Publications by authors named "A Boaro"
Introduction: Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications in healthcare are growing exponentially. The field of neurosurgery is particularly suited to implement AI solutions given its technology-driven nature. It is of paramount importance to understand the basics of AI to make informed decision on how to shape current and future applications.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The digital phenotyping tool has great potential for the deep characterization of neurological and quality-of-life assessments in brain tumor patients. Phone communication activities (details on call and text use) can provide insight into the patients' sociability.
Methods: We prospectively collected digital-phenotyping data from six brain tumor patients.
In this review, we compare the mechanisms and consequences of electronic excitation of DNA via photon absorption or photosensitization, as well as by chemically induced generation of excited states. The absorption of UV radiation by DNA is known to produce cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPDs) and thymine pyrimidone photoproducts. Photosensitizers are known to enable such transformations using UV-A and visible light by generating triplet species able to transfer energy to DNA.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To develop and evaluate machine learning (ML) approaches for muscle identification using intraoperative motor evoked potentials (MEPs), and to compare their performance to human experts.
Background: There is an unseized opportunity to apply ML analytic techniques to the world of intraoperative neuromonitoring (IOM). MEPs are the ideal candidates given the importance of their correct interpretation during a surgical operation to the brain or the spine.