BMC medical informatics and decision making
Dec 24, 2024
BACKGROUND: Interactive artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT have gained popularity, yet little is known about their reliability as a reference tool for healthcare-related information for healthcare providers and trainees. The objective of t...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Dec 24, 2024
BACKGROUND: The detection and classification of lung nodules are crucial in medical imaging, as they significantly impact patient outcomes related to lung cancer diagnosis and treatment. However, existing models often suffer from mode collapse and po...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Dec 23, 2024
BACKGROUND: Automated recognition and redaction of personal identifiers in free text can enable organisations to share data while protecting privacy. This is important in the context of pharmacovigilance since relevant detailed information on the cli...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Dec 18, 2024
Nocturnal hypoglycemia is a critical problem faced by diabetic patients. Failure to intervene in time can be dangerous for patients. The existing early warning methods struggle to extract crucial information comprehensively from complex multi-source ...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Dec 18, 2024
OBJECTIVE: Most current wound size measurement devices or applications require manual wound tracing and reference markers. Chronic wound care usually relies on patients or caregivers who might have difficulties using these devices. Considering a more...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Dec 18, 2024
BACKGROUND: Emergency department (ED) overcrowding is an important problem in many countries. Accurate predictions of ED patient arrivals can help management to better allocate staff and medical resources. In this study, we investigate the use of cal...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Dec 18, 2024
BACKGROUND: The low tube-voltage technique (e.g., 80 kV) can efficiently reduce the radiation dose and increase the contrast enhancement of vascular and parenchymal structures in abdominal CT. However, a high tube current is always required in this s...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Dec 18, 2024
BACKGROUND: Modern machine learning and deep learning methods have been widely incorporated in decision making processes in healthcare in the form of decision support mechanisms. In healthcare, data are abundant but typically not centrally available ...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Dec 18, 2024
BACKGROUND: [F] Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET-CT is a clinical imaging modality widely used in diagnosing and staging lung cancer. The clinical findings of PET-CT studies are contained within free text reports, which can currently only be categorised ...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Dec 18, 2024
BACKGROUND: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic disease prevalent worldwide, requiring a multifaceted analytical approach to improve early detection and subsequent mitigation of morbidity and mortality rates. This research aimed to develop an explain...