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Showing 1 to 20 of 123 for “"Medical Diagnosis"”.
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Clinical Reasoning and Causal Attribution in Medical Diagnosis
Forming a medical diagnosis is a complicated reasoning process undertaken by physicians. Although there has been much research focusing on clinical reasoning approaches, there is limited empirical evidence in relation to causal attribution in medical diagnosis. The research on which this thesis is …
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A software-based ultrasound system for medical diagnosis
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1997.
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A privacy preserving online learning framework for medical diagnosis applications
… is critical in building an accurate online diagnosis framework. Most local sites have small data sets, and machine learning models developed locally based on small data sets, do not have knowledge about other data sets and learning models used at other sites. The work in this thesis utilizes …
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Real-Time Computed Tomography-based Medical Diagnosis Using Deep Learning
Computed tomography has been widely used in medical diagnosis to generate accurate images of the body's internal organs. However, cancer risk is associated with high X-ray dose CT scans, limiting its applicability in medical diagnosis and telemedicine applications. CT scans acquired at low X-ray …
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New Designs of Electrochemical H2O2 Based Biosensors For Advanced Medical Diagnosis
… to a new application for advanced breast cancer diagnosis described as follows:(1)Enhancement of catalytic performance by using bimetallic catalystsMotivated by more improved efficiency in various fuel cell systems, the bimetallic approach has been shown to lead to electrochemical enhancement of …
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Anxious lives: Tracing the life course of a medical diagnosis through illness narratives
<p>This dissertation is a study of medical diagnosis, specifically anxiety disorder diagnosis, from the perspective and through the narratives of people who have been diagnosed. In this study, I address two core research questions. First, how does social materiality (e.g., bodies and objects) …
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Applications of a hand-held optoelectronic nose: security screening, medical diagnosis and food inspection
… application of the colorimetric sensor arrays in medical diagnosis was explored. We have made attempts to target trimethylamine as a biomarker from vapor or aqueous solution with relevance to point-of-care evaluation of trimethylaminuria (TMAU), using the more accessible cell phone camera as the …
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Fabrication of 1-dimensional nanowires from genetically modified M13 phage through surfactant-mediated hybridization and the applications in medical diagnosis, energy devices, and catalysis
Biological building blocks served as excellent templates for the preparation of various nano-materials due to their beneficial interactions at the molecular level. The bio-mineralization of genetically engineered M13 bacteriophage resulted in one-dimensional nanowires having outstanding properties …
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Twelve Month outcome analysis of a South African Intensive Care Unit.
… were collected on age, sex, primary admission diagnosis, length of stay and mortality. Results: A total of 338 patients were included; 61.2% (n=207) with a primary medical diagnosis and 38.2% (n=129) with a non-medical diagnosis. Trauma accounted for 13.6% of all admissions. The burden of known …
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Practical probabilistic inference
The design and use of expert systems for medical diagnosis remains an attractive goal. One such system, the Quick Medical Reference, Decision Theoretic (QMR-DT), is based on a Bayesian network. This very large-scale network models the appearance and manifestation of disease and has approximately …
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Fuzzy Decision Tree-based Inference System for Liver Disease Diagnosis
<p>Medical diagnosis can be challenging because of a number of factors. Uncertainty in the diagnosis process arises from inaccuracy in the measurement of patient attributes, missing attribute data and limitation in the medical expert’s ability to define cause and effect relationships when there are …
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Additive Manufacturing for Robust and Affordable Medical Devices
… down to the micro scale have made its use in medical devices and research feasible. A range of life-saving technologies can now go from the laboratory and into field with the application of 3D-printing. This technology can be applied to medical diagnosis of patients in at-risk populations. …
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High resolution optical DNA mapping
… about genetic variance and to facilitate medical diagnosis of genetic disease.
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Region-based Convolutional Neural Network and Implementation of the Network Through Zedboard Zynq
In autonomous driving, medical diagnosis, unmanned vehicles and many other new technologies, the neural network and computer vision has become extremely popular and influential. In particular, for classifying objects, convolutional neural networks (CNN) is very efficient and accurate. One version …
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Delirium in the hospitalized elderly: Clinical indicators found in medical records
… retrospective chart review was to determine if medical records contain sufficient evidence to identify elderly patients who were at risk for developing delirium within 72 hours of hospital admission, and if accepted, evidence-based criteria were used to document the acute confusion. The chart's …
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Applications of Oligopeptides and Liquid Crystals for Chemical Sensing
… small molecules and proteins is important in medical diagnosis, environmental monitoring and food safety. In Chapter 3, we developed an LC-based sensor to detect butylamine. This LC sensor doped with lauric aldehyde shows fast and distinct bright-to-dark optical response to butylamine. …
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Are long-term hospitalized geriatric patients abandoned by their families?
… family contacts basically social-psychological, medical, or economic.</p><p>Such a study of family interaction requires an investigation of (a) living arrangements, family relationships, and socio-economic background prior to the hospitalization; (b) the reasons for hospitalization and the …
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Reasons for attrition from a smoking cessation program.
… cessation. Participants with a psychological diagnosis, when combined with neuroticism and shame-proneness, appear to have more difficulty with cessation than those with only a medical diagnosis. Clinical implications and suggestions for change to the NTVHCS smoking cessation program are …
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The effects of induced stress on the management of hostility in essential hypertension
… defined on the basis of presence or absence of a medical diagnosis of essential hypertension. The second independent variable was hostility arousal. The method employed was an adaptation of the Wisconsin card sort that involved punishment for failure [TRUNCATED]
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