Images play an important role in medical diagnostics and treatment planning. Whereas medical text retrieval, analysis, and reuse have been practiced for many years, much less is known on the storage and reuse of images in a context other than a single patient, although several medical teaching files with images exist. The aim of automatic image indexing/retrieval is to provide efficient and fas...

STUDY OBJECTIVES We hypothesized that continuous, automatic turning utilizing a patient-friendly, low air loss surface would reduce the incidence of early ICU pneumonia in selected groups of critically ill medical patients. DESIGN Prospective, randomized, controlled clinical trial. SETTING Medical ICU of a large community teaching hospital. PATIENTS One hundred twenty-four critically ill ...

Image-guided radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is becoming a standard procedure for minimally invasive tumor treatment in clinical practice. To verify the treatment success of the therapy, reliable post-interventional assessment of the ablation zone (coagulation) is essential. Typically, preand post-interventional CT images have to be aligned to compare the shape, size, and position of tumor and co...

A medical case report gives researchers and healthcare providers a thorough account of the symptoms, treatment, diagnosis specific patient. This clinical data is essential because they aid in diagnosing novel or uncommon illnesses, analyzing occurrences, enhancing knowledge current education. The summary needed so that one can decide on further reading as going through entire contents istime-co...

Tremendous advancement takes place in the field of medical science. With this advancement, it is possible to support diagnosis and treatment planning for various diseases related abdominal organ. The liver one adnominal organs, a common site developing tumors. Liver disease main causes death. Due its complex heterogeneous nature shape, challenging segment tumor. There are numerous methods avail...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of an automatic alerting system on the time until treatment is ordered for patients with critical laboratory results. DESIGN Prospective randomized controlled trial. INTERVENTION A computer system to detect critical conditions and automatically notify the responsible physician via the hospital's paging system. PATIENTS Medical and surgical inpatients at a ...

Background Patent ductus arteriosus is an open channel between the aorta and pulmonary artery. The study aimed to evaluate the clinical course of patent ductus arteriosus after discharge and comparing in therapies technique. Materials and Methods This cross-sectional and inferential- descriptive study was performed in the hospitals of city of Zahedan-Iran in the period of one decade from 2005 ...