Studies in health technology and informatics
Sep 3, 2025
INTRODUCTION: Hearing loss, affecting over 19% of the global population, is a major disability worldwide, with its prevalence expected to increase due to demographic changes. Cochlear implants (CIs) provide a crucial treatment for severe to profound ...
BACKGROUND: Iron deficiency (ID) is a prevalent global health issue with a major impact on well-being. Early detection of ID is crucial but challenging due to its nonspecific symptoms and the limitations of traditional diagnostic tests, which are imp...
Following federal regulatory changes during the COVID-19 pandemic, Rhode Island expanded methadone access for opioid treatment programs (OTPs) in March 2020. The policy, which permitted take-home dosing for patients, contrasted with longstanding rest...
Cancer prevention research (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Sep 2, 2025
UNLABELLED: Cervical cancer is one of the most common cancers in women. Despite progress in prevention and success in early detection through cytologic screening and human papillomavirus (HPV) detection, there remains a challenge in triaging women ap...
BACKGROUND: Accurately assessing the status of axillary lymph nodes (ALNs) is essential for devising optimal surgical plans and making informed treatment decisions in breast cancer (BC) patients.
Journal of applied clinical medical physics
Sep 1, 2025
BACKGROUND: Efficient workflows are essential for timely, high-quality radiotherapy. In 2020, an internal audit identified key workflow bottlenecks, including long patient wait times, suboptimal treatment planning, and inadequate quality control. Acc...
OBJECTIVE: In this study, we investigated whether artificial intelligence (AI) analysis of chest radiographs (CXRs) can predict major adverse clinical events in patients visiting the emergency department (ED) with acute cardiopulmonary symptoms.
OBJECTIVE: To develop a deep learning model for estimating newborn gestational age (GA) based on the shape of the lumbar vertebral bodies on cross-table lateral radiographs obtained on the first day after birth.
Journal of applied clinical medical physics
Sep 1, 2025
BACKGROUND: In external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) for prostate cancer, both MRI and CT are typically used-CT provides electron density for dose calculation and visualization of bony anatomy and fiducial markers, while MRI offers superior soft tis...
Purpose To develop and prospectively validate a clinical and radiologic model to predict clinically significant prostate cancer (csPCa) using biparametric MRI (bpMRI). Materials and Methods Retrospective data (acquired before March 31, 2022) from 12 ...
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