Role of air pollutants in dengue fever incidence: evidence from two southern cities in Taiwan.

Air pollution may be involved in spreading dengue fever (DF) besides rainfalls and warmer temperatures. While particulate matter (PM), especially those with diameter of 10 μm (PM10) or 2.5 μm or less (PM25), and NO2 increase the risk of coronavirus 2 infection, their roles in triggering DF remain unclear.

A new approach to constructing confidence intervals for population means based on small samples.

This paper presents a new approach to constructing the confidence interval for the mean value of a population when the distribution is unknown and the sample size is small, called the Percentile Data Construction Method (PDCM). A simulation was conducted to compare the performance of the PDCM confidence interval with those generated by the Percentile Bootstrap (PB) and Normal Theory (NT) methods. Both the convergence probability and average interval width criterion are considered when seeking to find the best interval.

Predicting Axial Length From Choroidal Thickness on Optical Coherence Tomography Images With Machine Learning Based Algorithms.

Purpose: We formulated and tested ensemble learning models to classify axial length (AXL) from choroidal thickness (CT) as indicated on fovea-centered, 2D single optical coherence tomography (OCT) images.

Design: Retrospective cross-sectional study.

Participants: We analyzed 710 OCT images from 355 eyes of 188 patients.

Intelligent Healthcare System Using Patients Confidential Data Communication in Electrocardiogram Signals.

With the advent of the aging era, healthcare and elderly care have become the focus of medical care, especially the care of the elderly with dementia. Patients' confidential data hiding is a useful technology for healthcare and patient information privacy. In this study, we implement an intelligent healthcare system using the multiple-coefficient quantization technology in transform domain to hide patients' confidential data into electrocardiogram (ECG) signals obtained by ECG sensor module.