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A Module Diagnostic Procedure for Combinational Logic
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Practical probabilistic inference
… exact disease posterior marginals for some diagnostic problems and accurate approximate posteriors for others. In this thesis, I identify a risk with using the QMR-DT disease posteriors for medical diagnosis. Specifically, I show that patients and physicians conspire to preferentially report …
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Modern Pharmacotherapy of Rheumatoid Arthritis
… in the world. This thesis describes the diagnostic procedure for this disease as well as the standard treatment protocol. Almost half of the patients treated with the golden standard fail to meet treatment goals and thus require a more complex and aggressive treatment. The thesis then …
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The accuracy of prostate biopsy to assign patients with low-grade prostate cancer to active surveillance
… To determine whether a biopsy is a satisfactory diagnostic procedure to offer active surveillance for patients with low-grade prostate cancer. METHODS: This study was conducted in Tuft Medical Center as retrospective cohort study over the period from 2007-2010. The study included 83 patients for …
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Diagnosing runtime violations of security and dependability properties
… is. Such decisions often require additional diagnostic information that explains why a violation has occurred and can, therefore, indicate what would be an appropriate response action to it. In this thesis, we describe a diagnostic procedure for generating explanations of violations of S&D …
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NON INVASIVE CANCER DETECTION: FROM BENCH TO BEDSIDE
… All the existing gold standard cancer diagnosing procedures were invasive and expensive. Mass screening for cancer could save a lot of lives. The diagnostic procedure should be non-invasive, low-cost and easy to use to implement mass screening. This thesis investigated the possible non-invasive …
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ΔΙΑΓΝΩΣΤΙΚΗ ΠΡΟΣΠΕΛΑΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΣΑΡΚΟΕΙΔΩΣΗΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΛΛΑΔΑ
… MANIFESTATIONS AND THE VALUE OF SEVERAL DIAGNOSTIC METHODS HAVE BEEN STUDIED IN 33 CASES OF PATIENTS WITH SARCOIDOSIS. THE CONCLUSIONS OF THIS STUDY IS AS FOLLOWS: A) THERE IS NO ANY OBVIOUS PATHOGNOMONIC CHARACTERISTIC OF THE DISEASE WHICH CAN BE OBSERVED BY PHYSICAL EXAMINATION. B) THE …
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A data mining approach for acoustic diagnosis of cardiopulmonary disease
… auscultation offers a low-cost, non-invasive diagnostic procedure that gives doctors better clinical utility especially in situations when x-rays and CT scans are not available.
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Automated Prediction of Hepatic Arterial Stenosis
… angiography, which is an invasive and expensive procedure. A more accurate test could decrease the number of normal patients who would have to undergo this invasive diagnostic procedure. Machine learning models have shown promise in determining stenosis in the carotid artery; however, they have …
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Automated histopathological analyses at scale
… anemia and myocardial infractions. The diagnostic procedure is, however, very tedious, time-consuming and prone to misinterpretation. It also requires highly trained pathologists to operate, making it unsuitable for large-scale screening in resource-constrained settings, where experts …
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L.E. Factor Test in Acute Disseminated Lupus Erythematosus
… more frequently. Before the discovery of a new diagnostic test, acute disseminated lupus erythematosus was a medical curiosity. A few years ago the diagnosis was made with certainty only when the classical picture was encountered. A few astute physicians made the diagnosis in obscure cases but …
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Diagnostics after a Signal from Control Charts in a Normal Process
… changed parameters. The performance of this ML diagnostic procedure is evaluated for several different charts or chart combinations for the cases of sample sizes and , and compared to the traditional approaches to diagnostics. None of the ML and the traditional estimators performs well for all …
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A Critical Evaluation of Contrast (Pantopaque) Myelography
… Both of these are rather ingenious mechanical procedures that have a great appeal to the gadgeteer mind. Sometimes such investigative methods so intrigue us that we lose sight of the patient as a whole, consisting of more than a spinal canal or a cardiovascular system. We forget that this …
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Diagnosing L2 English Learners’ Listening comprehension abilities with Scripted and Unscripted Listening Texts
… on TOEIC listening proficiency scores. The diagnostic procedure involved participants listening to two scripted and two unscripted listening texts and then reporting what they comprehended through three tasks—L1 oral recalls, L2 repetitions, and verbal reports. Other data was also collected …
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Some applications of generalised linear models
… parametric link functions is presented and a diagnostic procedure applied to this class of extended models. The applications of such models include the analysis of grouped and multivariate data. It is shown that grouped data arising from a truncated or mixture distribution can be represented …
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The development of secretarial and administrative support staff: influential factors in the identification of need
… task and organisational goals and suggests a diagnostic procedure that might effectively accomplish this without the biases and concerns that have resolutely pervaded needs analysis methodologies.
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Attitudes to ward and Uptake of Prenatal Genetic Screening and Testing In Twin Pregnancies
… significantly more in favor of screening than diagnostic testing (p = 0.049). Sixty-nine percent elected genetic screening, while only three percent had a diagnostic procedure. Women were interested in screening for preparation or reassurance despite having concerns about accuracy and …
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Impact of automation: evaluation of the implementation of diagnostic automation into the bacteriology laboratory as part of pathology modernisation
… to investigate service improvements in the diagnostic automation of selected pathology laboratory services, including the extent of quality and productivity gains. The case focused on four NHS laboratories in England at various stages of implementation. It also investigated the impact on the …
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International Academy of Cytology Yokohama System for reporting Breast Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy (FNAB) cytology: A Retrospective Study in a Single South African Tertiary Institution
… (CNB) is the gold standard and the preferred diagnostic modality, there is still a role for fine needle aspirate cytology (FNAC) in resource limited settings. The present study was conducted at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. Aims: 1. To assess the utility of the …
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The effect of work related mechanical stress on the peripheral temperature of the hand
… of an objective, quantitative and reproducible diagnostic procedure for work related upper limb disorders. A set of objective mechanical provocation tests for the hands have been developed that are associated with vascular challenge. Infrared thermal imaging was used to monitor the temperature …
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