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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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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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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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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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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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A position-enhanced sequential feature encoding model for lung infections and lymphoma classification on CT images
PurposeDifferentiating pulmonary lymphoma from lung infections using CT images is challenging. Existing deep neural network-based lung CT...
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What to Measure in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Haemorrhage Research—An International Delphi Survey
Aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage (aSAH) is a devastating condition with high mortality and morbidity. The outcome measures used in aSAH clinical...
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Physiological and cellular mechanisms of ischemic preconditioning microRNAs-mediated in underlying of ischemia/reperfusion injury in different organs
Ischemia–reperfusion (I/R) injury, as a pathological phenomenon, takes place when blood supply to an organ is disrupted and then aggravated during...
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Needle tracking in low-resolution ultrasound volumes using deep learning
PurposeClinical needle insertion into tissue, commonly assisted by 2D ultrasound imaging for real-time navigation, faces the challenge of precise...
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Dietary salt promotes cognitive impairment through repression of SIRT3/PINK1-mediated mitophagy and fission
Dietary salt is increasingly recognized as an independent risk factor for cognitive impairment. However, the exact mechanisms are not yet fully...
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Relationship between the severity of functional mitral regurgitation at admission and one-year outcomes in patients hospitalized for acute heart failure with mildly reduced ejection fraction
BackgroundThe epidemiological distribution of functional mitral regurgitation (FMR) in heart failure (HF) and mildly reduced ejection fraction...
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Signal drift in diffusion MRI of the brain: effects on intravoxel incoherent motion parameter estimates
ObjectivesSignal drift has been put forward as one of the fundamental confounding factors in diffusion MRI (dMRI) of the brain. This study...
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DNA Methylation-derived biological age and long-term mortality risk in subjects with type 2 diabetes
BackgroundIndividuals with type 2 diabetes (T2D) face an increased mortality risk, not fully captured by canonical risk factors. Biological age...
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Detection of pulmonary nodules in chest radiographs: novel cost function for effective network training with purely synthesized datasets
PurposeMany large radiographic datasets of lung nodules are available, but the small and hard-to-detect nodules are rarely validated by computed...
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Breathing difficulties in a nonagenarian: a self report
This is a self report. It is age related because I am 96 years old; about 5 years ago I was asymptomatic in this respect. I describe the difficulties...
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Lnc PVT1 facilitates TGF-β1-induced human cardiac fibroblast activation in vitro and ISO-induced myocardial fibrosis in vivo through regulating MYC
Cardiac fibrosis is a commonly seen pathophysiological process in various cardiovascular disorders, such as coronary heart disorder, hypertension,...
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Enhancing patient acceptance of ICD implantation through structured shared decision making: conversation is key
BackgroundImplantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) and cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators (CRT-D) are lifesaving treatments for...
