Predicting the risk of postoperative avascular necrosis in patients with talar fractures based on an interpretable machine learning model by Jian Zhang, Jian Zhang, Jian Zhang, Jihai Xu, Jihai Xu, Jiapei Yu, Jiapei Yu, Jiapei Yu, Hong Chen, Hong Chen, Xin Hong, Songou Zhang, Xin Wang, Xin Wang, Chengchun Shen, Chengchun Shen, Chengchun Shen

“…Patients were randomly allocated to the training and testing sets in a 7:3 ratio. Potential risk factors for postoperative AVN were screened using univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses. …”
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STRUCTURE OF PERIODONTAL TISSUE DISEASES IN WORKERS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION IN THE OPEN AND COVERED SOIL by V.T. Dyryk

“…The diagnosis of periodontal disease was established after the classification of N.F. Danilevsky (1994) and specified using paraclinical indices. …”
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C-reactive protein and serum amyloid A protein as complementary biomarkers in differentiating viral and bacterial community-acquired pneumonia in children by Juan Cheng, Ying Wu, Hui Ma, Mingyu Tang, Yufen Wu, Yong Yin, Qiuhui Pan, Qizhi Diao, Jing Zhang

“…Combining SAA and CRP detection with clinical symptoms increases specificity to 93.2% and 97.3% but reduces sensitivity to 31.3% and 22.7% in distinguishing viral from bacterial pneumonia. …”
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Genetic variability and trait associations for physiological and agronomic characteristics in bread wheat genotypes under drought stress and well-watered conditions by Mohammed O. Alshaharni, Fatmah A. Safhi, Nora M. Al Aboud, Dmitry E. Kucher, Eman Fayad, Mohammed Alqurashi, Rahmah N. Al-Qthanin, Ibtesam S.M. Almami, Heba I. Ghamry, Diaa Abd El-Moneim, Mohamed M. Kamara, Abdelraouf M. Ali

“…Genotypic classification and drought tolerance indices confirmed the superiority of G3, G8, and G12 as drought-resilient candidates, while G2, G5, G7, and G14 exhibited lower adaptability. …”
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Clinical characteristics and caloric testing in patients with light or heavy cupula of the horizontal semicircular canal by Xueyan Zhang, Jiao Xu, Tao Zhou, Xue Yu, Jin Xu, Heng Yu, Guangjie Song, Lingli Wei, Xu Yang, Mei Hu, Liying Chang

“…There was no significant difference in NP1, NP2, or NP3 between the groups. The NP2 is present in all patients with HSC-Hcu. …”
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Assessing radiological factors: the role of pelvic tilt in surgery for geriatric patients with degenerative spinal disorders by Yiming Fan, Han Yu, Yi Huang, Chao Xue, Guoquan Zheng, Yan Wang

“…In a four-class classification, patients with PT > 18.0 degree and ≦ 25.3 degree were 3.903 times (95% CI: 1.588–9.591) more likely, while those with PT > 25.3 degree were 4.987 times (95% CI: 1.472–16.893) more likely to require surgery compared to patients with PT ≦ 11.4 degree (P = 0.003 and P = 0.010 respectively) after adjusting for potential confounding factors. …”
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A Dual-Sequence MRI-Based Radiomics Model for Predicting High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound Ablation Efficacy in Adenomyosis Treatment by Sun M, Deng X, Xing H, Zhang R, Fu B, Ai T, Wang F, Wang X, Chen L, Mao X, Wu F

“…Patients were randomly allocated into a training set and a test set at a ratio of 7:3. The study aimed to evaluate the distribution of clinical characteristics among patients experiencing effective versus ineffective ablation at two distinct classification thresholds (0.7 and 0.5). …”
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Prognosis of cardiovascular events after implantation of a cardioverterdefibrillator in patients with chronic heart failure: the value of increasing concentration of endothelin-1 a... by A. T. Teplyakov, N. I. Tarasov, L. K. Isakov, E. V. Grakova, M. N. Sinkova, K. V. Kopieva, О. B. Garmaeva, O. N. Ogurkova, V. V. Kalyuzhin, E. V. Kalyuzhina

