BACKGROUND: Intensive Care Resources are heavily utilized during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, risk stratification and prediction of SARS-CoV-2 patient clinical outcomes upon ICU admission remain inadequate. This study aimed to develop a machine le...
Waste management & research : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA
Jun 30, 2021
Policymakers, practitioners, and scholars have long-lauded digital technologies, such as smart waste containers or artificial intelligence for material recognition and robotic automation, as key enablers to more effective and efficient waste manageme...
Der Chirurg; Zeitschrift fur alle Gebiete der operativen Medizen
Jun 25, 2021
BACKGROUND: Robotic assistance has become established in surgery but is not yet a standard procedure. The current status of clinical dissemination in Germany remains unclear. Industry independent sources are scarce.
Evidence-based STI (science, technology, and innovation) policy making requires accurate indicators of innovation in order to promote economic growth. However, traditional indicators from patents and questionnaire-based surveys often lack coverage, g...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Mar 26, 2021
PURPOSE: The main purpose of this work was to develop an efficient approach for segmentation of structures that are relevant for diagnosis and treatment of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS), namely pharynx, tongue, and soft palate, from mid-sag...
The ethical discourse addresses the following aspects: What do we need ethics for? Man's disposition to morality, natural ethics. Morality as a social norm. Morality to maintain an inhuman, superhuman power structure. Morality as an artifact of the b...
The structure of relationships in the past, the present and the future is shaped by the idea of humanism. Based on this construct, the article illuminates various aspects and configurations of humanism on a timeline from "here and now" to "there and ...
OBJECTIVE: This paper provides an overview of a range of ethical aspects involved in the use of autonomous, virtual or embodied artificial intelligence (AI) in the care of people with mental health issues.
The article summarizes various publications on the application of "learning algorithms" and "artificial neural networks" in psychiatry to describe a dystopian future scenario. The draft of a nosology based on molecular biology is opposed to the ecolo...