BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Cerebrovascular disease (CeVD) and cognitive impairment risk factors contribute to cognitive decline, but the role of brain age gap (BAG) in mediating this relationship remains unclear, especially in Southeast Asian populat...
Brain age has emerged as a powerful tool to understand neuroanatomical aging and its link to health outcomes like cognition. However, there remains a lack of studies investigating the rate of brain aging and its relationship to cognition. Furthermore...
Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore
May 21, 2025
INTRODUCTION: Preterm birth (PTB) remains a leading cause of perinatal morbidity and mortality worldwide. Understanding Singapore's PTB trends and associated risk factors can inform effective strategies for screening and intervention. This study anal...
INTRODUCTION: There is currently no comprehensive Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) patient database in Singapore comparable to those available in Europe and the United States. We established the Singapore ALS registry (SingALS) to draw meaningful ...
Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore
Apr 22, 2025
INTRODUCTION: Elevated troponin, while essential for diagnosing myocardial infarction, can also be present in non-myocardial infarction conditions. The myocardial-ischaemic-injury-index (MI3) algorithm is a machine learning algorithm that considers a...
BACKGROUND: The advent of generative artificial intelligence has led to the emergence of multiple vision large language models (VLLMs). This study aimed to evaluate the capabilities of commonly available VLLMs, such as OpenAI's GPT-4V and Google's Ge...
BACKGROUND/ AIMS: The lack of context for anterior segment optical coherence tomography (ASOCT) measurements impedes its clinical utility. We established the normative distribution of anterior chamber depth (ACD), area (ACA) and width (ACW) and lens ...
INTRODUCTION: Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) have transformed the field of natural language processing and led to significant advancements in various text processing tasks. However, the applicability of these LLMs in identifying relat...
Forecasting the occurrence and absence of novel disease outbreaks is essential for disease management, yet existing methods are often context-specific, require a long preparation time, and non-outbreak prediction remains understudied. To address this...
BACKGROUND: The chatbot application Bennie and the Chats was introduced due to the outbreak of COVID-19, which is aimed to provide substitution for teaching conventional clinical history-taking skills. It was implemented with DialogFlow with preset r...
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