GenSLMs: Genome-scale language models reveal SARS-CoV-2 evolutionary dynamics.

We seek to transform how new and emergent variants of pandemic-causing viruses, specifically SARS-CoV-2, are identified and classified. By adapting large language models (LLMs) for genomic data, we build genome-scale language models (GenSLMs) which can learn the evolutionary landscape of SARS-CoV-2 genomes. By pre-training on over 110 million prokaryotic gene sequences and fine-tuning a SARS-CoV-2-specific model on 1.

CATARACTS: Challenge on automatic tool annotation for cataRACT surgery.

Surgical tool detection is attracting increasing attention from the medical image analysis community. The goal generally is not to precisely locate tools in images, but rather to indicate which tools are being used by the surgeon at each instant. The main motivation for annotating tool usage is to design efficient solutions for surgical workflow analysis, with potential applications in report generation, surgical training and even real-time decision support.

The syndrome of cardiac tamponade with "small" pericardial effusion.

Cardiac tamponade is usually a consequence of increased pericardial pressure with accumulation of pericardial effusion. Pericardial effusion may be caused by acute pericarditis, tumor, uremia, hypothyroidism, trauma, cardiac surgery, or other inflammatory/noninflammatory conditions. In this article we describe four scenarios illustrated by case reports where a small or apparently small pericardial effusion may produce cardiac tamponade.

Continuous ultrasonic monitoring of balloon valvuloplasty.

A novel ultrasound transducer developed in our laboratory (CONTISON) was used for monitoring catheter balloon commissurotomy (CBC). The transducer was placed at the cardiac apex to obtain an apical four-chamber view and attached to the chest wall using an adhesive ring. During the procedure, the tip of the needle was imaged first in the right atrium and was seen to traverse the interatrial septum and enter the left atrium.