Accuracy of algorithms to identify patients with a diagnosis of major cancers and cancer-related adverse events in an administrative database: a validation study in an acute care h... by Takashi Fujiwara, Yasuyuki Okumura, Hironobu Tokumasu, Takashi Kanemitsu, Kosei Tajima, Akinori Yuri, Masahiro Iwasaku

“…The sensitivity and positive predictive value (PPV) with 95% CIs were calculated.Participants The validation cohort included patients with lung (n=2257), breast (n=1121), colorectal (n=1773), ovarian (n=216) and bladder (n=575) cancer who visited the hospital between January 2014 and December 2018, and those with prostate cancer (n=3491) visiting between January 2009 and December 2018, who were identified using EMRs.Outcomes Key outcomes included primary diagnosis, deaths and AEs.Results For primary diagnosis, sensitivity and PPV for the respective cancers were as follows: lung, 100.0% (96.6 to 100.0) and 81.0% (74.9 to 86.2); breast, 100.0% (96.3 to 100.0) and 74.0% (67.3 to 79.9); colorectal, 100.0% (96.6 to 100.0) and 80.5% (74.3 to 85.8); ovarian, 89.8% (77.8 to 96.6) and 75.9% (62.8 to 86.1); bladder, 78.6% (63.2 to 89.7) and 67.3% (52.5 to 0.1); prostate, 100.0% (93.2 to 100.0) and 79.0% (69.7 to 86.5). …”
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Diagnostic value of multiparametric ultrasound and the EU-TIRADS system for differentiation of focal thyroid lesions by A. V. Pomortsev, O. S. Tokarenko

“…After B-mode US with color flow mapping, differentiation of palpable thyroid abnormalities by the EU-TIRADS system was carried out. 78 nodules were classified as EU-TIRADS 2 (52%), 42 as EU-TIRADS 3 (28%), 26 as EU-TIRADS 4 (17.3%), 4 as EU-TIRADS 5 (2.7%). …”
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Natural course of subarachnoid hemorrhage is worse in elderly patients by Felix Hendrik Pahl, Matheus Fernandes de Oliveira, José Marcus Rotta

“…Objective Evaluate clinical, radiological patterns and prognostic factors of subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) patients according to age. Method Three hundred and eighty nine patients with aneurismal SAH from a Brazilian tertiary institution (Hospital do Servidor Público Estadual de São Paulo) were consecutively evaluated from 2002 to 2012 according to Fisher and Hunt Hess classifications and Glasgow Outcome Scale. …”
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Crystallography, group cohomology, and Lieb–Schultz–Mattis constraints by Chunxiao Liu, Weicheng Ye

“…We compute the mod-2 cohomology ring for three-dimensional (3D) space groups and establish a connection between them and the lattice structure of crystals with space group symmetry. …”
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Intelligent interference management in 5G wireless networks by Jiandong LI, Lei LIU, Min SHENG, UChao X

“…As one of the key technologies in 5G networks，ultra-dense wireless network is utilized to approach the future 1 000 ultra-high traffic volume.Nevertheless，the dense deployment of network nodes would result in severe interference，and thus interference management was proposed as the big principle behind 5G ultra-dense wireless networks research.Firstly，the interference management schemes were classifed from two aspects：avoidance and utilization.Then，an intelligent interference management architecture was proposed to accommodate the development trend of future wireless networks in terms of intelligence and heterogeneity in order to realize the dynamic tightly coupled interference management of wireless network environment and interference management.Taking the intrinsic relationship between interference management and resource management into consideration，three cutting-edge interference management schemes were introduced，which could significantly improve the network resource utilization and the network capacity.…”
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PHENETIC ANALYSIS OF THE IRANIAN SPECIES OF THE BROMUS SECTIONS GENEA, NEOBROMUS AND NEVSKIELLA

“…A phenetic analysis of the 12 taxa or operational taxonomic units (OTUs) belonging to the three sections; Genea, Neobromus, and Nevskiella of the genus Bromus was performed. …”
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Ideal yet Actual: Actresses Posing as Antique Heroines in Late-Victorian “Classical” Portraits by Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada

“…The late-Victorian neoclassical artists George Frederic Watts, Frederic Leighton and Edward Poynter posed three famous actresses, Ellen Terry, Dorothy Dene and Lillie Langtry, in paintings whose subjects were drawn from Antiquity. …”
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Pulmonary hypertension in Finland 2008-2020: A descriptive real-world cohort study (FINPAH) by Markku Pentikäinen, Piia Simonen, Helena Tuunanen, Pauliina Leskelä, Terttu Harju, Pertti Jääskeläinen, Christian Asseburg, Minna Oksanen, Erkki Soini, Christina Wennerström, Airi Puhakka, Terttu Harju, Elina Heliövaara, Pertti Jääskeläinen, Katriina Kahlos, Pentti Korhonen, Tiina Kyllönen, Pauliina Leskelä, Kirsi Majamaa-Voltti, Piia Simonen, Anu Turpeinen, Helena Tuunanen, Ville Vepsäläinen, Tapani Vihinen

