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Background/Objectives: Software is now core infrastructure in biomedical science, yet fragmented workflows across subfields hinder reproducibility and delay the translation of data into actionable decisions. There is a critical need for a cross-disci...

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Background: Depression is a common mental disorder, and early and objective diagnosis of depression is challenging. New advances in deep learning show promise for processing audio and video content when screening for depression. Nevertheless, the maj...

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has shown promising performance in brain tumor diagnosis and prognosis; however, most reported advances remain difficult to translate into clinical practice due to limited interpretability, inconsistent evaluation protoco...

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Conditional Tabular Generative Adversarial Network Based Clinical Data Augmentation for Enhanced Predictive Modeling in Chronic Kidney Disease Diagnosis

  • Princy Randhawa,
  • Veerendra Nath Jasthi,
  • Kumar Piyush,
  • Gireesh Kumar Kaushik,
  • Malathy Batamulay,
  • S. N. Prasad,
  • Manish Rawat,
  • Kiran Veernapu and
  • Nithesh Naik

The lack of clinical data for chronic kidney disease (CKD) prediction frequently results in model overfitting and inadequate generalization to novel samples. This research mitigates this constraint by utilizing a Conditional Tabular Generative Advers...

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Evaluating the difficulty of endotracheal intubation during pre-anesthesia assessment has consistently posed a challenge for clinicians. Accurate prediction of intubation difficulty is crucial for subsequent treatment planning. However, existing diag...

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Background: Sepsis-associated liver injury (SALI) is a serious complication of sepsis that increases the risk of organ dysfunction and mortality; however, early identification of high-risk patients remains difficult due to nonspecific clinical featur...

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679 Views
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Chest X-ray radiology report generation is a challenging task that involves techniques from medical natural language processing and computer vision. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of recent progress. The annotation protocols, structure,...

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457 Views
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Background/Objectives: Brain metastases (BM) are a major challenge in the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), particularly among patients with anaplastic lymphoma kinase rearrangements (ALK+ NSCLC), where incidence can reach up to 60% du...

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Comparative Analysis of Skin Microbiome in Acne Lesions and Healthy Skin Using 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing

  • Fadilah Fadilah,
  • Hartanti Dian Ikawati,
  • Anis Karuniawati,
  • Linda Erlina,
  • Fitria Agustina,
  • Rafika Indah Paramita and
  • Mohd Azrul Naim Mohamad

Acne vulgaris (AV) is a common dermatological disorder in adolescents, encompassing both non-inflammatory and inflammatory lesions, with growing evidence implicating the skin microbiome in its pathogenesis. This study analyzed skin lesion samples fro...

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Multilayer Perceptron Artificial Neural Network to Support Nurses’ Decision-Making on Topical Therapies for Venous Ulcers: Construction, Validation, and Evaluation

  • Simone Karine da Costa Mesquita,
  • Luana Souza Freitas,
  • Isabelle Pereira da Silva,
  • Anna Alice Carmo Gonçalves,
  • Alcides Viana de Lima Neto,
  • Carlos Alberto de Albuquerque Silva,
  • Nielsen Castelo Damasceno Dantas,
  • Rhayssa de Oliveira e Araújo and
  • Isabelle Katherinne Fernandes Costa

Background: Due to the complexity of venous ulcer treatment, the role of nurses is critical, and artificial intelligence, particularly artificial neural networks of the Multilayer Perceptron type, can be effective tools that support professionals wit...

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1 Citations
762 Views
26 Pages

Vancomycin remains a cornerstone for severe Gram-positive infections in the ICU, yet creatinine elevation—a sensitive marker of early renal stress—occurs frequently and complicates therapy. We developed a machine learning model to predict...

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1 Citations
1,290 Views
32 Pages

Advancements in natural language processing (NLP), particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), have greatly improved how we access knowledge. However, in critical domains like biomedicine, challenges like hallucinations—where language models gen...

