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Patient-collected tongue, nasal, and mid-turbinate swabs compared to health care worker-collected nasopharyngeal swabs for COVID-19 testing

open access: yesNew England Journal of Medicine, 2020
Patient-Collected Swabs for SARS-CoV-2 Testing Tongue, nasal, and mid-turbinate swabs to detect SARS-CoV-2 were collected by 530 outpatients before a health care worker collected nasopharyngeal swa...
Y. Tu   +8 more
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Effect of Weight Loss on Upper Airway Anatomy and the Apnea Hypopnea Index: The Importance of Tongue Fat.

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2020
RATIONALE Obesity is the primary risk factor for sleep apnea (OSA). Tongue fat is increased in obese persons with OSA, and may explain the relationship between obesity and OSA. Weight loss improves OSA, but the mechanism is unknown.
Stephen H Wang   +9 more
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Soft and ion-conducting hydrogel artificial tongue for astringency perception

open access: yesScience Advances, 2020
Artificial tongue for astringency perception is demonstrated with a saliva-like chemiresistive ionic hydrogel. Artificial tongues have been receiving increasing attention for the perception of five basic tastes.
Jeonghee Yeom   +5 more
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Automated detection of oral pre-cancerous tongue lesions using deep learning for early diagnosis of oral cavity cancer [PDF]

open access: yesComputer/law journal, 2019
Discovering oral cavity cancer (OCC) at an early stage is an effective way to increase patient survival rate. However, current initial screening process is done manually and is expensive for the average individual, especially in developing countries ...
M. Z. Shamim   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Tongue image quality assessment based on a deep convolutional neural network

open access: yesBMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2020
Background Tongue diagnosis is an important research field of TCM diagnostic technology modernization. The quality of tongue images is the basis for constructing a standard dataset in the field of tongue diagnosis.
Tao Jiang   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

3D Biomimetic Tongue-Emulating Surfaces for Tribological Applications

open access: yesACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2020
Oral friction on the tongue surface plays a pivotal role in mechanics of food transport, speech, sensing, and hedonic responses. The highly specialized biophysical features of the human tongue such as micropapillae-dense topology, optimum wettability ...
Efrén Andablo-Reyes   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Tongue coating microbiome data distinguish patients with pancreatic head cancer from healthy controls

open access: yesJournal of Oral Microbiology, 2019
Background: The microbiota plays a critical role in the process of human carcinogenesis. Pancreatic head carcinoma (PHC)-associated tongue coating microbiome dysbiosis has not yet been clearly defined.Objective: Our aim is to reveal the bacterial ...
Haifeng Lu   +11 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Ice cliff contribution to the tongue-wide ablation of Changri Nup Glacier, Nepal, central Himalaya

open access: yesThe Cryosphere, 2018
. Ice cliff backwasting on debris-covered glaciers is recognized as an important mass-loss process that is potentially responsible for the “debris-cover anomaly”, i.e.
F. Brun   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Tooth-Marked Tongue Recognition Using Multiple Instance Learning and CNN Features

open access: yesIEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2019
Tooth-marked tongue or crenated tongue can provide valuable diagnostic information for traditional Chinese Medicine doctors. However, tooth-marked tongue recognition is challenging.
Xiaoqiang Li   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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