You are currently viewing a new version of our website. To view the old version click .

Diagnostics, Volume 10, Issue 2

February 2020 - 70 articles

Cover Story: Quantification of displacement parameters was performed in the imaging of brain tissue endogenous motion using ultrasonic radiofrequency signals. Dedicated software and subject head–ultrasonic transducer stabilization allowed calculation of micrometer-range displacements. The method allows identifying brain areas where endogenous displacements waveforms show good intrasubject repeatability during a few heart-cycles. The method was tested in cases of Alzheimer’s disease (visible in cover picture) and healthy subjects and suggested to be useful for brain tissue characterization. View this paper.
  • Issues are regarded as officially published after their release is announced to the table of contents alert mailing list .
  • You may sign up for email alerts to receive table of contents of newly released issues.
  • PDF is the official format for papers published in both, html and pdf forms. To view the papers in pdf format, click on the "PDF Full-text" link, and use the free Adobe Reader to open them.

Articles (70)

  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,513 Views
13 Pages

Pediatric Thyroid Cancer in Europe: An Overdiagnosed Condition? A Literature Review

  • Andreea-Ioana Stefan,
  • Andra Piciu,
  • Alexandru Mester,
  • Dragos Apostu,
  • Marius Badan and
  • Claudiu-Iulian Badulescu

19 February 2020

Thyroid neoplastic pathology is the most common form of cancer associated with radiation exposure. The most common histopathological type of thyroid carcinoma is the differentiated thyroid cancer (these include papillary and follicular type), which r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,489 Views
18 Pages

Viscoelastic Biomarkers of Ex Vivo Liver Samples via Torsional Wave Elastography

  • Inas H. Faris,
  • Juan Melchor,
  • Antonio Callejas,
  • Jorge Torres and
  • Guillermo Rus

19 February 2020

The clinical ultrasound community demands mechanisms to obtain the viscoelastic biomarkers of soft tissue in order to quantify the tissue condition and to be able to track its consistency. Torsional Wave Elastography (TWE) is an emerging technique pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,596 Views
9 Pages

Urinary MicroRNA-21-5p as Potential Biomarker of Interstitial Fibrosis and Tubular Atrophy (IFTA) in Kidney Transplant Recipients

  • Michal S. Gniewkiewicz,
  • Izabela Paszkowska,
  • Jolanta Gozdowska,
  • Katarzyna Czerwinska,
  • Anna Sadowska-Jakubowicz,
  • Dominika Deborska-Materkowska,
  • Agnieszka Perkowska-Ptasinska,
  • Maciej Kosieradzki and
  • Magdalena Durlik

19 February 2020

Chronic renal allograft dysfunction (CAD) is a major limiting factor of long-term graft survival. The hallmarks of progressive CAD are interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy (IFTA). MicroRNAs are small, regulatory RNAs involved in many immunologic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,638 Views
10 Pages

19 February 2020

The detection of EGFR mutations in circulating cell-free DNA can enable personalized therapy for cancer. The current techniques for detecting circulating EGFR mutations are expensive and time-consuming with moderate sensitivity. Emerging CRISPR is re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
76 Citations
14,390 Views
18 Pages

SD-UNet: Stripping down U-Net for Segmentation of Biomedical Images on Platforms with Low Computational Budgets

  • Pius Kwao Gadosey,
  • Yujian Li,
  • Enock Adjei Agyekum,
  • Ting Zhang,
  • Zhaoying Liu,
  • Peter T. Yamak and
  • Firdaous Essaf

18 February 2020

During image segmentation tasks in computer vision, achieving high accuracy performance while requiring fewer computations and faster inference is a big challenge. This is especially important in medical imaging tasks but one metric is usually compro...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,166 Views
11 Pages

Long-Term Outcomes of Early Enzyme Replacement Therapy for Mucopolysaccharidosis IV: Clinical Case Studies of Two Siblings

  • Sharon Barak,
  • Yair Anikster,
  • Ifat Sarouk,
  • Eve Stern,
  • Etzyona Eisenstein,
  • Tamar Yissar,
  • Nir Sherr-Lurie,
  • Annick Raas-Rothschild and
  • Dafna Guttman

17 February 2020

Enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) is one of the available therapies for mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS). This study presents a follow-up of two siblings with MPS IVA (Morquio A disease) that received ERT. Both siblings received weekly intravenous infusion...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,575 Views
8 Pages

Combination of Two Rapid Ophthalmic Test Kits for Improved Diagnosis in Cases of Severe Binocular Conjunctivitis

  • Asako Kodama,
  • Fumitaka Kobayashi,
  • Hao Yung Yang,
  • Kazumi Fukagawa,
  • Hiroyuki Yazu and
  • Hiroshi Fujishima

17 February 2020

Introduction: Diagnosis of conjunctivitis can be sometimes difficult, especially in cases of severe conjunctivitis and those involving both eyes. In this study, we performed commercial tests for adenovirus (Capilia Adeno Eye®) and total tear IgE...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,016 Views
8 Pages

16 February 2020

The effectiveness of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) for type-VII mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS VII, Sly syndrome) remains controversial, although recent studies have shown that it has a clinical impact. In 1998, Yamada et al. reported th...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,667 Views
7 Pages

Accuracy in Referrals to Gynecologic Oncologists Based on Clinical Presentation for Ovarian Mass

  • Katherine Jane C. Chua,
  • Ricky D. Patel,
  • Radhika Trivedi,
  • Patricia Greenberg,
  • Kyle Beiter,
  • Thomas Magliaro,
  • Ushma Patel and
  • Joyce Varughese

16 February 2020

Ovarian cancer is one of the most lethal gynecological cancers in women due to late diagnosis. Despite technological advancements, experienced physicians have high sensitivities and specificities in subjective assessments when combining ultrasound fi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
155 Citations
17,278 Views
17 Pages

Role of pH Value in Clinically Relevant Diagnosis

  • Shu-Hua Kuo,
  • Ching-Ju Shen,
  • Ching-Fen Shen and
  • Chao-Min Cheng

16 February 2020

As a highly influential physiological factor, pH may be leveraged as a tool to diagnose physiological state. It may be especially suitable for diagnosing and assessing skin structure and wound status. Multiple innovative and elegant smart wound dress...

of 7

Get Alerted

Add your email address to receive forthcoming issues of this journal.

XFacebookLinkedIn
Diagnostics - ISSN 2075-4418