Correlation Between Radiological and Functional Outcomes Following Operative and Nonoperative Management of Acetabular Fractures: A Prospective Observational Study.

Introduction: The management of acetabular fractures is a complicated orthopedic procedure that has been advancing with time. Newer radiological tools like CT scans help surgeons to identify and manage these fractures more attentively. The study was conducted to evaluate the clinical and radiographic outcomes in patients with acetabular fractures managed either conservatively or by open reduction and internal fixation.

BT-CNN: a balanced binary tree architecture for classification of brain tumour using MRI imaging.

Deep learning is a very important technique in clinical diagnosis and therapy in the present world. Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is a recent development in deep learning that is used in computer vision. Our medical investigation focuses on the identification of brain tumour.

Detection of COVID-19 using edge devices by a light-weight convolutional neural network from chest X-ray images.

Deep learning is a highly significant technology in clinical treatment and diagnostics nowadays. Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is a new idea in deep learning that is being used in the area of computer vision. The COVID-19 detection is the subject of our medical study.

Examining the rural-urban differentials in yoga and mindfulness practices among middle-aged and older adults in India: secondary analysis of a national representative survey.

Physical activity and mental well-being play an important role in reducing the risk of various diseases and in promoting independence among older adults. Appropriate physical activity, including yoga and mindfulness practices, can help rectify the loss of independence due to aging and have a positive influence on physical health and functional activities. This study assessed rural-urban differences in yoga and mindfulness practices and their associated factors among middle-aged and older Indian adults.

A new efficient referential genome compression technique for FastQ files.

Hospitals and medical laboratories create a tremendous amount of genome sequence data every day for use in research, surgery, and illness diagnosis. To make storage comprehensible, compression is therefore essential for the storage, monitoring, and distribution of all these data. A novel data compression technique is required to reduce the time as well as the cost of storage, transmission, and data processing.

DMF-Net: a deep multi-level semantic fusion network for high-resolution chest CT and X-ray image de-noising.

Medical images such as CT and X-ray have been widely used for the detection of several chest infections and lung diseases. However, these images are susceptible to different types of noise, and it is hard to remove these noises due to their complex distribution. The presence of such noise significantly deteriorates the quality of the images and significantly affects the diagnosis performance.

Factors associated with poor self-rated health among chronic kidney disease patients and their health care utilization: Insights from LASI wave-1, 2017-18.

Background: Chronic kidney disease (CKD), associated with other chronic conditions affects the physical, behavioral, and psychological aspects of an individual, leading to poor self-rated health. Hence, we aimed to assess the factors associated with poor self-rated health (SRH) in CKD patients. Additionally, we assessed their health care utilization.

Automated Detection and Segmentation of Exudates for the Screening of Background Retinopathy.

Exudate, an asymptomatic yellow deposit on retina, is among the primary characteristics of background diabetic retinopathy. Background diabetic retinopathy is a retinopathy related to high blood sugar levels which slowly affects all the organs of the body. The early detection of exudates aids doctors in screening the patients suffering from background diabetic retinopathy.

Prevalence and pattern of multimorbidity among chronic kidney disease patients: a community study in chronic kidney disease hotspot area of Eastern India.

Introduction: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is mostly asymptomatic until reaching an advanced stage. Although conditions such as hypertension and diabetes can cause it, CKD can itself lead to secondary hypertension and cardiovascular disease (CVD). Understanding the types and prevalence of associated chronic conditions among CKD patient could help improve screening for early detection and case management.

Classification of Brain Tumours in MRI Images using a Convolutional Neural Network.

Introduction: Recent advances in deep learning have aided the well-being business in Medical Imaging of numerous disorders like brain tumours, a serious malignancy caused by unregulated and aberrant cell portioning. The most frequent and widely used machine learning algorithm for visual learning and image identification is CNN.

Methods: In this article, the convolutional neural network (CNN) technique is used.

An Efficient Deep Learning Method for Detection of COVID-19 Infection Using Chest X-ray Images.

The research community has recently shown significant interest in designing automated systems to detect coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) using deep learning approaches and chest radiography images. However, state-of-the-art deep learning techniques, especially convolutional neural networks (CNNs), demand more learnable parameters and memory. Therefore, they may not be suitable for real-time diagnosis.

A Deep Intelligent Attack Detection Framework for Fog-Based IoT Systems.

Fog computing provides a multitude of end-based IoT system services. End IoT devices exchange information with fog nodes and the cloud to handle client undertakings. During the process of data collection between the layer of fog and the cloud, there are more chances of crucial attacks or assaults like DDoS and many more security attacks being compromised by IoT end devices.

