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Healthcare, Volume 11, Issue 4

February-2 2023 - 182 articles

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Cover Story: Ultrasonography is widely used for diagnosis of diseases in internal organs because it is nonradioactive, noninvasive, real-time, and inexpensive. In ultrasonography, a set of measurement markers is placed at two points to measure organs and tumors, then the position and size of the target finding are measured on this basis. The aim of this study was to develop a deep learning model that can automatically detect renal cysts in ultrasound images and predict the appropriate position of a pair of salient anatomical landmarks to measure their size. The deep learning model adopted fine-tuned YOLOv5 for detection of renal cysts and fine-tuned UNet++ for prediction of saliency maps. The evaluation results show that the positions of the salient landmarks were predicted with an accuracy close to that of the radiologists, and in a shorter time. View this paper

Articles (182)

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,670 Views
18 Pages

Exploring Occupational Therapists’ Professional Identity: A Q-Method Study

  • Ana-Isabel Souto-Gómez,
  • Miguel-Ángel Talavera-Valverde,
  • María-del-Pilar García-de-la-Torre and
  • Luis-Javier Márquez-Álvarez

20 February 2023

(1) Background: This study examines the nature of the rarely studied factors of the professional identity from an occupational therapist’s perspective. (2) Methods: Q-methodology was applied to identify the different perspectives. Participants...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,093 Views
14 Pages

20 February 2023

Gender is one of the important social determinants of health known to be highly associated with health status. Despite the importance of gender awareness, it has not been addressed and researched in the Arab region, including Palestine. This study ai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,314 Views
11 Pages

20 February 2023

Our study aimed to analyse delaying factors amongst patients with a length of stay (LOS) > 15 days during the COVID-19 pandemic using time-to-event analysis. A total of 390 patients were admitted between March 2020–February 2021 to the subac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,141 Views
10 Pages

Knowledge and Attitudes towards Epidural Analgesia among Women of Childbearing Age in Jazan, Saudi Arabia: A Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study to Identify Predictors through Multivariate Modeling

  • Yasir Osman Hassan Babiker,
  • Muhannad Hussain Shawkan Najmi,
  • Ibrahim Mohammed A. Muslihi,
  • Ali Fathuldeen Mohammed Amri,
  • Tariq Yahya Mohammed Magafi,
  • Wail Mohammad Hadi Alughbi,
  • Mohammad Refah A Bashir,
  • Ali Nasser Ahmed Alsharif,
  • Anas Elyas Ahmedand and
  • Siddig Ibrahim Abdelwahab

20 February 2023

Epidural analgesia (EA) is a central nerve blockade technique. It is linked to a significant reduction of labor pain and side effects. This study was designed to investigate the knowledge and attitudes towards EA among women of childbearing age (18&n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,806 Views
11 Pages

20 February 2023

This study aimed to clarify the relationship between isokinetic trunk muscle strength and return to sporting activities in fresh cases of lumbar spondylolysis treated with conservative therapy. Patients included a total of ten men (age: 13.5 ±...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,866 Views
10 Pages

Adolescent Behaviours and Their Relationship to the Risk of Developing Eating Disorders

  • Joaquín Tarifa Pérez,
  • Montserrat Monserrat Hernández,
  • Ángeles Arjona Garrido,
  • Darío Salguero García and
  • Juan Carlos Checa Olmos

20 February 2023

Eating disorders (ED) in adolescents represent a significant problem in today’s society, with multiple factors influencing them, such as predisposing factors, precipitating factors and perpetuating factors. Objective: This paper aimed to determ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,455 Views
13 Pages

Effects of Velocity-Based versus Percentage-Based Resistance Training on Explosive Neuromuscular Adaptations and Anaerobic Power in Sport-College Female Basketball Players

  • Mingyang Zhang,
  • Duanying Li,
  • Jiaxin He,
  • Xingyue Liang,
  • Dongyu Li,
  • Wenfeng Song,
  • Shicong Ding,
  • Jie Shu,
  • Xiaoning Sun and
  • Jian Sun

20 February 2023

The purpose of this study was to compare the impact of velocity-based resistance training (VBRT) and percentage-based resistance training (PBRT) on anaerobic ability, sprint performance, and jumping ability. Eighteen female basketball players from a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,055 Views
12 Pages

Physiological Features of Olympic-Distance Amateur Triathletes, as Well as Their Associations with Performance in Women and Men: A Cross–Sectional Study

  • José Geraldo Barbosa,
  • Claudio Andre Barbosa de Lira,
  • Rodrigo Luiz Vancini,
  • Vinicius Ribeiro dos Anjos,
  • Lavínia Vivan,
  • Aldo Seffrin,
  • Pedro Forte,
  • Katja Weiss,
  • Beat Knechtle and
  • Marilia Santos Andrade

20 February 2023

The purpose of this study was to verify the physiological and anthropometric determinants of triathlon performance in female and male athletes. This study included 40 triathletes (20 male and 20 female). Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) was us...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,210 Views
11 Pages

Establishing Responsiveness and Minimal Clinically Important Difference of Quebec Back Pain Disability Scale (Hindi Version) in Chronic Low Back Pain Patients Undergoing Multimodal Physical Therapy

  • Irshad Ahmad,
  • Akhil Sharma,
  • Sahar Zaidi,
  • Mastour Saeed Alshahrani,
  • Ajay Prashad Gautam,
  • Abdullah Raizah,
  • Ravi Shankar Reddy,
  • Shalini Verma,
  • Tarushi Tanwar and
  • Mohammad Ejaz Hussain
  • + 3 authors

20 February 2023

Increasing emphasis is placed on physical functional measures to examine treatments for chronic low back pain (CLBP). The Quebec Back Pain Disability Scale (Hindi version) (QBPDS-H) has never been evaluated for responsiveness. The objectives of this...

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