Pulmonology

A comparison of multimodal biomarkers for chronic hepatitis B assessment using recursive feature elimination.

An effective assessment of liver fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) is highly desired because it is important not only for clinical courses prediction, but also for the determination of antiviral therapy schemes. In recent years, various approaches for liver biopsies analysis have been highlighted, such as elastography techniques and serum markers, due to their properties of non-i...

[Cancer and genitourinary tuberculosis (literature review and clinical observations)].

Tuberculosis has been regarded as a counter-regulatory process to cancer. The development of tumors in the kidney that is affected by tuberculosis is considered as extremely rare, almost impossible case. The analysis of the literature on combined/sequential damage of urogenital organs by tuberculosis and cancer, and own clinical observation were performed. The case history of 72-year-old patient w...

Evaluation of periodic breathing in respiratory flow signal of elderly patients using SVM and linear discriminant analysis.

Aging population is a major concern that is reflected in the increase of chronic diseases. Heart Failure (HF) is one of the most common chronic diseas...

A mobile platform for automated screening of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and asthma each represent a large proportion of the global disease burden; COPD is the third leading caus...

Robotic Lung Resection for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.

Robotic-assisted pulmonary lobectomy can be considered for patients able to tolerate conventional lobectomy. Contraindications to resection via thorac...

The power of data mining in diagnosis of childhood pneumonia.

Childhood pneumonia is the leading cause of death of children under the age of 5 years globally. Diagnostic information on the presence of infection, ...

Automated detection of pulmonary nodules in PET/CT images: Ensemble false-positive reduction using a convolutional neural network technique.

PURPOSE: Automated detection of solitary pulmonary nodules using positron emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT) images shows good sen...

[Role of interleukin-17 in alveolar fluid clearance in mice with acute lung injury].

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the role of interleukin-17 (IL-17) in alveolar fluid clearance in mice with acute lung injury (ALI) and explore the possible...

Unsupervised learning technique identifies bronchiectasis phenotypes with distinct clinical characteristics.

BACKGROUND: Unsupervised learning technique allows researchers to identify different phenotypes of diseases with complex manifestations.

Laparoscopic Robot-Assisted Diaphragm Plication.

Minimally invasive approaches to diaphragm plication for eventration include thoracoscopic and laparoscopic techniques. The elevated hemidiaphragm and...

Artificial Neural Network Analysis of Pharmacokinetic and Toxicity Properties of Lead Molecules for Dengue Fever, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

Poor pharmacokinetic and toxicity profiles are major reasons for the low rate of advancing lead drug candidates into efficacy studies. The In-silico p...

Evaluation of Machine Learning Algorithm Utilization for Lung Cancer Classification Based on Gene Expression Levels.

BACKGROUND: Lung cancer remains one of the most common cancers in the world, both in terms of new cases (about 13% of total per year) and deaths (near...

Discussion on robot-assisted laparoscopic cystectomy and Ileal neobladder surgery preoperative care.

To investigate the clinical applications of robot-assisted radical cystectomy with orthotopic ileal neobladder (RARC-INB) and make a preliminary summa...

Cheminformatics Based Machine Learning Approaches for Assessing Glycolytic Pathway Antagonists of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis is the second leading cause of death from an infectious disease worldwide after HIV, thus reasoning the expeditions in antitu...

Nasal irrigation with Nasir® in children: a preliminary experience on nasal cytology.

Allergic rhinitis (AR) and upper airway respiratory infections are frequent in children, and both have a relevant impact on some social aspects, inclu...

Community-acquired bacteremia in adult patients. analysis of 645 episodes.

Bacteremia is an important cause of morbimortality. This study describes the episodes of communityacquired bacteremia in adult patients registered at ...

Effect of Borago Officinalis Extract on Moderate Persistent Asthma: A Phase two Randomized, Double Blind, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial.

BACKGROUND: Borago officinalis and its derivatives are used in folk medicine to treat asthma because of its special effect on allergic disorders. It s...

Robotic Assisted Extended Sleeve Lobectomy After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy.

A 61-year-old man had experienced an irritating cough for 1 month. He received a diagnosis of lung adenocarcinoma by bronchoscopy. Computed tomography...

A preliminary study on the relationship between circulating tumor cells count and clinical features in patients with non-small cell lung cancer.

BACKGROUND: To evaluate the clinical value of circulating tumor cells (CTC) count in peripheral venous blood of patients with non-small cell lung carc...

Population-Level Prediction of Type 2 Diabetes From Claims Data and Analysis of Risk Factors.

We present a new approach to population health, in which data-driven predictive models are learned for outcomes such as type 2 diabetes. Our approach ...