Pancreatic Diseases

Hierarchical combinatorial deep learning architecture for pancreas segmentation of medical computed tomography cancer images.

BACKGROUND: Efficient computational recognition and segmentation of target organ from medical images...

Identifying tumor in pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms from Ki67 images using transfer learning.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has clear guidelines regarding the use of Ki67 index in defining...

Successful bystander-administered intranasal naloxone reversal of opioid overdose between two veterans: A case report.

Opioid overdose-related morbidity and mortality remain one of the most pressing public health crises...

An application of cascaded 3D fully convolutional networks for medical image segmentation.

Recent advances in 3D fully convolutional networks (FCN) have made it feasible to produce dense voxe...

Predictive Models Control of the Artificial Pancreas: Compartmental or Neural Networks Models?

Spatial aggregation of holistically-nested convolutional neural networks for automated pancreas localization and segmentation.

Accurate and automatic organ segmentation from 3D radiological scans is an important yet challenging...

Decoding diagnosis and lifetime consumption in alcohol dependence from grey-matter pattern information.

OBJECTIVE: We investigated the potential of computer-based models to decode diagnosis and lifetime c...

Delirium Prediction using Machine Learning Models on Preoperative Electronic Health Records Data.

Electronic Health Records (EHR) are mainly designed to record relevant patient information during th...

Carboxybetaine-modified succinylated chitosan-based beads encourage pancreatic β-cells (Min-6) to form islet-like spheroids under in vitro conditions.

In vitro, pancreatic β-cells tend to reduce their ability to aggregate into islets and lose insulin-...

Pro-inflammatory cytokines after an episode of acute pancreatitis: associations with fasting gut hormone profile.

INTRODUCTION: Pro-inflammatory cytokines, such as interleukin (IL)-6, tumour necrosis factor (TNF)α,...

Depression and alcohol use disorder at antiretroviral therapy initiation led to disengagement from care in South Africa.

We sought to assess mental health at the time of antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation and subsequ...

Safety and feasibility of the robotic platform in the management of surgical sequelae of chronic pancreatitis.

BACKGROUND/AIM: The application of minimally invasive surgery to chronic pancreatitis (CP) procedure...

Antioxidant and anti-glycation capacities of some medicinal plants and their potential inhibitory against digestive enzymes related to type 2 diabetes mellitus.

ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: Plants preparations are used by traditional medicine in the treatmen...

Age at drinking onset, age at first intoxication, and delay to first intoxication: Assessing the concurrent validity of measures of drinking initiation with alcohol use and related problems.

INTRODUCTION: Drinking at an early age (AO) and quickly progressing to drinking to intoxication (Del...

Counting the cold ones: A comparison of methods measuring total alcohol consumption of managed alcohol program participants.

INTRODUCTION AND AIMS: Managed alcohol programs (MAP) aim to reduce harms experienced by unstably ho...

Determination of total plasma oxysterols by enzymatic hydrolysis, solid phase extraction and liquid chromatography coupled to mass-spectrometry.

The potential use of cholesterol esterases was tested to avoid alkaline hydrolysis for cleavage of p...

Antimicrobial Furoquinoline Alkaloids from Vepris lecomteana (Pierre) Cheek & T. Heller (Rutaceae).

Three new prenylated furoquinoline alkaloids named lecomtequinoline A (), B (), and C (), together w...

The role of cinnamon as a modulator of the expression of genes related to antioxidant activity and lipid metabolism of laying quails.

Since cinnamon has vitamins and minerals in addition to antioxidants compounds in its chemical compo...

Improved perioperative outcomes of laparoscopic distal pancreatosplenectomy: modified lasso technique.

BACKGROUND: Simultaneous division of the splenic artery, splenic vein and pancreatic parenchyma duri...

Circulating triacylglycerols but not pancreatic fat associate with insulin secretion in healthy humans.

BACKGROUND: Loss of adequate insulin secretion for the prevailing insulin resistance is critical for...

Variability in Tidal Volume Affects Lung and Cardiovascular Function Differentially in a Rat Model of Experimental Emphysema.

In experimental elastase-induced emphysema, mechanical ventilation with variable tidal volumes (V) s...