Predictive model of acute kidney injury in critically ill patients with acute pancreatitis: a machine learning approach using the MIMIC-IV database by Shengwei Lin, Wenbin Lu, Ting Wang, Ying Wang, Xueqian Leng, Lidan Chi, Peipei Jin, Jinjun Bian

“…In the test set, the GBM’s performance was consistent, with an area of 0.867 (95% CI, 0.831 to 0.903).Conclusions The GBM model’s precision is crucial, aiding clinicians in identifying high-risk patients and enabling timely interventions to reduce mortality rates in critical care.…”
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Clinical Recommendations of Russian Gastroenterological Association and RENDO Endoscopic Society on Diagnosis and Treatment of Gastritis and Duodenitis by V. T. Ivashkin, I. V. Maev, T. L. Lapina, E. D. Fedorov, A. A. Sheptulin, A. S. Trukhmanov, A. V. Kononov, R. A. Abdulkhakov, O. P. Alexeeva, S. A. Alekseenko, D. N. Andreev, E. K. Baranskaya, N. N. Dekhnich, I. L. Klyaritskaya, R. S. Kozlov, E. A. Kogan, M. P. Korolev, N. V. Korochanskaya, S. A. Kurilovich, M. A. Livsan, M. F. Osipenko, P. V. Pavlov, S. S. Pirogov, A. S. Sarsenbaeva, V. I. Simanenkov, A. S. Tertychny, A. V. Tkachev, Yu. P. Uspensky, I. B. Khlynov, V. V. Tsukanov

“…The clinical guidelines are intended to supplement specialty decision-making for improved aid quality in patients with gastritis and duodenitis though acknowledging the latest clinical evidence and principles of evidencebased medicine.Key points. …”
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Anatomic Variations Important for Dental Implantation in the Mandible—A Systematic Review by Zlata Rajkovic Pavlovic, Milos Stepovic, Marija Bubalo, Ivana Zivanovic Macuzic, Maja Vulovic, Nevena Folic, Jovana Milosavljevic, Valentina Opancina, Dobrivoje Stojadinovic

“…The results of this study can aid in choosing appropriate measurement points and give the gross picture, for clinicians, in therapy planning, considering all the landmarks of significance in the mandible.…”
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Imaging flow cytometry-based cellular screening elucidates pathophysiology in individuals with Variants of Uncertain Significance by Irena Josephina Johanna Muffels, Hans R. Waterham, Giuseppina D’Alessandro, Guido Zagnoli-Vieira, Michael Sacher, Dirk J. Lefeber, Celine Van der Vinne, Chaim M. Roifman, Koen L. I. Gassen, Holger Rehmann, Desiree Y. Van Haaften-Visser, Edward S. S. Nieuwenhuis, Stephen P. Jackson, Sabine A. Fuchs, Femke Wijk, Peter van Hasselt

“…Abstract Background Deciphering variants of uncertain significance (VUS) represents a major diagnostic challenge, partially due to the lack of easy-to-use and versatile cellular readouts that aid the interpretation of pathogenicity and pathophysiology. …”
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Risk factors for multidrug resistance in pulmonary tuberculosis patients with diabetes mellitus by Lianpeng Wu, Lianpeng Wu, Na Chen, Na Chen, Dandan Xia, Dandan Xia, Xiangao Jiang, Xiangao Jiang

“…Early identification of these risk factors can aid in the timely diagnosis and treatment of MDR-TB, potentially reducing its burden. …”
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Interventions to improve media coverage of medical research: a codesigned feasibility and acceptability study with Australian journalists by Brooke Nickel, Ray Moynihan, Alexandra Barratt, Kirsten J McCaffery, Loai Albarqouni, Tessa Copp, Thomas Dakin, Liam Mannix

