European annals of otorhinolaryngology, head and neck diseases
May 13, 2015
Robot-assisted transaxillary thyroid surgery avoids the need for a neck incision. It consists of thyroid lobectomy and isthmectomy for moderately large unilateral benign nodules. The surgical imperatives are the same as for conventional surgery, but ...
OBJECTIVE: To analyse the continence outcomes of robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) in suboptimal patients that have challenging continence recovery factors such as enlarged prostates, elderly patients, higher body mass index (BMI), salvage ...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Apr 14, 2015
BACKGROUND: Manual eligibility screening (ES) for a clinical trial typically requires a labor-intensive review of patient records that utilizes many resources. Leveraging state-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP) and information extraction (...
Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology
Dec 12, 2014
This article reviews several techniques from machine learning that can be used to study the problem of identifying a small number of features, from among tens of thousands of measured features, that can accurately predict a drug response. Prediction ...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jul 16, 2014
OBJECTIVES: (1) To develop an automated eligibility screening (ES) approach for clinical trials in an urban tertiary care pediatric emergency department (ED); (2) to assess the effectiveness of natural language processing (NLP), information extractio...
Advancements in machine learning have revolutionized preoperative risk assessment. In this article, we comment on the article by Huang , which presents a recent multicenter cohort study demonstrated that machine learning algorithms effectively strati...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Mar 1, 2025
OBJECTIVES: Clinical trials (CTs) are essential for improving patient care by evaluating new treatments' safety and efficacy. A key component in CT protocols is the study population defined by the eligibility criteria. This study aims to evaluate the...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Nov 1, 2024
OBJECTIVE: The objective of our research is to conduct a comprehensive review that aims to systematically map, describe, and summarize the current utilization of artificial intelligence (AI) in the recruitment and retention of participants in clinica...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 22, 2024
We applied natural language processing (NLP) to a corpus extracted from 4 hours of expert panel discussion transcripts to determine the sustainability of a Stage II-III clinical trial of online social support interventions for Hispanic and African Am...