INTRODUCTION: Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) is highly infectious with no currently available vaccine. Prior to treatment, it is recommended to confirm HCV infection with either quantitative or qualitative nucleic acid test. Access to these assays in Nigeri...
Journal of atherosclerosis and thrombosis
Dec 9, 2020
AIM: The prediction of functional outcome is essential in the management of acute ischemic stroke patients. We aimed to explore the various prognostic factors with multivariate linear discriminant analysis or neural network analysis and evaluate the ...
Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc
Dec 9, 2020
Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is a fatty liver disease characterized by accumulation of fat in hepatocytes with concurrent inflammation and is associated with morbidity, cirrhosis and liver failure. After extraction of a liver core biopsy, tis...
The composition and relative abundances of immune cells in the tumor microenvironment are key factors affecting the progression of lung adenocarcinomas (LUADs) and the efficacy of immunotherapy. Using the cancer gene expression dataset from The Cance...
Timely and effective clinical decision-making for COVID-19 requires rapid identification of risk factors for disease outcomes. Our objective was to identify characteristics available immediately upon first clinical evaluation related COVID-19 mortali...
Tumor mutation burden (TMB) is considered to be an independent genetic biomarker that can predict the tumor patient's response to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). Meanwhile, microRNA (miRNA) plays a key role in regulating the anticancer immune re...
Background Hyperpolarized noble gas MRI helps measure lung ventilation, but clinical translation remains limited. Free-breathing proton MRI may help quantify lung function using existing MRI systems without contrast material and may assist in providi...
Aging clocks that accurately predict human age based on various biodata types are among the most important recent advances in biogerontology. Since 2016 multiple deep learning solutions have been created to interpret facial photos, omics data, and cl...
IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics
Dec 8, 2020
Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is a menace that is affecting 10 percent of the world population and 15 percent of the South African population. The early and cheap diagnosis of this disease with accuracy and reliability will save 20,000 lives in South ...
BACKGROUND: The hallmark of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) remains dysplasia in the bone marrow (BM). However, diagnosing MDS may be challenging and subject to inter-observer variability. Thus, there is an unmet need for novel objective, standardized...
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