Can malignant and inflammatory pleural effusions in dogs be distinguished using computed tomography [PDF]
, 2017 Computed tomography (CT) is the primary imaging modality used to investigate human patients with suspected malignant or inflammatory pleural effusion, but there is a lack of information about the clinical use of this test in dogs.
Aquino +35 more
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Surgical treatment of retrosternal extraosseous Ewing Sarcoma in a 6-years old female: a clamshell approach with hemysternectomy and application of a non-crosslinked extracellular matrix [PDF]
, 2017 Background Ewing Sarcoma (ES) and Neuroblastoma (NB) belong to a family of tumours of primitive neuroectodermal origin (PNET) that occurs in both bone and soft tissue. Notwithstanding ES and NB are two distinct malignant tumours, sometimes there could be
Angotti, Rossella +9 more
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Mediastinal mass in clinical practice
Медицинский совет, 2018 Mediastinal masses include a wide range of both benign and malignant diseases. Current evidence shows that they constitute 3–7% of all oncological diseases, with primary tumours (thymoma, lymphoma, germ cell tumours) accounting for 3% of all mediastinal ...
N. G. Poteshkina +5 more
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Semi-supervised learning towards automated segmentation of PET images with limited annotations: Application to lymphoma patients [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 The time-consuming task of manual segmentation challenges routine systematic quantification of disease burden. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) hold significant promise to reliably identify locations and boundaries of tumors from PET scans. We aimed to leverage the need for annotated data via semi-supervised approaches, with application to PET ...
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A formal theory for spatial representation and reasoning in biomedical ontologies [PDF]
, 2006 Objective: The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how a formal spatial theory can be used as an important tool for disambiguating the spatial information embodied in biomedical ontologies and for enhancing their automatic reasoning capabilities ...
Bittner, Thomas +2 more
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Accurate Detection of Mediastinal Lesions with nnDetection [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 The accurate detection of mediastinal lesions is one of the rarely explored medical object detection problems. In this work, we applied a modified version of the self-configuring method nnDetection to the Mediastinal Lesion Analysis (MELA) Challenge 2022.
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Oral plaque from Type 2 diabetic patients reduces the clonogenic capacity of dental pulp-derived mesenchymal stem cells [PDF]
, 2019 Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a major metabolic disease and a key epigenetic risk factor for the development of additional clinical complications. Among them, periodontitis (PD), a severe inflammatory disease ascribable to a dysregulated physiology and ...
Bordin, Antonella +9 more
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Primary Mediastinal (Thymic) Large B-Cell Lymphoma [PDF]
Клиническая онкогематология, 2017 Primary mediastinal (thymic) large B-cell lymphoma (PMBCL) is one of the primary extranodal tumors and originates from thymic medulla B cells. The disease is more common in young women and declares itself by mainly locally advanced growth within the ...
GS Tumyan +3 more
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PadChest: A large chest x-ray image dataset with multi-label annotated reports [PDF]
, 2019 We present a labeled large-scale, high resolution chest x-ray dataset for the automated exploration of medical images along with their associated reports.
Bustos, Aurelia +3 more
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Assessment of treatment response in tuberculosis [PDF]
, 2016 Antibiotic treatment of tuberculosis has a duration of several months. There is significant variability of the host immune response and the pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic properties of Mycobacterium tuberculosis sub-populations at the site of disease. A
Du Bruyn, E +3 more
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