Deep Learning for Diagnosis and Segmentation of Pneumothorax: The Results on the Kaggle Competition and Validation Against Radiologists.

Pneumothorax is potentially a life-threatening disease that requires urgent diagnosis and treatment. The chest X-ray is the diagnostic modality of choice when pneumothorax is suspected. The computer-aided diagnosis of pneumothorax has received a dramatic boost in the last few years due to deep learning advances and the first public pneumothorax diagnosis competition with 15257 chest X-rays manually annotated by a team of 19 radiologists.

[Effects of salt-softener composition on the contents of toxic elements in processed cheeses].

Contents of toxic elements in salt-smelters using in Russia at manufacturing of processed cheeses and in ready cheeses were studied. The levels of arsenic and lead were 4.4 and 1.

[Modern detoxication methods in surgical patients].

The therapeutic possibilities of peritoneal dialysis, hemodialysis, and hemo- and lymphosorption in the treatment of the intoxication syndrome were studied in 786 patients. The causes of the intoxication syndrome were as follows: postoperative peritonitis (98), acute renal insufficiency of various etiology (493), acute hepatorenal insufficiency with exogenous poisoning (178), diffuse purulent peritonitis (11), pancreatogenic peritonitis (6). Enzymatic lavage and peritoneal dialysis were applied in 98 patients, hemodialysis methods in 493, hemosorption was conducted 360 times in 178 patients and lymphosorption in 17 patients.

[Determination of pneumococcus antibodies in secretions in acute pneumonia in children].

IgA-antibodies to pneumococcal antigens were measured by enzyme immunoassay in saliva and nasal washings, obtained from 32 children aged 6 months to 14 years with acute pneumonia and from 25 healthy children aged 2.5-11 years. In the secretions of children with acute pneumonia an essential increase in the levels of IgA-antibodies in comparison with those observed in healthy children was detected.