Stud Health Technol Inform
September 2025
Introduction: Mitotic figure (MF) density has been established as a key biomarker for certain tumors. Recently, the differentiation between atypical MFs (AMF) and normal MFs (NMFs) has gained increased interest in research, as AMFs density could be an independent biomarker. This results in the challenge of finding an automated, deterministic way to differentiate between AMFs and NMFs.
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May 2025
Esports athletes face significant mental health challenges, often due to inadequate support. This paper presents the MindAthlete mHealth application designed to monitor the mental health of esports athletes. A qualitative study with experts in (sport) psychology identified key features such as mood tracking, stress monitoring, and risk screening.
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May 2025
Manual segmentation of histopathological images is both resource-intensive and prone to human error, particularly when dealing with challenging tumor types like Glioblastoma (GBM), an aggressive and highly heterogeneous brain tumor. The fuzzy borders of GBM make it especially difficult to segment, requiring models with strong generalization capabilities to achieve reliable results. In this study, we leverage the Medical Open Network for Artificial Intelligence (MONAI) framework to segment GBM tissue from hematoxylin and eosin-stained Whole-Slide Images.
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April 2025
Blockchain technologies (BT) offer transformative potential for healthcare data management, particularly in enhancing electronic health record (EHR) systems by addressing data security and ethical challenges. This study explores the barriers to integrating blockchain within EHRs. Through a review of eight key studies, we identified several critical challenges, categorized into ten primary areas, that hinder the incorporation of BT into EHR architecture.
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August 2024
Machine Learning (ML) has evolved beyond being a specialized technique exclusively used by computer scientists. Besides the general ease of use, automated pipelines allow for training sophisticated ML models with minimal knowledge of computer science. In recent years, Automated ML (AutoML) frameworks have become serious competitors for specialized ML models and have even been able to outperform the latter for specific tasks.
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August 2024
Many mHelath applications have been developed, and the Mobile App Rating Scale (MARS) is a common tool for assessing them. This study aims to provide mean values for MARS scores found in recent literature. We systematically searched for literature in which MARS was used and analyzed them.
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August 2024
Orofacial Myofunctional Disorder (OMD) is believed to affect approximately 30-50% of all children. The various causes of OMD often revolve around an incorrect resting position of the tongue and cause symptoms such as difficulty in speech and swallowing. While these symptoms can persist and lead to jaw deformities, such as overjet and open bite, manual therapy has been shown to be effective, especially in children.
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August 2024
Prostate cancer is a dominant health concern calling for advanced diagnostic tools. Utilizing digital pathology and artificial intelligence, this study explores the potential of 11 deep neural network architectures for automated Gleason grading in prostate carcinoma focusing on comparing traditional and recent architectures. A standardized image classification pipeline, based on the AUCMEDI framework, facilitated robust evaluation using an in-house dataset consisting of 34,264 annotated tissue tiles.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Most individuals recover from the acute phase of infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, however, some encounter prolonged effects, referred to as the Post-COVID syndrome. Evidence exists that such persistent symptoms can significantly impact patients' ability to return to work. This paper gives a comprehensive overview of different care pathways and resources, both personal and external, that aim to support Post-COVID patients during their work-life reintegration process.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntratumor heterogeneity is a main cause of the dismal prognosis of glioblastoma (GBM). Yet, there remains a lack of a uniform assessment of the degree of heterogeneity. With a multiscale approach, we addressed the hypothesis that intratumor heterogeneity exists on different levels comprising traditional regional analyses, but also innovative methods including computer-assisted analysis of tumor morphology combined with epigenomic data.
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June 2023
This scoping review aims to identify and summarize the current literature on Machine learning (ML) approaches for detecting coronary artery disease (CAD) using angiography imaging. We comprehensively searched several databases and identified 23 studies that met the inclusion criteria. They employed different types of angiography imaging including computed tomography and invasive coronary angiography.
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June 2023
An essential aspect of cancer registration is data quality. Data quality for Cancer Registries has been reviewed in this paper using four main criteria (comparability, validity, timeliness, and completeness). Medline (via PubMed), Scopus, and Web of Science databases were searched for relevant English articles published from inception until December 2022.
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June 2023
We propose a modified version of the U-Net architecture for segmenting and classifying brain tumors, introducing another output between down- and up-sampling. Our proposed architecture utilizes two outputs, adding a classification output beside the segmentation output. The central idea is to use fully connected layers to classify each image before applying U-Net's up-sampling operations.
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