Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Mar 14, 2025
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Patients with metastatic bone disease are at risk of pathological femoral fractures and may require prophylactic surgical fixation. Current clinical decision support tools often overestimate fracture risk, leading to overtre...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Mar 13, 2025
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Hierarchical neural networks are pivotal in medical imaging for multi-scale representation, aiding in tasks such as object detection and segmentation. However, their effectiveness is often limited by the loss of intra-scale ...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Mar 10, 2025
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Screw implant stability in bone is crucial to the success of many orthopaedic procedures, yet the relationship between screw design parameters and specific bone characteristics remains underexplored. This study aims to optim...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Mar 7, 2025
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Alzheimer's disease (AD) significantly threatens community well-being and healthcare resource allocation due to its high incidence and mortality. Therefore, early detection and intervention are crucial for reducing AD-relate...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Mar 4, 2025
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Automated surgical skill assessment using kinematic and video data (hard data) sources has been widely adopted in the literature. However, experts' opinions (soft data) in the form of free-text could be an invaluable source ...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Feb 27, 2025
BACKGROUND: With the advancements in wearable technology, photoplethysmography (PPG) has emerged as a promising technique for detecting atrial fibrillation (AF) due to its ability to capture cardiovascular information. However, current deep learning-...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Feb 27, 2025
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Diffusion models have demonstrated their ability in image generation and solving inverse problems like restoration. Unlike most existing deep-learning based image restoration techniques which rely on unpaired or paired data ...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Feb 23, 2025
PURPOSE: This review aims to comprehensively explore the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to an area that has not been traditionally explored in depth: the continuum of maternal-fetal health. In doing so, the intent was to examine this phy...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Feb 23, 2025
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Recently, artificial intelligence (AI) has been applied to otolaryngology. However, existing supervised learning methods cannot easily predict data outside the learning domain. Moreover, collecting diverse medical data has ...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Feb 20, 2025
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Every year, thousands of people suffer from skull damage and require personalized implants to fill the cranial cavity. Unfortunately, the waiting time for reconstruction surgery can extend to several weeks or even months, es...