Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Oct 1, 2020
BACKGROUND: Microbiologists are valued for their time-honed skills in image analysis, including identification of pathogens and inflammatory context in Gram stains, ova and parasite preparations, blood smears and histopathologic slides. They also mus...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Jul 1, 2020
In low and middle income countries, infectious diseases continue to have a significant impact, particularly amongst the poorest in society. Tetanus and hand foot and mouth disease (HFMD) are two such diseases and, in both, death is associated with au...
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
May 1, 2020
BACKGROUND: Machine learning (ML) is a growing field in medicine. This narrative review describes the current body of literature on ML for clinical decision support in infectious diseases (ID).
To develop a classification model for accurately discriminating common infectious diseases in Zhejiang province, China.Symptoms and signs, abnormal lab test results, epidemiological features, as well as the incidence rates were treated as predictors,...
To compare different deep learning architectures for predicting the risk of readmission within 30 days of discharge from the intensive care unit (ICU). The interpretability of attention-based models is leveraged to describe patients-at-risk. Several ...
BACKGROUND: With the global spread of multidrug resistance in pathogenic microbes, infectious diseases emerge as a key public health concern of the recent time. Identification of host genes associated with infectious diseases will improve our underst...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Nov 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: We assessed whether machine learning can be utilized to allow efficient extraction of infectious disease activity information from online media reports.
BACKGROUND: Infectious diseases claim millions of lives especially in the developing countries each year. Identification of causative pathogens accurately and rapidly plays a key role in the success of treatment. To support infectious disease researc...