An artificial neural network (ANN) model was developed to predict the risks of congenital heart disease (CHD) in pregnant women.This hospital-based case-control study involved 119 CHD cases and 239 controls all recruited from birth defect surveillanc...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
To estimate a diagnostic probability similarly to experts using answers to interviews, we developed a system that fundamentally behaves as a Bayesian model. For predefined interviews, we defined the sensitivity and specificity related to one or more ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
This paper mainly focuses on the deep learning application in classifying the stage of diabetic retinopathy and detecting the laterality of the eye using funduscopic images. Diabetic retinopathy is a chronic, progressive, sight-threatening disease of...
Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery
Jan 1, 2017
OBJECTIVE: The present study refers to a determination of the preoperative B-type natriuretic peptide is a predictor of short-term all-cause mortality in patients undergoing on-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgeries.
Journal of manipulative and physiological therapeutics
Jan 1, 2017
OBJECTIVE: In order to define the relation between spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) input parameters and the distribution of load within spinal tissues, the aim of this study was to determine the influence of force magnitude and application site whe...
Sao Paulo medical journal = Revista paulista de medicina
Jan 1, 2017
CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE:: Type 2 diabetes is a chronic disease associated with a wide range of serious health complications that have a major impact on overall health. The aims here were to develop and validate predictive models for detecting undiagnos...
Journal of B.U.ON. : official journal of the Balkan Union of Oncology
Jan 1, 2017
PURPOSE: To determine the vital salivary transcriptomic biomarkers for the early detection of gastric cancer via comparing classification efficiency of multiple candidate genes.
IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics
Jan 1, 2017
Traditional gene selection methods for microarray data mainly considered the features' relevance by evaluating their utility for achieving accurate predication or exploiting data variance and distribution, and the selected genes were usually poorly e...
CNS & neurological disorders drug targets
Jan 1, 2017
This paper presents an automatic classification system for segregating pathological brain from normal brains in magnetic resonance imaging scanning. The proposed system employs contrast limited adaptive histogram equalization scheme to enhance the di...
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