BACKGROUND: End-effector robots allow intensive gait training in stroke subjects and promote a successful rehabilitation. A comparison between conventional and end-effector Robot-Assisted Gait Training (RAGT) in subacute stroke patients is needed.
BACKGROUND: Predicting clinical course of cognitive decline can boost clinical trials' power and improve our clinical decision-making. Machine learning (ML) algorithms are specifically designed for the purpose of prediction; however. identifying opti...
Journal of computer assisted tomography
Jan 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: Knowledge-based iterative model reconstruction (IMR) yields diagnostically acceptable image quality in low-dose static computed tomography (CT). We aimed to evaluate the feasibility of IMR in dynamic myocardial computed tomography perfusio...
BACKGROUND: Recently, many studies have been carried out to detect Alzheimer's disease (AD) from continuous speech by linguistic analysis and modeling. However, few of them utilize language models (LMs) to extract linguistic features and to investiga...
BACKGROUND: Memory dysfunction is characteristic of aging and often attributed to Alzheimer's disease (AD). An easily administered tool for preliminary assessment of memory function and early AD detection would be integral in improving patient manage...
The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease
Jan 1, 2019
BACKGROUND: Recruiting patients for clinical trials of potential therapies for Alzheimer's disease (AD) remains a major challenge, with demand for trial participants at an all-time high. The AD treatment R and D pipeline includes around 112 agents. I...
BACKGROUNDROBiGAME project aims to implement serious games on robots to rehabilitate upper limb (UL) in stroke patients. The serious game characteristics (target position, level of assistance/resistance, level of force) are adapted based on the patie...
Journal of X-ray science and technology
Jan 1, 2019
BACKGROUND: The morbidity of breast cancer has been increased in these years and ranked the first of all female diseases. Computer-aided diagnosis techniques for mammograms can help radiologists find early breast lesions. In mammograms, the degree of...
Journal of wound, ostomy, and continence nursing : official publication of The Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society
Jan 1, 2019
PURPOSE: The purpose of this descriptive study was to evaluate use of a previously validated, online, interactive wound assessment and wound care clinical pathway in a group of RNs. Specific aims were to (a) evaluate the proportions of correct, parti...
Integrative biology : quantitative biosciences from nano to macro
Jan 1, 2019
Latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is estimated in nearly one quarter of the world's population, and of those immunocompetent and infected ~10% will proceed to active tuberculosis (TB). Current diagnostics cannot definitively identify LTBI and prov...
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