Traumatic brain injury (TBI) disproportionately affects low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In these low-resource settings, effective triage of patients with TBI-including the decision of whether or not to perform neurosurgery-is critical in op...
INTRODUCTION: Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) is highly infectious with no currently available vaccine. Prior to treatment, it is recommended to confirm HCV infection with either quantitative or qualitative nucleic acid test. Access to these assays in Nigeri...
Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc
Dec 9, 2020
Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is a fatty liver disease characterized by accumulation of fat in hepatocytes with concurrent inflammation and is associated with morbidity, cirrhosis and liver failure. After extraction of a liver core biopsy, tis...
IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics
Dec 8, 2020
Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is a menace that is affecting 10 percent of the world population and 15 percent of the South African population. The early and cheap diagnosis of this disease with accuracy and reliability will save 20,000 lives in South ...
Mortality risk prediction can greatly improve the utilization of resources in intensive care units (ICUs). Existing schemes in ICUs today require laborious manual input of many complex parameters. In this work, we present a scheme that uses variation...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Dec 4, 2020
The choroid provides oxygen and nourishment to the outer retina thus is related to the pathology of various ocular diseases. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is advantageous in visualizing and quantifying the choroid in vivo. However, its applicati...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Dec 4, 2020
Deep learning methods for diabetic retinopathy (DR) diagnosis are usually criticized as being lack of interpretability in the diagnostic result, thus limiting their application in clinic. Simultaneous prediction of DR related features during the DR s...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Dec 4, 2020
Deep learning has achieved remarkable success in the optical coherence tomography (OCT) image classification task with substantial labelled B-scan images available. However, obtaining such fine-grained expert annotations is usually quite difficult an...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Dec 4, 2020
Sleep stage scoring is the first step towards quantitative analysis of sleep using polysomnography (PSG) recordings. However, although PSG is a gold standard method for assessing sleep, it is obtrusive and difficult to apply for long-term sleep monit...
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