Facilitating pharmacometric workflow with the metrumrg package for R.

abstract：:This report describes a method of quantifying the inner volume (lumen volume) of a contrast medium-filled femoral artery from a roentgenogram by computerized image analysis. The various factors influencing the accuracy of the volume determination are analyzed and an image-processing procedure for the elimination of ar...

journal_title：Computer methods and programs in biomedicine

authors： Berglund I,Bengtsson E,Erikson U,Högman N,Nilsson S

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in the area of computerized image analysis applied to mammography may have very important practical applications in automatically detecting asymmetries (masses, architectural distortions, etc.) between the two breasts. We have developed a fully automatic technique to detect the breast border and the nipple, t...

journal_title：Computer methods and programs in biomedicine

authors： Méndez AJ,Tahoces PG,Lado MJ,Souto M,Correa JL,Vidal JJ

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Medicare program, the largest health insurance program in the United States, is clearly at a crossroads as it enters its third decade. Historical increases in health care expenditures, plus a changing political and economic landscape, have set the groundwork for policy reform. Two basic reform strategies--reimburs...

journal_title：Computer methods and programs in biomedicine

authors： Dobson A,Langenbrunner JC

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research in muscle physiology has progressed in both the volume and complexity of data examined. Dependence on manual methods to analyze and condense this amount of information can present a narrow bottleneck to the efficient completion of a study, and can compromise the reliability of the results. We designed a gener...

journal_title：Computer methods and programs in biomedicine

authors： Stanley TE 3rd,Held JP,Estrin JA

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the critical functions of a tissue-engineered construct is to be able to provide adequate nutrient and oxygen supply into the interior of the construct. An insufficient supply will lead to slower cellular proliferation rates and eventual apoptosis. The supply of the nutrients is largely governed by the transpor...

journal_title：Computer methods and programs in biomedicine

authors： Starly B,Yildirim E,Sun W

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Standardization of the carotid IMT requires a reference marker in ultrasound scans. It has been shown previously that manual reference marker and manually created carotid segments are used for measuring IMT in these segments. Manual methods are tedious, time consuming, subjective, and prone to...

journal_title：Computer methods and programs in biomedicine

authors： Ikeda N,Dey N,Sharma A,Gupta A,Bose S,Acharjee S,Shafique S,Cuadrado-Godia E,Araki T,Saba L,Laird JR,Nicolaides A,Suri JS

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:The input data distributions of EEG-based BCI systems can change during intra-session transitions due to nonstationarity caused by features covariate shifts, thus compromising BCI performance. We aimed to identify the most robust spatial filtering approach, among most used methods, testing them...

journal_title：Computer methods and programs in biomedicine

authors： Miladinović A,Ajčević M,Jarmolowska J,Marusic U,Colussi M,Silveri G,Battaglini PP,Accardo A

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:Retinal diseases are becoming a major health problem in recent years. Their early detection and ensuing treatment are essential to prevent visual damage, as the number of people affected by diabetes is expected to grow exponentially. Retinal diseases progress slowly, without any discernible sym...

journal_title：Computer methods and programs in biomedicine

authors： A P S,Kar S,S G,Gopi VP,Palanisamy P

更新日期：2020-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical efficacy of 3D reconstruction of the tracheobronchial system using spiral CT. A total of 25 patients with tracheobronchial abnormalities, stenosis (n = 21) and fistula with esophagus (n = 4), underwent a single breathhold spiral CT (5 mm collision, 5 mm)/s increme...

journal_title：Computer methods and programs in biomedicine

authors： Kozuka T,Minaguchi K,Yamaguchi R,Yamaguchi M,Taniguchi Y

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:Deployment of Body Area Networks (BAN) in hospitals can enable real time data collection and analysis for patient health. Such networks have a two-tier structure: the primary layer consists of nodes that are installed on hospital facilities, while the second tier contains sensors on patient bod...

journal_title：Computer methods and programs in biomedicine

authors： Wang W,Qin T,Wang Y

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mixed-effects model is an efficient tool for analyzing longitudinal data. The random effects in a mixed-effects model can be used to capture the correlations among repeated measurements within a subject. Mixed effects model can be used to describe individual response profile as well as population response profile. In ...

journal_title：Computer methods and programs in biomedicine

authors： Jang H,Conklin DJ,Kong M

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:Signal segmentation and spike detection are two important biomedical signal processing applications. Often, non-stationary signals must be segmented into piece-wise stationary epochs or spikes need to be found among a background of noise before being further analyzed. Permutation entropy (PE) h...

journal_title：Computer methods and programs in biomedicine

authors： Azami H,Escudero J

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several approaches, based on different assumptions and with various degree of theoretical sophistication and implementation complexity, have been developed for improving the measurement of evoked potentials (EP) performed by conventional averaging (CA). In many of these methods, one of the major challenges is the expl...

journal_title：Computer methods and programs in biomedicine

authors： Sparacino G,Milani S,Arslan E,Cobelli C

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:To increase the success rate of invasive mechanical ventilation weaning in critically ill patients using Machine Learning models capable of accurately predicting the outcome of programmed extubations. METHODS:The study population was adult patients admitted to the Intensive Care Unit. Target e...

journal_title：Computer methods and programs in biomedicine

authors： Fabregat A,Magret M,Ferré JA,Vernet A,Guasch N,Rodríguez A,Gómez J,Bodí M

更新日期：2020-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In cardiac medical imaging, the extraction and segmentation of the part of interest is the key to the diagnosis of heart disease. Due to irregular diastole and contraction, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images have poorly defined boundaries, and traditional segmentation algorithms have poor performance. In...

