BACKGROUND: Long-term severe cholangitis can lead to dense adhesions and increased fragility of the bile duct, complicating surgical procedures and elevating operative risk in children with pancreaticobiliary maljunction (PBM). Consequently, preopera...
Journal of cardiovascular computed tomography
Feb 4, 2025
BACKGROUND: Low-cost/no-cost non-contrast CT calcium scoring (CTCS) exams can provide direct evidence of coronary atherosclerosis. In this study, using features from CTCS images, we developed a novel machine learning model to predict obstructive coro...
American journal of physical medicine & rehabilitation
Feb 3, 2025
OBJECTIVE: This study was conducted to evaluate the diagnostic performance and to establish cutoff values of median nerve cross-sectional area for classifying the severity of carpal tunnel syndrome.
BACKGROUND: Lack of widespread use of the Patient Health Questionnaire 9-item (PHQ-9) in clinical practice inhibits measurement of treatment follow-up for patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). This study developed, validated and applied a ma...
BACKGROUND: Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP) is a liver disorder that occurs in the second and third trimesters of pregnancy and is associated with a significant risk of fetal complications, including premature birth and fetal death. In cl...
Diabetic retinopathy stands as a leading cause of blindness among people. Manual examination of DR images is labor-intensive and prone to error. Existing methods to detect this disease often rely on handcrafted features which limit the adaptability a...
The international journal of cardiovascular imaging
Jan 29, 2025
Artificial intelligence-based quantitative coronary angiography (AI-QCA) was introduced to address manual QCA's limitations in reproducibility and correction process. The present study aimed to assess the performance of an updated AI-QCA solution (MP...
BACKGROUND: Drivers of COVID-19 severity are multifactorial and include multidimensional and potentially interacting factors encompassing viral determinants and host-related factors (i.e., demographics, pre-existing conditions and/or genetics), thus ...
PURPOSE: Mental health screening is recommended by the US Preventive Services Task Force for all patients in areas where treatment options are available. Still, it is estimated that only 4% of primary care patients are screened for depression. The go...
Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society
Jan 22, 2025
BACKGROUND: Pose estimation algorithms applied to two-dimensional videos evaluate gait disturbances; however, a few studies have used this method to evaluate ataxic gait.
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