Ovarian cancer (OC) is a common cause of cancer death among women worldwide, so there is a pressing need to identify factors influencing OC mortality. Much OC patient clinical data is publicly accessible via the Broad Institute Cancer Genome Atlas (T...
OBJECTIVES: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is one of the major causes of death worldwide. For improved accuracy of CVD prediction, risk classification was performed using national time-series health examination data. The data offers an opportunity to a...
The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society
Sep 7, 2019
BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Preoperative survival estimation in spinal metastatic disease helps determine the appropriateness of invasive management. The SORG ML 90-day and 1-year machine learning algorithms for survival in spinal metastatic disease were pre...
Cardiovascular and interventional radiology
Sep 5, 2019
INTRODUCTION: To assess the performance of pre-ablation computed tomography texture features of adrenal metastases to predict post-treatment local progression and survival in patients who underwent ablation using machine learning as a prediction tool...
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Cancer, as the most challenging part in the human disease history, has always been one of the main threats to human life and health. The high mortality of cancer is largely due to the complexity of cancer and the significant...
Journal of thoracic oncology : official publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer
Aug 20, 2019
INTRODUCTION: To facilitate the initial clinical decision regarding whether to use esophagectomy alone or neoadjuvant therapy in surgical care for individual patients with adenocarcinoma of the esophagus and esophagogastric junction-information not a...
Journal of adolescent and young adult oncology
Aug 14, 2019
Few studies have investigated palliative and end-of-life care processes among young adults (YAs), aged 18-34 years, who died of cancer. This retrospective study used a natural language processing algorithm to identify documentation and timing of four...
OBJECTIVES: To compare the early (≤30 days) postoperative mortality and morbidity in patients who underwent robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) and were discharged the same surgery day to a propensity score matched patient population of RARP ...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Jul 17, 2019
Accurate prediction of disease trajectories is critical for early identification and timely treatment of patients at risk. Conventional methods in survival analysis are often constrained by strong parametric assumptions and limited in their ability t...
Although allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) is a curative therapy for high-risk acute leukemia (AL), some patients still relapse. Since patients simultaneously have many prognostic factors, difficulties are associated with...