Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), also known as kala-azar, has posed significant challenges to elimination efforts due to increased reporting of new cases from high mountain and previously considered non-endemic areas in Nepal. Understanding the potential...
American journal of infection control
Jan 21, 2025
BACKGROUND: Twelve bacterial families identified as global priority pathogens (GPPs) pose the greatest threat to human health due to declining antibiotic efficacy. Robotics, a swift and contactless tool for disinfecting hospital surfaces, was sought ...
Journal of Nepal Health Research Council
Dec 19, 2024
BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis remains a public health challenge in Nepal and ranks as the seventh leading cause of death in the country. The END Tuberculosis strategy stresses - the screening for symptoms alone may not suffice; additional screening tools ...
PURPOSE: Stage is an important feature to identify in retinal images of infants at risk of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). The purpose of this study was to implement a convolutional neural network (CNN) for binary detection of stages 1, 2, and 3 in...
Studies in history and philosophy of biological and biomedical sciences
Sep 10, 2020
Ethnobotanical research provides ample justification for comparing diverse biological nomenclatures and exploring ways that retain alternative naming practices. However, how (and whether) comparison of nomenclatures is possible remains a subject of d...
Deep learning (DL) neural networks have only recently been employed to interpret chest radiography (CXR) to screen and triage people for pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). No published studies have compared multiple DL systems and populations. We conducted...
African journal of reproductive health
Aug 28, 2025
Early cancer detection remains a major challenge in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where late diagnoses and unequal healthcare access are widespread. While digital innovations such as telemedicine and artificial intelligence (AI) offer sig...
Kathmandu University medical journal (KUMJ)
May 13, 2025
Artificial intelligence (AI) has shown effectiveness in various industries, particularly within healthcare sectors. In Nepal, there are limited insights on existing studies regarding technical, financial, human resources, ethical and privacy related ...
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