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HIV-positive patients with oral Kaposi's sarcoma: An overall survival analysis of 31 patients.

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of viral load and lymphocyte count on survival of patients who presented with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated oral Kaposi's sarcoma.

Evaluation of Five International HBV Treatment Guidelines: Recommendation for Resource-Limited Developing Countries Based on the National Study in Nepal.

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infects the liver, causing cirrhosis and cancer. In developed countries, five international guidelines have been used to make a decision for the management of patients with chronic HBV infection. In this review, since the guidelines were established by clinical and epidemiological data of developed countries, we aimed to evaluate whether (1) HBV patient profiles of developi...

Target-Centered Drug Repurposing Predictions of Human Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2 (ACE2) and Transmembrane Protease Serine Subtype 2 (TMPRSS2) Interacting Approved Drugs for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Treatment through a Drug-Target Interaction Deep Learning Model.

Previously, our group predicted commercially available Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved drugs that can inhibit each step of the replication...

Piperidine based 1,2,3-triazolylacetamide derivatives induce cell cycle arrest and apoptotic cell death in .

The fungal pathogen , is a serious threat to public health and is associated with bloodstream infections causing high mortality particularly in patie...

Automatic multi-needle localization in ultrasound images using large margin mask RCNN for ultrasound-guided prostate brachytherapy.

Multi-needle localization in ultrasound (US) images is a crucial step of treatment planning for US-guided prostate brachytherapy. However, current com...

Predictive Models May Complement or Provide an Alternative to Existing Strategies for Assessing the Enteric Pathogen Contamination Status of Northeastern Streams Used to Provide Water for Produce Production.

While the Food Safety Modernization Act established standards for the use of surface water for produce production, water quality is known to vary over...

Artificial Intelligence Applied to Gene Expression Testing (IVIGET) to Predict Trivalent Inactivated Influenza Vaccine Immunogenicity in HIV Infected Children.

The number of patients affected by chronic diseases with special vaccination needs is burgeoning. In this scenario, predictive markers of immunogenici...

Peginterferon and Entecavir Combination Therapy Improves Outcome of Non-Early Response Hepatitis B e Antigen-Positive Patients.

BACKGROUND: The efficacy of nucleot(s)ide analogs (NAs) and pegylated interferon (PegIFN) combination therapy for hepatitis B e antigen-positive (HBeA...

Virus identification in electron microscopy images by residual mixed attention network.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Virus identification in electron microscopy (EM) images is considered as one of the front-line method in pathogen diagnosis ...

Machine learning methods accurately predict host specificity of coronaviruses based on spike sequences alone.

Coronaviruses infect many animals, including humans, due to interspecies transmission. Three of the known human coronaviruses: MERS, SARS-CoV-1, and S...

Brain tumor segmentation using 3D Mask R-CNN for dynamic susceptibility contrast enhanced perfusion imaging.

The segmentation of neoplasms is an important part of radiotherapy treatment planning, monitoring disease progression, and predicting patient outcome....

Prediction of hepatitis E using machine learning models.

BACKGROUND: Accurate and reliable predictions of infectious disease can be valuable to public health organizations that plan interventions to decrease...

Mimicry Embedding Facilitates Advanced Neural Network Training for Image-Based Pathogen Detection.

The use of deep neural networks (DNNs) for analysis of complex biomedical images shows great promise but is hampered by a lack of large verified data ...

Development of machine learning-based clinical decision support system for hepatocellular carcinoma.

There is a significant discrepancy between the actual choice for initial treatment option for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and recommendations from ...

Benefits of insect colours: a review from social insect studies.

Insect colours assist in body protection, signalling, and physiological adaptations. Colours also convey multiple channels of information. These chann...

Assessment of a Deep Learning Model to Predict Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Patients With Hepatitis C Cirrhosis.

IMPORTANCE: Deep learning, a family of machine learning models that use artificial neural networks, has achieved great success at predicting outcomes ...

Multi-level feature aggregation network for instrument identification of endoscopic images.

Identification of surgical instruments is crucial in understanding surgical scenarios and providing an assistive process in endoscopic image-guided su...

A Genome-Based Model to Predict the Virulence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolates.

Variation in the genome of , an important pathogen, can have dramatic impacts on the bacterium's ability to cause disease. We therefore asked whether ...

GeFeS: A generalized wrapper feature selection approach for optimizing classification performance.

In this paper, we propose a generalized wrapper-based feature selection, called GeFeS, which is based on a parallel new intelligent genetic algorithm ...

Total Coliform and Generic Levels, and Presence in Eight Experimental Aquaponics and Hydroponics Systems: A Brief Report Highlighting Exploratory Data.

Although many studies have investigated foodborne pathogen prevalence in conventional produce production environments, relatively few have investigate...