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A doubly robust approach for cost-effectiveness estimation from observational data.

Estimation of common cost-effectiveness measures, including the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio and the net monetary benefit, is complicated by the need to account for informative censoring and inherent skewness of the data. In addition, since the two components of these measures, medical costs and survival are often collected from observational claims data, one must account for potential con...

Scientific Reproducibility in Biomedical Research: Provenance Metadata Ontology for Semantic Annotation of Study Description.

Scientific reproducibility is key to scientific progress as it allows the research community to build on validated results, protect patients from potentially harmful trial drugs derived from incorrect results, and reduce wastage of valuable resources. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently published a systematic guideline titled "Rigor and Reproducibility " for supporting reproducible re...

Object class segmentation of RGB-D video using recurrent convolutional neural networks.

Object class segmentation is a computer vision task which requires labeling each pixel of an image with the class of the object it belongs to. Deep co...

Fertility of lactating dairy cows treated with gonadotropin-releasing hormone at AI, 5 days after AI, or both, during summer heat stress.

Objectives of this experiment were to evaluate pregnancy per AI (P/AI) and progesterone (P4) concentrations after AI of lactating dairy cows under hea...

Evaluating semantic similarity between Chinese biomedical terms through multiple ontologies with score normalization: An initial study.

BACKGROUND: Semantic similarity estimation significantly promotes the understanding of natural language resources and supports medical decision making...

Energy Efficient Monitoring of Metered Dose Inhaler Usage.

Life-long chronic inflammatory diseases of the airways, such as asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, are very common worldwide, affecting...

Inverse treatment planning for spinal robotic radiosurgery: an international multi-institutional benchmark trial.

Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) is the accurate, conformal delivery of high-dose radiation to well-defined targets while minimizing normal structure d...

Merge Fuzzy Visual Servoing and GPS-Based Planning to Obtain a Proper Navigation Behavior for a Small Crop-Inspection Robot.

The concept of precision agriculture, which proposes farming management adapted to crop variability, has emerged in recent years. To effectively imple...

Two fast and accurate heuristic RBF learning rules for data classification.

This paper presents new Radial Basis Function (RBF) learning methods for classification problems. The proposed methods use some heuristics to determin...

The Node Deployment of Intelligent Sensor Networks Based on the Spatial Difference of Farmland Soil.

Considering that agricultural production is characterized by vast areas, scattered fields and long crop growth cycles, intelligent wireless sensor net...

Local seismic network for monitoring of a potential nuclear power plant area.

This study presents a plan for seismic monitoring of a region around a potential nuclear power plant. Seismic monitoring is needed to evaluate seismic...

Long-range recruitment of Martinotti cells causes surround suppression and promotes saliency in an attractor network model.

Although the importance of long-range connections for cortical information processing has been acknowledged for a long time, most studies focused on t...

Feasibility of 30-day hospital readmission prediction modeling based on health information exchange data.

INTRODUCTION: Unplanned 30-day hospital readmission account for roughly $17 billion in annual Medicare spending. Many factors contribute to unplanned ...

Investigating the clinical advantages of a robotic linac equipped with a multileaf collimator in the treatment of brain and prostate cancer patients.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the performance of a commercially avail-able CyberKnife system with a multileaf collimator (CK-MLC) for ster...

Adaptive optimization by 6 DOF robotic couch in prostate volumetric IMRT treatment: rototranslational shift and dosimetric consequences.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the magnitude and dosimetric relevance of translational and rotational shifts on IGRT prostate volumetric...

Is labral hypotrophy correlated with increased acetabular depth?

Labral hypertrophy is a distinct feature in hip dysplasia. Occasionally, very small, hypotrophic labra are observed. However, there is no literature c...

On-water remote monitoring robotic system for estimating the patch coverage of Anabaena sp. filaments in shallow water.

An on-water remote monitoring robotic system was developed for indirectly estimating the relative density of marine cyanobacteria blooms at the subtid...

Increasing the efficiency of trial-patient matching: automated clinical trial eligibility pre-screening for pediatric oncology patients.

BACKGROUND: Manual eligibility screening (ES) for a clinical trial typically requires a labor-intensive review of patient records that utilizes many r...

A support vector machine approach for truncated fingerprint image detection from sweeping fingerprint sensors.

A sweeping fingerprint sensor converts fingerprints on a row by row basis through image reconstruction techniques. However, a built fingerprint image ...

A new modeling approach for quantifying expert opinion in the drug discovery process.

Expert opinion plays an important role when choosing clusters of chemical compounds for further investigation. Often, the process by which the cluster...