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly emerging as a transformative tool capable of addressing critical challenges and improving outcomes in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. This paper demonstrates how machine learning and data fusion p...

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Modern diagnostic systems face computational challenges when processing exponential disease-symptom combinations, with traditional approaches requiring up to 2n evaluations for n symptoms. This paper presents MARS (Matrix-Accelerated Reasoning System...

  • Systematic Review
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1,413 Views
88 Pages

Background/Objectives: This review paper summarizes and critically analyzes different Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based predictive modeling techniques in early detection and personalized treatment for Kidney diseases, speci...

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1 Citations
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Assessment of ChatGPT in Recommending Immunohistochemistry Panels for Salivary Gland Tumors

  • Maria Cuevas-Nunez,
  • Cosimo Galletti,
  • Luca Fiorillo,
  • Aida Meto,
  • Wilmer Rodrigo Díaz-Castañeda,
  • Shokoufeh Shahrabi Farahani,
  • Guido Fadda,
  • Valeria Zuccalà,
  • Victor Gil Manich and
  • Maria-Teresa Fernández-Figueras
  • + 1 author

Background: Salivary gland tumors pose a diagnostic challenge due to their histological heterogeneity and overlapping features. While immunohistochemistry (IHC) is critical for accurate classification, selecting appropriate markers can be subjective...

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The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Pharmacy Practice and Patient Care: Innovations and Implications

  • Aftab Alam,
  • Syed Sikandar Shah,
  • Syed Arman Rabbani and
  • Mohamed El-Tanani

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping pharmacy practice by enhancing decision-making, personalizing therapy, and improving medication safety. AI applications now span drug discovery, clinical decision support, and adherence monitoring. This narra...

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528 Views
12 Pages

Simultaneous Detection and Quantification of Age-Dependent Dopamine Release

  • Ibrahim Moubarak Nchouwat Ndumgouo,
  • Mohammad Zahir Uddin Chowdhury and
  • Stephanie Schuckers

Background: Dopamine (DA) is a key biomarker for neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s. However, detailed insights into how DA release in the brain changes with aging remain challenging. Integrating machine learning with DA sensing pla...

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1,206 Views
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Background/Objectives: Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory condition that often requires laparoscopic examination for definitive diagnosis. Automated analysis of laparoscopic images using Deep Learning (DL) may support clinicians by improving dia...

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Mobile Applications for Assessment and Monitoring of Breast Cancer-Related Lymphedema: A Systematic Review

  • Naiany Tenório,
  • Maria Gabriela Amaral Lima,
  • Herbert Albérico de Sá Leitão and
  • Diego Dantas

Introduction: The digital era has provided the development of innovative health devices that enable the precise characterization of health and disease, facilitating diagnoses and interventions. This study aimed to systematically review and verify the...

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Comprehensive Assessment of CNN Sensitivity in Automated Microorganism Classification: Effects of Compression, Non-Uniform Scaling, and Data Augmentation

  • Dimitria Theophanis Boukouvalas,
  • Márcia Aparecida Silva Bissaco,
  • Humberto Dellê,
  • Alessandro Melo Deana,
  • Peterson Adriano Belan and
  • Sidnei Alves de Araújo

Background: The growing demand for automated microorganism classification in the context of Laboratory 4.0 highlights the potential of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for accurate and efficient image analysis. However, their effectiveness remain...

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1,859 Views
17 Pages

A Study of Gene Expression Levels of Parkinson’s Disease Using Machine Learning

  • Sonia Lilia Mestizo-Gutiérrez,
  • Joan Arturo Jácome-Delgado,
  • Nicandro Cruz-Ramírez,
  • Alejandro Guerra-Hernández,
  • Jesús Alberto Torres-Sosa,
  • Viviana Yarel Rosales-Morales and
  • Gonzalo Emiliano Aranda-Abreu

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder, characterized primarily by motor impairments due to the loss of dopaminergic neurons. Despite extensive research, the precise causes of PD remain unknown, and reliab...

