Publications related to Medical test

Clinically compliant cryopreservation of differentiated retinal pigment epithelial cells

Gioele La Manno, Alex Russell Lederer, Cheng Zhao

Background aims: Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the most common cause of blindness in elderly patients within developed countries, affecting more than 190 million worldwide. In AMD, the retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cell layer progressively d ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2024

SAGTTA: SALIENCY GUIDED TEST TIME AUGMENTATION FOR MEDICAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION ACROSS VENDOR DOMAIN SHIFT

Devavrat Tomar, Seyedbehzad Bozorgtabar

Test time augmentation has been shown to be an effective approach to combat domain shifts in deep learning. Despite their promising performance levels, the interpretability of the underlying used models is however low. Saliency maps have been widely used i ...

IEEE2023

Telecytologic diagnosis of cervical smears for triage of self-sampled human papillomavirus–positive women in a resource-limited setting: concept development before implementation

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Thomas Grégoire Stegmüller, Micol Murtas

Cytology is an option for triaging human papillomavirus (HPV)-positive women. The interpretation of cytologic slides requires expertise and financial resources that are not always available in resource-limited settings. A solution could be offered by manua ...

2023

Accurate Diagnosis of Cortical and Infratentorial Lesions in Multiple Sclerosis Using Accelerated Fluid and White Matter Suppression Imaging

Tobias Kober

Objectives: The precise location of multiple sclerosis (MS) cortical lesions can be very challenging at 3 T, yet distinguishing them from subcortical lesions is essential for the diagnosis and prognosis of the disease. Compressed sensing-accelerated fluid ...

LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS2023

Streamline RimNet: Tools for Automatic Classification of Paramagnetic Rim Lesions in MRI of Multiple Sclerosis

Meritxell Bach Cuadra, Cristina Granziera, Francesco La Rosa, Maxence Charles F Wynen

This site provides two software tools related to "RimNet: A deep 3D multimodal MRI architecture for paramagnetic rim lesion assessment in multiple sclerosis" by Barquero et al. NeuroImage: Clinical (2020). People using in part or f ...

Zenodo2023

Plasma biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease: a field-test in a memory clinic

Aurélien Lathuilière

Background The key Alzheimer's disease (AD) biomarkers are traditionally measured with techniques/exams that are either expensive (amyloid-positron emission tomography (PET) and tau-PET), invasive (cerebrospinal fluid A beta 42 and p-tau 181), or poorly sp ...

BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP2023

Action augmentation of tactile perception for soft-body palpation

Josephine Anna Eleanor Hughes

Medical palpation is a diagnostic technique in which physicians use the sense of touch to manipulate the soft human tissue. This can be done to enable the diagnosis of possibly life-threatening conditions, such as cancer. Palpation is still poorly understo ...

Mary Ann Liebert Inc.2022

Wastewater monitoring outperforms case numbers as a tool to track COVID-19 incidence dynamics when test positivity rates are high

Tamar Kohn, Xavier Fernandez Cassi, Joseph Chadi Benoit Lemaitre, Federica Cariti, Alex Tunas Corzon, Timothy R. Julian, Carola Bänziger

Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has been shown to coincide with, or anticipate, confirmed COVID-19 case numbers. During periods with high test positivity rates, however, case numbers may be underreported, whereas wastewater does not suffer from this li ...

2021

Application of virtual reality in neurosurgery: Patient missing. A systematic review

Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin

Virtual reality (VR) technology had its earliest developments in the 1970s in the U.S. Air Force and has since evolved into a budding area of scientific research with many practical medical purposes. VR shows a high potential to benefit to learners and tra ...

2021

Using Dynamic Features for Automatic Cervical Precancer Detection

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Roser Vinals Terres, Mohammad Saeed Rad

Cervical cancer remains a major public health concern in developing countries due to financial and human resource constraints. Visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) of the cervix was widely promoted and routinely used as a low-cost primary screening tes ...

2021

Nanoparticle-enhanced Imaging Based Plasmonic Biosensor

Alexander Belushkin

Efficient medical care fundamentally relies on the ability to provide a timely and accurate diagnosis. Thanks to advances in biomedical research, specific molecules called diagnostic molecular biomarkers have been discovered in the human body that help ind ...

EPFL2020

MRI-based brain volumetry and retinal optical coherence tomography as the biomarkers of outcome in acute methanol poisoning

Tobias Kober, Bénédicte Marie Maréchal

Background: Basal ganglia lesions are typical findings on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain in survivors of acute methanol poisoning. However, no data are available on the association between the magnitude of damaged brain regions, serum concen ...

ELSEVIER2020

Synthesis of New Indole and Adamantane Amido Derivatives with Pharmacological Interest

Stewart Cole, Anthony Vocat

The synthesis and preliminary pharmacological evaluation of new indole and adamantane amido derivatives is described. The design was based on the pharmacophoric properties of 4-{4-[4-(trifluoromethoxy)phenoxy]piperidin-1-yl), 6-[4-(trifluoro methoxy)phenyl ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2019

Context-Tree Recommendation vs Matrix-Factorization: Algorithm Selection and Live Users Evaluation

Boi Faltings, Vincent Jean Fabrice Schickel, Stéphane Bernard Martin

We describe the selection, implementation and online evaluation of two e-commerce recommender systems developed with our partner company, Prediggo. The first one is based on the novel method of Bayesian Variable-order Markov Modeling (BVMM). The second, SS ...

ASSOC ADVANCEMENT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE2019

Integration Methods of Cyclodextrins on Gold and Carbon Electrodes for Electrochemical Sensors

Sandro Carrara, Irene Taurino, Maria Antonietta Casulli

Cyclodextrins (CDs) are oligosaccharides composed of six (α), seven (β) or eight (γ) glucose units. Their inner hydrophobic cavity and hydrophilic external surface enable the formation of the “host-guest inclusion complex” with different organic or inorgan ...

2019

Near-Optimal Noisy Group Testing via Separate Decoding of Items

Volkan Cevher, Jonathan Mark Scarlett

The group testing problem consists of determining a small set of defective items from a larger set of items based on a number of tests, and is relevant in applications such as medical testing, communication protocols, pattern matching, and more. In this pa ...

2018

Online Efficient Bio-Medical Video Transcoding on MPSoCs Through Content-Aware Workload Allocation

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Arman Iranfar, Ali Pahlevan

Bio-medical image processing in the field of telemedicine, and in particular the definition of systems that allow medical diagnostics in a collaborative and distributed way is experiencing an undeniable growth. Due to the high quality of bio-medical videos ...

IEEE and ACM Press2018

Impact of Lanthanide Nanomaterials on Photonic Devices and Smart Applications

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Zhenyu Liu

Half a century after its initial emergence, lanthanide photonics is facing a profound remodeling induced by the upsurge of nanomaterials. Lanthanide-doped nanomaterials hold promise for bioapplications and photonic devices because they ally the unmatched a ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2018

An ecotoxicological view on neurotoxicity assessment

Wolfgang Schulz

The numbers of potential neurotoxicants in the environment are raising and pose a great risk for humans and the environment. Currently neurotoxicity assessment is mostly performed to predict and prevent harm to human populations. Despite all the efforts in ...

SPRINGEROPEN2018

Use of compact Laser Doppler Velocimetry in reduced scale model testing of hydraulic machines

François Avellan, Vincent Berruex, Andres Müller, Loïc Andolfatto, Masashi Sakamoto

Laser based flow survey methods such as Laser Doppler Velocimetry (LDV) or Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) have long been used for studying the flow in hydraulic machines. Even if the results have crucially improved our understanding of potentially destab ...

2018