“…Accuracy of two-class classification (determination of  the posterior probability of cardiovascular events) after identifying such cut-off  point was characterized by 93%  sensitivity and 72% specificity (area under ROC-curve – 0.87).  …”
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Risk of hypothyroidism in meat-eaters, fish-eaters, and vegetarians: a population-based prospective study by Catharina J. Candussi, William Bell, Alysha S. Thompson, Sven Knüppel, Martina Gaggl, Martin Světnička, Jan Gojda, Aedín Cassidy, Cornelia Weikert, Reynalda Córdova, Tilman Kühn

“…During a median SD (Standard Deviation) follow-up of 12.7 (± 3.2) years, 10,831 participants developed hypothyroidism. …”
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Predicting infections with multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) in neurocritical care patients with hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP): development of a novel multivariate predicti... by Lin Yang, Guangyu Lu, Haiqing Diao, Yang Zhang, Zhiyao Wang, Xiaoguang Liu, Qiang Ma, Hailong Yu, Yuping Li

“…Five machine learning models (logistic regression, classification tree, support vector machine, random forest, and K-nearest neighbor) were evaluated based on sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, and receiver operating characteristic curves. …”
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Single-cell transcriptomic profiling reveals the heterogeneity of epithelial cells in lung adenocarcinoma lymph node metastasis and develops a prognostic signature by Qiuqiao Mu, Qiuqiao Mu, Qiuqiao Mu, Han Zhang, Ying Shi, Mengli Xue, Jingxian Wang, Yun Ding, Lin Tan, Hui Yuan, Xin Li, Xin Li, Daqiang Sun, Daqiang Sun, Daqiang Sun

“…Leveraging these defined cellular subpopulations, we constructed a highly accurate model for prognostication in LUAD, enabling reliable classification of patients based on clinical outcomes. …”
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Cancer cell-specific PD-L1 expression is a predictor of poor outcome in patients with locally advanced oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma by Thu Nguyen, Minyu Wang, Sean Macdonald, David Goode, Sevastjan Kranz, Paul Joseph Neeson, Kevin Thia, Joseph A Trapani, Lei Qin, Simone Belobrov, David Wiesenfeld

“…Multiplex immunohistochemistry staining for CD3, CD68, CD11c, PD-L1, and P40 was used to explore correlations with clinical outcomes in patients with early-stage (n=22) and locally advanced (n=36) OCSCC. …”
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Targeted next-generation sequencing: a promising approach for Mycobacterium tuberculosis detection and drug resistance when applied in paucibacillary clinical samples by Wenting Jin, Meixia Wang, Yang Wang, Beidi Zhu, Qingqing Wang, Chunmei Zhou, Pei Li, Chaohui Hu, Jun Liu, Jue Pan, Jiachang Chen, Bijie Hu

“…There were 51 (44.7%) applicable for all DR genes, with 22 (19.3%) not applicable for DR genes. DR genes were partially applicable in 41 (36.0%) samples. …”
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Driver Drowsiness Detection Using Swin Transformer and Diffusion Models for Robust Image Denoising by Samy Abd El-Nabi, Ahmed F. Ibrahim, El-Sayed M. El-Rabaie, Osama F. Hassan, Naglaa F. Soliman, Khalil F. Ramadan, Walid El-Shafai

“…Comparative experiments show that the proposed system outperforms several state-of-the-art models, including ViT, ResNet50V2, InceptionV3, MobileNet, DenseNet169, and VGG19, in terms of accuracy (up to 99.82%), PSNR (up to 41.61 dB), and SSIM (up to 0.984), while maintaining competitive inference times suitable for practical deployment. …”
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Inverse association of obesity with bout periodicity in episodic cluster headache: a multicenter cross-sectional study by Byung-Su Kim, Mi Ji Lee, Byung-Kun Kim, Jong-Hee Sohn, Tae-Jin Song, Min Kyung Chu, Soo-Kyoung Kim, Jeong Wook Park, Heui-Soo Moon, Pil-Wook Chung, Soo-Jin Cho

