Impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection on bispecific antibody treatment in patients with B-cell lymphoproliferative disorders by Ángel Serna, Víctor Navarro, Moraima Jiménez, Josu Iraola-Truchuelo, Marc Bosch, Cristina García, Anna Falcó, Adaia Albasanz, Isabel Ruiz-Camps, Cristina Andrés, Andrés Antón, Juliana Esperalba, Ainara Ferrero, Tomás García, Cecilia Carpio, Marta Crespo, Gloria Iacoboni, Ana Marín-Niebla, Francesc Bosch, Pau Abrisqueta

“…A total of 109 patients with B-NHL treated with BsAbs from March 2020 to January 2023 were included. …”
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Late-onset telomere biology disorders in adults: clinical insights and treatment outcomes from a retrospective registry cohort by Mareike Tometten, Fabian Beier, Martin Kirschner, Yannic Schumacher, Jeanette Walter, Margherita Vieri, Kim Kricheldorf, Alexander Röth, Uwe Platzbecker, Markus Radsak, Philippe Schafhausen, Selim Corbacioglu, Britta Höchsmann, Stefan Balabanov, Claas Hinze, Jörg Chromik, Michael Heuser, Michael Kreuter, Marcin W. Wlodarski, Miriam Elbracht, Ingo Kurth, Steffen Koschmieder, Jens Panse, Susanne Isfort, Robert Meyer, Tim H. Brümmendorf

“…Based on this, a novel point-based algorithm for categorization into proven, probable, and suspected-only TBD cases was developed. …”
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AI-based pelvic floor surface electromyography reference ranges and high-precision pelvic floor dysfunction diagnosisResearch in context by Juan Chen, Jiahui Yao, Wei Chen, Feng Zhang, Heyuan Wang, Xiaoying Xu, Huan Ge, Hongmei Zhou, Jin Cen, Dan Li, Bengui Jiang, Li He, Tingting Fu, Zhengxian Xu, Lei Chu, Shuxia Zhang, Dongmei Yao, Linyi Wei, Liu Huang, Anjing Ge, Cuiping Jin, Zimu Fu, Qin Liu, Xuefeng Yu, Chengmao Zhao, Tengjiao Wang, Lan Zhu

“…Summary: Background: Pelvic floor surface electromyography (sEMG) is widely used to evaluate and treat pelvic floor dysfunctions (PFDs). Based on sEMG, the Glazer protocol was developed over 20 years ago with a limited sample size, making it challenging to accurately diagnose PFDs across diverse populations and conditions. …”
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Use of ICT to Confront COVID-19 by Yousry Saber El Gamal

