Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde
May 12, 2021
Suicide is inherently difficult to predict. Epidemiological research identified many general risk factors such as a depression, but these predictors have limited predictive power. Machine learning offers a set of tools that can combine hundreds of pr...
Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde
Mar 25, 2021
The clinical application of neuroimaging for psychological complaints has so far been limited to the exclusion of somatic pathology. Radiological assessment of brain scans usually does not explain the psychological symptoms. However, that does not me...
Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde
Mar 19, 2021
In the Netherlands, 5 web-based systems co-exist in the public domain to provide relevant pharmacotherapeutic information for physicians, pharmacists and patients. Although these systems provide significant support to prescribers, still much can be i...
Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde
Jan 7, 2021
Use of machine learning has been proposedtoimprovethediagnostic performance of medicalhistorytaking, whichwould first have tobestandardized. Thiscommentary reviews theoretical, practical andethicalconsiderationswithregardtothisproposal.
Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde
Sep 17, 2020
Technological developments in ophthalmic imaging and artificial intelligence (AI) create new possibilities for diagnostics in eye care. AI has already been applied in ophthalmic diabetes care. AI-systems currently detect diabetic retinopathy in gener...
Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde
Aug 25, 2020
At the so-called in-bore, MRI-guided prostate biopsy, the radiologist in the MRI suite manually directs a rectal biopsy needle guide at an abnormality confirmed by a previous prostate MRI. This manual technique of taking a biopsy is time-consuming an...
Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde
Nov 28, 2019
In patients with cryptogenic stroke, the detection of atrial fibrillation (AF) is important, since it is an indication for the prescription of oral anticoagulation, instead of anti-platelet therapy, to decrease the chance of a recurrent ischaemic cer...
Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde
Mar 14, 2019
Five years ago, robot-assisted transaxillary thyroidectomy (RATT) was introduced in the Netherlands. The major advantage of this technique, when compared to the conventional approach, is the prevention of a potentially disfiguring scar in the neck. I...
Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde
Feb 28, 2019
In the near future, making a correct medical diagnosis will be increasingly supported by artificial intelligence. The development of algorithms that integrate all data from an individual into the diagnostic process calls for a multidisciplinary appro...