2025 February-2 - 113 articles
Background/Objectives: Our study aimed to determine the accuracy of the artificial intelligence-based Diagnocat system (DC) in detecting periapical lesions (PL) on panoramic radiographs (PRs). Methods: 616 teeth were selected from 357 panoramic radio...
Background/Objectives: Hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis (ATTRv) is a rare disease characterized by the deposition of amyloid in the heart and peripheral nerves, particularly affecting small fibers. This study aims to evaluate autonomic c...
Interstitial lung abnormalities (ILAs) are incidental radiologic abnormalities on chest computed tomography (CT) examination performed on people in whom interstitial lung disease (ILD) is not suspected. Despite the fact that most of these individuals...
Background and Objectives: Analysing the characteristics of the mandibular bone through panoramic radiographs could be useful as a prescreening tool for detecting individuals with osteoporosis. The aims of this study were to evaluate the possible ass...
Background/Objectives: Vascular malformations form masses in subcutaneous and muscular tissues throughout the body and are occasionally misdiagnosed as subcutaneous nonvascular tumors. Understanding and differentiating their clinical and imaging feat...
Background/Objectives: Celiac disease is an enteropathy caused by a systemic autoimmune process of genetic predisposition to the ingestion of gluten. It is a public health problem worldwide because there are often long delays between the onset of sym...
Background/Objectives: While gradient-echo (GRE)-based chemical shift-encoded magnetic resonance imaging (CSE-MRI) offers precise method for measuring adiposity in bone marrow, its limitation lies in the need for additional imaging. On the other hand...
Photon-counting detector computed tomography (PCD-CT) represents a significant advancement in radiological imaging, offering substantial potential for cardiac applications that remain partially underexplored. This bibliometric analysis investigates t...
Background/Objectives: Oral leukoplakia (OLK) is an oral mucosal lesion classified in the oral potentially malignant disorder group and is associated with an increased risk of malignant transformation (MT). The aim of this study was to compare the cl...
Background: Surgical site infections (SSIs) lead to higher hospital readmission rates and healthcare costs, representing a significant global healthcare burden. Machine learning (ML) has demonstrated potential in predicting SSIs; however, the challen...
Background/Objectives: Several factors, such as age, parity, body mass index, a favorable cervix, and fetal birth weight, are known to be related to the success of labor induction. With advancements in ultrasound technology, these factors have been s...
Brain tumors, both primary and metastatic, represent a significant global health burden due to their high incidence, mortality, and the severe neurological deficits they frequently cause. Gliomas, especially high-grade gliomas (HGGs), rank among the...
Background/Objectives: Congenital heart disease (CHD), affecting approximately 1% of live births, has transitioned to a chronic condition due to advances in diagnostics and surgery, resulting in an increasing adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) pop...
Background/Objectives: Despite the growing popularity of large language models (LLMs), there remains a notable lack of research examining their role in workplace management. This study aimed to address this gap by evaluating the performance of ChatGP...
Mucosal melanomas (MMs) are under-researched tumors with a poor prognosis that arise from melanocytes found in the mucous membranes at different anatomical locations throughout the body. MMs are an uncommon yet highly aggressive tumor that typically...
Background and Clinical Significance: Necrotizing fasciitis (NF) is a rare skin and soft tissue infection that progresses rapidly to necrosis and can be life-threatening. The incidence varies by geographic region but is generally low, with a mortalit...
Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic musculoskeletal disease with a higher prevalence among women. To date, there has been no definitive laboratory or imaging assessment for FM, and hence, the diagnosis criteria for FM remained based on subjective assessme...
Background/Objectives: To compare the efficacy and safety of Hydrus® Microstent and iStent inject® W implants, in combination with phacoemulsification, for lowering intraocular pressure (IOP) in patients with glaucoma in a real-world clinical...
Background/Objectives: The timely diagnostics of bladder cancer is still a challenge in clinical settings. The reliability of conventional testing methods does not reach desirable accuracy and sensitivity, and it has an invasive nature. The present s...
Background/Objectives: The growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in musculoskeletal radiographs presents significant potential to improve diagnostic accuracy and optimize clinical workflow. However, assessing its performance in clinical environ...
Background/Objectives: Cerebrovascular events (CVEs) are a leading cause of intensive care unit (ICU) admissions from the emergency department, often associated with high morbidity and mortality rates. Identifying reliable, non-invasive predictors of...
Background/Objectives: Molar–incisor hypomineralization (MIH) is a prevalent dental condition characterized by hypomineralized enamel affecting the first permanent molars and incisors. It leads to visible enamel opacities, with varying severity...
Background/Objectives: Even today, interstitial lung disease (ILD) is diagnosed by chest high-resolution computed tomography (lung HR-CT). Large amounts of data are available about the usefulness of transthoracic lung ultrasound (LUS) in ILD. This st...
Background: Radiomics has become a valuable tool in medical imaging, but its clinical use is limited by data variability and a lack of reproducibility between centers. This study aims to assess the differences between two scanners and provide guidanc...
Objective: Cognitive impairments are one of the most common and disabling symptoms associated with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Here, we address the possibility of a specific cognitive profile inherent to ME/CFS. Due t...