“…Scientists are also using AI to help identifying existing drugs that can be beneficial in treating the COVID-19. For Virus modeling and analysis, Machine Learning happens to be one of the most effective tools. …”
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Guideline Directed Anticoagulant Treatment and Dosing in a Contemporary Atrial Fibrillation Cohort: Analysis of the TRANSECT-AF Program by Cole Clifford, MD, Shaun G. Goodman, MD, MSc, Mary K. Tan, MSc, Jean Gregoire, MD, Jeffrey Habert, MD, Anil Gupta, MD, Walter Chow, MD, Shahin Jaffer, MD, MHSc, Sandeep G. Aggarwal, MD, Michael Heffernan, MD, Robert Maranda, MD, Kevin Saunders, MD, Andrew T. Yan, MD, Sandeep Aggarwal, Grant Campbell, Tony Ford, Allan Kelly, Michael Kroetsch, Jean-Pierre Leung, Indra Patel, Qaiser Rizvi, Matthew Wong, Andrew Wong, Jessica Chan, Kenneth Cho, Walter Chow, Daniel Ezekiel, Shahin Jaffer, Al Karmali, Parbhoobhai Lakhoo, Dante Manyari, Tun Zan Maung, Laura Ozolins, Ameet Parikh, Walter Salmaniw, Masoud Shahrokhi, Alex She, Kanwarinder Sidhu, Raymond Simkus, Felix Tam, Richard Van Gend, Jeffrey T. Wang, Jonathan Wiltshire, Felix Yang, David Yoon, Daljit Gill, David Haligowski, Yatish Kotecha, Abraham C. Mare, Pravinsagar Mehta, Sunilkumar Patel, Kevin Saunders, Gilbert Blanchard, Steve Kenney, Oluwasyo Olatunde, Gary Rideout, William Booth, Adam Clarke, Malcolm Lawrence Macneil, Vineeta Ahooja, Lina Alkasm, Edgard Arcia-Bravo, Ogunroti Ayibiowu, Basel Bari, Parvinder Bath, Rani Beharry, Rajendra Beharry, Ira Bernstein, Mukesh Bhargava, Leon Bhatia, Harry Birman, Brent Bukovy, Craig Campagna, Claudius Che, Richard Chen, Michael Cheng, Grace Chua, Kim Connelly, Michael Csanadi, Maynard Luterman, Gregory Curnew, Shyamali Damboragama, Sampa Das, Selwyn De Souza, Nicole Desmarais, Debbie Dyke, Fadia El Boreky, Sameh Fikry, Ken Florence, Omayma Fouda, Melody Fox, Gissou Ghadirian, Magdy Girgis, Steven Grossman, Anil Gupta, Nassoh Hafez, Adnan Hameed, Brian Hartford, Michael Heffernan, Terry Holman, Brendan Hughes, Harry Jim, David Josephson, Amjad Junaid, Bharat Kalra, Nikolay Kaplan, Saleem Kassam, Aubrey Kassirer, Tammy Kauffman-Schenker, Hashmat Khan, Natan Khotianov, Myung-Gi Kim, Kinga Koprowicz, Joseph Kozak, Naresh Kumar, Adel Kyrollos, Andy Lam, David Lam, Howard Lamb, Ming Jarm Lau, Doris Lee, Christina Lo, Giridhar Logsetty, Victoria Malevich, Robert Maranda, Rohit Nagpal, Farah Nasser-Sharif, Ken H. Ng, Parminder Nizran, Luis Noronha, Huma N. Numair, Paul O. Oladipo, Chris Overgaard, Derek Papastergiou, Fred Parker, Keyvan Pazuki, Murray Pearce, Sean Peterson, Mohammed Rahman, Felice Emilio Raimondo, Tim Remillard, Gerald Rockman, Howard Rudner, Roland Sabbagh, Ashraf Salib, Raymond Sawkiw, Earl Schwartz, Shiraz Shariff, Ivan Shcherbatykh, Mike Chungming Shih, Sewa Ram Singal, Sol Stern, Ravi Tahiliani, Manoj Tahiliani, Arawn Therrien, Bill Tillmann, Camelia Trambitas, Andrew Trevor, Jeff Tschirhart, Shera Vania, Elisa Venier, Vinod Verma, George Vertes, David Walley, Hany William, Amy Wong, Kevin Yoong, Derek Yung, Ines Zepic, Dean Zizzo, Harold Molyneaux, Paul Phelan, Martin Albert, Jean Champagne, Jacques Desroches, Danielle Dion, Richard Dumouchel, Carl Fournier, Mario Labbe, Germain Savard, Dan Dattani, Cecil Hammond, Andrea Lavoie, Omar Sultan

“…Patients were categorized as guideline directed therapy (GDT) or nonguideline-directed therapy (NGDT) based on concordance of their reported thromboprophylaxis with the CHADS-65 algorithm. Patients on GDT with a DOAC were subcategorized as concordant or discordant dosing based on concordance of their reported DOAC doses with the 2020 Canadian Cardiovascular Society AF dosing recommendations. …”
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Interpersonal counselling for adolescent depression delivered by youth mental health workers without core professional training: the ICALM feasibility RCT by Jon Wilson, Viktoria Cestaro, Eirini Charami-Roupa, Timothy Clarke, Aoife Dunne, Brioney Gee, Sharon Jarrett, Thando Katangwe-Chigamba, Andrew Laphan, Susie McIvor, Richard Meiser-Stedman, Jamie Murdoch, Thomas Rhodes, Carys Seeley, Lee Shepstone, David Turner, Paul Wilkinson

“…Participants were randomised in a 1 : 1 ratio using a stochastic minimisation algorithm to minimise imbalance between groups in baseline symptom severity, gender and study site to receive either IPC-A or TAU. …”
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Community detection in empirical kinase networks identifies new potential members of signalling pathways. by Celia De Los Angeles Colomina Basanta, Marya Bazzi, Maruan Hijazi, Conrad Bessant, Pedro R Cutillas

