Journal of infection in developing countries
May 31, 2019
INTRODUCTION: Despite high population immunity, pertussis remains one of the leading causes of vaccine-preventable deaths worldwide. The aim of this study was to determine the seroprevalence of IgG antibodies to pertussis toxin (PT) and diphtheria am...
BACKGROUND: Bone Age Assessment (BAA) refers to a clinical procedure that aims to identify a discrepancy between biological and chronological age of an individual by assessing the bone age growth. Currently, there are two main methods of executing BA...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
May 1, 2020
In this paper, deep belief net (DBN) was applied into the field of wearable-sensor based Chinese sign language (CSL) recognition. Eight subjects were involved in the study, and all of the subjects finished a five-day experiment performing CSL on a ta...
BACKGROUND: An estimated 425 million people globally have diabetes, accounting for 12% of the world's health expenditures, and the number continues to grow, placing a huge burden on the healthcare system, especially in those remote, underserved areas...
Computational intelligence and neuroscience
Jan 1, 2020
In view of the weak generalization of traditional event recognition methods, the limitation of dependence on field knowledge of expert, the longer train time of deep neural network, and the problem of gradient dispersion, the neural network joint mod...
To evaluate the clinical benefits of implementing pharmacogenomics testing for Chinese pediatric patients. Based on the drug-gene interactions involved in the Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium guidelines, whole-genome sequencing ...
Journal of autism and developmental disorders
Feb 1, 2020
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have deficits in joint attention and play behaviors. We examined whether a robot-based play-drama intervention would promote these skills. Chinese-speaking preschool children were randomly assigned to an i...
The diversity in our genome is crucial to understanding the demographic history of worldwide populations. However, we have yet to know whether subtle genetic differences within a population can be disentangled, or whether they have an impact on compl...
European journal of drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics
Dec 1, 2020
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Deferasirox is an oral iron chelator used to reduce iron levels in iron-overloaded patients with transfusion-dependent anemia or non-transfusion-dependent thalassemia. This study investigated the effects of genetic polymorph...