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Diagnostics, Volume 6, Issue 1

March 2016 - 13 articles

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Articles (13)

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,347 Views
14 Pages

Auto Diagnostics of Lung Nodules Using Minimal Characteristics Extraction Technique

  • Diego M. Peña,
  • Shouhua Luo and
  • Abdeldime M. S. Abdelgader

Computer-aided detection (CAD) systems provide useful tools and an advantageous process to physicians aiming to detect lung nodules. This paper develops a method composed of four processes for lung nodule detection. The first step employs image acqui...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,681 Views
13 Pages

This study investigated the relationship between education, cognitive and physical function in older age, and their respective impacts on activities of daily living (ADL). Data on 148 older participants from a community-based sample recruited in Shan...

  • Discussion
  • Open Access
12 Citations
10,634 Views
13 Pages

Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), described in the medical literature since 1938, is characterized by distinctive muscular symptoms, neurological symptoms, and signs of circulatory impairment. The only mandatory feature of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,087 Views
7 Pages

Image-guided tumor ablation provides curative treatment in properly selected patients or appropriate therapeutic options whenever surgical techniques are precluded. Tumor response assessment post ablation is important in determining treatment success...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,526 Views
9 Pages

Interobserver and Intraobserver Reproducibility with Volume Dynamic Contrast Enhanced Computed Tomography (DCE-CT) in Gastroesophageal Junction Cancer

  • Martin Lundsgaard Hansen,
  • Eva Fallentin,
  • Thomas Axelsen,
  • Carsten Lauridsen,
  • Rikke Norling,
  • Lars Bo Svendsen and
  • Michael Bachmann Nielsen

The purpose of this study was to assess inter- and intra-observer reproducibility of three different analytic methods to evaluate quantitative dynamic contrast-enhanced computed tomography (DCE-CT) measures from gastroesophageal junctional cancer. Tw...

  • Review
  • Open Access
66 Citations
18,595 Views
13 Pages

Early Dementia Screening

  • Peter K. Panegyres,
  • Renee Berry and
  • Jennifer Burchell

As the population of the world increases, there will be larger numbers of people with dementia and an emerging need for prompt diagnosis and treatment. Early dementia screening is the process by which a patient who might be in the prodromal phases of...

  • Interesting Images
  • Open Access
6,735 Views
3 Pages

Biliary atresia (BA) is an obliterative cholangiopathy affecting 1:10.000–14.000 of newborns. Infants with Biliary Atresia Splenic Malformation syndrome (BASM) are a subgroup of BA patients with additional congenital anomalies. Untreated the disease...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
10,329 Views
11 Pages

Economic Analysis of Alternative Strategies for Detection of ALK Rearrangements in Non Small Cell Lung Cancer

  • Shivang Doshi,
  • David Ray,
  • Karen Stein,
  • Jie Zhang,
  • Prasad Koduru,
  • Franz Fogt,
  • Axel Wellman,
  • Ricky Wat and
  • Charles Mathews

Identification of alterations in ALK gene and development of ALK-directed therapies have increased the need for accurate and efficient detection methodologies. To date, research has focused on the concordance between the two most commonly used techno...

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