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An in vivo assessment of popliteal vein strain-elasticity measurement of pregnant subjects had been carried out. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship of the strain-elasticity of the blood vessel in pregnant subjects with the development of thrombus formation which may lead to deep vein thrombosis condition (DVT). Method applied for the assessment was using the ultrasound scanning...
SNOMED CT has continued to expand its adoption as a comprehensive clinical terminology. In 2013, the US government mandated SNOMED CT as a requirement for Stage 2 meaningful use criteria for Electronic Health Records. Studies have, however, identified inconsistencies in the content of SNOMED CT that may lessen its effectiveness when used for encoding patient data. Auditing thus becomes an integral...
Weight gain and stretched and weakens abdominal muscles by an enlarging gravid uterus are remarkable features during pregnancy. These changes elicit postural and movement instability and place strain on various body segments. In general, agonist and antagonist muscles of body segments act simultaneously to increase joint stabilization during human movements. The co-contraction might be well observed...
Today, people use the internet extensively to meet their information needs, to socialize, to communicate, to handle formal and informal processes. The web-based information networks established for this purpose are growing day by day and reach a larger audience. Facebook, the world's largest social network, has reached 2 billion users. There are social information networks established for different...
Despite the fact that infant mortality rates have been decreased in recent years, this issue stills being considered alarming to Brazilian health system indicators. In this context, the GISSA framework, an intelligent governance framework for Brazilian health system, emerges as a smart system for the Federal Government program, called Stork Network. Its main objective is to improve the healthcare...
Advancements in both computer science and biotechnology opened way for an unprecedented amount and variety of gene expression raw data to appear in the open access. It is sometimes worth to rearrange and unite data from several similar gene expression studies into new case-control groups to test new hypothesis using available data. Unfortunately, most popular gene expression databases, such as GEO...
Infertility is the inability pregnant in one year. The incidence of infertility is increasing day by day. Spermiogram (sperm test) is non-invasive and infertility is diagnosed with this test. The treatment is based on the result of the test. In this study, computer assisted sperm analysis (CASA) was performed on sperm images using image processing algorithms.
Ultrasound imaging is a well known noninvasive way to evaluate various diseases during the prenatal age. In particular, the thickness measure of the nuchal transucency is strictly correlated with pathologies like trisomy 13, 18 and 21. For a correct investigation, the methodology needs mid-sagittal sections and the proposed approach is based on wavelet analysis and neural network classifiers to locate...
The problems of increasing the methods effectiveness of non-stationary medical supervision for pregnant women are considered. The organization principle of remote medical and information patient support is described. A conceptual model of the remote monitoring system is developed. The main principles for assessing the model adequacya reconsidered.
In a recent past, several techniques have been developed to analyze the events contained in the electrohysterogram signals (EHG). But, the most of them focused on offline methods. In this study, we use an online method which is developed previously and known by Dynamic Cumulative Sum (DCS). The approach is applied on real EHG signals database through a 4×4 electrodes matrix. For this purpose, two...
Emerging evidence show that the connectivity analysis of the uterine signals is a powerful tool in characterizing pregnancy and labor contractions. Here, we present the results of studying the connectivity between uterine sources identified from the electrohysterogram (EHG) signals, which reflects the electrical activity of the uterine muscle. We started by evaluating the effect of the two key steps...
The Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) of Government of India has so far seen only mixed results with nearly one fourth of the children under the age of 6 years are still undernourished. The budgetary allocation has been increasing over the years to strengthen and close gaps in the program and there is increased pressure on policy makers and program implementers to show the results. We argue...
Biomarkers are objective indications of a medical state that can be measured accurately and reproducibly. Traditional biomarkers enable diagnosis of disease through detection of disease-specific molecular signatures or distinct physiological or anatomical signatures. This work provides a framework for selecting biomarkers that are most likely to provide useful information about a patient's disease...
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are one of the most common infections in developing countries such as Kenya. Despite this, their prevalence is virtually unknown from a patient's perspective, especially in rural communities. Worldwide, it is estimated that one in two women will contract a UTI during their lifetimes. More specifically, UTI incidence rates are nearly 20 percent higher in the developing...
Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) is an anomaly of fetal growth dynamics, which is mainly caused by alterations in the vascular remodeling of utero-placental arteries. With a prevalence of 10% of pregnancies, IUGR remains the leading cause of perinatal mortality. Doppler velocimetry is the common screening tool for IUGR but this imaging modality remains controversial. In this context, we evaluated...
Spontaneous preterm birth, the foremost source of neonatal mortality, could potentially be prevented by objectively detecting abnormal changes in the uterine cervix. Shear Wave Elasticity Imaging (SWEI) biomarkers can quantify cervical softening that precedes vaginal delivery. This task can be complicated by biological (i.e., heterogeneity of cervical stiffness and pregnancy history) and experimental...
The last 20 years have seen the development of fetal surgery, particularly for the treatment of twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS). Although fetoscopy increases survival rate, it is also invasive and responsible for fetal and maternal complications affecting the neonatal outcome. A completely non-invasive treatment that could occlude deep anastomoses would prevent the risks of invasive fetoscopy...
The last 20 years have seen the development of fetal surgery, particularly for the treatment of twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS). Although fetoscopy increases survival rate, it is also invasive and responsible for fetal and maternal complications affecting the neonatal outcome. A completely non-invasive treatment that could occlude deep anastomoses would prevent the risks of invasive fetoscopy...
Cardiac malformations develop in the first trimester of pregnancy and early detection of abnormalities is important to plan delivery and treatment. Recent reports indicate that blood flow patterns play a significant role in the development of the heart. Our aim is to investigate if vector flow imaging using blood speckle tracking can add useful information to the conventional ultrasound examination...
The non-pregnant cervix is composed of layers of pseudo-aligned collagen wrapped circumferentially around the cervical canal. Studies in rodents have shown that this structure disorganizes and breaks down throughout normal pregnancy. There is evidence to suggest that layered, pseudo-aligned collagen fibers in the non-pregnant cervix induce an angle-dependence (anisotropy) in backscattered ultrasound...
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