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The effectiveness of targeted relative to empiric prophylaxis on infectious complications after transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy: a meta-analysis
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Springer Verlag
, 2018 , Article Review)
Purpose: Rectal culture screening for fluoroquinolone (FQ)-resistant Enterobacteriaceae before transrectal ultrasound guided prostate (TRUSPB) biopsy and targeted antibiotic prophylaxis (TAP) may decrease post-TRUSPB ...
Scalable real-time energy-efficient EEG compression scheme for wireless body area sensor network
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2015 , Article)
Recent technological advances in wireless body sensor networks have made it possible for the development of innovative medical applications to improve health care and the quality of life. By using miniaturized wireless ...
Real-time phonocardiogram anomaly detection by adaptive 1D Convolutional Neural Networks
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2020 , Article)
The heart sound signals (Phonocardiogram ? PCG) enable the earliest monitoring to detect a potential cardiovascular pathology and have recently become a crucial tool as a diagnostic test in outpatient monitoring to assess ...
An intelligent and low-cost eye-tracking system for motorized wheelchair control
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MDPI AG
, 2020 , Article)
In the 34 developed and 156 developing countries, there are ~132 million disabled people who need a wheelchair, constituting 1.86% of the world population. Moreover, there are millions of people suffering from diseases ...
Progressive Operational Perceptrons with Memory
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2020 , Article)
Generalized Operational Perceptron (GOP) was proposed to generalize the linear neuron model used in the traditional Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) by mimicking the synaptic connections of biological neurons showing nonlinear ...
Patient-Specific Seizure Detection Using Nonlinear Dynamics and Nullclines
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2020 , Article)
Nonlinear dynamics has recently been extensively used to study epilepsy due to the complex nature of the neuronal systems. This study presents a novel method that characterizes the dynamic behavior of pediatric seizure ...
Texture analysis for colorectal tumour biopsies using multispectral imagery
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2015 , Conference Paper)
Colorectal cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world. As part of its diagnosis, a histological analysis is often run on biopsy samples. Multispecral imagery taken from cancer tissues can be useful to capture ...
U-healthcare system: State-of-the-art review and challenges
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SpringerLink
, 2013 , Article)
With the increase of an ageing population and chronic diseases, society becomes more health conscious and patients become "health consumers" looking for better health management. People's perception is shifting towards ...
Glucocorticoid-induced fetal origins of adult hypertension: Association with epigenetic events
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Elsevier Inc.
, 2016 , Article Review)
Hypertension is a predominant risk factor for cardiovascular diseases and a major health care burden. Accumulating epidemiological and experimental evidence suggest that adult-onset hypertension may have its origins during ...
BIAN N-heterocyclic gold carbene complexes induced cytotoxicity in human cancer cells via upregulating oxidative stress
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Asian Pacific Organization for Cancer Prevention
, 2015 , Article)
Background: Nanoparticles of gold and silver are offering revolutionary changes in the field of cancer therapy. N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) metal complexes possess diverse biological activities and are being investigated ...