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Using Kalman Filtering to Forecast Disease Trajectory for Patients With Normal Tension Glaucoma.

American journal of ophthalmology
PURPOSE: To determine whether a machine learning technique called Kalman filtering (KF) can accurately forecast future values of mean deviation (MD), pattern standard deviation, and intraocular pressure for patients with normal tension glaucoma (NTG)...

Serum vitamin D deficiency and vitamin D receptor gene polymorphism are associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease in a Chinese rural population.

Nutrition research (New York, N.Y.)
Several studies have reported a conflicting association between vitamin D deficiency, vitamin D receptor (VDR) polymorphism, and the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). We hypothesized that serum 25(OH)D concentrations and single nucleotide polymor...

Robot-based intervention may reduce delay in the production of intransitive gestures in Chinese-speaking preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder.

Molecular autism
BACKGROUND: Past studies have shown that robot-based intervention was effective in improving gestural use in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The present study examined whether children with ASD could catch up to the level of gestural p...

[Automated Assessment for Bone Age of Left Wrist Joint in Uyghur Teenagers by Deep Learning].

Fa yi xue za zhi
OBJECTIVES: To realize the automated bone age assessment by applying deep learning to digital radiography (DR) image recognition of left wrist joint in Uyghur teenagers, and explore its practical application value in forensic medicine bone age assess...

Comparison of Changes in the Lipid Profiles of Eastern Chinese Postmenopausal Women With Early-Stage Breast Cancer Treated With Different Aromatase Inhibitors: A Retrospective Study.

Clinical pharmacology in drug development
Cardiovascular morbidity is closely associated with serum lipid level. We aimed to investigate the effects of different aromatase inhibitors, including letrozole, anastrozole, and exemestane, on the lipid profile of eastern Chinese breast cancer pati...

Efficacy, safety and pharmacokinetics of subcutaneous azacitidine in Chinese patients with higher risk myelodysplastic syndromes: Results from a multicenter, single-arm, open-label phase 2 study.

Asia-Pacific journal of clinical oncology
BACKGROUND: Azacitidine safety and efficacy were established in studies of mainly Caucasian patients. Differences in drug metabolism enzymes between Caucasian and East Asian populations prevent extrapolation of drug effects between these groups. This...

Assessing Suicide Risk and Emotional Distress in Chinese Social Media: A Text Mining and Machine Learning Study.

Journal of medical Internet research
BACKGROUND: Early identification and intervention are imperative for suicide prevention. However, at-risk people often neither seek help nor take professional assessment. A tool to automatically assess their risk levels in natural settings can increa...

A Novel Approach towards Medical Entity Recognition in Chinese Clinical Text.

Journal of healthcare engineering
Medical entity recognition, a basic task in the language processing of clinical data, has been extensively studied in analyzing admission notes in alphabetic languages such as English. However, much less work has been done on nonstructural texts that...

Classifying Chinese Questions Related to Health Care Posted by Consumers Via the Internet.

Journal of medical Internet research
BACKGROUND: In question answering (QA) system development, question classification is crucial for identifying information needs and improving the accuracy of returned answers. Although the questions are domain-specific, they are asked by non-professi...