Pregnancy

Upregulation of immune genes in the proliferative phase endometrium enables classification into women with recurrent pregnancy loss versus controls.

STUDY QUESTION: Does the transcriptome of preconceptional endometrium in the proliferative phase show a specific profile in women with recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL)?

Ultrasound measurement of relative tongue size and its correlation with tongue mobility for healthy individuals.

The size of an individual's tongue relative to the oral cavity is associated with articulation speed [Feng, Lu, Zheng, Chi, and Honda, in Proceedings of the 10th Biennial Asia Pacific Conference on Speech, Language, and Hearing (2017), pp. 17-19)] and may affect speech clarity. This study introduces an ultrasound-based method for measuring relative tongue size, termed ultrasound-based relative ton...

A Roadmap to Holographic Focused Ultrasound Approaches for Generating Gradient Thermal Patterns.

In therapeutic focused ultrasound (FUS), such as thermal ablation and hyperthermia, effective acousto-thermal manipulation requires precise targeting ...

Revolution of AAV in Drug Discovery: From Delivery System to Clinical Application.

Adeno-associated virus (AAV) is a non-enveloped DNA virus infecting a wide variety of species, tissues, and cell types, which is recognized as a safe ...

Exploring therapeutic and diagnostic potential of cysteine cathepsin as targets for cancer therapy with nanomedicine.

Cysteine cathepsins have been discovered to be substantially expressed in multiple types of cancer. They play a key role in the progression and growth...

Exploring the link between grandmaternal air pollution exposure and Grandchild's ASD risk: A multigenerational population-based study in California.

BACKGROUND: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder with increasing prevalence. While genetics play a strong causal role, amon...

Deep Learning Algorithms to Predict Differential Renal Function <40% in Unilateral Hydronephrosis Based on Key Parameters of Urinary Tract Ultrasound.

OBJECTIVE: To identify the correlation between ultrasound findings and the incidence of differential renal function (DRF) <40%, we conducted an analys...

Advancing Acoustic Droplet Vaporization for Tissue Characterization Using Quantitative Ultrasound and Transfer Learning.

Acoustic droplet vaporization (ADV) is an emerging technique with expanding applications in biomedical ultrasound. ADV-generated bubbles can function ...

FedBCD: Federated Ultrasound Video and Image Joint Learning for Breast Cancer Diagnosis.

Ultrasonography plays an essential role in breast cancer diagnosis. Current deep learning based studies train the models on either images or videos in...

Combining Deep Data-Driven and Physics-Inspired Learning for Shear Wave Speed Estimation in Ultrasound Elastography.

The shear wave elastography (SWE) provides quantitative markers for tissue characterization by measuring the shear wave speed (SWS), which reflects ti...

Deep Learning-Based Automated Measurement of Cervical Length in Transvaginal Ultrasound Images of Pregnant Women.

Cervical length (CL) measurement using transvaginal ultrasound is an effective screening tool to assess the risk of preterm birth. An adequate assessm...

Machine Learning Assessment of Gestational Age in Accelerated Maturation, Delayed Maturation, Villous Edema, Chorangiosis, and Intrauterine Fetal Demise.

CONTEXT.—: Assessment of placental villous maturation is among the most common tasks in perinatal pathology. However, the significance of abnormalitie...

Coarse for Fine: Bounding Box Supervised Thyroid Ultrasound Image Segmentation Using Spatial Arrangement and Hierarchical Prediction Consistency.

Weakly-supervised learning methods have become increasingly attractive for medical image segmentation, but suffered from a high dependence on quantify...

Deep learning based on ultrasound images predicting cervical lymph node metastasis in postoperative patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma.

OBJECTIVES: To develop a deep learning (DL) model based on ultrasound (US) images of lymph nodes for predicting cervical lymph node metastasis (CLNM) ...

Alpha test 1 robotic platform for traditional Chinese medicine pretreatment: Automated modular integration and quality control applications.

Sample pretreatment plays an important role in analytical performance, but it is often the rate-limiting step in scientific research. With the develop...

Wrist and elbow fracture detection and segmentation by artificial intelligence using point-of-care ultrasound.

PURPOSE: Distal radius (wrist) and supracondylar (elbow) fractures are common in children presenting to Pediatric Emergency Departments (EDs). These f...

A Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Region-Specific Beamformer for Sparse Arrays 3-D Ultrasound Imaging.

Sparse arrays offer several advantages over other element reduction techniques for 3-D ultrasound imaging. However, the large interelement spacing in ...

ICPPNet: A semantic segmentation network model based on inter-class positional prior for scoliosis reconstruction in ultrasound images.

OBJECTIVE: Considering the radiation hazard of X-ray, safer, more convenient and cost-effective ultrasound methods are gradually becoming new diagnost...

PregAN-NET: Addressing Class Imbalance with GANs in Interpretable Computational Framework for Predicting Safety Profile of Drugs Considering Adverse Reactions During Pregnancy.

Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) during pregnancy pose significant risks to both the mother and the fetus. Conventional approaches to predict ADR are ina...

Generative AI for thematic analysis in a maternal health study: coding semistructured interviews using large language models.

STUDY OBJECTIVES: The coding of semistructured interview transcripts is a critical step for thematic analysis of qualitative data. However, the coding...