Australasian journal on ageing
Apr 19, 2022
OBJECTIVES: To examine loneliness experienced by middle-aged and older Chinese immigrants and its association with accepting technology as a companion (apps, Internet and robots) versus owning pets, when social distancing measures were implemented in...
Medical physics
Apr 18, 2022
OBJECTIVES: Artificial intelligence (AI) has been proved to be a highly efficient tool for COVID-19 diagnosis, but the large data size and heavy label force required for algorithm development and the poor generalizability of AI algorithms, to some ex...
Computers in biology and medicine
Apr 16, 2022
BACKGROUND: As of Feb 27, 2022, coronavirus (COVID-19) has caused 434,888,591 infections and 5,958,849 deaths worldwide, dealing a severe blow to the economies and cultures of most countries around the world. As the virus has mutated, its infectious ...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Apr 14, 2022
Each year there are nearly 57 million deaths worldwide, with over 2.7 million in the United States. Timely, accurate and complete death reporting is critical for public health, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, as institutions and government a...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Apr 14, 2022
Deep learning based methods have shown great promise in achieving accurate automatic detection of Coronavirus Disease (covid) - 19 from Chest X-Ray (cxr) images.However, incorporating explainability in these solutions remains relatively less explored...
Scientific reports
Apr 13, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic repeatedly overwhelms healthcare systems capacity and forced the development and implementation of triage guidelines in ICU for scarce resources (e.g. mechanical ventilation). These guidelines were often based on known risk fact...
Computational intelligence and neuroscience
Apr 13, 2022
Spondylolisthesis refers to the slippage of one vertebral body over the adjacent one. It is a chronic condition that requires early detection to prevent unpleasant surgery. The paper presents an optimized deep learning model for detecting spondylolis...
Annals of biomedical engineering
Apr 12, 2022
Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) is a highly transmissible and pathogenic virus caused by severe respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which first appeared in Wuhan, China, and has since spread in the whole world. This pathology has caused a ma...
Journal of healthcare engineering
Apr 11, 2022
In this paper, modifications in neoteric architectures such as VGG16, VGG19, ResNet50, and InceptionV3 are proposed for the classification of COVID-19 using chest X-rays. The proposed architectures termed "COV-DLS" consist of two phases: heading mode...
Journal of computer assisted tomography
Apr 8, 2022
OBJECTIVE: We aimed to develop and validate the automatic quantification of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia on computed tomography (CT) images.