Publications by authors named "Jiejie Zhou"

Hydrogen peroxide (HO) is a widely used strong oxidant, and its traditional preparation methods, anthraquinone method, and direct synthesis method, have many drawbacks. The method of producing HO by two-electron oxygen reduction reaction (2e ORR) is considered an alternative strategy for the traditional anthraquinone method due to its high efficiency, energy saving, and environmental friendliness, but it remains a big challenge. In this review, we have described the mechanism of ORR and the principle of electrocatalytic performance testing, and have summarized the standard performance evaluation techniques for electrocatalysts to produce HO.

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Rationale And Objectives: Detection and diagnosis of architectural distortion (AD) on digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) is challenging. This study applied artificial intelligence (AI) using deep learning (DL) algorithms to detect AD, followed by radiomics for classification.

Materials And Methods: 500 cases with AD on DBT reports were identified; the earlier 292 cases for training, and the later 208 cases for testing.

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Objectives: To explore the performance differences of multiple annotations in radiomics analysis and provide a reference for tumour annotation in large-scale medical image analysis.

Methods: A total of 342 patients from two centres who underwent radical resection for rectal cancer were retrospectively studied and divided into training, internal validation, and external validation cohorts. Three predictive tasks of tumour T-stage (pT), lymph node metastasis (pLNM), and disease-free survival (pDFS) were performed.

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  • The study compares the diagnostic effectiveness of two scoring systems (BI-RADS and Kaiser score) for evaluating breast lesions identified on MRI by three radiologists with varying levels of experience.
  • A total of 630 lesions (393 malignant and 237 benign) were analyzed, along with measuring the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) to evaluate enhancements of the scores.
  • Results indicated that while KS improved diagnostic accuracy, especially for less experienced readers, both KS and BI-RADS struggled more with non-mass enhancement (NME) lesions, highlighting the need for further refinement in these diagnostic criteria.
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Background: Accurate determination of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) is important for choosing optimal HER2 targeting treatment strategies. HER2-low is currently considered HER2-negative, but patients may be eligible to receive new anti-HER2 drug conjugates.

Purpose: To use breast MRI BI-RADS features for classifying three HER2 levels, first to distinguish HER2-zero from HER2-low/positive (Task-1), and then to distinguish HER2-low from HER2-positive (Task-2).

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Background: Dreaming is often reported by patients who undergo propofol-based sedation, but there have not been any studies to date focused on the incidence of dreaming and factors associated therewith following the administration of ciprofol anesthesia in patients undergoing painless gastroscopy. The present study was thus developed with the goal of assessing the incidence of dreaming.

Methods: In total, this study enrolled 200 patients undergoing painless gastroscopy.

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A total of 457 patients, including 241 HR+/HER2- patients, 134 HER2+ patients, and 82 TN patients, were studied. The percentage of TILs in the stroma adjacent to the tumor cells was assessed using a 10% cutoff. The low TIL percentages were 82% in the HR+ patients, 63% in the HER2+ patients, and 56% in the TN patients ( < 0.

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  • The study aimed to evaluate the agreement and interchangeability between distal radial arterial (dRA) and forearm radial arterial (RA) blood pressures during general anesthesia for spinal surgery.
  • Researchers conducted a prospective observational study on 40 patients, measuring invasive blood pressures at both sites during specific time intervals after surgery began.
  • Results showed strong agreement between dRA and RA pressures across systolic, diastolic, and mean arterial pressures, suggesting that the dRA can be a reliable alternative for monitoring blood pressure in these patients.
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Objectives: To evaluate the influence of menstrual cycle timing on quantitative background parenchymal enhancement and to assess an optimal timing of breast MRI in premenopausal women.

Methods: A total of 197 premenopausal women were enrolled, 120 of which were in the malignant group and 77 in the benign group. Two radiologists depicted the regions of interest (ROI) of the three consecutive biggest slices of glandular tissue in the unaffected side and calculated the ratio (=[SI - SI]/SI) in ROI from the precontrast and early phase to assess BPE quantitatively.

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Background: Conventional MRI staging can be challenging in the preoperative assessment of rectal cancer. Deep learning methods based on MRI have shown promise in cancer diagnosis and prognostication. However, the value of deep learning in rectal cancer T-staging is unclear.

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Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. Ultrasound is a widely used screening tool for its portability and easy operation, and DCE-MRI can highlight the lesions more clearly and reveal the characteristics of tumors. They are both noninvasive and nonradiative for assessment of breast cancer.

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Background : Systemic inflammation acts as a contributor to neurologic deficits after cardiac arrest (CA) and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Extracellular cold-inducible RNA-binding, protein (CIRP) has been demonstrated to be responsible in part for the inflammation through binding to toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) after cerebral ischemia. The short peptide C23 derived from CIRP has a high affinity for TLR4, we hypothesize that C23 reduces systemic inflammation after CA/CPR by blocking the binding of CIRP to TLR4.

