BACKGROUND: Associating a patient's profile with the memories of prototypical patients built through previous repeat clinical experience is a key process in clinical judgment. We hypothesized that a similar process using a cognitive computing tool wo...
Journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Jan 1, 2016
AIMS OF STUDY: In this work, we enhanced the role of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test by examining the relation between free PSA (fPSA) and total PSA (tPSA) value and other biological information such as age and volume of prostate. Our primary go...
Sichuan da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Sichuan University. Medical science edition
Jan 1, 2016
OBJECTIVE: To explore the diagnosis value of back propagation (BP) neural network integrating age, transrectal ultrasound characteristics and serum prostate specific antigen (PSA) for prostate cancer.
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Nov 1, 2015
A 77 year-old man with asymptomatic microscopic hematuria underwent a cystoscopic examination, which identified a broad-based papillary tumor at the cervix of the bladder. Adenocarcinoma was detected in the biopsy specimen. MRI and CT examination sho...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Aug 1, 2015
Colorectal cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world. As part of its diagnosis, a histological analysis is often run on biopsy samples. Multispecral imagery taken from cancer tissues can be useful to capture more meaningful features. Howe...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Aug 1, 2015
This paper presents the experimental evaluation of a coordinated control system for a robot and robot-driven shape memory alloy (SMA) actuated smart flexible needle capable of following a curved path for percutaneous intervention. The robot driving t...