Introduction: This report presents 2011-2012 data on leading causes of death in the Islamic Republic of Iran by Province. Methods: Data in this report are based on information from all death certificates filed in the 31 provinces in 2011-2012 . Causes of death classified by the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD–10) are ranked a...

Teleophthalmology holds a great potential to improve the quality, access, and affordability in health care. For patients, it can reduce the need for travel and provide the access to a super-specialist. Ophthalmology lends itself easily to telemedicine as it is a largely image based diagnosis. The main goal of the proposed system is to diagnose the type of disease in the retina and to automatica...

During the past 20 years, tremendous advances in methods involving polymerase-chain-reaction (PCR) assays and DNA sequencing have transformed clinical virology and microbiology laboratories. These new methods allow accurate and rapid diagnosis of a wide array of infectious diseases and facilitate the monitoring of responses to the treatment of infections, such as those caused by human immunodef...

seminal vesicles (svs) are sex accessory organs and part of male genitourinary system. they play a critical role in male fertility. diseases of the svs, usually results in infertility. diseases of the svs are extremely rare and are infrequently reported in the literature. we address the current literature of sv pathologies, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment options. we review the clinical impo...

Expert system, a computer based system, is a complex program duplicating an expert in his/her area. Many expert systems have been implemented to assist or remove the expert rules in addressing many problems they facing. An application of expert system in medical science is to diagnose many diseases, including tuberculosis (TBC) which is the most killer. This research emphases for developing an ...

a myocardial contusion refers to a bruise of the cardiac muscle, the severity of which can vary depending on the severity of the injury and when the injury occurs. it is a major cause of rapid death which happens after blunt chest trauma and should be suspected at triage in the emergency department. we demonstrated that suspected myocardial contusion patients who have normal electrocardiograms ...

In complex, data-based prediction problems, such as medical diagnosis, the Elman Neural Net (ENN) has been applied for the automated detection of various diseases, such as mitral valve stenosis. This paper discusses the design and implementation of an automated classification system for heart diseases, based on ultrasonic devices. M-mode class images are applied to classify the degree of stenos...

This medical expert system is used to diagnose the main lung diseases among the patients. The diagnosis is made taking into account the symptoms that can be seen or felt. This medical expert system helps the doctor or expert in making the appropriate diagnosis of the patient. The lung diseases have many common symptoms and some of them are very much alike. This creates many difficulties for the...