The British journal of educational psychology
Oct 29, 2018
BACKGROUND: National ranking from the triennial Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA) often serves as a barometer of national performance and human capital. Though excessive student- and school-level covariates (n > 700) may prove intr...
Concentrations of nine metabolites of organophosphate and pyrethroid insecticides, as well as two phenoxy herbicides, were determined in 322 urine samples collected from eight countries during 2006-2014 by high-performance liquid chromatography-tande...
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Evaluation of endoscopic disease activity for patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) is important when determining the treatment of choice. However, endoscopists require a certain period of training to evaluate the activity of inf...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Oct 22, 2018
Correctly identifying sleep stages is important in diagnosing and treating sleep disorders. This paper proposes a joint classification-and-prediction framework based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for automatic sleep staging, and, subsequent...
Photodiagnosis and photodynamic therapy
Oct 22, 2018
We present the effectiveness of Raman spectroscopy (RS) in combination with machine learning for screening and analysis of blood sera collected from tuberculosis patients. Blood samples of 60 patients have confirmed active pulmonary tuberculosis and ...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Oct 19, 2018
Skeletal bone age assessment is a common clinical practice to investigate endocrinology, and genetic and growth disorders of children. However, clinical interpretation and bone age analyses are time-consuming, labor intensive, and often subject to in...
INTRODUCTION: the association between the kidneys and hepatitis B is complex. This study aims to determine the prevalence and factors associated with renal disease in people living with hepatitis B virus (PLHBV) in Cotonou.
OBJECTIVE: Metformin is the preferred first-line medication for management of type 2 diabetes and prediabetes. However, over a third of patients experience primary or secondary therapeutic failure. We developed machine learning models to predict whic...
In this paper, we propose a novel deep learning framework for anatomy segmentation and automatic landmarking. Specifically, we focus on the challenging problem of mandible segmentation from cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) scans and identificatio...
Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Oct 11, 2018
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to evaluate kidney function outcome in adults on home parenteral nutrition (HPN) for chronic intestinal failure using the newly recommended equations for estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) assessment in c...
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