Infectious Disease

Deep Transfer Learning for COVID-19 Prediction: Case Study for Limited Data Problems.

OBJECTIVE: Automatic prediction of COVID-19 using deep convolution neural networks based pre-trained transfer models and Chest X-ray images.

Network graph representation of COVID-19 scientific publications to aid knowledge discovery.

INTRODUCTION: Numerous scientific journal articles related to COVID-19 have been rapidly published, making navigation and understanding of relationships difficult.

Deep Learning in the Quest for Compound Nomination for Fighting COVID-19.

The current COVID-19 pandemic initiated an unprecedented response from clinicians and the scientific community in all relevant biomedical fields. It c...

Estimation of COVID-19 epidemic curves using genetic programming algorithm.

This paper investigates the possibility of the implementation of Genetic Programming (GP) algorithm on a publicly available COVID-19 data set, in orde...

Can occupational therapy manpower be replaced with social robots in a singing group during COVID-19?

BACKGROUND: Prior to the COVID-19 global health emergency, reducing direct contacts between therapists and patients is an important issue, and could b...

COVID-19 diagnosis from chest X-ray images using transfer learning: Enhanced performance by debiasing dataloader.

BACKGROUND: Chest X-ray imaging has been proved as a powerful diagnostic method to detect and diagnose COVID-19 cases due to its easy accessibility, l...

Optimization of Genomic Classifiers for Clinical Deployment: Evaluation of Bayesian Optimization to Select Predictive Models of Acute Infection and In-Hospital Mortality.

Acute infection, if not rapidly and accurately detected, can lead to sepsis, organ failure and even death. Current detection of acute infection as wel...

Predicting Host Association for Shiga Toxin-Producing E. coli Serogroups by Machine Learning.

Escherichia coli is a species of bacteria that can be present in a wide variety of mammalian hosts and potentially soil environments. E. coli has an o...

A Belief Degree-Associated Fuzzy Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction Framework for Epistasis Detection.

Epistasis is a challenge in prediction, classification, and suspicion of human genetic diseases. Many technologies, methods, and tools have been devel...

Lower limb rehabilitation robotics: The current understanding and technology.

BACKGROUND: With the increasing rate of ambulatory disabilities and rise in the elderly population, advance methods to deliver the rehabilitation and ...

Deep learning assistance for tuberculosis diagnosis with chest radiography in low-resource settings.

Tuberculosis (TB) is a major health issue with high mortality rates worldwide. Recently, tremendous researches of artificial intelligence (AI) have be...

Diagnosis of COVID-19 Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning: A Review.

BACKGROUND: This paper provides a systematic review of the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the form of Machine Learning (ML) and Deep L...

Deep Learning Analysis in Prediction of COVID-19 Infection Status Using Chest CT Scan Features.

Background and aims Non-contrast chest computed tomography (CT) scanning is one of the important tools for evaluating of lung lesions. The aim of this...

Tuberculosis detection in chest X-ray using Mayfly-algorithm optimized dual-deep-learning features.

World-Health-Organization (WHO) has listed Tuberculosis (TB) as one among the top 10 reasons for death and an early diagnosis will help to cure the pa...

[Forefront of AI Applications for COVID-19 Imaging Diagnosis].

The intra- and inter-observer variability in diagnosis of thoracic CT images may affect the diagnosis of COVID-19. Therefore, several studies have bee...

Xanthatin Induces Leishmanicidal Activity by Affecting Carbon Metabolism in Amastigotes.

Cutaneous leishmaniasis is caused by protozoa of the genus and spread by sandflies. The standard therapy for this ailment is the first-line medicatio...

Antimicrobial, Cytotoxic and Oxidative Stress Inhibitory Activities of Terpenoids and Flavonols from (Oliv.) P.J.H. Hurter.

(knob thorn) is a deciduous tree distributed in savannah regions from Tanzania to South Africa used for timber but also medicinally for the treatment...

Achieving Equitable Access to Medicines and Health Services: A COVID-19-time Recalled Matter.

In the 21 century, while some people seek to use artificial intelligence for health services delivery, others have to surrender their health rights to...

Cytomegalovirus and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Co-infection in Renal Transplants: A Retrospective Study from a Single Center.

There is a scarcity of data regarding the impact of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection complicating the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) course. The o...

Comparative Study of Efficacy of Intralesional Purified Protein Derivative (PPD) Versus Intralesional Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) Vaccine in Management of Multiple Viral Warts.

BACKGROUND: Multiple viral warts represent a frustrating challenge for both patients and physicians. Management is difficult, primarily due to recalci...