“…Mean age at diagnosis of PAH patients (n = 268) was 57 years, 73% were women, 40% had idiopathic PAH, 28% associated with connective tissue diseases, and 15% with congenital heart disease, 9% had ≥3 cardiovascular comorbidities. At 1 year, 34%/34%/24%/8% were at the low/intermediate-low/intermediate-high/high Compera 2.0 risk classification groups. …”
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Neurodegeneration and choroidal vascular features on OCT in the progression to advanced age-related macular degeneration by Inês Costa, Ana Carvalho, Helton Andrade, Bruno Pereira, Pedro Camacho

“…A total of 64 participants were included from the Instituto de Retina de Lisboa (IRL) study (IPL/2022/MetAllAMD_ESTeSL) and divided into 4 groups according to the Rotterdam classification for AMD. Spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) was used to assess and quantify GCC and choroid thickness at two time points (first visit vs last visit) with a minimum interval of 3y. …”
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Palliative Care Needs Assessment Using the Surprise Question in Hospitalized Patients With Heart Failure by Yasuhiro Hamatani, Yurika Ikeyama, Atsuko Kunugida, Kenjiro Ishigami, Kimihito Minami, Mina Takamoto, Mitsuyo Yamaguchi, Misaki Sakai, Tae Kinoshita, Moritake Iguchi, Masaharu Akao

“…The multivariable Cox model demonstrated the independent association between the not surprised classification and higher risk of all‐cause death (hazard ratio [HR], 3.34 [95% CI, 2.03–5.49]; P<0.001), whereas there was no association with HF rehospitalization (HR, 1.36 [95% CI, 0.79–2.34]; P=0.27). …”
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Cucumber Leaf Segmentation Based on Bilayer Convolutional Network by Tingting Qian, Yangxin Liu, Shenglian Lu, Linyi Li, Xiuguo Zheng, Qingqing Ju, Yiyang Li, Chun Xie, Guo Li

“…The major contributions of this study are as follows: (1) Utilized Fully Convolutional Object Detection (FCOS) for plant leaf detection, incorporating ResNet-50 with the Convolutional Block Attention Module (CBAM) and Feature Pyramid Network (FPN) to enhance Region of Interest (RoI) feature extraction from canopy top-view images. (2) Extracted the sub-region of the RoI based on the position of the detection box, using this region as input for the BCNet, ensuring precise segmentation. (3) Utilized instance segmentation of canopy top-view images using BCNet, improving segmentation accuracy. (4) Applied the Varifocal Loss Function to improve the classification loss function in FCOS, leading to better performance metrics. …”
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Significant association between elevated urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio and increased risk of acute coronary syndrome: a retrospective cross-sectional analysis by Yujie Song, Fangying Yan, Yangjie Yu, Junjie Pan, Wei Shen, Huanchun Ni, Jian Li, Xinping Luo, Yong Li, Haiming Shi, Liwen Bao

“…Patients were categorized according to urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio (UACR) elevation, estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), or Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) risk classification. Setting chronic coronary syndrome (CCS) as the control, logistic regression was used to evaluate the associations between elevated UACR, eGFR, KDIGO stage, and ACS. …”
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Stress can be detected during emotion-evoking smartphone use: a pilot study using machine learning by Lydia Helene Rupp, Akash Kumar, Misha Sadeghi, Lena Schindler-Gmelch, Marie Keinert, Bjoern M. Eskofier, Bjoern M. Eskofier, Matthias Berking

“…Although previous studies were able to classify stress from emotional expressions with accuracies of up to 88.32%, most works employed a classification approach and relied on data from contexts where stress was induced. …”
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Enhanced analysis of the genomic diversity of Mycobacterium bovis in Great Britain to aid control of bovine tuberculosis by Prizam Sandhu, Javier Nunez-Garcia, Stefan Berg, Jo Wheeler, James Dale, Paul Upton, Jane Gibbens, R. Glyn Hewinson, Sara H. Downs, Richard J. Ellis, Eleftheria Palkopoulou