“…Obesity was determined using the Asia-Pacific classification (obese: BMI ≥ 25.0 kg/m2). Bout frequency was defined as an average annual number of bout occurrence: number of lifetime bout occurrence divided by total duration of CH disease. …”
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Evaluating the change in immunoglobulin G and accuracy of assessing transfer of passive immunity during the first 7 days of age in Holstein dairy calves fed colostrum replacer by H.M. Goetz, M.A. Steele, K. Nott, H.R. McCarthy, A.J. Lopez, M.C. Cantor, D.L. Renaud

“…When IgG values were categorized, there was an increase in calves with poor TPI (3.3% of calves on d 1 to 33.5% of calves on d 7) across the first 7 d of life. …”
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Efficacy and safety of cadonilimab combined with chemotherapy as the first-line treatment for primary advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer: a prospective single-arm open-label... by Bin Liu, Yu Jiang, Yang Sun, Jie Lin, Jian Chen, Lijun Chen, Linlin Yang, Xiaoxiang Chen, Yuzhi Li, Tongyu Liu, Yingtao Lin, Yanhong Zhuo, Chunhua Tu, Jianping Zou

“…All patients will receive cadonilimab at a dosage of 10 mg/kg along with carboplatin (area under the curve (AUC)=4–5) plus paclitaxel (175 mg/m2) every 3 weeks (Q3W) for 6–8 cycles. Subsequently, patients with CR, PR or stable disease will receive maintenance of cadonilimab at 10 mg/kg Q3W for 24 months or until progressive disease or adverse events are reported. …”
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Closing the AI generalisation gap by adjusting for dermatology condition distribution differences across clinical settingsResearch in context by Rajeev V. Rikhye, Aaron Loh, Grace Eunhae Hong, Preeti Singh, Margaret Ann Smith, Vijaytha Muralidharan, Doris Wong, Rory Sayres, Ayush Jain, Michelle Phung, Nicolas Betancourt, Bradley Fong, Rachna Sahasrabudhe, Khoban Nasim, Alec Eschholz, Basil Mustafa, Jan Freyberg, Terry Spitz, Yossi Matias, Greg S. Corrado, Katherine Chou, Dale R. Webster, Peggy Bui, Yuan Liu, Yun Liu, Justin Ko, Steven Lin

“…The primary outcome measure for the AI model and dermatologists was the top-3 accuracy, defined as whether their top 3 differential diagnoses contained the top reference diagnosis from a panel of dermatologists per case. …”
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Neutrophil–Lymphocyte Ratio and KELIM Score as Prognostic Markers in High-Grade Serous Advanced Ovarian Cancer Patients Treated with Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy by Vasilis Theodoulidis, Kalliopi Kissoudi, Kimon Chatzistamatiou, Panagiotis Tzitzis, Dimitris Zouzoulas, Iakovos Theodoulidis, Christos Anthoulakis, Theodoros Moysiadis, Maria Topalidou, Eleni Timotheadou, Grigoris Grimpizis, Dimitris Tsolakidis

“…<b>Results</b>: Results demonstrated that elevated NLR (≥3) and low KELIM (<1) were associated with poorer PFS and OS. …”
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An AHP-multiple logistic regression model for risk assessment of highly pathogenic avian influenza by Guanzhao Wang, Tian Yang, Zelong Ouyang, Jinqiong Li, Zhihua Li, Jing Cao, Yajie Wang, Yongning Wu, Weixin Jia, Zhifeng Qin, Qinghua He

“…H5N8 and H5N1 subtypes were the most susceptible accounting for 48.3 % and 30.9 % of outbreaks, respectively. H5N3, H5N9, H7N2, and H7N1 subtypes had the highest mortality of about 100 %. …”
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