“…Analysis of free-text responses identified several areas for improvement, such as including more examples to aid understanding of the counterintuitive topic of overdiagnosis and more time for discussion.Conclusions Piloting suggested the multicomponent training intervention is acceptable to journalists and provided important feedback and insights to inform a future trial of the intervention’s impact on media coverage of medicine.…”
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Construction of a poor prognosis prediction and visualization system for intracranial aneurysm endovascular intervention treatment based on an improved machine learning model by Chunyu Lei, Anhui Fu, Bin Li, Shengfu Zhou, Jun Liu, Yu Cao, Bo Zhou

“…An improved machine learning model was employed to analyze patient clinical data, aiding in the construction of a prediction model for poor prognosis in intracranial aneurysm endovascular intervention. …”
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Analysis of MRI imaging characteristics in 10 cases of adult granulosa cell tumor with normal estrogen levels by Wei Weng, Yaomeng Chen, Ze Liu, Weiqian Chen, Jiejie Hu, Huihui Chen, Xindian Pan, Hai Wu, Xinle Chi

“…Understanding these features can aid in improving preoperative diagnostic capabilities and reducing misdiagnosis.…”
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Comparison of glycosylated fibronectin versus soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase/placental growth factor ratio testing for the assessment of pre-eclampsia: protocol for a multicentre... by Marcus Green, Chao Wang, Sarah Fisher, Amarnath Bhide, Ramesh Ganapathy, Basky Thilaganathan, Nouran Elbarbary

“…Glycosylated fibronectin (GlyFn) level for the prediction of pre-eclampsia development is available as a POC test (Lumella) and has the potential to aid rapid clinical decision making. This study aimed to test the hypothesis that the sensitivity of the GlyFn test is not inferior to that of the current gold standard of soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase (sFlt)/PlGF-based laboratory testing for pre-eclampsia.Methods and analysis This is a multicentre prospective study. …”
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Online tools to predict individualised survival for primary oesophageal cancer patients with and without pathological complete response after neoadjuvant therapy followed by oesoph... by Jie Zhang, Xiang Chen, Dong Dong, Lijie Tan, Yajie Zhang, Hecheng Li, Yuqin Cao, Binhao Huang, Han Tang, Tianzheng Shen, Xijia Feng, Jiahao Zhang, Liqiang Shi, Chengqiang Li, Heng Jiao

“…The predictive models for pCR and non-pCR patients demonstrated good calibration and clinical utility, with acceptable discrimination that surpassed that of the current tumour, node, metastases staging system.Conclusions The web-based dynamic nomograms for pCR (https://predict-survival.shinyapps.io/pCR-eso/) and non-pCR patients (https://predict-survival.shinyapps.io/non-pCR-eso/) developed in this study can facilitate the calculation of OS probability for individual patients undergoing neoadjuvant therapy and radical oesophagectomy, aiding clinicians and patients in making personalised treatment decisions.…”
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The Clinical Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Glimepiride—A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Mubara Azhar, Mohammed S. Alasmari, Ammara Zamir, Hamid Saeed, Faleh Alqahtani, Tanveer Ahmad, Muhammad Fawad Rasool

“…<b>Conclusions:</b> The findings of this review would be helpful in the development and evaluation of PK models that may aid in suggesting individualized dosing.…”
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Association between Corrected QT Interval, QT Dispersion and Clinico-biochemical Severity of Diabetic Ketoacidosis in Children Aged 1-12 Years: A Prospective Cohort Study by Hamritha Ashokkumar, A Suriya, Shreenivas RachakondaPoovazhagi, Shreenivas Rachakonda, Shreenivas Rachakonda

“…Routine ECG monitoring is essential for the early detection of QT prolongation, aiding in the prevention of life-threatening arrhythmias and improving patient outcomes.…”
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Seed Protein Content Estimation with Bench-Top Hyperspectral Imaging and Attentive Convolutional Neural Network Models by Imran Said, Vasit Sagan, Kyle T. Peterson, Haireti Alifu, Abuduwanli Maiwulanjiang, Abby Stylianou, Omar Al Akkad, Supria Sarkar, Noor Al Shakarji

