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An integrated model for computer assisted diagnosis, treatment and design of insoles for the diabetic foot [PDF]

, 2001
The incidence of diabetes has increased significantly in recent decades. In Germany, there is an estimate of three million diabetics and this number is growing at a rate of about 2 percent per year.
Acosta, G.G., Garavito, L., Solomonidis, S.E., Vega, F., Zequera, M. L.   +4 more
core  

Computer-assisted Medical Decision-making System for Diagnosis of Urticaria

MDM Policy & Practice, 2016
Background: Urticaria is a common allergic disease that affects all age groups. Allergic disorders are diagnosed at allergy testing centers using skin tests. Though skin tests are the gold standard tests for allergy diagnosis, specialists are required to
Jabez J. Christopher BE, ME, Harichandran Khanna Nehemiah BE, ME, PhD, Kannan Arputharaj ME, PhD, George L. Moses MSc, PhD   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Automated Detection Algorithm of Breast Masses in Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Images [PDF]

Healthcare Informatics Research, 2016
ObjectivesWe propose an automatic breast mass detection algorithm in three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound (US) images using the Hough transform technique.MethodsOne hundred twenty-five cropped images containing 68 benign and 60 malignant masses are acquired
Ji-Wook Jeong, Donghoon Yu, Sooyeul Lee, Jung Min Chang   +3 more
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Preferences of Pediatric Patients and Their Caregivers for Chemotherapy‐Induced Nausea and Vomiting Control Endpoints: A Mixed Methods Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Although not always achieved, complete chemotherapy‐induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) control is the conventional goal of CINV prophylaxis. In this two‐center, mixed‐methods study, we sought to understand the preferences of adolescent patients and family caregivers for CINV control endpoints.
Haley Newman, Tadi Hondonga, Alison Berry, Caitlin Elgarten, Jason Freedman, Katelyn Oranges, Sara McDonough, Caroline Diorio, L. Lee Dupuis   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Easy Diagnosis of Asthma: Computer-Assisted, Symptom-Based Diagnosis [PDF]

Journal of Korean Medical Science, 2007
Diagnosis of asthma is often challenging in primary-care physicians due to lack of tools measuring airway obstruction and variability. Symptom-based diagnosis of asthma utilizing objective diagnostic parameters and appropriate software would be useful in clinical practice.
Choi, Byoung Whui, Yoo, Kwang-Ha, Jeong, Jae-Won, Yoon, Ho Joo, Kim, Sang-Heon, Park, Yong-Mean, Kim, Wo-Kyung, Oh, Jae-Won, Rha, Yeong-Ho, Pyun, Bok-Yang, Chang, Suk-Il, Moon, Hee-Bom, Kim, You-Young, Cho, Sang-Heon   +13 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright, Morgan A. Paul, Selena Murcia Mendez, Emily Jones, Lucille Lokko, Chelsea Heneghan, Nicholas Purol, Morgan Arnold, Rahela Aziz‐Bose, Colleen A. Kelly, Sandi L. Pruitt, Joanne Wolfe, Kira Bona, Puja J. Umaretiya   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim, Natalie Bradford, David Brain, Sameera Senanayake, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Kate Young, Christine Cashion, Tim Hassall, Susanna Cramb   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Fate (Outcome) of Clinically Apparent Single Lesion and Oligofocal Nephroblastomatosis Treated According to SIOP/GPOH Protocols for Wilms Tumor

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The management of clinically apparent single lesions or oligofocal nephroblastomatosis, a facultative precursor of nephroblastoma, remains debated. Methods We retrospectively analyzed 37 patients with clinically apparent single or oligofocal nephroblastomatosis (two to three lesions per kidney) among 2347 patients registered between
Nils Welter, Jens‐Peter Schenk, Jenny Wegert, Manfred Gessler, Leo Kager, Stefan Wagenpfeil, Marina Müller, Jean‐Michel Wolff, Joerg Fuchs, Steven W. Warmann, Clemens‐Magnus Meier, Jochen Hubertus, Christian Rübe, Christian Vokuhl, Patrick Melchior, Lena Tschirner, Norbert Graf, Rhoikos Furtwängler   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Role of Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) in Medical Imaging

Central Asian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2015
Objectives: We introduce the various methods of image analysis used for CAD. In addition, we provide a guide for the clinician through examples which use the CAD.
Seung Won Shin, Kwang Gi Kim
doaj   +1 more source

Classification of interstitial lung disease patterns with topological texture features

, 2010
Topological texture features were compared in their ability to classify morphological patterns known as 'honeycombing' that are considered indicative for the presence of fibrotic interstitial lung diseases in high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT ...
Huber, Markus B., Leinsinger, Gerda, Nagarajan, Mahesh, Ray, Lawrence A., Wismüller, Axel   +4 more
core   +1 more source