Public Health & Policy

Survivability prediction of colon cancer patients using neural networks.

We utilize deep neural networks to develop prediction models for patient survival and conditional survival of colon cancer. Our models are trained and validated on data obtained from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program. We provide an online outcome calculator for 1, 2, and 5 years survival periods. We experimented with multiple neural network structures and found that a network...

Stakeholders' Perceptions Sought to Inform the Development of a Low-Cost Mobile Robot for Older Adults: A Qualitative Descriptive Study.

Creative solutions are needed to support community-dwelling older adults residing in a variety of settings including their house, apartment, or Supportive Apartment Living (SAL) to promote independence and reduce the risk of nursing home replacement. The objective of this study was to gain an understanding of older adults' needs for physical, mental, and social activities to support the design and...

Enhancing Seasonal Influenza Surveillance: Topic Analysis of Widely Used Medicinal Drugs Using Twitter Data.

BACKGROUND: Uptake of medicinal drugs (preventive or treatment) is among the approaches used to control disease outbreaks, and therefore, it is of vit...

[Evaluation of equations using cystatin C for estimation of the glomerular filtration rate in healthy adult population of canidates for kidney donors.].

The determination of the glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is critical for the selection of potential kidney donors. Methods of measurement of GFR are ...

Persistent light to moderate alcohol intake and lung function: A longitudinal study.

Alcohol intake has been inconsistently associated with lung function levels in cross-sectional studies. The goal of our study was to determine whether...

A New Hybrid Model Using an Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average and a Generalized Regression Neural Network for the Incidence of Tuberculosis in Heng County, China.

It is a daunting task to eradicate tuberculosis completely in Heng County due to a large transient population, human immunodeficiency virus/tuberculos...

Use of Mac-2 binding protein as a biomarker for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease diagnosis.

In contrast to patients with viral hepatitis, patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) can progress to hepatocellular carcinoma during t...

Large-scale machine learning of media outlets for understanding public reactions to nation-wide viral infection outbreaks.

From May to July 2015, there was a nation-wide outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) in Korea. MERS is caused by MERS-CoV, an enveloped,...

Heterogeneous Face Attribute Estimation: A Deep Multi-Task Learning Approach.

Face attribute estimation has many potential applications in video surveillance, face retrieval, and social media. While a number of methods have been...

Outcomes of combination MRI-targeted and transperineal template biopsy in restaging low-risk prostate cancer for active surveillance.

OBJECTIVE: Active surveillance (AS) offers a strategy to reduce overtreatment and now is a widely accepted treatment option for low-risk prostate canc...

Diagnosis of Dementia by Machine learning methods in Epidemiological studies: a pilot exploratory study from south India.

BACKGROUND: There are limited data on the use of artificial intelligence methods for the diagnosis of dementia in epidemiological studies in low- and ...

Assessing Suicide Risk and Emotional Distress in Chinese Social Media: A Text Mining and Machine Learning Study.

BACKGROUND: Early identification and intervention are imperative for suicide prevention. However, at-risk people often neither seek help nor take prof...

Long-term survival after surveillance and treatment in patients with chronic viral hepatitis and hepatocellular carcinoma.

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the main cause of mortality in patients with chronic viral hepatitis (CVH). We determined the impact of surveillance...

Pathophysiology of clinical benign prostatic hyperplasia.

A disease can be defined as an abnormal anatomy (pathology) and/or function (physiology) that may cause harm to the body. In clinical benign prostatic...

Laboratory parameter-based machine learning model for excluding non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in the general population.

BACKGROUND: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) affects 20%-40% of the general population in developed countries and is an increasingly importan...

The effects of natural language processing on cross-institutional portability of influenza case detection for disease surveillance.

OBJECTIVES: This study evaluates the accuracy and portability of a natural language processing (NLP) tool for extracting clinical findings of influenz...

Predicting Zoonotic Risk of Influenza A Viruses from Host Tropism Protein Signature Using Random Forest.

Influenza A viruses remain a significant health problem, especially when a novel subtype emerges from the avian population to cause severe outbreaks i...

Trunk-Branch Ensemble Convolutional Neural Networks for Video-Based Face Recognition.

Human faces in surveillance videos often suffer from severe image blur, dramatic pose variations, and occlusion. In this paper, we propose a comprehen...

Prediction of crime occurrence from multi-modal data using deep learning.

In recent years, various studies have been conducted on the prediction of crime occurrences. This predictive capability is intended to assist in crime...

Assigning clinical codes with data-driven concept representation on Dutch clinical free text.

Clinical codes are used for public reporting purposes, are fundamental to determining public financing for hospitals, and form the basis for reimburse...