Lung Cancer

Programmed cell death protein-1/programmed death-ligand 1 blockade enhances the antitumor efficacy of adoptive cell therapy against non-small cell lung cancer.

BACKGROUND: Cytokine-induced killer (CIK) cells and natural killer (NK) cells are employed by two di...

Modulation of aldosterone levels by aldosterone synthase promoter polymorphism and association with eGFR decline in patients with chronic kidney disease.

To determine whether -344T/C CYP11B2 promoter polymorphism affects serum aldosterone levels and whet...

[CA19-9 Producing Gastric Cancer with Early Recurrence of Multiple Colon Metastases Following Gastrectomy-A Case Report].

A 90-year-old male underwent total gastrectomy for gastric cancer 10 months earlier. The cancer was ...

[A Surgical Case of AFP-Producing Gastric Cancer Discovered by Rupture of Liver Metastatic Lesion].

A 57-year-old man visited our hospital with right hypochondralgia. Abdominal contrast CT showed a 10...

Predicting Emergency Visits and Hospital Admissions During Radiation and Chemoradiation: An Internally Validated Pretreatment Machine Learning Algorithm.

PURPOSE: Patients undergoing radiotherapy (RT) or chemoradiotherapy (CRT) may require emergency depa...

[Survival Analysis of Stage I Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Patients Treated with 
Da Vinci Robot-assisted Thoracic Surgery].

BACKGROUND: Da Vinci robotic surgery system is widely used in department of thoracic surgery. The ai...

A Fully Convolutional Deep Neural Network for Lung Tumor Boundary Tracking in MRI.

Delineation of lung tumor from adjacent tissue from a series of magnetic resonance images (MRI) pose...

Automatic Delineation of the Clinical Target Volume in Rectal Cancer for Radiation Therapy using Three-dimensional Fully Convolutional Neural Networks.

Accurate, robust, and fast delineation of the clinical target volume (CTV) for the use in radiothera...

Degradation of textile dyes Remazol Yellow Gold and reactive Turquoise: optimization, toxicity and modeling by artificial neural networks.

In this work, the degradation of Remazol Yellow Gold RNL-150% and Reactive Turquoise Q-G125 were inv...

Cardiorenal Outcomes in the CANVAS, DECLARE-TIMI 58, and EMPA-REG OUTCOME Trials: A Systematic Review.

In this systematic review, we sought to summarize the 3 recent sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibi...

[Prediction of three-dimensional dose distribution in intensity-modulated radiation therapy based on neural network learning].

OBJECTIVE: To establish the association between the geometric anatomical characteristics of the pati...

Renal Function Estimates and Dosing of Direct Oral Anticoagulants in Stroke Patients with Atrial Fibrillation: An Observational Study.

PURPOSE: Appropriate dosing of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) requires consideration of renal fu...

3-D Convolutional Encoder-Decoder Network for Low-Dose CT via Transfer Learning From a 2-D Trained Network.

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) has attracted major attention in the medical imaging field, sinc...

Robotic right middle lobectomy with a subxiphoid utility port.

We present the case of a 74-year-old man with Stage IIa pulmonary adenocarcinoma, for which he under...

[A Paired Case Controlled Study Comparing the Short-term Outcomes of Da Vinci RATS and VATS Approach for Non-small Cell Lung Cancer].

BACKGROUND: Da Vinci Surgical System is one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century, which re...

Overview of the Biological Activities of a Methanol Extract from Wild Red Belt Conk, Fomitopsis pinicola (Agaricomycetes), Fruiting Bodies from Central Italy.

Fomitopsis pinicola (Sw.) P. Karst. (Fomitopsidaceae) is a medicinal mushroom with a variety of heal...

Low dose CT reconstruction via L1 norm dictionary learning using alternating minimization algorithm and balancing principle.

Excessive radiation exposure in computed tomography (CT) scans increases the chance of developing ca...

Radiation Oncology Terminology Linker: A Step Towards a Linked Data Knowledge Base.

Performing image feature extraction in radiation oncology is often dependent on the organ and tumor ...

[What Is Necessary for Radiation Technology Studies for Big Data and AI Era?].

On the Fuzziness of Machine Learning, Neural Networks, and Artificial Intelligence in Radiation Oncology.

The dose-response association between estimated glomerular filtration rate and prognosis of patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction from rural areas of China's Liaoning province.

We aimed to investigate the dose-response associations between chronic kidney disease (CKD), and sho...