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Potential advantages of robotic radical gastrectomy for gastric adenocarcinoma in comparison with conventional laparoscopic approach: a single institutional retrospective comparative cohort study.

Surgical endoscopy
BACKGROUND: We have previously reported that laparoscopic approach improved short-term postoperative courses even for advanced gastric adenocarcinoma, but not morbidity, in comparison with open approach. The objective of this study was to determine t...

Predicting outcomes in patients with perforated gastroduodenal ulcers: artificial neural network modelling indicates a highly complex disease.

European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society
PURPOSE: Mortality prediction models for patients with perforated peptic ulcer (PPU) have not yielded consistent or highly accurate results. Given the complex nature of this disease, which has many non-linear associations with outcomes, we explored a...

Identifying Neuroimaging Markers of Motor Disability in Acute Stroke by Machine Learning Techniques.

Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)
Conventional mass-univariate analyses have been previously used to test for group differences in neural signals. However, machine learning algorithms represent a multivariate decoding approach that may help to identify neuroimaging patterns associate...

Robot-assisted therapy for improving social interactions and activity participation among institutionalized older adults: a pilot study.

Asia-Pacific psychiatry : official journal of the Pacific Rim College of Psychiatrists
INTRODUCTION: Animal-assisted therapy is gaining popularity as part of therapeutic activities for older adults in many long-term care facilities. However, concerns about dog bites, allergic responses to pets, disease, and insufficient available resou...

Robot-assisted gait training improves motor performances and modifies Motor Unit firing in poststroke patients.

European journal of physical and rehabilitation medicine
BACKGROUND: Robotics and related technologies are realizing their promise to improve the delivery of rehabilitation therapy but the mechanism by which they enhance recovery is still unknown. The electromechanical-driven gait orthosis Lokomat has demo...

The Attitudes and Perceptions of Older Adults With Mild Cognitive Impairment Toward an Assistive Robot.

Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society
The purpose of this study was to explore perceived difficulties and needs of older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and their attitudes toward an assistive robot to develop appropriate robot functionalities. Twenty subjects were recruited ...

Latent feature representation with stacked auto-encoder for AD/MCI diagnosis.

Brain structure & function
Recently, there have been great interests for computer-aided diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and its prodromal stage, mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Unlike the previous methods that considered simple low-level features such as gray matter tis...

Improving accuracy in the estimation of probable dementia in racially and ethnically diverse groups with penalized regression and transfer learning.

American journal of epidemiology
Algorithmic estimations of dementia status are widely used in public health and epidemiologic research, but inadequate algorithm performance across racial/ethnic groups has been a barrier. We present improvements in the accuracy of group-specific "pr...

Advanced prediction of heart failure risk in elderly diabetic and hypertensive patients using nine machine learning models and novel composite indices: insights from NHANES 2003-2016.

European journal of preventive cardiology
AIMS: As the global population ages, cardiovascular diseases, particularly heart failure (HF), have become leading causes of mortality and disability among elderly patients. Diabetes and hypertension are major risk factors for cardiovascular diseases...