Pregnancy

Investigating a Needle-Based Epidural Procedure in Obstetric Anesthesia.

This study investigates the safety and efficacy of a large-dose, needle-based epidural technique in obstetric anesthesia. The technique differs from a standard, catheter-based approach in that the anesthetic dose is administered through an epidural needle prior to insertion of the epidural catheter. Using a data-driven informatics and machine learning approach, our findings show that the needle-ba...

The Design and Implementation of Cardiotocography Signals Classification Algorithm Based on Neural Network.

Mobile medical care is a hot issue in current medical research. Due to the inconvenience of going to hospital for fetal heart monitoring and the limited medical resources, real-time monitoring of fetal health on portable devices has become an urgent need for pregnant women, which helps to protect the health of the fetus in a more comprehensive manner and reduce the workload of doctors. For the fea...

Expression of NOD1 and downstream factors in placenta, fetal membrane and plasma from pregnancies with premature rupture of membranes and their significance.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the expression and significance of NOD1 (nucleotide oligomerization domain 1) and its downstream factors in placenta, fetal ...

Investigation of magnetic silica with thermoresponsive chitosan coating for drug controlled release and magnetic hyperthermia application.

In this study, a drug delivery system for chemo-hyperthermia applications is proposed and fabricated. The delivery system consists of magnetic-silica ...

Assessment of ovulation synchronization protocols in goats and use of pregnancy specific protein B (PSPB) enzyme linked immunsorbent assay (ELISA) to determine kid number at birth.

The efficacy of several protocols for ovulation synchronization and timed artificial insemination (TAI) in goats was examined. In addition, the relati...

Automatic tumor segmentation in breast ultrasound images using a dilated fully convolutional network combined with an active contour model.

PURPOSE: Due to the low contrast, blurry boundaries, and large amount of shadows in breast ultrasound (BUS) images, automatic tumor segmentation remai...

Deep-learned placental vessel segmentation for intraoperative video enhancement in fetoscopic surgery.

INTRODUCTION: Twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS) is a potentially lethal condition that affects pregnancies in which twins share a single placen...

Ultrasound-Assisted Extraction of Cr from Residual Tannery Leather: Feasibility of Ethylenediaminetetraacetic Acid as the Extraction Solution.

In this work, the use of ultrasound energy for chromium removal from residual tannery leather was investigated. The following parameters were evaluate...

Guideline-based learning for standard plane extraction in 3-D echocardiography.

The extraction of six standard planes in 3-D cardiac ultrasound plays an important role in clinical examination to analyze cardiac function. A guideli...

Preliminary study on alginate/NIPAM hydrogel-based soft microrobot for controlled drug delivery using electromagnetic actuation and near-infrared stimulus.

Currently, microrobots are receiving attention because of their small size and motility, which can be applied to minimal invasive therapy. Additionall...

Enhanced Point-of-Care Ultrasound Applications by Integrating Automated Feature-Learning Systems Using Deep Learning.

Recent applications of artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning (DL) in health care include enhanced diagnostic imaging modalities to support cl...

Arterial stiffness in normal pregnancy as assessed by digital pulse wave analysis by photoplethysmography - A longitudinal study.

INTRODUCTION: It might in the future be valuable to screen for increased maternal arterial stiffness, i.e. low compliance, since it is associated with...

Choline: The Underconsumed and Underappreciated Essential Nutrient.

Choline has been recognized as an essential nutrient by the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academies of Medicine since 1998. Its metabolites...

Estimation of Neonatal Intestinal Perforation Associated with Necrotizing Enterocolitis by Machine Learning Reveals New Key Factors.

Intestinal perforation (IP) associated with necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is one of the leading causes of mortality in premature neonates; with majo...

Fully tuned RBF neural network controller for ultrasound hyperthermia cancer tumour therapy.

Thermal dose is an important clinical efficacy index for hyperthermia cancer treatment. This paper presents a new direct radial basis function (RBF) n...

Placental CD4 T cells isolated from preeclamptic women cause preeclampsia-like symptoms in pregnant nude-athymic rats.

Preeclampsia (PE), new onset hypertension during pregnancy, is associated with a proinflammatory profile compared to normal pregnancy (NP). We hypothe...

Computer-aided diagnosis of congenital abnormalities of the kidney and urinary tract in children based on ultrasound imaging data by integrating texture image features and deep transfer learning image features.

INTRODUCTION: Anatomic characteristics of kidneys derived from ultrasound images are potential biomarkers of children with congenital abnormalities of...

Patch-based classification of thyroid nodules in ultrasound images using direction independent features extracted by two-threshold binary decomposition.

Ultrasound imaging of the thyroid gland is considered to be the best diagnostic choice for evaluating thyroid nodules in early stages, since it has be...

Prenatal Exposure to Gestational Nicotine before Neurulation is Detrimental to Neurodevelopment of Wistar Rats' Offspring.

BACKGROUND AND AIM: This study aimed to determine the effect of gestational nicotine exposure before neurodevelopment on the morphology and histology ...

Effect of Using Two Cryopreservation Methods on Viability and Fertility of Frozen Stallion Sperm.

Studies involving different methods and techniques of cryopreservation and its interactions with the conception rates in artificial insemination (AI) ...