Background: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) remains a significant global health concern, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, where endemicity is high. Occult hepatitis B infection (OBI) presents a unique challenge to transfusion safety, as HBV DNA may persis...
Introduction: Schwannomas are a common condition encountered in clinical ENT practice, but they are rarely found in the pharyngeal or laryngeal regions. Materials and Methods: In this report, we share our experience using the transoral robotic approa...
Background/Objectives: Forensic psychiatric expertise significantly contributes to clinical criminology. Interdisciplinary investigations, evaluation tactics, and the use of criminology indices are essential for psychosocial prognostic assessments of...
Background: ATTRv and ATTRwt cardiac amyloidosis (CA) are underrecognized causes of heart failure with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction. The diagnosis of CA remains challenging due to low diagnostic suspicion and clinical overlap with mor...
Early surgery and improved medical care have led to the increased survival of neonates with congenital heart disease (CHD), who now commonly reach adulthood. Among adults with CHD, a growing subgroup is represented by middle-aged and even elderly pat...
Background and Clinical Significance: Klebisella variicola belongs to the Klebsiella pneumoniae complex. It is a Gram-negative, facultative anaerobic, and nonmotile bacillus, mainly isolated in plants. However, as an emerging human pathogen, it...
Background/Objective: The rising global incidence of skin cancer emphasizes the urgent need for reliable and accurate diagnostic tools to aid early intervention. This study introduces YOLOSAMIC (YOLO and SAM in Cancer Imaging), a fully automated segm...
Background/Objectives: Precision medicine is a state-of-the-art medicine tactic that tailors information about people’s genes, environment, and lifestyle to aid the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of various diseases to provide an overview...
Background/Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate an artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced electrocardiogram (ECG) screening protocol for improved accuracy, efficiency, and risk stratification across six sports: handball, football, athletics, weigh...
Chronic constipation is more common in the elderly and associated with numerous diseases. For the diagnosis of chronic constipation in the elderly, it is essential to exclude constipation secondary to colorectal cancer or other causes. Chronic consti...
Background: It is important to accurately determine the legal age at which a person is considered and treated as an adult; in many countries, it is 18. With the increasing migration flow to European countries, accurate age estimation methods must be...
Hyperpolarized xenon-129 MRI (129XeMRI) has emerged as a powerful tool in the identification, evaluation, and assessment of disease endotyping and in response to interventions for a myriad of pulmonary diseases. Growing investigative efforts ranging...
Objectives: To explore the impact of different standard of truth (SoT) methodologies on efficacy endpoints traditionally used in clinical trials of diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals, using data from the SPOTLIGHT study (NCT04186845) in patients with re...
We describe the case of a 67-year-old man with lung cancer, who developed pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) following chemotherapy and subsequently exhibited a paradoxical reaction on positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) after initiati...
Background/Objectives: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a gut–brain disorder characterized by abdominal pain, altered bowel habits, and psychological distress. While brain–gut interactions are recognized in IBS pathophysiology, the relat...
Background/Objectives: Ultra-Micro Angiography (UMA) is an advanced Doppler technique designed to improve the visualization of slow blood flow in small vessels. The Subtraction UMA (sUMA) setting enhances these features by removing background tissue...
Background/Objectives: Bronchial wash for microbiological cultivation and/or multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is often routinely performed during bronchoscopy independent of the indication for bronchoscopy. This study aimed to determine and...
Background/Objectives: Continuous monitoring blood culture systems (CMBCSs) are revolutionary automated instruments that facilitate the rapid identification of pathogens in blood samples from patients with sepsis. However, with only a few CMBCSs bein...
Background/Objective: Deep learning (DL) technology has shown potential in enhancing diagnostic accuracy in dentomaxillofacial radiology, particularly for detecting carious lesions, apical lesions, and periodontal bone loss. However, its effect on ge...
Background/Objectives: Endometriosis is a benign condition affecting up to 10% of women at reproductive age. The urinary tract is affected in 0.3–12.0% of women with endometriosis and in 19.0–53.0% of women with deep infiltrating endometr...
Fetal hydrops is defined as the presence of abnormal fluid collections in two or more intra-fetal compartments. It has been classified based on etiology (immune vs. non-immune), on the presence or absence of other findings (isolated vs. non-isolated)...
Background and Clinical Significance: Mucopolysaccharidosis type VII (MPS VII), an ultrarare lysosomal storage disorder caused by β-glucuronidase deficiency, presents significant therapeutic challenges. Given its extreme rarity and limited treat...
Background/Objectives: The optimal treatment for locally advanced cervical cancer (LACC) is debated. The proposed treatments are concomitant chemoradiotherapy plus brachytherapy (cCTRT-B) or neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) followed by radical surgery...
Background/Objective: This study aimed to develop an AI-supported clinical tool to evaluate the difficulty of mandibular third molar extractions based on panoramic radiographs. Methods: A dataset of 2000 panoramic radiographs collected between 2023 a...
Ectopic varices account for 5% of variceal bleeding cases but carry high mortality due to their concealed nature and diagnostic challenges. A 46-year-old man with hepatitis C cirrhosis and prior gastroesophageal variceal bleeding presented with fatig...
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