Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention : MICCAI ... International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention
Sep 13, 2018
In Alzheimer's research, Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is an important intermediate stage between normal aging and Alzheimer's. How to distinguish MCI samples that finally convert to AD from those do not is an essential problem in the prevention an...
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) are aggressive brain tumors, which lead to poor overall survival (OS) of patients. OS prediction of GBM patients provides useful information for surgical and treatment planning. Radiomics research attempts at predicting ...
Accurate and reliable prediction of clinical progression over time has the potential to improve the outcomes of chronic disease. The classical approach to analyzing longitudinal data is to use (generalized) linear mixed-effect models (GLMM). However,...
International journal of medical informatics
Aug 28, 2018
BACKGROUND: The present study aims to identify the patients at risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D). There is a body of literature that uses machine learning classification algorithms to predict development of T2D among patients. The current study compares ...
Clinical and experimental rheumatology
Aug 14, 2018
OBJECTIVES: Primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS) is a complex chronic systemic disorder, for which specific and effective therapeutic interventions are still lacking. In this era of precision medicine, there is a clear need for a better definition of dis...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Jul 23, 2018
BACKGROUND: Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) is an established pacing therapy for heart failure patients. The New York Heart Association (NYHA) class is often used as a measure of a patient's response to CRT. Identifying NYHA class for heart f...
Ensuring the health and safety of independent-living senior citizens is a growing societal concern. Researchers have developed sensor based systems to monitor senior citizens' Activity of Daily Living (ADL), a set of daily activities that can indicat...
Papillary Renal Cell Carcinoma (PRCC) is a heterogeneous disease with variations in disease progression and clinical outcomes. The advent of next generation sequencing techniques (NGS) has generated data from patients that can be analysed to develop ...
Advances in rheumatology (London, England)
Jun 28, 2018
BACKGROUND: Little has been published about the epidemiology of Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) in South America, especially in the intertropical zone, and no epidemiological data from Brazil are available. The purpose of the present study was...