The international journal of cardiovascular imaging
May 9, 2024
To assess the impact of low-dose contrast media (CM) injection protocol with deep learning image reconstruction (DLIR) algorithm on image quality in coronary CT angiography (CCTA). In this prospective study, patients underwent CCTA were prospectively...
BACKGROUND: Sepsis is a severe form of systemic inflammatory response syndrome that is caused by infection. Sepsis is characterized by a marked state of stress, which manifests as nonspecific physiological and metabolic changes in response to the dis...
Elevated lipoprotein (a) (Lp(a)) is associated with premature atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. However, fewer than 0.5% of individuals undergo Lp(a) testing, limiting the evaluation and use of novel targeted therapeutics currently under develo...
Journal of thrombosis and haemostasis : JTH
May 7, 2024
BACKGROUND: Hemophilia A (HA) is an X-linked congenital bleeding disorder, which leads to deficiency of clotting factor (F) VIII. It mostly affects males, and females are considered carriers. However, it is now recognized that variants of F8 in femal...
PURPOSE: To develop a non-invasive auxiliary assessment method based on CT-derived extracellular volume (ECV) to predict the pathological grading (PG) of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).
Arab journal of gastroenterology : the official publication of the Pan-Arab Association of Gastroenterology
May 4, 2024
BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS: The present study was undertaken to design a new machine learning (ML) model that can predict the presence of viremia in hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibody (anti-HCV) seropositive cases.
PURPOSE: High PSMA expression might be correlated with structural characteristics such as growth patterns on histopathology, not recognized by the human eye on MRI images. Deep structural image analysis might be able to detect such differences and th...
BACKGROUND: Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) presents a significant healthcare challenge, with considerable economic ramifications. While blood glucose management and long-term metabolic target setting for home care and outpatient treatment follow est...