Pulmonology

A long short-term memory-fully connected (LSTM-FC) neural network for predicting the incidence of bronchopneumonia in children.

Bronchopneumonia is the most common infectious disease in children, and it seriously endangers children's health. In this paper, a deep neural network combining long short-term memory (LSTM) layers and fully connected layers was proposed to predict the prevalence of bronchopneumonia in children in Chengdu based on environmental factors and previous prevalence rates. The mean square error (MSE), me...

Learning Tubule-Sensitive CNNs for Pulmonary Airway and Artery-Vein Segmentation in CT.

Training convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for segmentation of pulmonary airway, artery, and vein is challenging due to sparse supervisory signals caused by the severe class imbalance between tubular targets and background. We present a CNNs-based method for accurate airway and artery-vein segmentation in non-contrast computed tomography. It enjoys superior sensitivity to tenuous peripheral bro...

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Chronic Airway Diseases: Focus on Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

Chronic airway diseases are characterized by airway inflammation, obstruction, and remodeling and show high prevalence, especially in developing count...

A Machine Learning Approach for Mortality Prediction in COVID-19 Pneumonia: Development and Evaluation of the Piacenza Score.

BACKGROUND: Several models have been developed to predict mortality in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia, but only a few have demonstrated enough discr...

Automated detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis using transfer learning.

INTRODUCTION: Quantitative analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis using microscope is very critical for diagnosing tuberculosis diseases. Microbiologi...

A Machine Learning Approach to the Interpretation of Cardiopulmonary Exercise Tests: Development and Validation.

OBJECTIVE: At present, there is no consensus on the best strategy for interpreting the cardiopulmonary exercise test's (CPET) results. This study is a...

Prediction of the motion of chest internal points using a recurrent neural network trained with real-time recurrent learning for latency compensation in lung cancer radiotherapy.

During the radiotherapy treatment of patients with lung cancer, the radiation delivered to healthy tissue around the tumor needs to be minimized, whic...

Toward understanding COVID-19 pneumonia: a deep-learning-based approach for severity analysis and monitoring the disease.

We report a new approach using artificial intelligence (AI) to study and classify the severity of COVID-19 using 1208 chest X-rays (CXRs) of 396 COVID...

Automatic detect lung node with deep learning in segmentation and imbalance data labeling.

In this study, a novel method with the U-Net-based network architecture, 2D U-Net, is employed to segment the position of lung nodules, which are an e...

A Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) Technique for Internet of Medical Things Data.

The application of machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques in the medical world is growing, with a range of purposes: from the identif...

Swarm Learning for decentralized and confidential clinical machine learning.

Fast and reliable detection of patients with severe and heterogeneous illnesses is a major goal of precision medicine. Patients with leukaemia can be ...

Developing a short-term prediction model for asthma exacerbations from Swedish primary care patients' data using machine learning - Based on the ARCTIC study.

OBJECTIVE: The ability to predict impending asthma exacerbations may allow better utilization of healthcare resources, prevention of hospitalization a...

Fully Automated MR Detection and Segmentation of Brain Metastases in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Using Deep Learning.

BACKGROUND: Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the most common tumor entity spreading to the brain and up to 50% of patients develop brain metastas...

Deep cross-modality (MR-CT) educed distillation learning for cone beam CT lung tumor segmentation.

PURPOSE: Despite the widespread availability of in-treatment room cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) imaging, due to the lack of reliable segmentati...

Mini-COVIDNet: Efficient Lightweight Deep Neural Network for Ultrasound Based Point-of-Care Detection of COVID-19.

Lung ultrasound (US) imaging has the potential to be an effective point-of-care test for detection of COVID-19, due to its ease of operation with mini...

Active Learning and the Potential of Neural Networks Accelerate Molecular Screening for the Design of a New Molecule Effective against SARS-CoV-2.

A global pandemic has emerged following the appearance of the new severe acute respiratory virus whose official name is the severe acute respiratory s...

Deep-Learning-Driven Quantification of Interstitial Fibrosis in Digitized Kidney Biopsies.

Interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy (IFTA) on a renal biopsy are strong indicators of disease chronicity and prognosis. Techniques that are typi...

Liver fibrosis staging by deep learning: a visual-based explanation of diagnostic decisions of the model.

OBJECTIVES: Deep learning has been proven to be able to stage liver fibrosis based on contrast-enhanced CT images. However, until now, the algorithm i...

Deep learning predicts cardiovascular disease risks from lung cancer screening low dose computed tomography.

Cancer patients have a higher risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality than the general population. Low dose computed tomography (LDCT) for lung...

Development and validation of a deep learning algorithm detecting 10 common abnormalities on chest radiographs.

We aimed to develop a deep learning algorithm detecting 10 common abnormalities (DLAD-10) on chest radiographs, and to evaluate its impact in diagnost...