Studies in health technology and informatics
May 25, 2022
Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) provides a valuable tool to organise brain imaging data into a clear and easy standard directory structure. Moreover, BIDS is widely supported by the scientific community and has been established as a powerful stan...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 25, 2022
This study explored the ability to identify causal relationships between diseases and imaging findings from their co-occurrences in radiology reports. A natural language processing (NLP) system with negative-expression filtering detected positive men...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 25, 2022
The development of an ontology facilitates the organization of the variety of concepts used to describe different terms in different resources. The proposed ontology will facilitate the study of cardiothoracic surgical education and data analytics in...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 25, 2022
Biomedical ontologies define concepts having biomedical significance and the semantic relations among them. Developing high-quality and reusable ontologies in the biomedical domain is a challenging task. Pattern-based ontology design is considered a ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 25, 2022
Representing temporal information is a recurrent problem for biomedical ontologies. We propose a foundational ontology that combines the so-called three-dimensional and four-dimensional approaches in order to be able to track changes in an individual...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 25, 2022
Secondary use of health data is made difficult in part because of large semantic heterogeneity. Many efforts are being made to align local terminologies with international standards. With increasing concerns about data privacy, we focused here on the...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 25, 2022
Multimorbidity, having a diagnosis of two or more chronic conditions, increases as people age. It is a predictor used in clinical decision-making, but underdiagnosis in underserved populations produces bias in the data that support algorithms used in...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 25, 2022
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies are increasingly being used to enhance kidney transplant outcomes. In this review, we explore the use of AI in kidney transplantation (KT) in the existing literature. Four databases were searched to identify ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 25, 2022
Prostate cancer (PCa) is one of the most prevalent cancers in the male population. Current clinical practices lead to overdiagnosis and overtreatment necessitating more effective tools for improving diagnosis, thus the quality of life of patients. Re...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 25, 2022
The standard of care for a physician to review laboratory tests results is to weigh each individual laboratory test result and compare it to against a standard reference range. Such a method of scanning can lead to missing high-level information. Dif...