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EvoFuzzy: Evolutionary Fuzzy Approach for Ensembling Reconstructed Genetic Networks

  • Hasini Nakulugamuwa Gamage,
  • Jaskaran Gill,
  • Madhu Chetty,
  • Suryani Lim and
  • Jennifer Hallinan

Background: Reconstructing gene regulatory networks (GRNs) from gene expression data remains a major challenge in systems biology due to the inherent complexity of biological systems and the limitations of existing reconstruction methods, which often...

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AlphaGlue: A Novel Conceptual Delivery Method for α Therapy

  • Lujin Abu Sabah,
  • Laura Ballisat,
  • Chiara De Sio,
  • Magdalena Dobrowolska,
  • Adam Chambers,
  • Jinyan Duan,
  • Susanna Guatelli,
  • Dousatsu Sakata,
  • Yuyao Shi and
  • Anatoly Rosenfeld
  • + 1 author

Extensive research is being carried out on the application of α particles for cancer treatment. A key challenge in α therapy is how to deliver the α emitters to the tumour. In AlphaGlue, a novel treatment delivery concept, the &alph...

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1,187 Views
22 Pages

Background: Urinary tract infections (UTIs) remain among the most common bacterial infections, yet reliable risk stratification remains challenging. Serum vitamin D has been linked to immune regulation, but its predictive role in UTI subtypes is uncl...

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  • Open Access
1,856 Views
20 Pages

Enhanced U-Net for Spleen Segmentation in CT Scans: Integrating Multi-Slice Context and Grad-CAM Interpretability

  • Sowad Rahman,
  • Md Azad Hossain Raju,
  • Abdullah Evna Jafar,
  • Muslima Akter,
  • Israt Jahan Suma and
  • Jia Uddin

Accurate spleen segmentation in abdominal CT scans remains a critical challenge in medical image analysis due to variable morphology, low tissue contrast, and proximity to similar anatomical structures. This paper presents an enhanced U-Net architect...

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1,321 Views
15 Pages

Background: The selection of machine learning (ML) models in the biomedical sciences often relies on global performance metrics. When these metrics are closely clustered among candidate models, identifying the most suitable model for real-world deplo...

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21 Pages

This paper investigates the state of substance use disorder (SUD) and the frequency of substance use by utilizing three unsupervised machine learning techniques, based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5 (DSM-5) of mental health disorders. We...

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1 Citations
2,780 Views
23 Pages

High-Precision, Automatic, and Fast Segmentation Method of Hepatic Vessels and Liver Tumors from CT Images Using a Fusion Decision-Based Stacking Deep Learning Model

  • Mamoun Qjidaa,
  • Anass Benfares,
  • Mohammed Amine El Azami El Hassani,
  • Amine Benkabbou,
  • Amine Souadka,
  • Anass Majbar,
  • Zakaria El Moatassim,
  • Maroua Oumlaz,
  • Oumayma Lahnaoui and
  • Abdeljabbar Cherkaoui
  • + 2 authors

Background: To propose an automatic liver and hepatic vessel segmentation solution based on a stacking model and decision fusion. This model combines the decisions of multiple models to achieve increased accuracy. It exhibits improved robustness due...

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2,373 Views
13 Pages

Background: Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) outcome prediction is challenging, and machine learning (ML) can enhance it by leveraging large datasets. Methods: We built an ML model to predict PICU outcomes (“Death vs. Survival”, &ldqu...

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1,407 Views
25 Pages

Quantum-Enhanced Dual-Backbone Architecture for Accurate Gastrointestinal Disease Detection Using Endoscopic Imaging

  • Nabil Marzoug,
  • Khidhr Halab,
  • Othmane El Meslouhi,
  • Zouhair Elamrani Abou Elassad and
  • Moulay A. Akhloufi

Background: Quantum machine learning (QML) holds significant promise for advancing medical image classification. However, its practical application to large-scale, high-resolution datasets is constrained by the limited number of qubits and the inhere...

