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A comparison of the value of two machine learning predictive models to support bovine tuberculosis disease control in England.

Nearly a decade into Defra's current eradication strategy, bovine tuberculosis (bTB) remains a serious animal health problem in England, with c.30,000 cattle slaughtered annually in the fight against this insidious disease. There is an urgent need to improve our understanding of bTB risk in order to enhance the current disease control policy. Machine learning approaches applied to big datasets off...

Jan 15 2021 33556783

Fighting viruses with materials science: Prospects for antivirus surfaces, drug delivery systems and artificial intelligence.

OBJECTIVE: Viruses on environmental surfaces, in saliva and other body fluids represent risk of contamination for general population and healthcare professionals. The development of vaccines and medicines is costly and time consuming. Thus, the development of novel materials and technologies to decrease viral availability, viability, infectivity, and to improve therapeutic outcomes can positively ...

Jan 10 2021 33441249
Chest X-ray image phase features for improved diagnosis of COVID-19 using convolutional neural network.

PURPOSE: Recently, the outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has seriously endangered human health and life. In fighting ...

Jan 9 2021 33420641
Angle-closure assessment in anterior segment OCT images via deep learning.

Precise characterization and analysis of anterior chamber angle (ACA) are of great importance in facilitating clinical examination and diagnosis of an...

Jan 7 2021 33550010
Temporal Convolutional Neural Networks for Radar Micro-Doppler Based Gait Recognition.

The capability of sensors to identify individuals in a specific scenario is a topic of high relevance for sensitive sectors such as public security. A...

Jan 7 2021 33430474
Right population, right resources, right algorithm: Using machine learning efficiently and effectively in surgical systems where data are a limited resource.

There is a growing interest in using machine learning algorithms to support surgical care, diagnostics, and public health surveillance in low- and mid...

Jan 5 2021 33413920
Application of Artificial Intelligence to Address Issues Related to the COVID-19 Virus.

Artificial intelligence (AI) plays a major role in addressing novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19)-related issues and is also used in computer-aided synt...

Jan 4 2021 33390088
Worldwide diffusion of robotic approach in general surgery.

The robotic system has overcome some laparoscopic shortcomings, such as stereoscopic 3D-magnified vision, a stable camera and flexible and tremor filt...

Jan 2 2021 33389652
Scabies and impetigo in Samoa: A school-based clinical and molecular epidemiological study.

BACKGROUND: Common infections of the skin such as impetigo and scabies represent a large burden of disease globally, being particularly prevalent in t...

Dec 29 2020 34327410
The Prediction of Hepatitis E through Ensemble Learning.

According to the World Health Organization, about 20 million people are infected with Hepatitis E every year. In 2015, there were 44,000 deaths due to...

Dec 28 2020 33379298
Can an Artificial Intelligence Decision Aid Decrease False-Positive Breast Biopsies?

This study aimed to evaluate the effect of an artificial intelligence (AI) support system on breast ultrasound diagnostic accuracy.In this Health Insu...

Dec 28 2020 33394994
Ontological representation, classification and data-driven computing of phenotypes.

BACKGROUND: The successful determination and analysis of phenotypes plays a key role in the diagnostic process, the evaluation of risk factors and the...

Dec 21 2020 33349245
How artificial intelligence may help the Covid-19 pandemic: Pitfalls and lessons for the future.

The clinical severity, rapid transmission and human losses due to coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) have led the World Health Organization to declar...

Dec 19 2020 33476063
Automated Classification of Online Sources for Infectious Disease Occurrences Using Machine-Learning-Based Natural Language Processing Approaches.

Collecting valid information from electronic sources to detect the potential outbreak of infectious disease is time-consuming and labor-intensive. The...

Dec 17 2020 33348764
Delimiting cryptic morphological variation among human malaria vector species using convolutional neural networks.

Deep learning is a powerful approach for distinguishing classes of images, and there is a growing interest in applying these methods to delimit specie...

Dec 17 2020 33332415
Real-time neural network based predictor for cov19 virus spread.

Since the epidemic outbreak in early months of 2020 the spread of COVID-19 has grown rapidly in most countries and regions across the World. Because o...

Dec 17 2020 33332363
Exploring optimal control of epidemic spread using reinforcement learning.

Pandemic defines the global outbreak of a disease having a high transmission rate. The impact of a pandemic situation can be lessened by restricting t...

Dec 16 2020 33328551
Development of a Self-Harm Monitoring System for Victoria.

The prevention of suicide and suicide-related behaviour are key policy priorities in Australia and internationally. The World Health Organization has ...

Dec 15 2020 33333970
Applying Artificial Intelligence Methods for the Estimation of Disease Incidence: The Utility of Language Models.

AI-driven digital health tools often rely on estimates of disease incidence or prevalence, but obtaining these estimates is costly and time-consuming...

Dec 15 2020 34713043
Identifying Twitter users who repost unreliable news sources with linguistic information.

Social media has become a popular source for online news consumption with millions of users worldwide. However, it has become a primary platform for s...

Dec 14 2020 33816975
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