OBJECTIVE: The Fugl-Meyer motor scale (FM) is a well-validated measure for assessing upper extremity and lower extremity motor functions in people with stroke. The FM contains numerous items (50), which reduces its clinical usability. The purpose of ...
While robot-assisted radical cystoprostatectomy (RARC) for locally advanced prostate cancer (LAPC) may sometimes prove to be excessive treatment, it can significantly reduce the risk of positive surgical margins and lower urinary tract obstruction in...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Apr 1, 2021
The case is a 68‒year‒old male, who had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia(AML)prior to rectal cancer surgery, was referred to our hospital for treatment in July 2019. We planned to treat the AML first, and then the colorectal cancer. After c...
PURPOSE: Knowing the treatments administered to patients with cancer is important for treatment planning and correlating treatment patterns with outcomes for personalized medicine study. However, existing methods to identify treatments are often lack...
Nurses collect, use, and produce data every day in countless ways, such as when assessing and treating patients, performing administrative functions, and engaging in strategic planning in their organizations and communities. These data are aggregated...
IMPORTANCE: Accurate surgical scheduling affects patients, clinical staff, and use of physical resources. Although numerous retrospective analyses have suggested a potential for improvement, the real-world outcome of implementing a machine learning m...
IMPORTANCE: Because more than one-third of people making nonfatal suicide attempts do not receive mental health treatment, it is essential to extend suicide attempt risk factors beyond high-risk clinical populations to the general adult population.
Finite element analysis (FEA) has been widely used to study foot biomechanics and pathological functions or effects of therapeutic solutions. However, development and analysis of such foot modeling is complex and time-consuming. The purpose of this s...
We propose a novel approach for processing diffusion MRI tractography datasets using the sparse closest point transform (SCPT). Tractography enables the 3D geometry of white matter pathways to be reconstructed; however, algorithms for processing them...
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