Publications by authors named "J Duryea"

Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy of prominent machine learning algorithms in predicting normal tissue complication probability using clinical data obtained from 2 distinct disease sites and to create a software tool that facilitates the automatic determination of the optimal algorithm to model any given labeled data set.

Methods And Materials: We obtained 3 sets of radiation toxicity data (478 patients) from our clinic: gastrointestinal toxicity, radiation pneumonitis, and radiation esophagitis. These data comprised clinicopathological and dosimetric information for patients diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer and anal squamous cell carcinoma.

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Gene therapy with Adeno-Associated Viral (AAV) vectors requires knowledge of their tropism within the body. Here we analyze the tropism of ten naturally occurring AAV serotypes (AAV3B, AAV4, AAV5, AAV6, AAV7, AAV8, AAV9, AAVrh8, AAVrh10 and AAVrh74) following systemic delivery into male and female mice. A transgene expressing ZsGreen and Cre recombinase was used to identify transduction in a cell-dependent manner based on fluorescence.

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Article Synopsis
  • The study looked at people with and without hand osteoarthritis to find out who has marginal erosions (MEs), which are small damage spots in the bones.
  • It discovered that MEs are more common in older men who smoke and usually happen in joints that don’t have a lot of arthritis.
  • Lastly, MEs could help predict how the condition might get worse over time, since they are linked to more changes in bone damage compared to joints without MEs.
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Objective: To evaluate gender differences in the association between metacarpal cortical thickness (T)-a surrogate for bone density-and severity of radiographic hand osteoarthritis (HOA) in a longitudinal observational study.

Method: Hand radiographs of 3575 participants (2039 F/1536 M) from the Osteoarthritis Initiative were assessed at baseline and 48 months. A reader used a semi-automated software tool to calculate T, a measurement of the cortical thickness, for metacarpals 2-4.

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Objective: Understanding gender-specific differences in patterns of cartilage loss can improve our knowledge of the pathogenesis of knee osteoarthritis (KOA) development and progression and may inform clinical trials of treatments for KOA. The goal of our observational study was to examine gender differences in patterns of cartilage loss in the central weight-bearing regions of the femur.

Methods: We measured cartilage volume change in the indexed knee of 700 subjects with Kellgren-Lawrence 1, 2, or 3 from the Osteoarthritis Initiative for four follow-up periods (baseline [BL] to 24 mo, BL to 48 mo, BL to 72 mo, and BL to 96 mo) using the local area cartilage segmentation (LACS) method.

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