AIMC Topic: Belgium

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Predicting haemoglobin deferral using machine learning models: Can we use the same prediction model across countries?

Vox sanguinis
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Personalized donation strategies based on haemoglobin (Hb) prediction models may reduce Hb deferrals and hence costs of donation, meanwhile improving commitment of donors. We previously found that prediction models perform ...

Report of the First ONTOX Stakeholder Network Meeting: Digging Under the Surface of ONTOX Together With the Stakeholders.

Alternatives to laboratory animals : ATLA
The first Stakeholder Network Meeting of the EU Horizon 2020-funded ONTOX project was held on 13-14 March 2023, in Brussels, Belgium. The discussion centred around identifying specific challenges, barriers and drivers in relation to the implementatio...

Characterizing fall risk factors in Belgian older adults through machine learning: a data-driven approach.

BMC public health
BACKGROUND: Falls are a major problem associated with ageing. Yet, fall-risk classification models identifying older adults at risk are lacking. Current screening tools show limited predictive validity to differentiate between a low- and high-risk of...

Modelization of Covid-19 pandemic spreading: A machine learning forecasting with relaxation scenarios of countermeasures.

Journal of infection and public health
BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE: Mathematical modeling is the most scientific technique to understand the evolution of natural phenomena, including the spread of infectious diseases. Therefore, these modeling tools have been widely used in epidemiology for pr...

Combining citizen science and deep learning for large-scale estimation of outdoor nitrogen dioxide concentrations.

Environmental research
Reliable estimates of outdoor air pollution concentrations are needed to support global actions to improve public health. We developed a new approach to estimating annual average outdoor nitrogen dioxide (NO) concentrations using approximately 20,000...

Machine learning analysis of motor evoked potential time series to predict disability progression in multiple sclerosis.

BMC neurology
BACKGROUND: Evoked potentials (EPs) are a measure of the conductivity of the central nervous system. They are used to monitor disease progression of multiple sclerosis patients. Previous studies only extracted a few variables from the EPs, which are ...

Presence of gammaherpesvirus BoHV-4 in endometrial cytology samples is not associated with subclinical endometritis diagnosed at artificial insemination in dairy cows.

Veterinary microbiology
In the past, bovine herpesvirus 4 (BoHV-4) has been suggested to be associated with metritis and endometritis. However, not many field studies investigated the association between BoHV-4 and subclinical endometritis (SCE). In the present study, the a...

Multicenter validation of [F]-FDG PET and support-vector machine discriminant analysis in automatically classifying patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis versus controls.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis & frontotemporal degeneration
OBJECTIVE: F-Fluorodeoxyglucose (F-FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) single-center studies using support vector machine (SVM) approach to differentiate amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) from controls have shown high overall accuracy on an ind...

Network analysis of empathy items from the interpersonal reactivity index in 1973 young adults.

Psychiatry research
The aim of this work is to perform a network analysis on the French adaptation of the interpersonal reactivity index (IRI) scale from a large Belgian database and provide additional information for the construct of empathy. We analyze a database of 1...