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Cervical cancer is one of the most common causes of cancer death. Early detection of cancer can reduce mortality and there are many screening methods nowadays e.g. Pap smear, liquid-based cytology, and visual inspection by colposcopy. Screening by ...

ommon blood disorders can be diagnosed from the condition of several components and features of the blood. Although hemocytometers exist, many medical laboratories still conduct manual blood counting (CBC). The objective of this study aims to lessen ...

This paper presents the optic disk localization by using the matrix that extracted the blood vessels' direction and finding the fovea position using morphology operation in diabetic retinopathy. Our approach begins with blood vessel extraction for ...

Bipolar disorder (BD) is regularly misdiagnosed as major depressive disorder (MDD). BD and MDD are characterized by a wide range of symptoms, cognitive impairments, and altered functional connectivity (FC) between different brain regions. The thalamus ...

Screening for the early stages of cancer is one of the challenges nowadays. Current screening techniques such as Pap smear and liquid base cytology require many laboratory processes and time. Screening for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN), in ...

Nowadays, virtual classrooms are highly encouraged due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This could be a disadvantage because some students might not really be engaged with this kind of setup. This study presents a system for classifying level of attentiveness ...

Being one of the most common cardiovascular diseases, heart failure caused 40 million deaths worldwide in 2015. Previously, various studies have been conducted to predict heart failure at an early stage. Although each study has contributed and continued ...

With the spreading of COVID-19, various existing machine learning frameworks can be adopted to effectively control the epidemic to help research and predict the spread of the virus before the large-scale application of vaccines. Based on the ...

Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI) is a major health problem in several departments of the hospital sector. These infections cause prolonged length of stay (LOS), complications, and increased hospital costs. In this paper, medical record data of 415 ...

Nowadays, canine parvovirus is a common virus that is spreading to dogs especially newborn puppies. The detection of this virus can be done in two ways; testing kit and laboratory. The testing kit is the popular testing, but the accuracy is low while ...

The novel COVID-19 coronavirus has become an important threatening issue now for billions of humans. But lacking of available testing kits lead us to develop automatic detection system to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Since, most COVID-19 patients ...

Decision tree algorithm that handles single classes is often used in biology and biomedicine. However, biological datasets frequently involve multiple classes related by a hierarchy, and each class can contain multiple labels, which cannot be predicted ...

Heart Rate Variability (HRV) has become a popular medical interest as it determines the state of one's health, fitness, recovery, potential diseases, and even mental stress. HRV parameters are obtained with the use of beat-to-beat intervals (BBI). ...

Objective The purpose of this study is to acquire and analyze the force signal of clinical liposuction and design a fat-mimicking phantom for liposuction training. Methods The force signal data of five clinical liposuction cases were processed, based on ...

Background: Nowadays, Cardiovascular disease is a severe threat to human health. It is necessary to monitor the cardiovascular parameters such as blood oxygen saturation reliably and conveniently. Non-contact measurement has been widely studied. However,...

ECG machines are vital for monitoring patients with heart diseases and abnormalities. The need for portable health devices has risen due to technological advancement, it is very essential to have one at home for early detection of diseases. Heart rate ...

Herein we describe the modular design and manufacturing of an emergency ventilator based on cyclical compression of a resuscitation bag to face the COVID-19 pandemic. This was done to mitigate the staggering conditions to supply these medical devices ...

As a potential solution for solving the hemolysis problem inside the narrow bearing clearance of hydrodynamically levitated blood pumps, plasma skimming has been observed and verified with spiral groove bearings. The objective of this study is to ...

The study evaluates on the mechanical design and dimensional synthesis for pseudo-rigid-body model (PRBM) and finite element analysis (FEA) on a compliant constant-force surgical gripper. Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET), Polylactide (PLA) and ...

EcoHIV/NDK is a recombinant virus modified from HIV-1 that uses mice as a host. NanoLuc (Nluc) luciferase is a genetically engineered small molecule enzyme (19.1kDa). It is currently the best bioluminescence reporter gene which uses furimazine as a ...

Spectral Sensing and Spectroscopy have a lot of uses nowadays, it is being used in laboratories to detect and measure different substances in blood serum, however these procedures are only widely done currently on extracted samples like blood and urine. ...

Cancer is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide and constitutes a considerable burden on society. The inhibitors targeting the programmed death receptor–1 (PD-1)/programmed death ligand 1 protein (PD-L1) pathway are the most promising ...

The 14-3-3 proteins are a highly conserved and common family in eukaryotes. They function as molecular scaffolds by modulating the conformation of their binding partners, and are involved in numerous cellular processes. The 14-3-3 proteins were ...

Nearly a hundred per million of the Filipino population is diagnosed with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD). The early stage of CKD has no symptoms and can only be discovered once the patient undergoes urinalysis. Over the years, different methods were ...

Cancer is one of the most common death-leading diseases in the world, affecting millions of people. It has been shown that epigenetics plays an important role in colorectal cancer study. Roles of Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) methylation, Histone ...

A suitable exoskeleton is able to improve the weight bearing capacity of human and reduce spinal cord injuries caused by long-term works. This paper designs a bionic back shelf for the weight bearing exoskeleton which can fit the back of human well and ...

The mandible or jawbone is the largest, strongest and lowest bone in the human face. It is the only movable bone of the skull. Patients who have a fracture of the mandibular bone will have the difficulty in articulation and mastication. Treatment of the ...

Microbiology and Microbiology Laboratory are curricular subjects required for the Biotechnology Engineering degree at Tecnologico de Monterrey, a private University located in Mexico. Although highly interesting to students, these courses are not easily ...

Purpose: A recent outbreak of a type of coronavirus—SARS-CoV-2 has caused over 200,000 deaths and limited drugs are available. SARS-CoV-2 shows similarity with SARS-CoV. Previous studies have proven that RH121 and indigo are effective in inhibiting ...