BMC medical informatics and decision making
Jul 29, 2019
BACKGROUND: Although complex machine learning models are commonly outperforming the traditional simple interpretable models, clinicians find it hard to understand and trust these complex models due to the lack of intuition and explanation of their pr...
BACKGROUND: Detection of pulmonary nodules is an important aspect of an automatic detection system. Incomputer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems, the ability to detect pulmonary nodules is highly important, which plays an important role in the diagnosis ...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Jul 9, 2019
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The multi-label Human Protein Atlas (HPA) classification can yield a better understanding of human diseases and help doctors to enhance the automatic analysis of biomedical images. The existing automatic protein recognition...
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the performance of a deep learning based Artificial Intelligence (AI) software for detection of glaucoma from stereoscopic optic disc photographs, and to compare this performance to the performance of a large cohort of ophthal...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Jun 29, 2019
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Retinal fundus images are widely used to diagnose retinal diseases and can potentially be used for early diagnosis and prevention of chronic vascular diseases and diabetes. While various automatic retinal vessel segmentation...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Jun 27, 2019
BACKGROUND: Diabetic patients treated with intensive insulin therapies require a tight glycemic control and may benefit from advanced tools to predict blood glucose (BG) concentration levels and hypo/hyperglycemia events. Prediction systems using mac...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Jun 26, 2019
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Wheezing is a common symptom of patients caused by asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases. Wheezing detection identifies wheezing lung sounds and helps physicians in diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment of pulmona...
Heart failure (HF) is one of the leading causes of hospital admissions in the US. Readmission within 30 days after a HF hospitalization is both a recognized indicator for disease progression and a source of considerable financial burden to the health...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Jun 22, 2019
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Prediction of lymph node metastasis (LNM) for early colorectal cancer (CRC) is critical for determining treatment strategies after endoscopic resection. Some histologic parameters for predicting LNM have been established, b...