“…To fully utilize the spectral and texture features of the full VNIR and SWIR spectral domains, a computer-vision-aided image co-registration methodology was implemented to seamlessly align the VNIR and SWIR bands. …”
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Immune dysfunction revealed by digital spatial profiling of immuno-oncology markers in progressive stages of renal cell carcinoma and in brain metastases by Wei Wei, Michael Hurwitz, Sabina Signoretti, Lucia Jilaveanu, Toni K Choueiri, David L Rimm, Adebowale Adeniran, Sandra Martínez, Harriet M Kluger, David A Schoenfeld, Myrto Moutafi, Dijana Djureinovic, Ross D Merkin, David A Braun, Fabio Parisi

“…Our findings may have important implications for designing future biomarker and treatment studies and may aid in development of brain metastases-specific therapies.…”
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Injury characteristics, mechanisms, and game circumstances in junior community-level Australian football by Indianna L. Franke, Andrea B. Mosler, Brooke E. Patterson, Kay M. Crossley, Patrick Clifton, Steven McPhail, Mark J. Scholes, Matthew G. King

“…Methods: All community junior Australian football players from one Victorian-based league were eligible to participate if they were injured during a game and presented to the gameday first aid medics. Injured players were subsequently followed up with a phone call to undertake an injury surveillance survey. …”
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Using Passive BCI for Personalization of Assistive Wearable Devices: A Proof-of-Concept Study by Asghar Mahmoudi, Morteza Khosrotabar, Klaus Gramann, Stephan Rinderknecht, Maziar A. Sharbafi

“…Assistive wearable devices can significantly enhance the quality of life for individuals with movement impairments, aid the rehabilitation process, and augment movement abilities of healthy users. …”
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PolyRes-Net: A Polyhierarchical Residual Network for Decoding Anatomical Complexity in Medical Image Segmentation by Amr Magdy, Khalid N. Ismail, Marghny H. Mohamed, Mahmoud Hassaballah, Haitham Mahmoud, Mohammed M. Abdelsamea

“…Furthermore, each decoder step is preceded by an attention gate, aiding in the extraction of the most salient features from the preceding layer, while skip connections correspond to the respective encoder steps. …”
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Automatic GPR detection of grouting defects behind the tunnel shield segments based on wavelet coherence analysis combined with modified Res-RCNN by Dengyi Wang, Ming Peng, Liu Liu, Xiongyao Xie, Zhenming Shi, Yaoying Liang, Jian Shen, Qiyu Wu

“…The proposed methods are verified through full-size model tests with the aid of synthetic experiments to quantify their performance. …”
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New prognostic model in patients with advanced urothelial carcinoma treated with second-line immune checkpoint inhibitors by Ernest Choy, Yohann Loriot, Fabio Calabrò, Cora N Sternberg, Guillermo De Velasco, Daniel Castellano, Roubini Zakopoulou, Aristotelis Bamias, Nicholas James, Axel Merseburger, F Lopez-Rios, Mario Kramer, Kimon Tzannis

“…This model represents an improvement over the Bellmunt algorithm and could aid selection of patients with aUC for second-line immunotherapy.Trial registration number NCT02928406.…”
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The role of natural exosomes from SHED-MSC in immunoregulation of M0/M1 polarized macrophage cells by Ali Fallah, Abasalt Hosseinzadeh Colagar, Ayyoob Khosravi, Ayyoob Khosravi, Azadeh Mohammad-Hasani, Azadeh Mohammad-Hasani, Mohsen Saeidi, Mohsen Saeidi

“…These nanovesicles, with their distinct physical properties and ability to penetrate target cells, may prove beneficial in conditions involving the depletion of M2 macrophages and M1 macrophage-induced diseases, potentially aiding in the reduction of inflammation and tissue injury.…”
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