The study aimed to achieve the following objectives: (1) to perform the fusion of thermal and visible tongue images with various fusion rules of discrete wavelet transform (DWT) to classify diabetes and normal subjects; (2) to obtain the statistical ...
Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) impact people globally, cause occupational illness and reduce productivity. Exercise therapy is the gold standard treatment for MSDs and can be provided by physiotherapists and/or also via mobile apps. Apart from the ...
This study aimed to establish a machine learning (ML) model for predicting hepatic metastasis in esophageal cancer. We retrospectively analyzed patients with esophageal cancer recorded in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) databas...
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias
Jun 24, 2024
The need for the identification of risk factors associated to COVID-19 disease severity remains urgent. Patients' care and resource allocation can be potentially different and are defined based on the current classification of disease severity. This ...
IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Jun 24, 2024
Freezing of gait (FoG) is a prevalent symptom among individuals with Parkinson's disease and related disorders. FoG detection from videos has been developed recently; however, the process requires using videos filmed within a controlled environment. ...
BACKGROUND: Robust predictive models of clinical impairment and worsening in multiple sclerosis (MS) are needed to identify patients at risk and optimize treatment strategies.
Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI
Jun 22, 2024
BACKGROUND: Several factors can impair image quality and reliability of liver magnetic resonance elastography (MRE), such as inadequate driver positioning, insufficient wave propagation and patient-related factors.
The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society
Jun 22, 2024
BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Lumbar spinal canal stenosis (LSCS) is the most common spinal degenerative disorder in elderly people and usually first seen by primary care physicians or orthopedic surgeons who are not spine surgery specialists. Magnetic resonan...
Weekend discharges occur less frequently than discharges on weekdays, contributing to hospital congestion. Artificial intelligence algorithms have previously been derived to predict which patients are nearing discharge based upon ward round notes. In...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Jun 22, 2024
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Alzheimer's disease dementia (ADD) is well known to induce alterations in both structural and functional brain connectivity. However, reported changes in connectivity are mostly limited to global/local network features, whic...
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