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3,702 Views
18 Pages

Background: Virtual coaching can help people adopt new healthful behaviors by encouraging them to set specific goals and helping them review their progress. One challenge in creating such systems is analyzing clients’ statements about their act...

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2,114 Views
17 Pages

Co-Designing a DSM-5-Based AI-Powered Smart Assistant for Monitoring Dementia and Ongoing Neurocognitive Decline: Development Study

  • Fareed Ud Din,
  • Nabaraj Giri,
  • Namrata Shetty,
  • Tom Hilton,
  • Niusha Shafiabady and
  • Phillip J. Tully

Background/Objectives: Dementia is a leading cause of cognitive decline, with significant challenges for early detection and timely intervention. The lack of effective, user-centred technologies further limits clinical response, particularly in under...

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Real-Time Applications of Biophysiological Markers in Virtual-Reality Exposure Therapy: A Systematic Review

  • Marie-Jeanne Fradette,
  • Julie Azrak,
  • Florence Cousineau,
  • Marie Désilets and
  • Alexandre Dumais

Virtual-reality exposure therapy (VRET) is an emerging treatment for psychiatric disorders that enables immersive and controlled exposure to anxiety-provoking stimuli. Recent developments integrate real-time physiological monitoring, including heart...

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1,902 Views
21 Pages

Stabilizing the Shield: C-Terminal Tail Mutation of HMPV F Protein for Enhanced Vaccine Design

  • Reetesh Kumar,
  • Subhomoi Borkotoky,
  • Rohan Gupta,
  • Jyoti Gupta,
  • Somnath Maji,
  • Savitri Tiwari,
  • Rajeev K. Tyagi and
  • Baldo Oliva

Background: Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) is a respiratory virus in the Pneumoviridae family. HMPV is an enveloped, negative-sense RNA virus encoding three surface proteins: SH, G, and F. The highly immunogenic fusion (F) protein is essential for vira...

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10,625 Views
70 Pages

Advancements in Breast Cancer Detection: A Review of Global Trends, Risk Factors, Imaging Modalities, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning Approaches

  • Md. Atiqur Rahman,
  • M. Saddam Hossain Khan,
  • Yutaka Watanobe,
  • Jarin Tasnim Prioty,
  • Tasfia Tahsin Annita,
  • Samura Rahman,
  • Md. Shakil Hossain,
  • Saddit Ahmed Aitijjo,
  • Rafsun Islam Taskin and
  • Touhid Bhuiyan
  • + 2 authors

Breast cancer remains a critical global health challenge, with over 2.1 million new cases annually. This review systematically evaluates recent advancements (2022–2024) in machine and deep learning approaches for breast cancer detection and ris...

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  • Open Access
906 Views
16 Pages

Background: The amount of data produced from biological experiments has increased geometrically, posing a challenge for the development of new methodologies that could enable their interpretation. We propose a novel approach for the analysis of trans...

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  • Open Access
1,410 Views
24 Pages

Accurate segmentation of kidney microstructures in whole slide images (WSIs) is essential for the diagnosis and monitoring of renal diseases. In this study, an end-to-end instance segmentation pipeline was developed for the detection of glomeruli and...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,012 Views
15 Pages

SCCM: An Interpretable Enhanced Transfer Learning Model for Improved Skin Cancer Classification

  • Md. Rifat Aknda,
  • Fahmid Al Farid,
  • Jia Uddin,
  • Sarina Mansor and
  • Muhammad Golam Kibria

Skin cancer is the most common cancer worldwide, for which early detection is crucial to improve survival rates. Visual inspection and biopsies have limitations, including being error-prone, costly, and time-consuming. Although several deep learning...

