Refractive Surgery

Prediction of complication related death after radical cystectomy for bladder cancer with machine learning methodology.

To create a pre-operatively usable tool to identify patients at high risk of early death (within 90 days post-operatively) after radical cystectomy and to assess potential risk factors for post-operative and surgery related mortality. Material consists of 1099 consecutive radical cystectomy (RC) patients operated at 16 different hospitals in Finland 2005-2014. Machine learning methodology was uti...

Discrimination of indoor versus outdoor environmental state with machine learning algorithms in myopia observational studies.

BACKGROUND: Wearable smart watches provide large amount of real-time data on the environmental state of the users and are useful to determine risk factors for onset and progression of myopia. We aim to evaluate the efficacy of machine learning algorithm in differentiating indoor and outdoor locations as collected by use of smart watches.

Pre and post-hoc diagnosis and interpretation of malignancy from breast DCE-MRI.

We propose a new method for breast cancer screening from DCE-MRI based on a post-hoc approach that is trained using weakly annotated data (i.e., label...

PTSD and its dissociative subtype through the lens of the insula: Anterior and posterior insula resting-state functional connectivity and its predictive validity using machine learning.

Individuals with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) typically experience states of reliving and hypervigilance; however, the dissociative subtype o...

Metal artifact reduction for the segmentation of the intra cochlear anatomy in CT images of the ear with 3D-conditional GANs.

Cochlear implants (CIs) are surgically implanted neural prosthetic devices that are used to treat severe-to-profound hearing loss. These devices are p...

Novel small molecule retrograde transport blocker confers post-exposure protection against ricin intoxication.

Ricin is a highly toxic type 2 ribosome-inactivating protein (RIP) which is extracted from the seeds of castor beans. Ricin is considered a potential ...

Supplementation of OmniGen-AF improves the metabolic response to a glucose tolerance test in beef heifers.

This study determined whether feeding the immunomodulating supplement, OmniGen-AF, to feedlot heifers would alter metabolic profiles to a glucose tole...

A New Nonlinear Sparse Component Analysis for a Biologically Plausible Model of Neurons.

It is known that brain can create a sparse representation of the environment in both sensory and mnemonic forms (Olshausen & Field, 2004). Such sparse...

Model of a Support Vector Machine to Assess the Functional Cure for Surgery of Intermittent Exotropia.

In this paper the optimum timing for the postoperative functional cure of basic intermittent exotropia is explored based on support vector machine (SV...

A distant supervision based approach to medical persona classification.

Identifying medical persona from a social media post is critical for drug marketing, pharmacovigilance and patient recruitment. Medical persona classi...

Refining humane endpoints in mouse models of disease by systematic review and machine learning-based endpoint definition.

Ideally, humane endpoints allow for early termination of experiments by minimizing an animal's discomfort, distress and pain, while ensuring that scie...

Latent Phase Detection of Hypoxic-Ischemic Spike Transients in the EEG of Preterm Fetal Sheep Using Reverse Biorthogonal Wavelets & Fuzzy Classifier.

Hypoxic-ischemic (HI) studies in preterms lack reliable prognostic biomarkers for diagnostic tests of HI encephalopathy (HIE). Our group's observation...

Posterior scleral deformations around optic disc are associated with visual field damage in open-angle glaucoma patients with myopia.

PURPOSE: To identify important variables associated with visual field (VF) defects in open-angle glaucoma (OAG) with myopia.

Effect of dietary n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementation and post-insemination plane of nutrition on systemic concentrations of metabolic analytes, progesterone, hepatic gene expression and embryo development and survival in beef heifers.

Nutrition, and particularly dietary energy intake, plays a fundamental role in reproductive function in cattle. There is some evidence that supplement...

Indocyanine Green as a Beacon Light in Laparoscopy: A New Application in Transplant Surgery: A Case Report.

INTRODUCTION: Indocyanine green (ICG) fluorescence imaging system is a now a consolidated complementary technique for several surgical fields. The dev...

Perceptual Decision-Making: Biases in Post-Error Reaction Times Explained by Attractor Network Dynamics.

Perceptual decision-making is the subject of many experimental and theoretical studies. Most modeling analyses are based on statistical processes of a...

Non-directed bronchial lavage is a safe method for sampling the respiratory tract in critically ill patient.

Ventilated patients are at risk of acquiring ventilator-associated pneumonia. Various techniques are available for diagnosing ventilator-associated pn...

Prediction of myopia development among Chinese school-aged children using refraction data from electronic medical records: A retrospective, multicentre machine learning study.

BACKGROUND: Electronic medical records provide large-scale real-world clinical data for use in developing clinical decision systems. However, sophisti...

Mining User-Generated Content in an Online Smoking Cessation Community to Identify Smoking Status: A Machine Learning Approach.

Online smoking cessation communities help hundreds of thousands of smokers quit smoking and stay abstinent each year. Content shared by users of such ...

Minimally invasive, robot-assisted procedure for kidney transplantation among morbidly obese: Positive outcomes at 5 years post-transplant.

The pre-transplant weight loss required of end-stage renal disease patients is often unachievable. Though robot-assisted procedures among extremely ob...