Medical diagnosis – the promise [PDF]
AbstractThe field of diagnosis is hardly static. Taking a step back, advances in diagnosis have been dramatic over the past few decades, and promise to accelerate going forward. Progress will be created through three main drivers: Continuing advances in the tools we use for diagnosis, adoption and use of electronic resources, and applying quality ...
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Underactive bladder - an underestimated entity [PDF]
Introduction. The concept of underactive bladder is relatively new. Currently there is no generally accepted definition of this pathology. Diagnosis depends on urodynamic findings, and symptoms are usually rare and intricated with the symptoms of other ...
Bratu, Ovidiu Gabriel +8 more
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Resolution Enhancement in Terahertz Imaging via Deconvolution
Nowadays, terahertz (THz) imaging is quite promising in scientific and biomedical applications. However, the much longer wavelength degrades the resolution of obtained images compared with classical imaging at optical frequencies.
Wei Ning +5 more
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Injuries to the hamstring muscles are an increasing problem in sports. Imaging plays a key role in diagnosing and managing athletes with muscle injuries, but there are several problems with conventional imaging modalities with respect to cost and ...
Laura Guerrero Orozco +2 more
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A mathematical framework for combining decisions of multiple experts toward accurate and remote diagnosis of malaria using tele-microscopy. [PDF]
We propose a methodology for digitally fusing diagnostic decisions made by multiple medical experts in order to improve accuracy of diagnosis. Toward this goal, we report an experimental study involving nine experts, where each one was given more than 8 ...
Dimitrov, Stoyan +6 more
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Similarity Measures of Spherical Fuzzy Sets Based on Cosine Function and Their Applications
In this paper, we defined ten similarity measures between spherical fuzzy sets (SFSs) based on the cosine function by considering the degree of positive-membership, degree of neutral-membership, degree of non-membership and degree of refusual-membership ...
Guiwu Wei +4 more
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The Defensive Effect of Medical Practice Policies in Malpractice Litigation [PDF]
The theoretical prospects for medical practice policies to reform malpractice law by giving conclusive defensive effect to medical custom were studied.
Hall, Mark A.
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Cost-Sensitive Broad Learning System for Imbalanced Classification and Its Medical Application
As an effective and efficient discriminative learning method, the broad learning system (BLS) has received increasing attention due to its outstanding performance without large computational resources.
Liang Yao +6 more
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Attitudes of Japanese Medical Students towards Disclosure of a Diagnosis of Life-threatening Illness [PDF]
In this study we investigated the attitudes of Japanese medical students toward being informed of a diagnosis of life-threatening illness. Fourth-year medical students from 20 randomly sampled universities were administered questionnaires that examined ...
Haseba, Yahiro +9 more
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Economic inequalities in burden of illness, diagnosis and treatment of five long-term conditions in England: panel study [PDF]
We compared the distribution by wealth of self-reported illness burden (estimated from validated scales, biomarker and reported symptoms) for angina, cataract, depression, diabetes and osteoarthritis, with the distribution of self-reported medical ...
Bachmann, M. O. +8 more
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