“…Here, we assess whether the application of community detection algorithms to such networks can identify new components linked to canonical signalling pathways. …”
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Supporting self-management with an internet intervention for low back pain in primary care: a RCT (SupportBack 2) by Adam W A Geraghty, Taeko Becque, Lisa C Roberts, Jonathan Hill, Nadine E Foster, Lucy Yardley, Beth Stuart, David A Turner, Gareth Griffiths, Frances Webley, Lorraine Durcan, Alannah Morgan, Stephanie Hughes, Sarah Bathers, Stephanie Butler-Walley, Simon Wathall, Gemma Mansell, Malcolm White, Firoza Davies, Paul Little

“…Interventions Participants were block randomised by a computer algorithm (stratified by severity and centre) to one of three trial arms: (1) usual care, (2) usual care + internet intervention and (3) usual care + internet intervention + telephone support. …”
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Generalized Lucas Tau Method for the Numerical Treatment of the One and Two-Dimensional Partial Differential Heat Equation by Y. H. Youssri, W. M. Abd-Elhameed, S. M. Sayed

“…This paper is dedicated to proposing two numerical algorithms for solving the one- and two-dimensional heat partial differential equations (PDEs). …”
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Robotic Integration of Massage and Real-Time Tissue Assessment: A Technological Framework by Yizhong Zhang, Hui Zhang, Chen Qiu, Shaosong Xie, Min Tang, Yue-Guang Fan

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The treatment of sexually transmitted infections by Armorel D. van Eyk

“…Health care providers make use of flow charts or algorithms for diagnosis and treatment. Algorithms or flowcharts should be adapted to local conditions taking into consideration aetiology, local antimicrobial susceptibility patterns and drug availability. …”
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Deep Hierarchical Representation from Classifying Logo-405 by Sujuan Hou, Jianwei Lin, Shangbo Zhou, Maoling Qin, Weikuan Jia, Yuanjie Zheng

“…We introduce a logo classification mechanism which combines a series of deep representations obtained by fine-tuning convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures and traditional pattern recognition algorithms. In order to evaluate the proposed mechanism, we build a middle-scale logo dataset (named Logo-405) and treat it as a benchmark for logo related research. …”
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Minimising surface-code failures using a color-code decoder by Asmae Benhemou, Kaavya Sahay, Lingling Lao, Benjamin J. Brown

“…The development of practical, high-performance decoding algorithms reduces the resource cost of fault-tolerant quantum computing. …”
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Explanations of news personalisation across countries and media types by Mariella Bastian, Mykola Makhortykh, Jaron Harambam, Max van Drunen

“…Our findings point out that news personalisation systems are predominantly treated as black boxes that indicate a significant gap between practice and theory of algorithmic transparency, in particular in the non-EU context.…”
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Constipations in elderly: diagnostics and treatment approach by Yu. O. Shulpekova

“…Algorithms of stage-by-stage treat- ment of constipation with normal and delayed transit are presented.Conclusion. …”
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Modern Antifungals in Therapy of Nosocomial Mycosis in Oncologic Patients by S. D. Mitrokhin, A. A. Sokolov

“…The patients of one group were treated with fluconazole (Diflucan) and those of the other group were treated with voriconazole (Vifend). …”
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Digital augmentation of aftercare for patients with anorexia nervosa: the TRIANGLE RCT and economic evaluation by Janet Treasure, Katie Rowlands, Valentina Cardi, Suman Ambwani, David McDaid, Jodie Lord, Danielle Clark Bryan, Pamela Macdonald, Eva Bonin, Ulrike Schmidt, Jon Arcelus, Amy Harrison, Sabine Landau

“…The analysis was conducted on an intention-to-treat basis, with missing data imputed and costs reported in 2022 UK pounds. …”
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Elucidating Early Radiation-Induced Cardiotoxicity Markers in Preclinical Genetic Models Through Advanced Machine Learning and Cardiac MRI by Dayeong An, El-Sayed Ibrahim

“…Cardiac MRI was performed 8 and 10 weeks post-treatment to assess global and regional cardiac function. ML algorithms were applied to differentiate sham-treated and irradiated rats based on early changes in myocardial function. …”
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Modern echocardiographic criteria for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: not only diastolic dysfunction by O. M. Drapkina, O. N. Dzhioeva

“…CHpEF is associated with comorbidity, therefore, the symptoms are not always specific, which often leads to a long-term diagnostic process and the inability to treat the underlying disease and prevent its complications. …”
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The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Enhancing Diabetic Retinopathy Lesion Detection: A Review by Lakshmi K Santhiya, Sargunam B

“…As part of future research, this review seeks to systematize the available algorithms for ease of use and guidance by researchers. …”
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