Improving Diabetes Prediction by Selecting Optimal K and Distance Measures in KNN Classifier by Emad Majeed Hameed, Hardik Joshi

“… Diabetes is an illness that is widespread throughout the world and is considered a health concern, which requires work to explore advanced predictive techniques for early diagnosis of the illness. This paper discusses diabetes prediction by using the K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) classifier, which is a widely used algorithm in machine learning. …”
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Subaortic Membrane Papillary Fibroelastoma by Robyn Bryde, Kevin Landolfo, Jordan C. Ray, Pragnesh Parikh, Qihui “Jim” Zhai, Carolyn Landolfo

“…Upon visual inspection, the mass was likened to a sea anemone and immunohistochemical staining performed pathologically confirmed the diagnosis of cardiac papillary fibroelastoma. This case represents the first reported example of a cardiac papillary fibroelastoma (PFE) arising from a subaortic membrane. …”
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Correlation Between Density of House Dust Mites and Recurrence of Urticaria by Gardenia Akhyar, Rahma Ledika Veroci

“…Kepadatan TDR dari tiap kamar sampel dihitung dengan mengumpulkan debu, dan sampel dinilai sensitivitas terhadao TDR dengan pemeriksaan skin prick test (SPT). Diagnosis urtikaria berdasarkan anamnesis, kemudian ditanyaan rekurensinya dalam tiga bulan terakhir. …”
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The Partial Duplication of the 5′ Segment of KMT2A Revealed KMT2A-MLLT10 Rearrangement in a Boy with Acute Myeloid Leukemia by Hiroko Fukushima, Toru Nanmoku, Sho Hosaka, Yuni Yamaki, Nobutaka Kiyokawa, Takashi Fukushima, Ryo Sumazaki

“…Chemotherapy promptly induced the first complete remission in the patient at our facility, and the patient remained in first complete remission with negative minimal residual disease at 3.5 years from diagnosis. Our case is similar to two previously reported patients who had partial duplication of the 5′ segment of KMT2A with a KMT2A-MLLT10 rearrangement. …”
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DRCCT: Enhancing Diabetic Retinopathy Classification with a Compact Convolutional Transformer by Mohamed Touati, Rabeb Touati, Laurent Nana, Faouzi Benzarti, Sadok Ben Yahia

“…The model’s ability to classify retinal images into five distinct diabetic retinopathy categories demonstrates its potential to significantly improve automated diagnosis and aid in clinical decision-making.…”
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Body Mass Index mediates the relationship between estimated glucose disposal rate and gallstones by Shuaipeng Yuan, Yuexia Lu, Zhun Xiao, Suping Ma

“…There were 595 subjects with a gallstone diagnosis out of 5,656 total. A significant negative association between eGDR and gallstones was observed by fully adjusted multivariate logistic regression analysis with an OR of 0.90 and a 95% confidence interval (CI) of (0.83, 0.98). …”
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End-to-End Semantic Leaf Segmentation Framework for Plants Disease Classification by Khalil Khan, Rehan Ullah Khan, Waleed Albattah, Ali Mustafa Qamar

“…Pernicious insects and plant diseases threaten the food science and agriculture sector. Therefore, diagnosis and detection of such diseases are essential. …”
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Primary Clear Cell Chondrosarcoma of the Spine: A Case Report of a Rare Entity and a Review of the Literature by Nikolaos A. Paidakakos, Aristides Rovlias, Evaggelos Rokas, Spyridon Theodoropoulos, Patroklos Katafygiotis

“…In conclusion, it is important to keep in mind this entity in the differential diagnosis of spinal tumors, in order to optimize treatment planning. …”
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Prevalence of Bacterial Vaginosis and Its Association with Risk Factors among Nonpregnant Women: A Hospital Based Study by Eliza Ranjit, Bijendra Raj Raghubanshi, Smrity Maskey, Pramila Parajuli

“…Nugent’s scoring method was used for diagnosis of BV in this study. The overall prevalence of BV was 24.4% among symptomatic patients. …”
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Implications of the Use of Eukaryotic Translation Initiation Factor 5A (eIF5A) for Prognosis and Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Felix H. Shek, Sarwat Fatima, Nikki P. Lee