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  • The study aimed to improve breast cancer diagnosis through MRI by using a combination of a Mask Regional-Convolutional Neural Network (R-CNN) for detecting suspicious lesions and ResNet50 for assessing malignancy probability.
  • Two datasets were analyzed: the first contained 176 cases (103 cancer and 73 benign), while the second included 84 cases (53 cancer and 31 benign), focusing on both pre-contrast and subtraction images for better detection accuracy.
  • The results showed that Mask R-CNN detected 96% of cancers in the first dataset, while ResNet50 effectively reduced false positives by approximately 80%, supporting the development of an automated diagnostic system for breast cancer.
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Objective: To develop a multi-modality radiomics nomogram based on DCE-MRI, B-mode ultrasound (BMUS) and strain elastography (SE) images for classifying benign and malignant breast lesions.

Material And Methods: In this retrospective study, 345 breast lesions from 305 patients who underwent DCE-MRI, BMUS and SE examinations were randomly divided into training (n = 241) and testing (n = 104) datasets. Radiomics features were extracted from manually contoured images.

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  • The study examined the effectiveness of a modified Kaiser score (KS+) and machine learning (ML) models in diagnosing benign versus malignant lesions using ADC values.
  • It involved a dataset of 659 lesions, with various ML algorithms tested against established KS and KS+ methods using ROC analysis.
  • Results indicated that while KS+ improved specificity, it slightly decreased sensitivity, suggesting that ML models considering ADC as a continuous variable may enhance diagnostic accuracy.
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  • The distal radial artery (dRA) was studied as a potential alternative to the traditional forearm radial artery (RA) for monitoring blood pressure during surgery.
  • The study involved 161 adult patients and aimed to determine if the dRA approach had a first attempt success rate comparable to the RA method.
  • Results showed that while dRA had a slightly lower success rate and longer catheterization time, it also resulted in shorter postoperative compression times and fewer dampened arterial waveforms, suggesting it could be a viable option for arterial pressure monitoring.
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  • The study aimed to create radiomics models for breast cancer diagnosis using features from DCE-MRI and mammography.
  • A total of 266 patients were analyzed, and various datasets were used to build and test the models, including segmenting lesions and extracting features.
  • The combined model of MRI and mammography showed improved accuracy (89.6%) and specificity, suggesting it could enhance diagnosis and reduce false positives for benign lesions.
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Background: A wide variety of benign and malignant processes can manifest as non-mass enhancement (NME) in breast MRI. Compared to mass lesions, there are no distinct features that can be used for differential diagnosis. The purpose is to use the BI-RADS descriptors and models developed using radiomics and deep learning to distinguish benign from malignant NME lesions.

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The dopamine D4 receptor gene (DRD4) has been consistently reported to be associated with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Recent studies have linked DRD4 to functional connectivity among specific brain regions. The current study aimed to compare the effects of the DRD4 genotype on functional integrity in drug-naïve ADHD children and healthy children.

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Previous studies of brain structural abnormalities in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) samples scarcely excluded comorbidity or analyzed them in subtypes. This study aimed to identify neuroanatomical alterations related to diagnosis and subtype of ADHD participants without comorbidity. In our cross-sectional analysis, we used T-weighted structural MRI images of individuals from the ADHD-200 database.

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The accurate identification of unknown illegal additive compounds in complex health foods continues to be a challenging task in routine analysis, because massive false positive results can be screened with ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography coupled to high-resolution mass spectrometry-based untargeted techniques and must be manually filtered out. To address this problem, we developed a chemometric-based strategy, in which data analysis was first performed by using XCMS, MS-DIAL, Mzmine2, and AntDAS2, to select those that provided acceptable results to extract common features (CFs), which can be detected by all of the selected methods. Then, CFs whose contents were significantly higher in the suspected illegal additive group were screened.

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Background: To help identify potential breast cancer (BC) candidates for immunotherapies, we aimed to develop and validate a radiology-based biomarker (radiomic score) to predict the level of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) in patients with BC.

Patients And Methods: This retrospective study enrolled 172 patients with histopathology-confirmed BC assigned to the training (n = 121) or testing (n = 51) cohorts. Radiomic features were extracted and selected using Analysis-Kit software.

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  • A study applied deep learning algorithms, specifically a conventional CNN and a recurrent CNN (CLSTM), to classify three breast cancer molecular subtypes using MRI data from 244 patients.
  • The training data showed higher accuracy with CLSTM (0.91) compared to CNN (0.79), but independent testing revealed lower accuracy (0.4-0.5). Transfer learning improved CNN accuracy to 0.91 and CLSTM to 0.83 during further testing.
  • Overall, CLSTM demonstrated better performance in tracking changes in MRI signal intensity and transfer learning was effective in enhancing classification accuracy across different datasets.
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Background: Computer-aided methods have been widely applied to diagnose lesions detected on breast MRI, but fully-automatic diagnosis using deep learning is rarely reported.

Purpose: To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of mass lesions using region of interest (ROI)-based, radiomics and deep-learning methods, by taking peritumor tissues into consideration.

Study Type: Retrospective.

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