Surveys

Colorectal Cancer Staging Using Three Clustering Methods Based on Preoperative Clinical Findings.

Determination of the colorectal cancer stage is possible only after surgery based on pathology resul...

[Reliability and validity of the FACIT-AI Chinese-version for assessing quality of life in patients with malignant ascites].

In-Depth Survey of Scarring and Distress in Patients Undergoing Bilateral Axillo-Breast Approach Robotic Thyroidectomy or Conventional Open Thyroidectomy.

PURPOSE: Oncologic and surgical outcomes of bilateral axillo-breast approach (BABA) robotic thyroide...

Improving medical diagnosis reliability using Boosted C5.0 decision tree empowered by Particle Swarm Optimization.

Improving accuracy of supervised classification algorithms in biomedical applications is one of acti...

Comfort and learnability assessment of a new soft robotic manipulator for minimally invasive surgery.

Laparoscopic surgeons perform precise and time consuming procedures while holding awkward poses in t...

Yeast Proteome Dynamics from Single Cell Imaging and Automated Analysis.

Proteomics has proved invaluable in generating large-scale quantitative data; however, the developme...

Retrospective assessment of the validity of robotic surgery in comparison to open surgery for pediatric choledochal cyst.

PURPOSE: We evaluated the validity of robotic surgery (RS) for pediatric choledochal cyst (CC) in co...

Automatic extraction of reference gene from literature in plants based on texting mining.

Real-Time Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (qRT-PCR) is widely used in biological research. It...

Classification of imbalanced bioinformatics data by using boundary movement-based ELM.

To address the imbalanced classification problem emerging in Bioinformatics, a boundary movement-bas...

Unsupervised Structure Detection in Biomedical Data.

A major challenge in computational biology is to find simple representations of high-dimensional dat...

Semantic Web Ontology and Data Integration: a Case Study in Aiding Psychiatric Drug Repurposing.

There remain significant difficulties selecting probable candidate drugs from existing databases. We...

Analyzing data from a fuzzy rating scale-based questionnaire. A case study.

BACKGROUND: The fuzzy rating scale was introduced to cope with the imprecision of human thought and ...

Knowledge-Based Personal Health System to empower outpatients of diabetes mellitus by means of P4 Medicine.

Diabetes Mellitus (DM) affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide and it imposes a large econo...

AIDS causes sharp rise in number of Brazilian orphans.

An estimated 183,000 Brazilian children are at risk of losing their mothers to AIDS, according to a ...