing can enable rapid conversion of unstructured text to a novel knowledge model. However, al...

Text Processing for Detection of Fungal Ocular Involvement in Critical Care Patients: Cross-Sectional Study.

BACKGROUND: Fungal ocular involvement can develop in patients with fungal bloodstream infections and can be vision-threatening. Ocular involvement has...

Artificial intelligence for the detection of COVID-19 pneumonia on chest CT using multinational datasets.

Chest CT is emerging as a valuable diagnostic tool for clinical management of COVID-19 associated lung disease. Artificial intelligence (AI) has the p...

Improved Antibiotic Detection in Raw Milk Using Machine Learning Tools over the Absorption Spectra of a Problem-Specific Nanobiosensor.

In this article we present the development of a biosensor system that integrates nanotechnology, optomechanics and a spectral detection algorithm for ...

The use of knowledge management tools in viroinformatics. Example study of a highly conserved sequence motif in Nsp3 of SARS-CoV-2 as a therapeutic target.

Knowledge management tools that assist in systematic review and exploration of scientific knowledge generally are of obvious potential importance in e...

A Novel Approach for Continuous Health Status Monitoring and Automatic Detection of Infection Incidences in People With Type 1 Diabetes Using Machine Learning Algorithms (Part 2): A Personalized Digital Infectious Disease Detection Mechanism.

BACKGROUND: Semisupervised and unsupervised anomaly detection methods have been widely used in various applications to detect anomalous objects from a...

Rapid identification of COVID-19 severity in CT scans through classification of deep features.

BACKGROUND: Chest CT is used for the assessment of the severity of patients infected with novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19). We collected chest CT sca...

Comparing different deep learning architectures for classification of chest radiographs.

Chest radiographs are among the most frequently acquired images in radiology and are often the subject of computer vision research. However, most of t...

A Single-Center Evaluation of Extended Infusion Piperacillin/Tazobactam for Empiric Treatment in the Intensive Care Unit.

Piperacillin/tazobactam (PTZ) extended infusion (EI) is often used empirically in the intensive care unit (ICU). Gram-negative (GN) organisms with PT...

The Biopolitics of Social Distancing.

As COVID-19 spreads across the globe, new technologies are being leveraged to enforce social distancing requirements. I explore social distancing thro...

Triazole-based osmium(ii) complexes displaying red/near-IR luminescence: antimicrobial activity and super-resolution imaging.

Cellular uptake, luminescence imaging and antimicrobial activity against clinically relevant methicillin-resistant (MRSA) bacteria are reported. The ...

Prediction of respiratory decompensation in Covid-19 patients using machine learning: The READY trial.

BACKGROUND: Currently, physicians are limited in their ability to provide an accurate prognosis for COVID-19 positive patients. Existing scoring syste...

A fully automatic deep learning system for COVID-19 diagnostic and prognostic analysis.

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread globally, and medical resources become insufficient in many regions. Fast diagnosis of COVID-19 and fin...

Predictive modeling by deep learning, virtual screening and molecular dynamics study of natural compounds against SARS-CoV-2 main protease.

The whole world is facing a great challenging time due to Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by SARS-CoV-2. Globally, more than 14.6 M people have ...

Applying Machine Learning Models with An Ensemble Approach for Accurate Real-Time Influenza Forecasting in Taiwan: Development and Validation Study.

BACKGROUND: Changeful seasonal influenza activity in subtropical areas such as Taiwan causes problems in epidemic preparedness. The Taiwan Centers for...

Mathematical models and deep learning for predicting the number of individuals reported to be infected with SARS-CoV-2.

We introduce a novel methodology for predicting the time evolution of the number of individuals in a given country reported to be infected with SARS-C...

Evaluation of magnesium oxide and zinc oxide nanoparticles against multi-drug-resistance Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

OBJECTIVE: The current study has evaluated the MICs and MBCs of ZnONPs, MgONPs, and MgONPs-ZnONPs against HRv Mtb and MDR-Mtb.

Detection of Bacteremia in Surgical In-Patients Using Recurrent Neural Network Based on Time Series Records: Development and Validation Study.

BACKGROUND: Detecting bacteremia among surgical in-patients is more obscure than other patients due to the inflammatory condition caused by the surger...

Development and validation of prognosis model of mortality risk in patients with COVID-19.

This study aimed to identify clinical features for prognosing mortality risk using machine-learning methods in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 ...