OBJECTIVE: Previous studies of the natural history of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) have been limited by small cohort sizes or heterogeneous analyses of pooled data. By quickly and efficiently extracting imaging data from the health records, natu...
Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association
Feb 3, 2021
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The importance of environmental factors for stroke patients to achieve home discharge was not scientifically proven. There are limited studies on the application of the decision tree algorithm with various functional and envir...
INTRODUCTION: Practice guidelines cannot recommend establishing a diagnosis of growth hormone deficiency (GHD) without performing growth hormone stimulation tests (GHST) in children with risk factors, due to the lack of sufficient evidence.
Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP
Feb 1, 2021
OBJECTIVE: Serum protein concentrations are diagnostically and prognostically valuable in cancer and other diseases, but their measurement via blood test is uncomfortable, inconvenient, and costly. This study investigates the possibility of predictin...
American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology
Jan 29, 2021
Although atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia, its early identification, diagnosis, and treatment is still challenging. Due to its heterogeneous mechanisms and risk factors, targeting an individualized treatment of AF demand...
Sepsis is a leading cause of death in hospitals. Early prediction and diagnosis of sepsis, which is critical in reducing mortality, is challenging as many of its signs and symptoms are similar to other less critical conditions. We develop an artifici...
BACKGROUND: We sought to evaluate the association of metabolic syndrome (MetS) and computed tomography (CT)-derived cardiometabolic biomarkers (non-alcoholic fatty liver disease [NAFLD] and epicardial adipose tissue [EAT] measures) with long-term ris...
OBJECTIVE: Ability to thrive after invasive and intensive treatment is an important parameter to assess in patients with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). Karnofsky Performance Status (KPS) is used to identify those patients suitable for postoperative r...
PURPOSE: To develop and evaluate a deep learning (DL) approach to extract rich information from high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Jan 25, 2021
Pneumonia is the most frequent cause of infectious disease-related deaths in children worldwide. Clinical decision support (CDS) applications can guide appropriate treatment, but the system must first recognize the appropriate diagnosis. To enable CD...