Background and Objective: Preterm birth occurs in 8% to 11% of all pregnancies and is responsible for 75% to 80% of all neonatal deaths. Cytokines may be involved in the etiology of preterm birth through their stimulation of prostaglandin synthesis. Cytokines may be released intocervicovaginal fluid during the breakdown of the chorio-decidual adhesion or from an inflammatory reactio...

We present and study the contribution-selection algorithm (CSA), a novel algorithm for feature selection. The algorithm is based on the multiperturbation shapley analysis (MSA), a framework that relies on game theory to estimate usefulness. The algorithm iteratively estimates the usefulness of features and selects them accordingly, using either forward selection or backward elimination. It can ...

One of the challenges of modern information retrieval is to adequately evaluate Information Retrieval System (IRS) in order to estimate future performance in a specified application domain. Since there are many algorithms in literature the decision to select one for usage depends mostly on the evaluation of the systems’ performance in the domain. This paper presents how visual and scalar evalua...

Results: The mean age of participants and informants was 72.8 years (range, 43-104 years) and 66.4 years (range, 24-101 years), respectively. The Clinical Dementia Rating was correlated with both informant ( =0.75, P .001) and participant ( =0.34, P .001) AD8 scores. Participants’ AD8 scores had adequate agreement with informants’ AD8 scores (intraclass correlation coefficient, 0.53; 95% confid...

Prostate cancer is a multifocal disease in 76–87% of patients [1,4,8]. Typically, 3 separate foci of cancer are seen in a prostate which has been surgically removed, but there may be as many as twelve [1,4, 8]. Standard prostate biopsies cannot reliably detect these foci [7]. Ultrasound imaging, in expert hands, has a receiver operator characteristic curve of 0.6 in determining whether a region...

Metrics typically used to report the performance of an early warning score (EWS), such as the area under the receiver operator characteristic curve or C-statistic, are not useful for pre-implementation analyses. Because physiological deterioration has an extremely low prevalence of 0.02 per patient-day, these metrics can be misleading. We discuss the statistical reasoning behind this statement ...

Method: The present study was conducted among policemen of the Bhavnagar city, total 260 policemen of ≥ 30 years of age included in the study (Response rate 83 %). The fasting and 2 hour postprandial blood glucose test was done for diagnosis of the diabetes and According to American Diabetes Association (2004) criteria subjects was diagnosed as a diabetic, prediabetic (Impaired Fasting Glucose ...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to derive and internally validate a prediction rule for short stay admissions (SSAs) in trauma patients admitted to a major trauma centre. METHODS A retrospective study of all trauma activation patients requiring inpatient admission at a single inner city major trauma centre in Australia between 2007 and 2011 was conducted. Logistic regression was used t...

This is a methodological study exploring the use of quantitative histopathology applied to the cervix to discriminate between normal and cancerous (consisting of adenocarcinoma and adenocarcinoma in situ) tissue samples. The goal is classifying tissue samples, which are populations of cells, from measurements on the cells. Our method uses one particular feature, the IODs-Index, to create a tiss...