Artifical Liver Support

Artifical Intelligence, Expert Systems, and Archival Automation

KANTS: Artifical Ant System for Classification

This paper investigates a new model that takes advantage of the cooperative self-organization of Ant Algorithms to evolve a naturally inspired pattern recognition (and also clustering) method. The approach considers each data item as an ant that changes the environment as it moves through it. The algorithm is successfully applied to well-known classification problems and yields better results t...

Liver support systems.

In recent years liver transplantation was shown to be the only clinically effective method of treating acute or chronic hepatic failure due to various causes. However, this ultimate therapeutic approach is limited by the growing disparity between organ donation and the number of patients on the waiting list. Factors such as high cost, morbidity, and the need for lifelong immunosuppression accel...

Liver support devices

The liver performs a myriad of functions including immune, metabolic, synthetic and excretory functions, which play a crucial role in maintaining function of other organs and body homeostasis.1 Although the liver has a remarkable capacity for regeneration, after a severe acute insult in acute liver failure (ALF) or an acute hepatic insult in a patient with underlying pre-existing chronic liver ...

Artificial liver support systems.

Though artificial support systems for kidney failure have been widely available for the past several decades, it is only recently that they have become a promising treatment modality for liver failure. The various liver support systems include conventional dialysis, charcoal hemoperfusion, high volume plasma exchange, liver dialysis using sorbent technology, molecular readsorption recirculating...