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Comparison of machine-learning algorithms to build a predictive model for detecting undiagnosed diabetes - ELSA-Brasil: accuracy study.

Sao Paulo medical journal = Revista paulista de medicina
CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE:: Type 2 diabetes is a chronic disease associated with a wide range of serious health complications that have a major impact on overall health. The aims here were to develop and validate predictive models for detecting undiagnos...

Automated Classification of Semi-Structured Pathology Reports into ICD-O Using SVM in Portuguese.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Pathology reports are a main source of information regarding cancer diagnosis and are commonly written following semi-structured templates that include tumour localisation and behaviour. In this work, we evaluated the efficiency of support vector mac...

Anti-Desmoglein 1 and 3 Autoantibody Levels in Endemic Pemphigus Foliaceus and Pemphigus Vulgaris from Brazil.

Clinical laboratory
BACKGROUND: Pemphigus is a group of autoimmune blistering diseases of which the major forms are pemphigus foliaceus (PF) and vulgaris (PV). In Brazil, PF occurs in an endemic form also known as fogo selvagem. The main autoantibody in PF is against de...

Sheep milk: physical-chemical characteristics and microbiological quality.

Archivos latinoamericanos de nutricion
Sheep milk is the third most consumed milk in Brazil. It is much appreciated for its nutritional status and is important for children that have problems with cow milk. Little information is known about the chemical, physical and microbiological compo...

Why Mathematical Computer Simulations Are the New Laboratory for Scientists.

Substance use & misuse
In this paper, we introduce a new powerful scientific paradigm to understand natural and cultural processes. This new paradigm is based on two fundamental keywords: Data, as representative sample of the process we need to analyze, and Artificial Adap...

Consumer Health Vocabulary: A Proposal for a Brazilian Portuguese Language.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Studies show a gap between the expressions commonly used by health consumers and health professionals. To bridge this gap, consumer health vocabularies are presented as a solution. The aim of this paper is to describe an on-going project to create a ...

Automated Classification of Pathology Reports.

Studies in health technology and informatics
This work develops an automated classifier of pathology reports which infers the topography and the morphology classes of a tumor using codes from the International Classification of Diseases for Oncology (ICD-O). Data from 94,980 patients of the A.C...

Ontology-Driven Semantic Search for Brazilian Portuguese Clinical Notes.

Studies in health technology and informatics
The emerging penetration of Health IT in Latin America (especially in Brazil) has exacerbated the ever-increasing amount of Electronic Health Record (EHR) clinical free text documents.This imposes a workflow efficiency challenge on clinicians who nee...

Proposal of Local Automatic Weighing Attribute in CBIR.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Lung cancer is the most common malignant lesion and the principal cause of cancer-related death worldwide. This problem encourages researchers to build computer-aided solutions to help diagnose lung cancer. Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) system...

Recruit--An Ontology Based Information Retrieval System for Clinical Trials Recruitment.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Clinical trials are studies designed to assess whether a new intervention is better than the current alternatives. However, most of them fail to recruit participants on schedule. It is hard to use Electronic Health Record (EHR) data to find eligible ...