INTRODUCTION: in Rwanda, the estimated out-of-pocket health expenditure has been increased from 24.46% in 2000 to 26% in 2015. Despite the existence of guideline in estimation of out-of-pocket health expenditures provided by WHO (2018), the estimatio...
OBJECTIVES: To develop and evaluate the performance of a deep learning system based on convolutional neural network (ConvNet) to detect dental caries from oral photographs.
The clinical severity, rapid transmission and human losses due to coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) have led the World Health Organization to declare it a pandemic. Traditional epidemiological tools are being significantly complemented by recent in...
BACKGROUND: Patients with esophageal cancer that invades adjacent structures (cT4b) are precluded from surgery and usually treated with definitive chemoradiotherapy (dCRT). dCRT might result in sufficient downstaging to enable a radical resection, ...
Journal of bodywork and movement therapies
Dec 19, 2020
BACKGROUND: and purpose: Performing a cognitive task while maintaining postural stability, known as "dual-task" condition, can increase the cognitive demand and reduce the postural control capacity. The inability to allocate attention to postural con...
Archives of biochemistry and biophysics
Dec 19, 2020
Although the use of computational methods within the pharmaceutical industry is well established, there is an urgent need for new approaches that can improve and optimize the pipeline of drug discovery and development. In spite of the fact that there...
Simple molecular descriptors of extensive series of 1,3,5-triazinyl sulfonamide derivatives, based on the structure of sulfonamides and their physicochemical properties, were designed and calculated. These descriptors were successfully applied as inp...
Journal of applied clinical medical physics
Dec 19, 2020
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to develop automated planning for whole-brain radiation therapy (WBRT) using a U-net-based deep-learning model for predicting the multileaf collimator (MLC) shape bypassing the contouring processes.
Digestive endoscopy : official journal of the Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society
Dec 19, 2020
Artificial intelligence (AI) and its application in medicine has grown large interest. Within gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy, the field of colonoscopy and polyp detection is the most investigated, however, upper GI follows the lead. Since endoscopy ...
Join thousands of healthcare professionals staying informed about the latest AI breakthroughs in medicine. Get curated insights delivered to your inbox.