Coronary heart disease (CHD) is one of the leading causes of death worldwide; if suffering from CHD and being in its end-stage, the most advanced treatments are required, such as heart surgery and heart transplant. Moreover, it is not easy to diagnos...
BACKGROUND: No-shows, a major issue for healthcare centers, can be quite costly and disruptive. Capacity is wasted and expensive resources are underutilized. Numerous studies have shown that reducing uncancelled missed appointments can have a tremend...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Dec 4, 2019
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Skin lesion segmentation is an important but challenging task in computer-aided diagnosis of dermoscopy images. Many segmentation methods based on convolutional neural networks often fail to extract accurate lesion boundarie...
With qPCR reaching thousands of reactions per run, assay validation needs automation. We applied support vector machine to qPCR analysis and we could identify reactions with 100% accuracy, dispensing them from further validation. We achieved a greatl...
Facial landmark detection has gained enormous interest for face-related applications due to its success in facial analysis tasks such as facial recognition, cartoon generation, face tracking and facial expression analysis. Many studies have been prop...
Nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF) is associated with an increased risk of stroke however many patients are diagnosed after onset. This study assessed the potential of machine-learning algorithms to detect NVAF. A retrospective database study u...
Continuous kinematic monitoring of runners is crucial to inform runners of inappropriate running habits. Motion capture systems are the gold standard for gait analysis, but they are spatially limited to laboratories. Recently, wearable sensors have g...
Electroencephalography (EEG) has relatively poor spatial resolution and may yield incorrect brain dynamics and distort topography; thus, high-density EEG systems are necessary for better analysis. Conventional methods have been proposed to solve thes...
The Myxococcales order consist of eleven families comprising30 genera, and are featured by the formation of the highest level of differential structure aggregations called fruiting bodies. These multicellular structures are essential for their resist...
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