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Identifying risk factors for heart disease over time: Overview of 2014 i2b2/UTHealth shared task Track 2.

The second track of the 2014 i2b2/UTHealth natural language processing shared task focused on identifying medical risk factors related to Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) in the narratives of longitudinal medical records of diabetic patients. The risk factors included hypertension, hyperlipidemia, obesity, smoking status, and family history, as well as diabetes and CAD, and indicators that suggest th...

Jul 22 2015 26210362

Intrawound Vancomycin Powder for Spine Tumor Surgery.

Study Design Retrospective evaluation of prospectively collected data. Objective To evaluate infection rates following intrawound vancomycin powder application during spine tumor surgery. Methods Patients ≥18 years old undergoing spine tumor surgery and receiving intrawound vancomycin powder at a single center between January 2008 and January 2015 were enrolled. Patient demographics (age, sex, bod...

Jul 16 2015 27099810
Computational Discrimination of Breast Cancer for Korean Women Based on Epidemiologic Data Only.

Breast cancer is the second leading cancer for Korean women and its incidence rate has been increasing annually. If early diagnosis were implemented w...

Jul 15 2015 26240478
Assessment of brain-machine interfaces from the perspective of people with paralysis.

OBJECTIVE: One of the main goals of brain-machine interface (BMI) research is to restore function to people with paralysis. Currently, multiple BMI de...

Jul 14 2015 26169880
Using local lexicalized rules to identify heart disease risk factors in clinical notes.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death globally and a significant part of the human population lives with it. A number of risk factors have been ...

Jun 29 2015 26133479
FoodWiki: Ontology-Driven Mobile Safe Food Consumption System.

An ontology-driven safe food consumption mobile system is considered. Over 3,000 compounds are being added to processed food, with numerous effects on...

Jun 15 2015 26221624
Continence outcomes of robot-assisted radical prostatectomy in patients with adverse urinary continence risk factors.

OBJECTIVE: To analyse the continence outcomes of robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) in suboptimal patients that have challenging continence r...

May 11 2015 25726729
Negative Affect Instability among Individuals with Comorbid Borderline Personality Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.

Ecological momentary assessment (EMA; Stone & Shiffman, 1994) was utilized to examine affective instability (AI) in the daily lives of outpatients wit...

Apr 21 2015 26904388
An adaptive Hidden Markov model for activity recognition based on a wearable multi-sensor device.

Human activity recognition is important in the study of personal health, wellness and lifestyle. In order to acquire human activity information from t...

Mar 19 2015 25787786
The Utility of Hand-Assisted Laparoscopic Surgery (HALS) in Giant Pelvic Masses.

The purpose of this study was to report the outcomes of a series of patients who underwent hand-assisted laparoscopy surgery for benign giant pelvic m...

Mar 11 2015 27011539
Regular expression-based learning to extract bodyweight values from clinical notes.

BACKGROUND: Bodyweight related measures (weight, height, BMI, abdominal circumference) are extremely important for clinical care, research and quality...

Mar 5 2015 25746391
Robotic surgery in supermorbidly obese patients with endometrial cancer.

OBJECTIVE: Morbid obesity is a known risk factor for the development of endometrial cancer. Several studies have demonstrated the overall feasibility ...

Jan 30 2015 25644437
Robotic distal subtotal gastrectomy with D2 lymphadenectomy for gastric cancer patients with high body mass index: comparison with conventional laparoscopic distal subtotal gastrectomy with D2 lymphadenectomy.

BACKGROUND: Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has emerged as a treatment of choice for early-stage gastric cancer. However, applying MIS to gastric pat...

Jan 29 2015 25631106
Obesity and perioperative pulmonary complications in robotic gynecologic surgery.

OBJECTIVE: Robotic gynecological surgery is feasible in obese patients, but there remain concerns about the safety of this approach because the positi...

Jan 28 2015 25637843
A novel neural-inspired learning algorithm with application to clinical risk prediction.

Clinical risk prediction - the estimation of the likelihood an individual is at risk of a disease - is a coveted and exigent clinical task, and a corn...

Jan 6 2015 25576352
Ten-dimensional anthropomorphic arm control in a human brain-machine interface: difficulties, solutions, and limitations.

OBJECTIVE: In a previous study we demonstrated continuous translation, orientation and one-dimensional grasping control of a prosthetic limb (seven de...

Dec 16 2014 25514320
Outcomes of Extraperitoneal Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy in the Morbidly Obese: A Propensity Score-Matched Study.

INTRODUCTION: An increasing number of obese patients (body mass index [BMI] >30 kg/m(2)]) with localized prostate cancer are presenting as candidates ...

Dec 2 2014 25347555
Robotic single-site cholecystectomy in the obese: outcomes from a single institution.

BACKGROUND: Robotic single-site cholecystectomy (RSSC) has been shown to be a safe alternative to the laparoscopic approach in selected patients. Pati...

Nov 25 2014 25547055
Appraisal of adaptive neuro-fuzzy computing technique for estimating anti-obesity properties of a medicinal plant.

This research examines the precision of an adaptive neuro-fuzzy computing technique in estimating the anti-obesity property of a potent medicinal plan...

Oct 16 2014 25453384
Identification of the Best Anthropometric Predictors of Serum High- and Low-Density Lipoproteins Using Machine Learning.

Serum high-density lipoprotein (HDL) and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels are associated with risk factors for various diseases and ar...

Aug 20 2014 25148675
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