“…In this study, we analysed genome sequences from 3,052 M. bovis isolates from across GB to characterise their diversity and population structure in more detail. …”
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Menopause in systemic sclerosis: the impact on clinical presentation in a multicenter cross-sectional analysis from the National Registry of the Italian Society for Rheumatology (S... by Martina Orlandi, Dilia Giuggioli, Clodoveo Ferri, Rossella De Angelis, Valeria Riccieri, Fabio Cacciapaglia, Silvia Laura Bosello, Veronica Codullo, Gianluigi Bajocchi, Lorenzo Dagna, Corrado Campochiaro, Giacomo De Luca, Giovanni Zanframundo, Rosario Foti, Giovanna Cuomo, Alarico Ariani, Edoardo Rosato, Francesco Girelli, Elisabetta Zanatta, Ilaria Cavazzana, Francesca Ingegnoli, Maria De Santis, Giuseppe Murdaca, Giuseppina Abignano, Giorgio Petitti, Alessandra Della Rossa, Maurizio Caminiti, Anna Maria Iuliano, Giovanni Ciano, Lorenzo Beretta, Gianluca Bagnato, Ennio Lubrano, Ilenia De Andres, Alessandro Giollo, Marta Saracco, Cecilia Agnes, Edoardo Cipolletta, Federica Lumetti, Amelia Spinella, Luca Magnani, Elisa Visalli, Carlo Iandoli, Antonietta Gigante, Greta Pellegrino, Erika Pigatto, Maria Grazia Lazzaroni, Franco Franceschini, Elena Generali, Gianna Mennillo, Simone Barsotti, Giuseppa Pagano Mariano, Federica Furini, Licia Vultaggio, Simone Parisi, Clara Lisa Peroni, Gerolamo Bianchi, Enrico Fusaro, Gian Domenico Sebastiani, Marcello Govoni, Salvatore D’Angelo, Franco Cozzi, Andrea Doria, Carlo Salvarani, Florenzo Iannone, Serena Guiducci, Silvia Bellando-Randone, Marco Matucci-Cerinic, Cosimo Bruni

“…Objectives: Our study aimed to evaluate the association of (1) current menopausal status, (2) early menopause, and (3) disease onset during fertile or post-menopausal age on SSc clinical phenotype in a large SSc cohort from the Italian Systemic sclerosis Progression INvestiGation (SPRING-SIR) registry. …”
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Effectiveness of Stress Shielding Prevention Using a Low Young’s Modulus Ti-33.6Nb-4Sn Stem: A 7-Year Follow-Up Study by Kazuyoshi Baba, Yu Mori, Hidetatsu Tanaka, Ryuichi Kanabuchi, Yasuaki Kuriyama, Hiroaki Kurishima, Kentaro Ito, Masayuki Kamimura, Daisuke Chiba, Toshimi Aizawa

“…SS frequency was significantly reduced in Gruen Zones 2, 3, and 6 in the TNS group. Conclusions: The TNS stem demonstrated a significant reduction in SS progression compared to conventional titanium stems over a 7-year period, with comparable clinical outcomes. …”
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CYLD as a key regulator of myocardial infarction-to-heart failure transition revealed by multi-omics integration by Jingya Xu, Jingya Xu, Zhonghua Dong, Zhaodong Li, Xuan Wang, Xuan Wang

“…Machine learning filtering further prioritized 10 hub genes: GPER1, E2F5, DZIP3, CYLD, ADAMTS2, ZNF366, ST14, SNORD28, LHFPL2, and HIVEP2. …”
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Preoperative Education is Associated with Adherence to Downstream Components and Outcomes in a Colorectal Surgery Enhanced Recovery Program by Bayley A. Jones, MD, Joshua Richman, MD, PhD, Michael Rubyan, PhD, MPH, Lauren Wood, MSPH, Alfonsus Adrian H. Harsono, MD, MSPH, Wendelyn Oslock, MD, MBA, Nathan English, MBChB, Burkely P. Smith, MD, Robert Hollis, MD, MSPH, Larry R. Hearld, PhD, Isabel Scarinci, PhD, MPH, Daniel I. Chu, MD, MSPH

“…High-level ERP adherence was 13.4% higher (P < 0.01) and LOS was 2.0 days shorter (P < 0.001) for those who received preoperative education. Classification and regression tree analysis identified preoperative education as the first-level predictor for adherence to early regular diet, the second-level predictor for LOS, and the third-level predictor for ERP high-level adherence. …”
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Low Rates of 30-Day Postoperative Complications After Meniscal Allograft Transplantation: A Retrospective Study Using the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Database by Sarah Whitaker, B.A., Conor O’Neill, M.D., James Satalich, M.D., Omar Protzuk, M.D., Carl Edge, M.D., Eoghan Hurley, M.B., M.Ch., Ph.D., Annunziato Amendola, M.D., Alexander Vap, M.D.

“…Patients were excluded if they did not have sufficient demographic data, namely those without data for age, sex, body mass index, preoperative functional status, American Society of Anesthesiologists classification, operative time, and length of hospital stay. …”
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Radiological Healing Patterns and Functional Outcomes After Conservative Treatment of Unilateral Condylar Fractures: A Report of Two Cases by Edoardo Staderini, Irene Cavalcanti, Anna Schiavelli, Patrizia Gallenzi, Gabriele Di Carlo, Massimo Cordaro

“…(1) <b>Background:</b> Condylar fracture healing pattern classification in children and adolescents is primarily based on the radiological assessment of condylar morphology; however, recent studies showed the presence of a poor correlation between post-treatment radiological findings and clinical temporomandibular joint (TMJ) dysfunction. …”
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