Obstetrics & Gynecology

First Trimester Noninvasive Prenatal Diagnosis: A Computational Intelligence Approach.

The objective of this study is to examine the potential value of using machine learning techniques such as artificial neural network (ANN) schemes for the noninvasive estimation, at 11-13 weeks of gestation, the risk for euploidy, trisomy 21 (T21), and other chromosomal aneuploidies (O.C.A.), from suitable sonographic, biochemical markers, and other relevant data. A database(1) (1)The dataset can ...

Apolipoprotein A-I: A Molecule of Diverse Function.

Apolipoprotein A-I (apo A-I) an indispensable component and a major structural protein of high-density lipoprotein (HDL), plays a vital role in reverse cholesterol transport and cellular cholesterol homeostasis since its identification. Its multifunctional role in immunity, inflammation, apoptosis, viral, bacterial infection etc. has crossed its boundary of its potential of protecting cardiovascul...

Intrawound Vancomycin Powder for Spine Tumor Surgery.

Study Design Retrospective evaluation of prospectively collected data. Objective To evaluate infection rates following intrawound vancomycin powder ap...

Laparoscopic and robot-assisted hysterectomy for uterine cancer: a comparison of costs and complications.

OBJECTIVE: Increasingly, robotic surgery is being used for total hysterectomy, bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, and lymph node dissection for uterine ...

Robotic radiosurgery system patient-specific QA for extracranial treatments using the planar ion chamber array and the cylindrical diode array.

Robotic radiosurgery system has been increasingly employed for extracranial treatments. This work is aimed to study the feasibility of a cylindrical d...

Lumbar Ultrasound Image Feature Extraction and Classification with Support Vector Machine.

Needle entry site localization remains a challenge for procedures that involve lumbar puncture, for example, epidural anesthesia. To solve the problem...

Use of multivariate linear regression and support vector regression to predict functional outcome after surgery for cervical spondylotic myelopathy.

This study introduces the use of multivariate linear regression (MLR) and support vector regression (SVR) models to predict postoperative outcomes in ...

Cervical Scoliosis: Clinical and Radiographic Outcomes.

Study Design Retrospective study. Objective Cervical scoliosis is a rare condition that can arise from various etiologies. Few reports on the surgical...

Effect of uterine size on fertility of lactating dairy cows.

There are multiple reasons for reduced fertility in lactating dairy cows. We hypothesized that one cause of reduced fertility could be the overall siz...

Development of a cervical cancer progress prediction tool for human papillomavirus-positive Koreans: A support vector machine-based approach.

OBJECTIVES: To develop a Web-based tool to draw attention to patients positive for human papillomavirus (HPV) who have a high risk of progression to c...

Reproductive responses of dairy cows with ovarian cysts to simultaneous human chorionic gonadotropin or gonadotropin-releasing hormone and cloprostenol compared to gonadotropin-releasing hormone alone treatment.

AIM: Bovine ovarian cysts are a common cause of economic loss in modern dairy herds. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the reproducti...

Film-based delivery quality assurance for robotic radiosurgery: Commissioning and validation.

PURPOSE: Robotic radiosurgery demands comprehensive delivery quality assurance (DQA), but guidelines for commissioning of the DQA method is missing. W...

Evaluation and integration of cancer gene classifiers: identification and ranking of plausible drivers.

The number of mutated genes in cancer cells is far larger than the number of mutations that drive cancer. The difficulty this creates for identifying ...

Cervical Ligamentum Flavum Hematoma: A Case Report.

Study Design Case report. Objective To report the first case of ligamentum flavum hematoma after cervical spine instrumentation 11 years after the ind...

Surgical Excision of Advanced Endometriosis: Perioperative Outcomes and Impacting Factors.

OBJECTIVE: To determine perioperative outcomes and factors impacting operating time, length of hospital stay, and complications of patients undergoing...

Combining latent class analysis labeling with multiclass approach for fetal heart rate categorization.

The most common approach to assess fetal well-being during delivery is monitoring of fetal heart rate and uterine contractions-the cardiotocogram (CTG...

Minimization of curative surgery for treatment of early cervical cancer: a review.

Surgery is effective and useful for curative treatment of patients with early invasive cervical cancer, yet minimization of surgical procedures provid...

Management of ovarian cancer in 14th gestational week of pregnancy by robotic approach with preservation of the fetus.

The objective of this study is to present a rare case of pregnancy complicated with ovarian cancer managed by robotic surgery. A 36-year-old woman suf...

A fast neural network approach to predict lung tumor motion during respiration for radiation therapy applications.

During radiotherapy treatment for thoracic and abdomen cancers, for example, lung cancers, respiratory motion moves the target tumor and thus badly af...

Iatrogenic Uterine Diverticulum in Pregnancy After Robotic-assisted Myomectomy.

Uterine diverticula are rare outpouchings of the uterus associated with abnormal uterine bleeding, pelvic pain, dysmenorrhea, and adverse obstetric ev...