Enhanced framework for COVID-19 prediction with computed tomography scan images using dense convolutional neural network and novel loss function.

Recent studies have shown that computed tomography (CT) scan images can characterize COVID-19 disease in patients. Several deep learning (DL) methods have been proposed for diagnosis in the literature, including convolutional neural networks (CNN). But, with inefficient patient classification models, the number of 'False Negatives' can put lives at risk.

A novel service robot assignment approach for COVID-19 infected patients: a case of medical data driven decision making.

Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) is a major concern for the entire world in the current era. Coronavirus is a very dangerous infectious virus that spreads rapidly from person to person. It spreads in exponential manner on a global scale.

GaitRec-Net: A Deep Neural Network for Gait Disorder Detection Using Ground Reaction Force.

Walking (gait) irregularities and abnormalities are predictors and symptoms of disorder and disability. In the past, elaborate video (camera-based) systems, pressure mats, or a mix of the two has been used in clinical settings to monitor and evaluate gait. This article presents an artificial intelligence-based comprehensive investigation of ground reaction force (GRF) pattern to classify the healthy control and gait disorders using the large-scale ground reaction force.

HTLML: Hybrid AI Based Model for Detection of Alzheimer's Disease.

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a degenerative condition of the brain that affects the memory and reasoning abilities of patients. Memory is steadily wiped out by this condition, which gradually affects the brain's ability to think, recall, and form intentions. In order to properly identify this disease, a variety of manual imaging modalities including CT, MRI, PET, etc.

Design of Smart and Secured Healthcare Service Using Deep Learning with Modified SHA-256 Algorithm.

Background: The modern era of human society has seen the rise of a different variety of diseases. The mortality rate, therefore, increases without adequate care which consequently causes wealth loss. It has become a priority of humans to take care of health and wealth in a genuine way.

An Enhanced Transfer Learning Based Classification for Diagnosis of Skin Cancer.

Skin cancer is the most commonly diagnosed and reported malignancy worldwide. To reduce the death rate from cancer, it is essential to diagnose skin cancer at a benign stage as soon as possible. To save lives, an automated system that can detect skin cancer in its earliest stages is necessary.

Infection, cases due to SARS-CoV-2 in rural areas during early COVID-19 vaccination: findings from serosurvey study in a rural cohort of eastern India.

COVID-19 serosurvey provides a better estimation of people who have developed antibody against the infection. But limited information on such serosurveys in rural areas poses many hurdles to understand the epidemiology of the virus and to implement proper control strategies. This study was carried out in the rural catchment area of Model Rural Health Research Unit in Odisha, India during March-April 2021, the initial phase of COVID vaccination.

Modified U-NET Architecture for Segmentation of Skin Lesion.

Dermoscopy images can be classified more accurately if skin lesions or nodules are segmented. Because of their fuzzy borders, irregular boundaries, inter- and intra-class variances, and so on, nodule segmentation is a difficult task. For the segmentation of skin lesions from dermoscopic pictures, several algorithms have been developed.

Evaluating the Usability of mHealth Applications on Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Using Various MCDM Methods.

The recent developments in the IT world have brought several changes in the medical industry. This research work focuses on few mHealth applications that work on the management of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) by the patients on their own. Looking into the present doctor-to-patient ratio in our country (1:1700 as per a Times of India report in 2021), it is very essential to develop self-management mHealth applications.

Central hubs prediction for bio networks by directed hypergraph - GA with validation to COVID-19 PPI.

Network structures have attracted much interest and have been rigorously studied in the past two decades. Researchers used many mathematical tools to represent these networks, and in recent days, hypergraphs play a vital role in this analysis. This paper presents an efficient technique to find the influential nodes using centrality measure of weighted directed hypergraph.

Association of quorum sensing and biofilm formation with Salmonella virulence: story beyond gathering and cross-talk.

Enteric fever (typhoid and paratyphoid fever) is a public health concern which contributes to mortality and morbidity all around the globe. It is caused mainly due to ingestion of contaminated food and water with a gram negative, rod-shaped, flagellated bacterium known as Salmonella enterica serotype typhi (typhoid fever) or paratyphi (paratyphoid fever). Clinical problems associated with Salmonellosis are mainly bacteraemia, gastroenteritis and enteric fever.

Modified pixel level snake using bottom hat transformation for evolution of retinal vasculature map.

Small changes in retinal blood vessels may produce different pathological disorders which may further cause blindness. Therefore, accurate extraction of vasculature map of retinal fundus image has become a challenging task for analysis of different pathologies. The present study offers an unsupervised method for extraction of vasculature map from retinal fundus images.