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Using Soft Labels to Model Uncertainty in Medical Image Segmentation [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2021
Medical image segmentation is inherently uncertain. For a given image, there may be multiple plausible segmentation hypotheses, and physicians will often disagree on lesion and organ boundaries. To be suited to real-world application, automatic segmentation systems must be able to capture this uncertainty and variability.
arxiv  

Can Physician Judgment Enhance Model Trustworthiness? A Case Study on Predicting Pathological Lymph Nodes in Rectal Cancer [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2023
Explainability is key to enhancing artificial intelligence's trustworthiness in medicine. However, several issues remain concerning the actual benefit of explainable models for clinical decision-making. Firstly, there is a lack of consensus on an evaluation framework for quantitatively assessing the practical benefits that effective explainability ...
arxiv  

Awareness, Attitude, and Current Practices Toward Influenza Vaccination Among Physicians in India: A Multicenter, Cross-Sectional Study

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2021
Background: Although annual influenza vaccination is recommended for healthcare providers (HCPs), vaccination rate among HCPs in India is generally low.
Agam Vora, Ashfaque Shaikh
doaj   +1 more source

Current management of juvenile dermatomyositis in Germany and Austria: an online survey of pediatric rheumatologists and pediatric neurologists

open access: yesPediatric Rheumatology Online Journal, 2018
Background Juvenile Dermatomyositis (JDM) is a rare pediatric autoimmune disease with broad variations of the individual course. Data on the optimal management are mostly lacking. Currently treatment decisions are often based on experts’ opinions.
Claas H. Hinze   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Medical Authority of AI: A Study of AI-enabled Consumer-facing Health Technology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Recently, consumer-facing health technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based symptom checkers (AISCs) have sprung up in everyday healthcare practice. AISCs solicit symptom information from users and provide medical suggestions and possible diagnoses, a responsibility that people usually entrust with real-person authorities such as ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Effects of extending residencies on the supply and quality of family medicine practitioners; difference-in-differences evidence from the implementation of mandatory family medicine residencies in Canada [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2023
I examine the impacts of extending residency training programs on the supply and quality of physicians practicing primary care. I leverage mandated extended residency lengths for primary care practitioners that were rolled out over 20 years in Canada on a province-by-province basis. I compare these primary care specialties to other specialties that did
arxiv  

Physician Practice Patterns Associated with Diagnostic Evaluation of Patients with Suspected Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease

open access: yesInternational Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 2019
The diagnostic process for patients presenting with cognitive decline and suspected dementia is complex. Physicians face challenges distinguishing between normal aging, mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's disease, and other dementias.
D. Judge   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

PSA screening: determinants of primary-care physician practice patterns [PDF]

open access: yesProstate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases, 2011
The effect of practice guidelines and the European Randomised Screening for Prostate Cancer (ERSPC) and Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian (PLCO) trials on PSA screening practices of primary-care physicians (PCPs) is unknown.We conducted a national cross-sectional on-line survey of a random sample of 3010 PCPs from July to August 2010. Participants
Tasian, GE   +6 more
openaire   +5 more sources

Changing Practice Patterns Among Canadian Primary Care Physicians: Cross-Provincial Analysis of Linked Health Data

open access: yesInternational Journal of Population Data Science, 2020
Introduction Canadians report persistent problems accessing primary care despite an increasing per-capita supply of primary care physicians (PCPs).
M. Ruth Lavergne   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Variation in Practice Patterns and Reimbursements Between Female and Male Urologists for Medicare Beneficiaries

open access: yesJAMA Network Open, 2019
Key Points Question Do practice patterns, reimbursements, and geographic distribution of urologists who treat Medicare beneficiaries differ by urologist sex?
Catherine S. Nam   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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