Advances in experimental medicine and biology
Jan 1, 2018
Artefacts are a common and unwanted aspect of any measurement process, especially in a clinical environment, with multiple causes such as environmental changes or motion. In near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), there are several existing methods that c...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2018
Hospital readmissions receive increasing interest, since they are burdensome for patients and costly for healthcare providers. For the calculation of reimbursement fees, in Germany there is the German-Diagnosis Related Groups (G-DRG) system. For ever...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2018
Optical navigation systems help surgeons find their way through the complex anatomy of a patient. However, such systems are accident-sensitive, time-consuming and difficult to use because of their complicated technical requirements such as the settin...
Machine Learning (ML) models are very useful to predict physicochemical properties of small organic molecules, proteins, proteomes, and complex systems. These methods may be useful to reduce the cost of research in terms of materials resources, time,...
Journal of X-ray science and technology
Jan 1, 2018
BACKGROUND: Accurate measurement of bone mineral density (BMD) in dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) is essential for proper diagnosis of osteoporosis. Calculation of BMD requires precise bone segmentation and subtraction of soft tissue absorptio...
Critical reviews in biomedical engineering
Jan 1, 2018
Fever is one of the major clinical symptoms of undifferentiated fever cases. Early diagnosis of undifferentiated fever is a challenging task for the physician. The aim of this study was to classify infectious and noninfectious diseases from 24-hour c...
Critical reviews in biomedical engineering
Jan 1, 2018
Classification of digital cervical images acquired during visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) is an important step in automated image-based cervical cancer detection. Many algorithms have been developed for classification of cervical images base...
Toxicity evaluation is an important part of the preclinical safety assessment of new drugs, which is directly related to human health and the fate of drugs. It is of importance to study how to evaluate drug toxicity accurately and economically. The t...
Advances in experimental medicine and biology
Jan 1, 2018
Medicine will experience many changes in the coming years because the so-called "medicine of the future" will be increasingly proactive, featuring four basic elements: predictive, personalized, preventive, and participatory. Drivers for these changes...
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