Pulmonology

A deep learning-based model for screening and staging pneumoconiosis.

This study aims to develop an artificial intelligence (AI)-based model to assist radiologists in pneumoconiosis screening and staging using chest radiographs. The model, based on chest radiographs, was developed using a training cohort and validated using an independent test cohort. Every image in the training and test datasets were labeled by experienced radiologists in a double-blinded fashion. ...

Using machine learning improves predictions of herd-level bovine tuberculosis breakdowns in Great Britain.

In the United Kingdom, despite decades of control efforts, bovine tuberculosis (bTB) has not been controlled and currently costs ~ £100 m annually. Critical in the failure of control efforts has been the lack of a sufficiently sensitive diagnostic test. Here we use machine learning (ML) to predict herd-level bTB breakdowns in Great Britain (GB) with the aim of improving herd-level diagnostic sensi...

Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to Enable Clinical Decision Support for Treatment of Pediatric Pneumonia.

Pneumonia is the most frequent cause of infectious disease-related deaths in children worldwide. Clinical decision support (CDS) applications can guid...

Risk of Upper-body Adverse Events in Robot-assisted Total Laparoscopic Hysterectomy for Benign Gynecologic Disease.

STUDY OBJECTIVE: Recent studies suggest that prolonged Trendelenburg positioning during robot-assisted total laparoscopic hysterectomy (RA-TLH) may le...

Association of AI quantified COVID-19 chest CT and patient outcome.

PURPOSE: Severity scoring is a key step in managing patients with COVID-19 pneumonia. However, manual quantitative analysis by radiologists is a time-...

Prediction of death status on the course of treatment in SARS-COV-2 patients with deep learning and machine learning methods.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: The new type of Coronavirus (2019-nCov) epidemic spread rapidly, causing more than 250 thousand deaths worldwide. The virus,...

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The field of Medicine and Healthcare has attained revolutionary advancements in the last forty years. Within this period, the actual reasons behind nu...

A Machine Learning-Based Investigation of Gender-Specific Prognosis of Lung Cancers.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Primary lung cancer is a lethal and rapidly-developing cancer type and is one of the most leading causes of cancer deaths.

ADOPT: automatic deep learning and optimization-based approach for detection of novel coronavirus COVID-19 disease using X-ray images.

In the hospital, because of the rise in cases daily, there are a small number of COVID-19 test kits available. For this purpose, a rapid alternative d...

Asthma-prone areas modeling using a machine learning model.

Nowadays, owing to population growth, increasing environmental pollution, and lifestyle changes, the number of asthmatics has significantly increased....

Frontotemporal EEG to guide sedation in COVID-19 related acute respiratory distress syndrome.

OBJECTIVE: To study if limited frontotemporal electroencephalogram (EEG) can guide sedation changes in highly infectious novel coronavirus disease 201...

Multi-Radiologist User Study for Artificial Intelligence-Guided Grading of COVID-19 Lung Disease Severity on Chest Radiographs.

RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: Radiographic findings of COVID-19 pneumonia can be used for patient risk stratification; however, radiologist reporting of d...

Ensemble learning based automatic detection of tuberculosis in chest X-ray images using hybrid feature descriptors.

Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the major health problems in modern times with a high mortality rate. While efforts are being made to make early diag...

A narrative review on characterization of acute respiratory distress syndrome in COVID-19-infected lungs using artificial intelligence.

COVID-19 has infected 77.4 million people worldwide and has caused 1.7 million fatalities as of December 21, 2020. The primary cause of death due to C...

Inter-regional multimedia fate analysis of PAHs and potential risk assessment by integrating deep learning and climate change scenarios.

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are hazardous compounds associated with respiratory disease and lung cancer. Increasing fossil fuel consumptio...

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...

Classification of malignant lung cancer using deep learning.

In the automatic detection of suspicious shaded regions on CT images derived from the LIDC-IDRI dataset, the diagnostic system plays a significant rol...

Robotic Pneumonectomy for Lung Cancer: Perioperative Outcomes and Factors Leading to Conversion to Thoracotomy.

OBJECTIVE: In the tide of robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery, few cases of robot-assisted pneumonectomy exist in the literature. This study eva...

Real-time liver tracking algorithm based on LSTM and SVR networks for use in surface-guided radiation therapy.

BACKGROUND: Surface-guided radiation therapy can be used to continuously monitor a patient's surface motions during radiotherapy by a non-irradiating,...

CT image segmentation for inflamed and fibrotic lungs using a multi-resolution convolutional neural network.

The purpose of this study was to develop a fully-automated segmentation algorithm, robust to various density enhancing lung abnormalities, to facilita...