Peripheral Artery Disease

Semantic segmentation with DenseNets for carotid artery ultrasound plaque segmentation and CIMT estimation.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: The measurement of carotid intima media thickness (CIMT) in ultrasound ima...

Impact of galactooligosaccharides delivered in ovo on mitigating negative effects of heat stress on performance and welfare of broilers.

Galactooligosaccharides (GOS) delivered in ovo improve intestinal health of broiler chickens. This s...

The discoloration effect of diluted minocycline containing triple antibiotic gel used in revascularization.

BACKGROUND/PURPOSE: Triple antibiotic paste (TAP) has been successfully used in revascularization pr...

Methylglyoxal-derived advanced glycation end products induce matrix metalloproteinases through activation of ERK/JNK/NF-κB pathway in kidney proximal epithelial cells.

The accumulation of reactive α-dicarbonyl leading to advanced glycation end products (AGEs) have bee...

Brain age prediction using deep learning uncovers associated sequence variants.

Machine learning algorithms can be trained to estimate age from brain structural MRI. The difference...

Machine Learning for Assessment of Coronary Artery Disease in Cardiac CT: A Survey.

Cardiac computed tomography (CT) allows rapid visualization of the heart and coronary arteries with ...

Platelet-rich emboli are associated with von Willebrand factor levels and have poorer revascularization outcomes.

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Platelets and von Willebrand factor (vWF) are key factors in thrombosis and thu...

Anti-varicella Zoster Virus IgG and hsCRP Levels Correlate with Progression of Coronary Artery Atherosclerosis.

The relationship between high levels of anti-Varicella Zoster Virus (VZV) IgG in cerebrospinal fluid...

Deep morphology aided diagnosis network for segmentation of carotid artery vessel wall and diagnosis of carotid atherosclerosis on black-blood vessel wall MRI.

PURPOSE: Early detection of carotid atherosclerosis on the vessel wall (VW) magnetic resonance imagi...

Re: Recovery of Pad-Free Continence in Elderly Men Does Not Differ from Younger Men Undergoing Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy for Aggressive Prostate Cancer.

Effect of Robot-Assisted Gait Training in a Large Population of Children With Motor Impairment Due to Cerebral Palsy or Acquired Brain Injury.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate retrospectively the effect of robotic rehabilitation in a large group of chil...

Diagnostic Performance of Machine Learning Based CT-FFR in Detecting Ischemia in Myocardial Bridging and Concomitant Proximal Atherosclerotic Disease.

BACKGROUND: The diagnostic performance of coronary computed tomography angiography-derived fractiona...

Radiomics versus Visual and Histogram-based Assessment to Identify Atheromatous Lesions at Coronary CT Angiography: An ex Vivo Study.

Background Visual and histogram-based assessments of coronary CT angiography have limited accuracy i...

Machine learning analysis of serum biomarkers for cardiovascular risk assessment in chronic kidney disease.

BACKGROUND: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients show an increased burden of atherosclerosis and hi...

Validation of a simple equation for glomerular filtration rate measurement based on plasma iohexol disappearance.

BACKGROUND: A simple equation for glomerular filtration rate (GFR) measurement based on only plasma ...

Classification of Carotid Artery Intima Media Thickness Ultrasound Images with Deep Learning.

Cerebrovascular accident due to carotid artery disease is the most common cause of death in develope...

A Machine Learning-Based Approach for the Prediction of Acute Coronary Syndrome Requiring Revascularization.

The aim of this study is to predict acute coronary syndrome (ACS) requiring revascularization in tho...

Sorghum Fermented by NK Enhances Inhibition of Vascular Inflammation in TNF-α-stimulated Human Aortic Smooth Muscle Cells.

Sorghum bicolor L. Moench is widely grown all over the world for food and feed. The effects of sor...

Automatic identification of atherosclerosis subjects in a heterogeneous MR brain imaging data set.

Carotid-artery atherosclerosis (CA) contributes significantly to overall morbidity and mortality in ...

Adjusting the dose in paediatric care: dispersing four different aspirin tablets and taking a proportion.

OBJECTIVES: When caring for children in a hospital setting, tablets are often manipulated at the war...

Deep learning-based carotid media-adventitia and lumen-intima boundary segmentation from three-dimensional ultrasound images.

PURPOSE: Quantification of carotid plaques has been shown to be important for assessing as well as m...