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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 ...
Towards a better understanding of self-management interventions in type 2 diabetes: A meta-regression analysis
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2021 , Article)
Aims: Attributes that operationally conceptualize diabetes self-management education (DSME) interventions have never been studied previously to assess their impact on relevant outcomes of interest in people with type 2 ...
Reply to: Let us not rush back to odds ratios in meta-analysis
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Elsevier Inc.
, 2021 , Article)
[No abstract available]
Consequences of a Great Crisis on Chronic Diseases: How Childhood Exposures May Shape Future Health
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John Wiley and Sons Inc
, 2021 , Article)
[No abstract available]
Robust R-Peak Detection in Low-Quality Holter ECGs Using 1D Convolutional Neural Network
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IEEE Computer Society
, 2022 , Article)
Objective: Noise and low quality of ECG signals acquired from Holter or wearable devices deteriorate the accuracy and robustness of R-peak detection algorithms. This paper presents a generic and robust system for R-peak ...
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 ...
A Social Distance Estimation and Crowd Monitoring System for Surveillance Cameras
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MDPI
, 2022 , Article)
Social distancing is crucial to restrain the spread of diseases such as COVID-19, but complete adherence to safety guidelines is not guaranteed. Monitoring social distancing through mass surveillance is paramount to develop ...
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 ...
Self-organized operational neural networks for severe image restoration problems
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2021 , Article)
Discriminative learning based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) aims to perform image restoration by learning from training examples of noisy-clean image pairs. It has become the go-to methodology for tackling image ...
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 ...