Patient-generated Digital Images after Pediatric Ambulatory Surgery.

Objective: To describe the use of digital images captured by parents or guardians and sent to clinicians for assessment of wounds after pediatric ambulatory surgery.

Methods: Subjects with digital images of post-operative wounds were identified as part of an on-going cohort study of infections after ambulatory surgery within a large pediatric healthcare system. We performed a structured review of the electronic health record (EHR) to determine how digital images were documented in the EHR and used in clinical care.

Quantifying drug induced dyskinesia in Parkinson's disease patients using standardized videos.

This paper presents a video based method to quantify drug induced dyskinesias in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients. Dyskinetic movement in standard clinical videos of patients is analyzed by tracking landmark points on the video frames using non-rigid image registration. The novel application of Point Distribution Models (PDM) allows geometric variations and covariations of the landmark points to be captured from each video sequence.

Emotional distress among males with "syndrome X".

The present study examined traditional risk factors and various indices of emotional distress in males with positive angiograms (N = 122), "syndrome X" males with negative or nominal results on angiogram (N = 53), and age- and socioeconomic status-matched males with no manifest history of otherosclerotic disease (N = 56). Syndrome X patients reported more depression on the Ketterer Stress Symptom Frequency Checklist (KSSFC) than positive angiographic patients. And compared with healthy controls, they were more likely to be perceived by a spouse/friend as depressed and anxious on the KSSFC, scored higher on the Framingham Type A Scale, and reported more unprovoked nocturnal awakening.