OBJECTIVE: The In-hospital length of stay (LOS) is expected to increase as cardiovascular diseases complexity increases and the population ages. This will affect healthcare systems especially with the current situation of decreased bed capacity and i...
Automated evaluation of a subject's neurocognitive performance (NCP) is a relevant topic in neurological and clinical studies. NCP represents the mental/cognitive human capacity in performing a specific task. It is difficult to develop the study prot...
BACKGROUND: Emergency medical dispatchers fail to identify approximately 25% of cases of out of hospital cardiac arrest, thus lose the opportunity to provide the caller instructions in cardiopulmonary resuscitation. We examined whether a machine lear...
PURPOSE: Prostate cancer classification has a significant impact on the prognosis and treatment planning of patients. Currently, this classification is based on the Gleason score analysis of biopsied tissues, which is neither accurate nor risk free. ...
OBJECTIVE: Intracranial pressure (ICP) is an important and established clinical measurement that is used in the management of severe acute brain injury. ICP waveforms are usually triphasic and are susceptible to artifact because of transient catheter...
Journal of diabetes science and technology
Jan 17, 2019
BACKGROUND: Fear of exercise related hypoglycemia is a major reason why people with type 1 diabetes (T1D) do not exercise. There is no validated prediction algorithm that can predict hypoglycemia at the start of aerobic exercise.
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the differences between walking on an advanced robotic locomotion interface called the Treadport and walking overground with healthy subjects.
STUDY OBJECTIVE: The Third International Consensus Definitions (Sepsis-3) Task Force recommended the use of the quick Sequential [Sepsis-related] Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA) score to screen patients for sepsis outside of the ICU. However, subseq...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Jan 17, 2019
BACKGROUND: This paper suggests a method to assess the extent to which ultra-short Heart Rate Variability (HRV) features (less than 5 min) can be considered as valid surrogates of short HRV features (nominally 5 min). Short term HRV analysis has been...
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