“…Lack of treatment options and late diagnosis contribute to high mortality rate of HCC. …”
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Severe colic mimicking intussusception: a new phenomenon by Mohamed Amin El-Gohary

“…We reviewed our experience in the management and diagnosis of these patients.Result All patients were diagnosed initially as intussusception, which was confirmed by ultrasonography (US). …”
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Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Lyme Carditis—A Case Series and Review of Literature by Matthew Kaczynski, Suhani Desai, Brian Osorio, Edward Hulten, Saurabh Agarwal, Michael K. Atalay, Yash Patel

“…Lyme carditis is an uncommon but potentially fatal manifestation of early disseminated Lyme disease. Timely diagnosis poses a clinical challenge due to the highly variable and non-specific symptomatology that can be easily overlooked, as well as the limited availability of specific and non-invasive diagnostic tests for assessing cardiac involvement. …”
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Artificial Neural Network-Statistical Approach for PET Volume Analysis and Classification by Mhd Saeed Sharif, Maysam Abbod, Abbes Amira, Habib Zaidi

“…The increasing number of imaging studies and the prevailing application of positron emission tomography (PET) in clinical oncology have led to a real need for efficient PET volume handling and the development of new volume analysis approaches to aid the clinicians in the clinical diagnosis, planning of treatment, and assessment of response to therapy. …”
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Active Fault Tolerant Control Based on a Novel Tracking Differentiator for Elevating Stage Control System by Haijie Mao, Wei Li, Xiaolin Feng

“…The simulation results show that the fault diagnosis method is simple and timely, the designed tracking differentiator is fast and effective, and the effect of the fault tolerant control based on smooth switching strategy is also satisfactory.…”
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Computer Vision System for Facial Palsy Detection by Ali Saber Amsalam, Ali Al-Naji, Ammar Yahya Daeef, Javaan Chahl

“…Therefore, it is important to develop a new method for detecting FP through artificial intelligence and use a more accurate computerized system to reduce the effort and cost of patients and increase the accuracy of diagnosis. This work  aims to establish a safe, useful and high-accuracy diagnostic system for FP that can be used by the patient and proposes to detect FP using a digital camera and deep learning techniques automatically. …”
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Multimodal Image Analysis in Acquired Vitelliform Lesions and Adult-Onset Foveomacular Vitelliform Dystrophy by Ricardo Rocha Bastos, Carla Sofia Ferreira, Elisete Brandão, Fernando Falcão-Reis, Ângela M. Carneiro

“…When consulting a patient presenting a VL with unknown age of onset, familial history, or previous retinal diseases, some aspects of multimodal imaging assessment may lead the ophthalmologist to a correct diagnosis.…”
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Acute Myeloid Leukemia with Basophilic Differentiation Transformed from Myelodysplastic Syndrome by Yasuhiro Tanaka, Atsushi Tanaka, Akiko Hashimoto, Kumiko Hayashi, Isaku Shinzato

“…He was diagnosed as having MDS. At the time of diagnosis, basophils had not proliferated in the bone marrow. …”
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Male Pelvic Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Unknown Primary Origin by Lauren Chiec, Sadhna Verma, Ady Kendler, Nagla Abdel Karim

“…Further studies are necessary to determine the most appropriate work-up, diagnosis, and optimal treatment strategies.…”
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An Uncommon Case of Plasma Cell Mucositis of the Tongue in a Young Man by Alessandro Antonelli, Fiorella Averta, Federica Diodati, Danila Muraca, Ylenia Brancaccio, Chiara Mignogna, Amerigo Giudice

“…PCM is considered an uncommon benign disorder with a favorable prognosis and should be considered in the differential diagnosis with other inflammatory or neoplastic conditions.…”
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The Dragon and the Tiger: Realties in the Control of Tuberculosis by P. Bhatter, A. Chatterjee, N. Mistry

“…While China has acknowledged the disease load and thereafter has methodically improved its reporting, detection, diagnosis and treatment, India is still in denial of the imminent health risk. …”
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