Publications related to Differential diagnosis

Multimodal fusion of liquid biopsy and CT enhances differential diagnosis of early-stage lung adenocarcinoma

Jiancheng Yang, Li Zhang, Jun Lu, Hua Zhong, Yunhua Zhang

This research explores the potential of multimodal fusion for the differential diagnosis of early-stage lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) (tumor sizes < 2 cm). It combines liquid biopsy biomarkers, specifically extracellular vesicle long RNA (evlRNA) and the comp ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Deep learning diagnostic and severity-stratification for interstitial lung diseases and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in digital lung auscultations and ultrasonography: clinical protocol for an observational case-control study

Mary-Anne Hartley, Jonathan Dönz

BackgroundInterstitial lung diseases (ILD), such as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and non-specific interstitial pneumonia (NSIP), and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are severe, progressive pulmonary disorders with a poor prognosis. Prom ...

BMC2023

Classification of patients with cardiac amyloidosis using machine learning models on Italian electronic clinical health records

Silvestro Micera, Sara Mazzucato

Amyloidosis refers to a range of medical conditions in which misshapen proteins accumulate in various organs and tissues, forming insoluble fibrils. Cardiac amyloidosis is frequently linked to the buildup of misfolded transthyretin (TTR) or immunoglobulin ...

IEEE2023

Rapid low-cost hyperspectral imaging system for quantitative assessment of infantile hemangioma

Viktor Vorobev

Hemangioma, the predominant benign tumor occurring in infancy, exhibits a wide range of prognoses and associated outcomes. The accurate determination of prognosis through noninvasive imaging modalities holds essential importance in enabling effective perso ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2023

Tailoring the Hybridization Density of DNA Biosensors through Tunable Surface Functionalization

Sandrine Gerber, Mounir Driss Mensi, Pauline Skigin, Perrine Agnes Edith Robin, Lucas Mayoraz

DNA biosensors are promising candidates for the development of point-of-care diagnosis methods. They can be inserted in microfluidic platforms, are often non-expensive, and can be produced for a variety of targeted analytes. However, their development face ...

Wiley-VHCA AG2023

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

Cortical lesions, central vein sign, and paramagnetic rim lesions in multiple sclerosis: Emerging machine learning techniques and future avenues

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Meritxell Bach Cuadra, Tobias Kober, Francesco La Rosa, Cristina Granziera, Maxence Charles F Wynen

The current diagnostic criteria for multiple sclerosis (MS) lack specificity, and this may lead to misdiagnosis, which remains an issue in present-day clinical practice. In addition, conventional biomarkers only moderately correlate with MS disease progres ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

Graph Representation Learning in Computational Pathology

Guillaume Jaume

Advances in scanning systems have enabled the digitization of pathology slides into Whole-Slide Images (WSIs), opening up opportunities to develop Computational Pathology (CompPath) methods for computer-aided cancer diagnosis and prognosis. CompPath has be ...

EPFL2022

Improving the efficiency of identifying malignant pulmonary nodules before surgery via a combination of artificial intelligence CT image recognition and serum autoantibodies

Jiancheng Yang, Yi Ding, Zhen Gao

ObjectiveTo construct a new pulmonary nodule diagnostic model with high diagnostic efficiency, non-invasive and simple to measure. MethodsThis study included 424 patients with radioactive pulmonary nodules who underwent preoperative 7-autoantibody (7-AAB) ...

SPRINGER2022

Sex Differences in Comorbidity Combinations in the Swedish Population

Patrick Karl Alois Neff

High comorbidity rates, especially mental-physical comorbidity, constitute an increasing health care burden, with women and men being differentially affected. To gain an overview of comorbidity rates stratified by sex across a range of different conditions ...

MDPI2022

Hardware and Software Interfaces Design for Multi-Panel Electrochemical Sensors

Mandresy Ivan Ny Hanitra

The exponential growth of wearable healthcare devices market is fostered by the internetof- things (IoT) era. Connected smart biosensors enable a decentralized healthcare that does not constrain the user to be in a medical facility to get a real-time insig ...

EPFL2021

Predicting involuntary hospitalization in psychiatry: A machine learning investigation

Mehdi Gholam

Background Coercion in psychiatry is a controversial issue. Identifying its predictors and their interaction using traditional statistical methods is difficult, given the large number of variables involved. The purpose of this study was to use machine-lear ...

CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS2021

Intraductal xenografts model estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer dormancy and reveal a critical role for epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) in its establishment

Patrik Aouad

Compared to estrogen receptor-negative (ER-) breast cancer (BC), ER+ BC often manifests with a latent disease that recurs decades after initial diagnosis. The mechanisms governing dormancy and distant recurrence of ER+ tumors remain elusive due to the lack ...

EPFL2021

Pachytephraea attenboroughi n. gen., n. sp., an atypical small Cetoniine from Tanzania (Scarabaeidae, Cetoniinae)

Michele De Palma

Pachytephraea attenboroughi n. gen., n. sp. is described from Iringa Province in central Tanzania. A differential diagnosis with related genera is presented. ...

2020

An overlapping pattern of cerebral cortical thinning is associated with both positive symptoms and aggression in schizophrenia via the ENIGMA consortium

Erick Jorge Canales Rodriguez, Wenhao Jiang

Background Positive symptoms are a useful predictor of aggression in schizophrenia. Although a similar pattern of abnormal brain structures related to both positive symptoms and aggression has been reported, this observation has not yet been confirmed in a ...

2020

Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Quantification: From Kinetic Modeling To Machine Learning

Marcel Arditi

Ultrasound contrast agents (UCAs) have opened up immense diagnostic possibilities by combined use of indicator dilution principles and dynamic contrast-enhanced ultrasound (DCE-US) imaging. UCAs are microbubbles encapsulated in a biocompatible shell. With ...

2020

Microfluidic systems for cancer diagnostics

Sebastian Maerkl, Jose Luis Garcia Cordero

Although not employed in the clinic as of yet, microfluidic systems are likely to become a key technology for cancer diagnostics and prognosis. Microfluidic devices have been developed for the analysis of various biomarkers including circulating tumor cell ...

2020

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

A nation-wide initiative for brain imaging and clinical phenotype data federation in Swiss university memory centres

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Bogdan Draganski

Purpose of review ...

LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS2019

Novel PDE6B Mutation Presenting with Retinitis Pigmentosa - A Case Series of Three Patients

Imen Habibi

Background Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) affects 2.5 million people worldwide. Increased identification of causative gene defects and the increasing possibility of treatment necessitates better knowledge of phenotype-genotype correlations to help identify pati ...

2019