Obstetrics & Gynecology

Supplementation with long-acting progesterone in early diestrus in beef cattle: I. effect of artificial insemination on onset of luteolysis.

Progesterone (P4) supplementation in early diestrus advances changes in the endometrial transcriptome, stimulating embryonic development. However, it also induces early onset of luteolysis. Occurrence of luteolysis before D16 postmating can be detrimental to fertility. A potential counteracting role of the elongating conceptus on early luteolysis is understood poorly. The aim of the study was to e...

Prenatal exposure to persistent organic pollutants in Northern Tanzania and their distribution between breast milk, maternal blood, placenta and cord blood.

Human exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) begins during pregnancy and may cause adverse health effects in the fetus or later in life. The present study aimed to assess prenatal POPs exposure to Tanzanian infants and evaluate the distribution of POPs between breast milk, maternal blood, placenta and cord blood. For assessment of prenatal exposure, 48 maternal blood samples from Mount M...

MALDI-Imaging for Classification of Epithelial Ovarian Cancer Histotypes from a Tissue Microarray Using Machine Learning Methods.

PURPOSE: Precise histological classification of epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) has immanent diagnostic and therapeutic consequences, but remains chal...

Cricket fast bowling detection in a training setting using an inertial measurement unit and machine learning.

Fast bowlers are at a high risk of overuse injuries. There are specific bowling frequency ranges known to have negative or protective effects on fast ...

Use of natural language processing in electronic medical records to identify pregnant women with suicidal behavior: towards a solution to the complex classification problem.

We developed algorithms to identify pregnant women with suicidal behavior using information extracted from clinical notes by natural language processi...

Scoring System for Lesions Induced by Different Strains of Newcastle Disease Virus in Chicken.

Newcastle disease virus strains are velogenic, mesogenic, and lentogenic. This study aims to design a scoring system for lesions induced by different ...

Vitamin D Level in Women with Uterine Fibroid: An Observational Study in Eastern Indian Population.

PURPOSE: Vitamin D deficiency has been proposed to be a risk factor in the pathogenesis of uterine fibroid in few recently published studies conducted...

Investigating a Needle-Based Epidural Procedure in Obstetric Anesthesia.

This study investigates the safety and efficacy of a large-dose, needle-based epidural technique in obstetric anesthesia. The technique differs from a...

Expression of NOD1 and downstream factors in placenta, fetal membrane and plasma from pregnancies with premature rupture of membranes and their significance.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the expression and significance of NOD1 (nucleotide oligomerization domain 1) and its downstream factors in placenta, fetal ...

Investigation of magnetic silica with thermoresponsive chitosan coating for drug controlled release and magnetic hyperthermia application.

In this study, a drug delivery system for chemo-hyperthermia applications is proposed and fabricated. The delivery system consists of magnetic-silica ...

Assessment of ovulation synchronization protocols in goats and use of pregnancy specific protein B (PSPB) enzyme linked immunsorbent assay (ELISA) to determine kid number at birth.

The efficacy of several protocols for ovulation synchronization and timed artificial insemination (TAI) in goats was examined. In addition, the relati...

Image Registration based Cervical Cancer Detection and Segmentation Using ANFIS Classifier.

Cervical cancer is the leading cancer in women around the world. In this paper, Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) classifier based cervica...

Concentration of stromal cell-derived factor-1 (SDF-1/CXCL12) in the follicular fluid is associated with blastocyst development.

PURPOSE: To study the association between stromal cell-derived factor-1 (SDF-1/CXCL12) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) concentrations in...

Minimally invasive surgery improves short-term outcomes of nerve-sparing radical hysterectomy in patients with cervical cancer: a propensity-matched analysis with open abdominal surgery.

OBJECTIVES: Nerve-sparing radical hysterectomy has been implemented in order to reduce pelvic floor dysfunctions in women undergoing radical surgery f...

Deep-learned placental vessel segmentation for intraoperative video enhancement in fetoscopic surgery.

INTRODUCTION: Twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS) is a potentially lethal condition that affects pregnancies in which twins share a single placen...

A Convenient Non-harm Cervical Spondylosis Intelligent Identity method based on Machine Learning.

Cervical spondylosis (CS), a most common orthopedic diseases, is mainly identified by the doctor's judgment from the clinical symptoms and cervical ch...

Metal artifact reduction on cervical CT images by deep residual learning.

BACKGROUND: Cervical cancer is the fifth most common cancer among women, which is the third leading cause of cancer death in women worldwide. Brachyth...

Preliminary study on alginate/NIPAM hydrogel-based soft microrobot for controlled drug delivery using electromagnetic actuation and near-infrared stimulus.

Currently, microrobots are receiving attention because of their small size and motility, which can be applied to minimal invasive therapy. Additionall...

A machine learning approach for distinguishing uterine sarcoma from leiomyomas based on perfusion weighted MRI parameters.

PURPOSE: To propose a computer-assisted method for distinguishing uterine sarcoma from leiomyomas based on perfusion weighted magnetic resonance imagi...

Deep learning provides a new computed tomography-based prognostic biomarker for recurrence prediction in high-grade serous ovarian cancer.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Recurrence is the main risk for high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) and few prognostic biomarkers were reported. In this ...