International journal of bioinformatics research and applications
Jan 1, 2015
This paper aims to enlighten the complex etiology beneath obesity by analysing data from a large nutrigenetics study, in which nutritional and genetic factors associated with obesity were recorded for around two thousand individuals. In our previous ...
Endometrial cancer is the most common malignancy of the female genital tract in developed countries and second to cervical cancer in India. Endometrial cancer predominately affects post menopausal women; however 15-25% of cases are diagnosed before m...
Restorative neurology and neuroscience
Jan 1, 2015
PURPOSE: Preliminary evidence has shown no additional effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on robotic gait training in chronic stroke, probably due to the neural organization of locomotion involving cortical and spinal control. O...
Wearable robotic devices provide safe and intensive rehabilitation, enabling repeated motions for motor function recovery in stroke patients. The aim of this small case series was to demonstrate the training effects of a three-week robotic leg orthos...
This paper focuses on the improvement of the diagnostic accuracy of focal liver lesions by quantifying the key features of cysts, hemangiomas, and malignant lesions on ultrasound images. The focal liver lesions were divided into 29 cysts, 37 hemangio...
Several studies have demonstrated that fully automated pattern recognition methods applied to structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) aid in the diagnosis of dementia, but these conclusions are based on highly preselected samples that significant...
We are presenting the management of an infected pancreatic fluid collection that occurred six months after distal pancreatectomy in the setting of a radical resection for adrenal carcinoma. Progressive increase in size of the cyst and failure of endo...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
BACKGROUND: In answer to the increasing demand for care by the Japanese oldest portion of the population, an extensive programme of life support robots is under development, advocated by the Japanese government. Roboticbed (RB) is developed to facili...
21 patients with nonparasitic spleen cysts were operated. Robot-assisted (RA) interventions were applied in 10 cases, laparoscopic--in 11 patients. Men surgery duration was 124 minutes in case of RA-technique and 120 minutes if laparoscopy was used. ...
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