Preventive Care

Opinion versus practice regarding the use of rehabilitation services in home care: an investigation using machine learning algorithms.

BACKGROUND: Resources for home care rehabilitation are limited, and many home care clients who could...

Gradient liquid chromatographic retention time prediction for suspect screening applications: A critical assessment of a generalised artificial neural network-based approach across 10 multi-residue reversed-phase analytical methods.

For the first time, the performance of a generalised artificial neural network (ANN) approach for th...

Clinical evaluation of the newly developed infectious disease/fever screening radar system using the neural network and fuzzy grouping method for travellers with suspected infectious diseases at Narita International Airport Clinic.

Suspect screening of large numbers of emerging contaminants in environmental waters using artificial neural networks for chromatographic retention time prediction and high resolution mass spectrometry data analysis.

The recent development of broad-scope high resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) screening methods has...

Harnessing Computational Biology for Exact Linear B-Cell Epitope Prediction: A Novel Amino Acid Composition-Based Feature Descriptor.

Proteins embody epitopes that serve as their antigenic determinants. Epitopes occupy a central place...

Can Natural Language Processing Improve the Efficiency of Vaccine Adverse Event Report Review?

BACKGROUND: Individual case review of spontaneous adverse event (AE) reports remains a cornerstone o...

Synbiotic enhances immune responses against infectious bronchitis, infectious bursal disease, Newcastle disease and avian influenza in broiler chickens.

Increased susceptibility of birds to avian pathogens in intensive husbandry system has emphasized on...

Machine-learning scoring functions to improve structure-based binding affinity prediction and virtual screening.

Docking tools to predict whether and how a small molecule binds to a target can be applied if a stru...

A risk management model for familial breast cancer: A new application using Fuzzy Cognitive Map method.

Breast cancer is the most deadly disease affecting women and thus it is natural for women aged 40-49...

Multistage virtual screening and identification of novel HIV-1 protease inhibitors by integrating SVM, shape, pharmacophore and docking methods.

The HIV-1 protease has proven to be a crucial component of the HIV replication machinery and a relia...

Colonoscopy with robotic steering and automated lumen centralization: a feasibility study in a colon model.

BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS: We introduced a new platform for performing colonoscopy with robotic stee...

Current state of micro-robots/devices as substitutes for screening colonoscopy: assessment based on technology readiness levels.

BACKGROUND: Previous reports have described several candidates, which have the potential to replace ...

A Hybrid Swarm Algorithm for optimizing glaucoma diagnosis.

Glaucoma is among the most common causes of permanent blindness in human. Because the initial sympto...

Experimental design strategy: weak reinforcement leads to increased hit rates and enhanced chemical diversity.

High Throughput Screening (HTS) is a common approach in life sciences to discover chemical matter th...

MLViS: A Web Tool for Machine Learning-Based Virtual Screening in Early-Phase of Drug Discovery and Development.

Virtual screening is an important step in early-phase of drug discovery process. Since there are tho...

Natural language processing as an alternative to manual reporting of colonoscopy quality metrics.

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The adenoma detection rate (ADR) is a quality metric tied to interval colon can...

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-intens...

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 anti...

A common genetic variant of fucosyltransferase 2 correlates with serum carcinoembryonic antigen levels and affects cancer screening in patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis.

BACKGROUND: Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) patients are at increased risk of biliary tract can...

Screening Internet forum participants for depression symptoms by assembling and enhancing multiple NLP methods.

Depression is a disease that can dramatically lower quality of life. Symptoms of depression can rang...

Multi-center colonoscopy quality measurement utilizing natural language processing.

BACKGROUND: An accurate system for tracking of colonoscopy quality and surveillance intervals could ...