Improving performance of CNN to predict likelihood of COVID-19 using chest X-ray images with preprocessing algorithms [PDF]
International Journal of Medical Informatics, 104284. 23 Sep. 2020, 2020 As the rapid spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) worldwide, chest X-ray radiography has also been used to detect COVID-19 infected pneumonia and assess its severity or monitor its prognosis in the hospitals due to its low cost, low radiation dose, and wide accessibility.
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Pneumococcal carriage, serotype distribution and risk factors in children with community-acquired pneumonia, 5 years after introduction of the 10-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in Ethiopia [PDF]
, 2019 Background: There is a scarcity of data on pneumococcal serotypes carried by children in Ethiopia. We studied pneumococcal nasopharyngeal carriage rate, serotypes, and risk factors among children with community acquired pneumonia (CAP).
Abebe, Workeabeba +7 more
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Burden of Pneumococcal Disease in Northern Togo before the Introduction of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 S. pneumoniae is a leading cause of meningitis morbidity and mortality in the African meningitis belt, but little is known of its contribution to the burden of pneumonia in the region.
Jennifer C Moïsi +8 more
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Doubly Robust Proximal Synthetic Controls [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 To infer the treatment effect for a single treated unit using panel data, synthetic control methods construct a linear combination of control units' outcomes that mimics the treated unit's pre-treatment outcome trajectory. This linear combination is subsequently used to impute the counterfactual outcomes of the treated unit had it not been treated in ...
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CXR-Net: An Encoder-Decoder-Encoder Multitask Deep Neural Network for Explainable and Accurate Diagnosis of COVID-19 pneumonia with Chest X-ray Images [PDF]
, 2021 Accurate and rapid detection of COVID-19 pneumonia is crucial for optimal patient treatment. Chest X-Ray (CXR) is the first line imaging test for COVID-19 pneumonia diagnosis as it is fast, cheap and easily accessible. Inspired by the success of deep learning (DL) in computer vision, many DL-models have been proposed to detect COVID-19 pneumonia using ...
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The FASEB Journal, 2019 Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major cause of community‐acquired pneumonia leading to high mortality rates. Inflammation triggered by pneumococcal infection is necessary for bacterial clearance but must be spatially and temporally regulated to prevent ...
M. G. Machado +11 more
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Pneumococcal pneumonia and the risk of stroke: a population-based follow-up study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 BACKGROUND: To investigate the risk of developing stroke in patients hospitalized following a diagnosis of pneumococcal pneumonia. METHODS: The study cohorts comprised of patients hospitalized with a principal diagnosis of pneumococcal pneumonia (n ...
Li-Fu Chen +5 more
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Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2018 Our study demonstrated real-world, direct effectiveness of 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine against vaccine-type community-acquired pneumonia following introduction into a routine immunization program among adults aged ≥65 years, many of whom had
J. McLaughlin +11 more
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Monitoring the introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines into West Africa: design and implementation of a population-based surveillance system. [PDF]
, 2012 Routine use of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) in developing countries is expected to lead to a significant reduction in childhood deaths. However, PCVs have been associated with replacement disease with non-vaccine serotypes.
Adegbola, Richard A +18 more
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Impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines on hospitalizations for pneumonia in the United States
Expert Review of Vaccines, 2019 Introduction: Pneumonia is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality among children and older adults. Pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) were introduced into the US routine infant vaccination schedule leading to substantial reductions of ...
Andrew D. Wiese +2 more
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