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Current Status of Computerized Decision Support Systems in Mammography
Breast cancer is one of the most devastating and deadly diseases for women today. Despite advances in cancer treatment, early mammographic detection...
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Analysis and Architecture of Clinical Workflow Systems using Agent-Oriented Lifecycle Models
Healthcare executives are grappling with a climate of great change in the healthcare industry. This is coming from a number of sources. First, there...
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Case-based Medical Informatics
The “applied” nature distinguishes applied sciences from theoretical sciences. To emphasize this distinction, we begin with a general, meta-level...
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Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis Based on the DNA Microarray Technology
Immense genomic data have been accumulated through various research activities such as the Human Genome Project. A genome is the entire collection of...
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Computerization of Clinical Guidelines: an Application of Medical Document Processing
Clinical Guidelines are being developed as a tool to promote Best Practice in Medicine. They are usually defined as “systematically developed...
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Wearable Devices in Healthcare
The miniaturization of electrical and electronic equipment is certainly not a new phenomenon, and its effects have long been evident in the...
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Evidence Based Telemedicine
This chapter focuses on evidence based telemedicine and its various applications. Evidence based medicine is the integration of best research...
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Virtual Communities in Health Care
A virtual community is a social entity involving several individuals who relate to one another by the use of a specific communication technology that...
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Survival, mortality and epidemic risk status of COVID-19: a population-based Study in Golestan province, Iran
BackgroundAppreciating the various dimensions of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic can improve health systems and prepare them to deal...
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A Cost-Affordable Methodology of 3D Printing of Bone Fractures Using DICOM Files in Traumatology
Three-dimensional (3D) printing has gained popularity across various domains but remains less integrated into medical surgery due to its complexity....
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An intensity-based self-supervised domain adaptation method for intervertebral disc segmentation in magnetic resonance imaging
Background and objective:Accurate IVD segmentation is crucial for diagnosing and treating spinal conditions. Traditional deep learning methods depend...
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Optimization of vision transformer-based detection of lung diseases from chest X-ray images
BackgroundRecent advances in Vision Transformer (ViT)-based deep learning have significantly improved the accuracy of lung disease prediction from...
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Incorporating patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) into a clinical quality registry (CQR) for ovarian cancer: considerations and challenges
As medical treatment increasingly focuses on improving health-related quality of life, patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are an essential...
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The cost of delivering COVID-19 vaccines in Vietnam
BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic affected hundreds of millions of people and lives, and vaccination was the safest and most effective strategy to...
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Economic burden of psoriasis in Southern Iran in 2022
IntroductionPsoriasis is a common, chronic, and non-contagious skin disease that has no known cause or treatment. Various medical costs for skin...
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A multimodal cancer rehabilitation programme promoting sense of coherence for women treated for female reproductive cancers: a pilot randomised controlled trial
PurposeTo investigate the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effects of a theory-driven multimodal cancer rehabilitation intervention (MCRI)...
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Trends in heart failure costs for commercially insured patients in the United States (2006–2021)
BackgroundAlthough prior research has estimated the overarching cost burden of heart failure (HF), a thorough analysis examining medical expense...
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Exploring fine-scale urban landscapes using satellite data to predict the distribution of Aedes mosquito breeding sites
BackgroundThe spread of mosquito-transmitted diseases such as dengue is a major public health issue worldwide. The Aedes aegypti mosquito, a primary...
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An investigation of inequalities in exposure to PM2.5 air pollution across small areas in Ireland
The link between exposure to air pollution and adverse effects on human health is well documented. Yet, in a European context, research on the...
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A novel contact optimization algorithm for endomicroscopic surface scanning
PurposeProbe-based confocal laser endomicroscopy (pCLE) offers real-time, cell-level imaging and holds promise for early cancer diagnosis. However, a...
