Pediatrics

Robotic-Assisted Procedures in Pediatric Surgery: A Critical Appraisal of the Current Best Evidence in Comparison to Conventional Minimally Invasive Surgery.

INTRODUCTION: In recent years, the use of robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) has expanded within pediatric surgery. Although increasing numbers of pediatric RAS case-series have been published, the level of evidence remains unclear, with authors mainly focusing on the comparison with open surgery rather than the corresponding laparoscopic approach. The aim of this study was to critically appraise the ...

"Tele-rounding" with a remotely controlled mobile robot in the neonatal intensive care unit.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the feasibility of 'tele-rounding' in the neonatal intensive care.

Myocardial function in Saudi adolescents with vitamin D deficiency: Tissue Doppler imaging study.

Vitamin D deficiency is a common health problem in Saudi Arabia especially in children and adolescents. Many studies have reported the relation betwee...

Is peri-operative urethral catheter drainage enough? The case for stentless pediatric robotic pyeloplasty.

BACKGROUND: The necessity for urinary diversion with trans-anastomotic ureteral stenting during pyeloplasty is currently under debate. Performing a st...

Exploring Spanish health social media for detecting drug effects.

BACKGROUND: Adverse Drug reactions (ADR) cause a high number of deaths among hospitalized patients in developed countries. Major drug agencies have de...

Multimodal predictor of neurodevelopmental outcome in newborns with hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy.

Automated multimodal prediction of outcome in newborns with hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy is investigated in this work. Routine clinical measures a...

Grading hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy severity in neonatal EEG using GMM supervectors and the support vector machine.

OBJECTIVE: This work presents a novel automated system to classify the severity of hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) in neonates using EEG.

Cortical feature analysis and machine learning improves detection of "MRI-negative" focal cortical dysplasia.

Focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) is the most common cause of pediatric epilepsy and the third most common lesion in adults with treatment-resistant epil...

Development and validation of a brain maturation index using longitudinal neuroanatomical scans.

BACKGROUND: Major psychiatric disorders are increasingly being conceptualized as 'neurodevelopmental', because they are associated with aberrant brain...

Biofertilizer and biostimulant properties of the microalga .

Microalgae represent a potential sustainable alternative for the enhancement and protection of agricultural crops. Cellular extracts and dry biomass o...

Comparison of Coopdech®, CoPilot®, Intubrite®, and Macintosh laryngoscopes for tracheal intubation during pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation: a randomized, controlled crossover simulation trial.

UNLABELLED: The aim of the study was to compare the intubation times and success rates of various laryngoscopes during resuscitation in pediatric emer...

Identification of Mitral Annulus Hinge Point Based on Local Context Feature and Additive SVM Classifier.

The position of the hinge point of mitral annulus (MA) is important for segmentation, modeling and multimodalities registration of cardiac structures....

A global optimization approach to multi-polarity sentiment analysis.

Following the rapid development of social media, sentiment analysis has become an important social media mining technique. The performance of automati...

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...

Machine learning methods enable predictive modeling of antibody feature:function relationships in RV144 vaccinees.

The adaptive immune response to vaccination or infection can lead to the production of specific antibodies to neutralize the pathogen or recruit innat...

Proliferative activity of a blend of Echinacea angustifolia and Echinacea purpurea root extracts in human vein epithelial, HeLa, and QBC-939 cell lines, but not in Beas-2b cell lines.

Echinacea is used for its immunostimulating properties and may have a role in modulating adverse immune effects of chemotherapy (i.e., use of 5-fluoro...

Robot-Aided Neurorehabilitation: A Pediatric Robot for Ankle Rehabilitation.

This paper presents the pediAnklebot, an impedance-controlled low-friction, backdriveable robotic device developed at the Massachusetts Institute of T...

How to decide which infant can have robotic surgery? Just do the math.

BACKGROUND: In pediatric urology, robot-assisted surgery has overcome several impediments of conventional laparoscopy. However, workspace has a major ...

Using trend templates in a neonatal seizure algorithm improves detection of short seizures in a foetal ovine model.

Seizures below one minute in duration are difficult to assess correctly using seizure detection algorithms. We aimed to improve neonatal detection alg...

Developmental time windows for axon growth influence neuronal network topology.

Early brain connectivity development consists of multiple stages: birth of neurons, their migration and the subsequent growth of axons and dendrites. ...