Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) and its most severe form, critical limb ischaemia (CLI), are very common clinical conditions related to atherosclerosis and represent the major causes of morbidity, mortality, disability, and reduced quality of life ...
Journal of the American Heart Association
Mar 21, 2020
Background Severe, symptomatic aortic stenosis (AS) is associated with poor prognoses. However, early detection of AS is difficult because of the long asymptomatic period experienced by many patients, during which screening tools are ineffective. The...
Infection control and hospital epidemiology
Mar 3, 2020
We propose the use of a machine learning algorithm to improve possible COVID-19 case identification more quickly using a mobile phone-based web survey. This method could reduce the spread of the virus in susceptible populations under quarantine.
Computerized medical imaging and graphics : the official journal of the Computerized Medical Imaging Society
Feb 28, 2020
Predicting Alzheimer's Disease (AD) from Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and Cognitive Normal (CN) has become wide. Recent advancement in neuroimaging in adoption with machine learning techniques are especially useful for pattern recognition of medic...
UNLABELLED: Diabetic Macular Edema (DME) is an advanced stage of Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) and can lead to permanent vision loss. Currently, it affects 26.7 million people globally and on account of such a huge number of DME cases and the limited num...
The lancet. Gastroenterology & hepatology
Jan 22, 2020
BACKGROUND: Colonoscopy with computer-aided detection (CADe) has been shown in non-blinded trials to improve detection of colon polyps and adenomas by providing visual alarms during the procedure. We aimed to assess the effectiveness of a CADe system...
Detection of early stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD) (i.e., mild cognitive impairment (MCI)) is important to maximize the chances to delay or prevent progression to AD. Brain connectivity networks inferred from medical imaging data have been commonl...
Neurodegenerative diseases are excessively affecting millions of patients, especially elderly people. Early detection and management of these diseases are crucial as the clinical symptoms take years to appear after the onset of neuro-degeneration. Th...
Hypertension is a leading cause of mortality in the USA. While simple tools such as the sphygmomanometer are widely used to diagnose hypertension, they could not predict the disease before its onset. Clinical studies suggest that alterations in the s...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Nov 11, 2019
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Nowadays computer-aided disease diagnosis from medical data through deep learning methods has become a wide area of research. Existing works of analyzing clinical text data in the medical domain, which substantiate useful in...