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ia status in patients who cannot tolerate blood draws and retrospective clinical studies based on patient imaging data.
Our study revealed a negative correlation between the hemoglobin level and spleen SUV as well as liver SUV, and a positive correlation between the hemoglobin level and CTV of the LV cavity. These findings may provide potential indictors for the imaging diagnosis of anemia, which has important clinical significance in certain clinical scenarios including the evaluation of anemia status in patients who cannot tolerate blood draws and retrospective clinical studies based on patient imaging data.Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a viral infection caused by SARS-CoV-2. The modalities such as computed tomography (CT) have been successfully utilized for the early stage diagnosis of COVID-19 infected patients. Recently, many researchers have utilized deep learning models for the automated screening of COVID-19 suspected cases. An ensemble deep learning and Internet of Things (IoT) based framework is proposed for screening of COVID-19 suspected cases. Three well-known pretrained deep learning models are ensembled. The medical IoT devices are utilized to collect the CT scans, and automated diagnoses are performed on IoT servers. The proposed framework is compared with thirteen competitive models over a four-class dataset. Experimental results reveal that the proposed ensembled deep learning model yielded 98.98% accuracy. Moreover, the model outperforms all competitive models in terms of other performance metrics achieving 98.56% precision, 98.58% recall, 98.75% F-score, and 98.57% AUC. Therefore, the proposed framework can improve the acceleration of COVID-19 diagnosis.This study was aimed at exploring the efficacy of morphine combined with mechanical ventilation in the treatment of heart failure with artificial intelligence algorithms. The cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) under the watershed segmentation algorithm was proposed, and the local grayscale clustering watershed (LGCW) model was designed in this study. A total of 136 patients with acute left heart failure were taken as the research objects and randomly divided into the control group (conventional treatment) and the experimental group (morphine combined with mechanical ventilation), with 68 cases in each group. The left ventricular end-diastolic diameter (LVEDD), left ventricular end-systolic diameter (LVESD), left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP), arterial partial pressure of oxygen (PaO2), and arterial partial pressure of carbon dioxide (PaCO2) were observed. The results showed that the mean absolute deviation (MAD) and maximum mean absolute deviation (max-MAD) of the LGCW model were lower than those of the fuzzy k-nearest neighbor (FKNN) algorithm and local gray-scale clustering model (LGSCm). The Dice metric was also significantly higher than that of other algorithms with statistically significant differences (P less then 0.05). After treatment, LVEDD, LVESD, and NT-proBNP of patients in the experimental group were significantly lower than those in the control group, and LVEF in the experimental group was higher than that in the control group (P less then 0.05). PaO2 of patients in the experimental group was also significantly higher than that in the control group (P less then 0.05). It suggested that the LGCW model had a better segmentation effect, and morphine combined with mechanical ventilation gave a better clinical efficacy in the treatment of acute left heart failure, improving the patients' cardiac function and arterial blood gas effectively.
Solitary pulmonary intravascular metastasis is a rare complication of malignant tumors, and accurate diagnosis can improve clinical decision-making, but diagnosing it effectively using conventional techniques is difficult.
To explore the value of
F-FDG PET/CT combined with lung high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) in the diagnosis of solitary pulmonary intravascular metastasis.
F-FDG PET/CT, lung HRCT, and follow-up data of 18,143 cancer patients were retrospectively analyzed to select patients with pulmonary vessel involvement besides the primary tumor only. The histopathological or imaging follow-up results were used as the diagnostic criteria for pulmonary intravascular metastasis.
A total of 13 patients with 17 pulmonary intravascular metastases were found, of which 9 patients had a single lesion and 4 had double. The SUVmax was 1.1-5.4 (average, 2.4 ± 1.4), and the length of hypermetabolic metastasis was 5.1-24.1 mm (average, 10.7 ± 6.5 mm). All the intravascular metastases were located ibe used as a specific diagnostic indicator.
Bone is a common site of metastasis from a malignant tumor. Several radiopharmaceuticals are available to relieve bone pain in patients with cancer. However, every radiopharmaceutical has its own disadvantages, and there is still a need to investigate easily accessible and high bone affinity radiopharmaceuticals. Ibandronate (IBA) and
Re were used for radiolabeling to develop and evaluate a novel type of bone-seeking radiopharmaceutical.
The preparation conditions of [
Re]Re-IBA were investigated, and thin-layer chromatography was used to analyze radiochemical purity. The stability, plasma protein binding rate, lipid-water distribution coefficient, safety and biodistribution in normal mice, and bone imaging of [
Re]Re-IBA in New Zealand rabbits were studied. In addition, the nude mice model of bone metastasis was established, and biodistribution and imaging characteristics of [
Re]Re-IBA in these nude mice were studied.
