Journal of biological regulators and homeostatic agents
Jan 1, 2016
The Risk of Malignancy Algorithm (ROMA) combines the diagnostic power of the CA125 and HE4 markers with menopausal status to predict the risk for developing epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC). The aim of this study was to evaluate the association betw...
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias
Jan 1, 2016
During the recent decades, deciduous forests have been molested by human intervention. Easy access, abundance and diversity of valuable forest products have led to increased population density, creating new residential areas and deforestation activit...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2016
BACKGROUND: Sedentary behavior has been associated to the development of noncommunicable diseases (NCD) such as cardiovascular diseases (CVD), type 2 diabetes, and cancer. Accelerometers and inclinometers have been used to estimate sedentary behavior...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2016
This paper investigates how to extract probability statements from academic medical papers. In previous work we have explored traditional classification methods which led to numerous false negatives. This current work focuses on constraining classifi...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2016
Maintenance of biomedical ontologies is difficult. We have developed a pattern-based method for dealing with the problem of identifying missing concepts in the National Cancer Institute thesaurus (NCIt). Specifically, we are mining patterns connectin...
OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to use natural language processing (NLP) as a supplement to International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) and laboratory values in an automated algorithm to better define and risk-stratif...
Journal of computer assisted tomography
Jan 1, 2016
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this work was to evaluate the image quality, lesion conspicuity, and dose reduction provided by knowledge-based iterative model reconstruction (IMR) in computed tomography (CT) of the liver compared with hybrid iterative rec...
Combinatorial chemistry & high throughput screening
Jan 1, 2016
BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis is the second leading cause of death from an infectious disease worldwide after HIV, thus reasoning the expeditions in antituberculosis research. The rising number of cases of infection by resistant forms of M. tuberculosis h...
Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research
Jan 1, 2016
Environmental issues have a worldwide impact on water bodies, including the Danube Delta, the largest European wetland. The Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC) implementation operates toward solving environmental issues from European and national ...
In this work we report the first attempt to study the effect of activity cliffs over the generalization ability of machine learning (ML) based QSAR classifiers, using as study case a previously reported diverse and noisy dataset focused on drug induc...
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