journal_title：Computer methods and programs in biomedicine

authors： Liu D,Jia Z,Jin M,Liu Q,Liao Z,Zhong J,Ye H,Chen G

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fall detection, gait analysis and context recognition are examples of applications where capacitive accelerometers are widely used in health care. In most of the existing work, algorithms were developed for a specific platform and accelerometers were used without explicitly choosing a specific type. With this work we ...

journal_title：Computer methods and programs in biomedicine

authors： Büsching F,Kulau U,Gietzelt M,Wolf L

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:We propose an automatic approach for fast vertebral body segmentation in three-dimensional magnetic resonance images of the whole spine. Previous works are limited to the lower thoracolumbar section and often take minutes to compute, which is problematic in clinical routine, for study data sets...

journal_title：Computer methods and programs in biomedicine

authors： Rak M,Steffen J,Meyer A,Hansen C,Tönnies KD

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:Several studies have evaluated the reproducibility of the Cobb angle for measuring the degree of scoliotic deformities from X-ray spine images, and proposed different geometric models for describing the spinal curvature. The ellipse was shown to be an adequate geometric form, but was not yet ap...

journal_title：Computer methods and programs in biomedicine

authors： Pinheiro AP,Coelho JC,Veiga ACP,Vrtovec T

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over the years, medical image registration has been widely used in various fields. However, different application characteristics, such as scale, computational complexity, and optimization goals, can cause problems. Therefore, developing an optimization algorithm based on clustering calculation is crucial. ...

journal_title：Computer methods and programs in biomedicine

authors： Wen T,Liu H,Lin L,Wang B,Hou J,Huang C,Pan T,Du Y

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hip fracture is more and more frequent in elderly population. For this reason, an increasing attention has been focused on the development of a non-invasive method to predict femoral neck fracture. A conventional approach to fracture diagnosis is the measurement of bone mass by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry in some...

journal_title：Computer methods and programs in biomedicine

authors： Testi D,Viceconti M,Baruffaldi F,Cappello A

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper discusses the underlying issues in the evaluation of computer systems which apply artificial intelligence in medicine. Three different levels of evaluation are described: the subjective evaluation of the research contribution of a developmental prototype, the validation of a system's knowledge and performan...

journal_title：Computer methods and programs in biomedicine

authors： Miller PL

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:Accurate segmentation of optic disc and cup from monocular color fundus images plays a significant role in the screening and diagnosis of glaucoma. Though optic cup is characterized by the drop in depth from the disc boundary, most existing methods segment the two structures separately and rely...

journal_title：Computer methods and programs in biomedicine

authors： Chakravarty A,Sivaswamy J

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A set of programs is described by which a consistent morphometry of bone sections can be performed. The programs are written in FORTRAN IV in a PDP 11/10 minicomputer, under the RT-11 operating system. The bone sections are run through the field of vision of the microscope using a scanning stage in one of several pres...

journal_title：Computer methods and programs in biomedicine

authors： Clermonts EC,Birkenhäger-Frenkel DH

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of DILEMMA is to provide tools for the development of decision support systems for use in general medical practice, hospital-based cancer care, and shared care of cancer and cardiology patients. In primary care, the project intends to provide aids to clinical performance in prescribing, referral and the use of...

journal_title：Computer methods and programs in biomedicine

authors： Gordon C,Jackson-Smale A,Thomson R

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:Finite element based simulation has emerged as a powerful tool to analyse the tooth strength and its fracture characteristics. The aim of this study is to compare and evaluate the fracture resistance of immature teeth reinforcement with MTA, Biodentine and Bioaggregate as an apical plug and bac...

journal_title：Computer methods and programs in biomedicine

authors： Eram A,Zuber M,Keni LG,Kalburgi S,Naik R,Bhandary S,Amin S,Badruddin IA

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we discuss the SIMID tool for simulation of the spread of infectious disease, enabling spatio-temporal visualization of the dynamics of influenza outbreaks. SIMID is based on modern random network methodology and implemented within the R and GIS frameworks. The key advantage of SIMID is that it allows no...

journal_title：Computer methods and programs in biomedicine

authors： Ramírez-Ramírez LL,Gel YR,Thompson M,de Villa E,McPherson M

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:Probabilistic topic models provide an unsupervised method for analyzing unstructured text. These models discover semantically coherent combinations of words (topics) that could be integrated in a clinical automatic summarization system for primary care physicians performing chart review. Howeve...

journal_title：Computer methods and programs in biomedicine

authors： Arnold CW,Oh A,Chen S,Speier W

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organisational changes take place at three different levels: at the department, in the hospital and in the county. Important changes locally are the easy and fast access to better images, a rise in production and a possible reduction in patient stay. The radiological services to the community improve, reading can be d...

journal_title：Computer methods and programs in biomedicine

authors： Lindhardt F

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patient-specific geometric models are needed in many engineering problems. This work reports a novel software tool developed to construct individualized triangulated surface models from MR images. The program consists of three main parts: segmentation, triangulation and registration. The software tool was developed un...

journal_title：Computer methods and programs in biomedicine

authors： Lötjönen J

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:The paper presents a novel procedure based on 3D scanning and 3D modelling to automatically assess linear and volumetric measurements of an arm and to be further applied to patients affected by post breast cancer lymphedema. The aim is the creation of a virtual platform easily usable by medical...

journal_title：Computer methods and programs in biomedicine

authors： Vitali A,Togni G,Regazzoni D,Rizzi C,Molinero G

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00