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Reports, Volume 5, Issue 2

2022 June - 13 articles

Cover Story: The aim of this study is to offer a deeper insight into the image features that deep learning extracts in COVID-19 detection tasks from X-ray technology. This study offers an analysis of the image features extracted from MobileNet (v2), aiming to investigate the validity of these features and their medical importance. The pipeline can detect abnormal X-rays with an accuracy of 95.45 ± 1.54% and distinguish COVID-19 with an accuracy of 89.88 ± 3.66%. The visualized results of the Grad-CAM algorithm provide evidence that the methodology identifies meaningful areas on the images. Finally, the detected image features were reproducible 98% of the time after repeating the experiment three times. View this paper
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Articles (13)

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
2,930 Views
9 Pages

A Case of COVID-19 with Acute Exacerbation after Anti-Inflammatory Treatment

  • Yugo Ashino,
  • Yoichi Shirato,
  • Masahiro Yaegashiwa,
  • Satoshi Yamanouchi,
  • Noriko Miyakawa,
  • Kokichi Ando,
  • Yumiko Sakurada,
  • Haorile Chagan Yasutan and
  • Toshio Hattori

20 June 2022

A COVID-19 patient (53-year-old woman from Japan) was admitted to our hospital. She had a high fever (38.3 °C), cough, fatigue, and loss of appetite. She was a smoker and took migraine medication. A thoracic computed tomography (CT) scan showed n...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,202 Views
9 Pages

A Challenging Case of Visceral Leishmaniasis

  • Antonio Giovanni Solimando,
  • Giuseppe Coniglio,
  • Vanessa Desantis,
  • Gianfranco Lauletta,
  • Davide Fiore Bavaro,
  • Lucia Diella,
  • Anna Cirulli,
  • Giuseppe Iodice,
  • Piero Santoro and
  • Angelo Vacca
  • + 6 authors

16 June 2022

The term leishmaniasis includes multiple clinical syndromes: visceral, cutaneous, and mucosal leishmaniasis, resulting from an infection of macrophages throughout the reticuloendothelial system in the dermis and the naso-oropharyngeal mucosa, respect...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
5 Citations
12,868 Views
20 Pages

Neuronal and Non-Neuronal GABA in COVID-19: Relevance for Psychiatry

  • Adonis Sfera,
  • Karina G. Thomas,
  • Sarvin Sasannia,
  • Jonathan J. Anton,
  • Christina V. Andronescu,
  • Michael Garcia,
  • Dan O. Sfera,
  • Michael A. Cummings and
  • Zisis Kozlakidis

Infection with SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of the COVID-19 pandemic, originated in China and quickly spread across the globe. Despite tremendous economic and healthcare devastation, research on this virus has contributed to a better understanding...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
10,074 Views
8 Pages

Subcutaneous Emphysema of the Orbit after Nose-Blowing

  • Riku Mihara,
  • Yasuo Murai,
  • Shun Sato,
  • Fumihiro Matano and
  • Akio Morita

Orbital emphysema after nose-blowing is an uncommon condition and can appear without a trigger. Herein, we reported a case of orbital emphysema after nose-blowing and performed a literature review. A 68-year-old man fell and sustained an injury near...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,739 Views
18 Pages

X-ray technology has been recently employed for the detection of the lethal human coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) as a timely, cheap, and helpful ancillary method for diagnosis. The scientific community evaluated deep learning methods to aid in t...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
6,791 Views
7 Pages

Nocardiosis is an infrequent opportunistic infection that deserves more attention because of its increasing morbidity and high rate of misdiagnosis. Clinical and radiological manifestations as well as antibiograms of pulmonary nocardiosis are diverse...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,117 Views
7 Pages

Diamagnetic Therapy in a Patient with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Type I and Multiple Drug Intolerance: A Case Report

  • Roberta Roberti,
  • Gianmarco Marcianò,
  • Alessandro Casarella,
  • Vincenzo Rania,
  • Caterina Palleria,
  • Cristina Vocca,
  • Luca Catarisano,
  • Lucia Muraca,
  • Rita Citraro and
  • Luca Gallelli
  • + 2 authors

Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a neurologic chronic pain condition hard to diagnose and treat, and able to significantly impact the quality of life. Currently, the available multimodal, individualized treatments (i.e., pharmacological and n...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,992 Views
10 Pages

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the immune system affecting the central nervous system. Several phenotypes are possible, and cases usually present with a relapsing-remitting (RR) course with disease onset at a young age....

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,863 Views
9 Pages

A Novel Case of Recurrent Mucinous Borderline Ovarian Tumor: Early Relapse and Fatal Outcome

  • Kyoko Nakagawa,
  • Kentaro Nakayama,
  • Akiho Nakamura,
  • Nagisa Hadano,
  • Sonomi Kurose,
  • Sultana Razia,
  • Showa Aoki and
  • Satoru Kyo

Unlike ovarian carcinomas, borderline ovarian tumors (BOTs) are associated with a favorable prognosis: their recurrence rate is around 5–7%, and the survival rate is more than 97% when diagnosed early. There are only a few reports of recurrence...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,181 Views
8 Pages

Comparison of Allplex™ 2019-nCoV and TaqPath™ COVID-19 Assays

  • Manuela Colosimo,
  • Pasquale Minchella,
  • Rossana Tallerico,
  • Ilenia Talotta,
  • Cinzia Peronace,
  • Luca Gallelli,
  • Giulio Di Mizio and
  • Erika Cione

26 April 2022

The clinical presentation of COVID-19 is non-specific, and to improve and limit the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, an accurate diagnosis with a robust method is needed. A total of 500 nasopharyngeal swab specimens were tested for SARS-CoV-2. Of thes...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
2 Citations
17,099 Views
6 Pages

6 April 2022

Antiepileptic drugs prescribed in the context of migraine have been reported to be potentially linked with an increased risk of suicidal ideation and behavior. Meta-analyses support the evidence that amongst antiepileptic drugs, Topiramate has the gr...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
1 Citations
27,528 Views
8 Pages

Ketogenic Diet and Physical Exercise on Managing Tarlov Cysts: A Case Report

  • Roberto Cannataro,
  • Cherubino Di Lorenzo,
  • Mario Iazzolino,
  • Maria Cristina Caroleo,
  • Luca Gallelli,
  • Giovambattista De Sarro and
  • Erika Cione

29 March 2022

Tarlov Cysts is a pathological condition, with low incidence, characterized by a painful component with a strong impact on quality of life. The therapeutic options are surgery or analgesics and/or anti-inflammatory medications; however, the condition...

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