NIBIB-funded engineers are using deep learning to differentiate tumors more accurately from normal tissue in positron emission tomography (PET) images. Standard analysis of PET scans count black regions as tumor and white ...
Oct 19, 2021
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One of the major challenges in modern cancer therapy is the adaptive response of cancer cells to targeted therapies: initially, these therapies are very often effective, then adaptive resistance occurs, allowing the tumor ...
Jul 21, 2021
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During the height of the pandemic, some hospitals were overwhelmed with patients seeking treatment for COVID-19. This situation could happen again during future outbreaks, especially with SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern on ...
Jul 21, 2021
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Conspiracy theories appear to be increasing in popularity as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. But to what extent do people really agree with them, and what is the association with cognitive biases? A research team from the ...
Apr 7, 2021
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A team of researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) affiliated with the CHOP Epilepsy Neurogenetics Initiative (ENGIN) have combined clinical information with large-scale genomic data to successfully link ...
Aug 26, 2020
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The World Health Organization (WHO) recently announced that it supports challenge trials against COVID-19. Challenge trials deliberately expose people to infectious diseases to test vaccines or treatments.
Jun 5, 2020
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From 2012 to 2016, there was an increase in electronic health record (EHR) use among residential care communities, according to a study published online March 3 in the National Health Statistics Reports, a publication from ...
Mar 5, 2020
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Realistic images can be more effective than statistical data for persuading people to take action in support of seismic upgrades to schools, new University of British Columbia research suggests.
Dec 2, 2019
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In her doctoral thesis at University of Jyväskylä, M.Sc. Jia Liu has developed and implemented a series of new computational statistical methodologies to deal with diffusion-MRI data. The statistical problem of the thesis ...
Jun 3, 2019
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The unlikely coincidence of a local hospital record and a census led by a pioneering physician has enabled the first study charting rates of venereal disease in 18th century England, revealing high infection levels in the ...
Sep 14, 2017
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