[
Re]Re-IBA was successfully prepared with radiochemical purity >95%. The o has potential in the treatment of bone metastasis and monitoring through imaging.In order to explore the relationship between intelligent image recognition technology and the mentality and quality of life of the elderly, this paper combines intelligent image simulation technology to identify the behavior of the elderly, protect the safety of the elderly, and provide timely feedback on the adverse conditions of the elderly. Moreover, this paper improves the traditional intelligent image recognition algorithm, verifies the research method of this paper through experimental research, and puts forward corresponding suggestions. Through investigation and research, we can see that the level of health literacy of elderly patients with chronic diseases is low. Therefore, in the future health education, we should strengthen health education for elderly patients with chronic diseases, use different mass media to propagate health knowledge, and promote the formation of healthy lifestyles and behaviors for elderly patients with chronic diseases. At the same time, the experiment also verified that the intelligent image recognition technology proposed in this paper has a positive effect in improving the mentality and quality of life of the elderly.
Although the development of COVID-19 vaccines represents a triumph of modern medicine, studies suggest vaccine hesitancy exists among key populations, including healthcare professionals. In December 2020, a large academic medical center offered COVID-19 vaccination to 3439 students in medicine, nursing, dentistry, and other health professions. With limited vaccine hesitancy research in this population, this study evaluates the prevalence of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among healthcare students, including predictors of hesitancy and top concerns with vaccination.
The authors distributed a cross-sectional survey to all healthcare students (n=3,439) from 12/17/2020 to 12/23/2020. The survey collected age, sex, perceived risk of contracting SARS-CoV-2 without vaccination, perceived impact on health if infected with SARS-CoV-2, vaccine hesitancy, and vaccine concerns. In 2021, logistic regressions identified risk factors associated with hesitancy.
The response rate was 30.0% (n=1030) with median age of 25.0. ine hesitancy than expected from surveys on the general public and on healthcare workers. Continued research is needed to evaluate shifting attitudes around COVID-19 vaccination among healthcare professionals and students. With COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy a growing concern in young adults, a survey of this size and breadth will be helpful to other academic medical centers interested in vaccinating their students and to persons interested in leveraging predictors of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy for targeted intervention.The endolysosomal system is present in all cell types. Within these cells, it performs a series of essential roles, such as trafficking and sorting of membrane cargo, intracellular signaling, control of metabolism and degradation. A specific compartment within central neurons, called the presynapse, mediates inter-neuronal communication via the fusion of neurotransmitter-containing synaptic vesicles (SVs). The localized recycling of SVs and their organization into functional pools is widely assumed to be a discrete mechanism, that only intersects with the endolysosomal system at specific points. However, evidence is emerging that molecules essential for endolysosomal function also have key roles within the SV life cycle, suggesting that they form a continuum rather than being isolated processes. In this review, we summarize the evidence for key endolysosomal molecules in SV recycling and propose an alternative model for membrane trafficking at the presynapse. This includes the hypotheses that endolysosomal intermediates represent specific functional SV pools, that sorting of cargo to SVs is mediated via the endolysosomal system and that manipulation of this process can result in both plastic changes to neurotransmitter release and pathophysiology via neurodegeneration.Approximately one quarter of all teachers experience feelings of stress throughout their careers, for many this leads to emotional exhaustion and burnout. In this article we present a case study that explores the wellbeing of three teaching staff from an Australian Primary School, during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Transactional Model of Stress and Coping devised by Lazarus and Folkman was used as the framework to interpret this group of experiences. The findings indicated that the additional stress induced by fear of the 'unknown' imposed by the pandemic further intensified the emotional toll experienced by participants. These emotional responses included feelings of guilt about their providing the best education for students, anxiety about the unknown implications on schooling and frustration at the lack of communication and inconsistent decision making by people holding leadership positions. Despite this, these teaching staff shared many positive strategies for coping and grow through the experience.Tumor necrosis factor α stimulated gene 6 (TSG-6), a 30-KD secretory protein, plays an essential role in modulating inflammatory responses and extracellular matrix remodeling. However, little is known regarding the role of TSG-6 in human cancers. Here, we investigated the mechanism of action and the role of TSG-6 in colorectal cancer (CRC) metastasis. We found that TSG-6 was highly expressed in tumor tissues and was associated with poor prognosis and metastasis in CRC. Mechanistically, TSG-6 overexpression in CRC cells resulted in ERK activation and epithelial-mesenchymal transition by means of stabilizing CD44 and facilitating the CD44-EGFR complex formation on the cell membrane. Consequently, this resulted in the promotion of tumor migration and invasion both in vitro and in vivo. Notably, our data showed that CRC cells secreted TSG-6 could trigger a paracrine activation of JAK2-STAT3 signaling and reprogram normal fibroblasts into cancer-associated fibroblasts, which exhibited upregulation of pro-metastatic cytokines (CCL5 and MMP3) and higher movement ability.
