Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Jan 15, 2025
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Hypertensive Retinopathy (HR) is a retinal manifestation resulting from persistently elevated blood pressure. Severity grading of HR is essential for patient risk stratification, effective management, progression monitoring...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Jan 13, 2025
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Accurate prediction of progression in knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is significant for early personalized intervention. Previous methods commonly focused on quantifying features from a specific sub-structure imaged at baseline ...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Jan 13, 2025
BACKGROUND: Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most prevalent form of dementia, remains enigmatic in its origins despite the widely accepted "amyloid hypothesis," which implicates amyloid-beta peptide aggregates in its pathogenesis and progression. Despit...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Jan 10, 2025
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Accurate segmentation of the prostate region in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is crucial for prostate-related diagnoses. Recent studies have incorporated Transformers into prostate region segmentation to better capture lo...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Jan 7, 2025
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: In recent years, machine learning-based clinical decision support systems (CDSS) have played a key role in the analysis of several medical conditions. Despite their promising capabilities, the lack of transparency in AI mode...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Jan 6, 2025
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Single-source domain generalization (SSDG) aims to generalize a deep learning (DL) model trained on one source dataset to multiple unseen datasets. This is important for the clinical applications of DL-based models to breast...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Jan 6, 2025
BACKGROUND: The growing population of elderly neurocritically ill patients highlights the need for effective prognosis prediction tools. This study aims to develop and validate machine learning (ML) models for predicting 28-day mortality in intensive...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Jan 6, 2025
The rise in minimally invasive procedures has created a demand for efficient and reliable planning software to predict intra- and post-operative outcomes. Surrogate modelling has shown promise, but challenges remain, particularly in cardiovascular ap...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Jan 6, 2025
BACKGROUND: Around 7% of the global population has congenital hemoglobin disorders, with over 300,000 new cases of α-thalassemia annually. Diagnosis is costly and inaccurate in low-income regions, often relying on complete blood count (CBC) tests. Th...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Jan 4, 2025
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Utilizing AI to mine tumor microenvironment information in whole slide images (WSIs) for glioma molecular subtype and prognosis prediction is significant for treatment. Existing weakly-supervised learning frameworks based on...