Publications by authors named "L Spitz"

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  • The Border Coalition for Fitness (BCF) is a partnership focused on increasing physical activity in El Paso, Texas, through walking challenges and community engagement.
  • A mixed-methods evaluation highlighted that BCF members rated their leadership, resources, and commitment to organizing actions significantly higher than team captains or community participants.
  • Although the BCF was seen as effective in its programming and community impact, participants suggested improvements in recruiting and retaining members, advocating for greater inclusion of community members and walking challenge participants.
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Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) predominantly affects women, accounting for 65% of cases. Women have a 1.3 times higher relative risk than men, with the incidence rising particularly in women aged 55-85 years.

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Introduction: This study aimed to determine the burden of suspected nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) in a predominantly Hispanic patient population and explore the utility of the American Gastroenterological Association's NAFLD Clinical Care Pathway (CCP).

Methodology: Electronic medical records ( = 223) were used to divide patients into risk groups based on the amount of metabolic risk factors they presented, diabetic status, or if they presented other liver diseases. Fribosis-4 (FIB-4) scores were used to determine the risk for advanced fibrosis.

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The surgical management of anterior communicating artery aneurysms (AcomA) is challenging due to their deep midline position and proximity to complex skull base anatomy. This study compares the pterional craniotomy with the interhemispheric approach based on the specific aneurysm angulation. A total of 129 AcomA cases were analyzed, with 50 undergoing microsurgical clipping via either the pterional or interhemispheric approach.

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Purpose: Most recently transformer models became the state of the art in various medical image segmentation tasks and challenges, outperforming most of the conventional deep learning approaches. Picking up on that trend, this study aims at applying various transformer models to the highly challenging task of colorectal cancer (CRC) segmentation in CT imaging and assessing how they hold up to the current state-of-the-art convolutional neural network (CNN), the nnUnet. Furthermore, we wanted to investigate the impact of the network size on the resulting accuracies, since transformer models tend to be significantly larger than conventional network architectures.

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