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  • Open Access
1,614 Views
14 Pages

Deep Learning Treatment Recommendations for Patients Diagnosed with Non-Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer Receiving Androgen Deprivation Treatment

  • Chunyang Li,
  • Julia Bohman,
  • Vikas Patil,
  • Richard Mcshinsky,
  • Christina Yong,
  • Zach Burningham,
  • Matthew Samore and
  • Ahmad S. Halwani

Background: Prostate cancer (PC) is the second leading cause of cancer-related death in men in the United States. A subset of patients develops non-metastatic, castration-resistant PC (nmCRPC), for which management requires a personalized considerati...

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1 Citations
2,544 Views
16 Pages

This paper proposes a hybrid method for skin lesion classification combining deep learning features with conventional descriptors such as HOG, Gabor, SIFT, and LBP. Feature extraction was performed by extracting features of interest within the tumor...

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1,684 Views
19 Pages

Background: Social media represents a unique opportunity to investigate the perspectives of people with eating disorders at scale. One forum alone, r/EatingDisorders, now has 113,000 members worldwide. In less than a day, where a manual analysis migh...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,880 Views
38 Pages

AI-Driven Bayesian Deep Learning for Lung Cancer Prediction: Precision Decision Support in Big Data Health Informatics

  • Natalia Amasiadi,
  • Maria Aslani-Gkotzamanidou,
  • Leonidas Theodorakopoulos,
  • Alexandra Theodoropoulou,
  • George A. Krimpas,
  • Christos Merkouris and
  • Aristeidis Karras

Lung-cancer incidence is projected to rise by 50% by 2035, underscoring the need for accurate yet accessible risk-stratification tools. We trained a Bayesian neural network on 300 annotated chest-CT scans from the public LIDC–IDRI cohort, integ...

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1 Citations
2,193 Views
21 Pages

Technological advancements and AI-based research have significantly influenced our daily lives. Human activity recognition (HAR) is a key area at the intersection of various AI technologies and application domains. In this study, we present our novel...

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13 Citations
23,447 Views
40 Pages

Generative Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Applications, Implementation Challenges, and Future Directions

  • Syed Arman Rabbani,
  • Mohamed El-Tanani,
  • Shrestha Sharma,
  • Syed Salman Rabbani,
  • Yahia El-Tanani,
  • Rakesh Kumar and
  • Manita Saini

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming healthcare systems since the advent of OpenAI in 2022. It encompasses a class of machine learning techniques designed to create new content and is classified into large language models (...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,131 Views
29 Pages

Food pattern recognition plays a crucial role in modern healthcare by enabling automated dietary monitoring and personalised nutritional interventions, particularly for vulnerable populations with complex dietary needs. Current food recognition syste...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,416 Views
23 Pages

Exploring CBC Data for Anemia Diagnosis: A Machine Learning and Ontology Perspective

  • Amira S. Awaad,
  • Yomna M. Elbarawy,
  • H. Mancy and
  • Naglaa E. Ghannam

Background: Anemia, a common health disorder affecting populations globally, demands timely and accurate diagnosis for treatment to be effective. The aim of this paper is to detect and classify four types of anemia: hgb, iron-deficiency, folate-defic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,666 Views
26 Pages

Background: Gliomas represent the most prevalent and aggressive primary brain tumors, requiring precise classification to guide treatment strategies and improve patient outcomes. Purpose: This study aimed to develop and evaluate a machine learning-dr...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,590 Views
35 Pages

Background: Chronic diseases significantly burden healthcare systems due to the need for long-term treatment. Early diagnosis is critical for effective management and minimizing risk. The current traditional diagnostic approaches face various challen...

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  • Open Access
1,894 Views
12 Pages

Identification of a New Lung Cancer Biomarker Signature Using Data Mining and Preliminary In Vitro Validation

  • Ferid Ben Ali,
  • Denis Mustafov,
  • Maria Braoudaki,
  • Sola Adeleke and
  • Iosif Mporas

Background: Lung adenocarcinoma is one of the major subtype of non-Small Cell Lung Cancer and biomarkers are essential to be identified for early diagnosis. The study aims to find in silico and preliminary in vitro analysis of potential biomarkers fo...

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