Hunting imaging biomarkers in pulmonary fibrosis: Benchmarks of the AIIB23 challenge.

Airway-related quantitative imaging biomarkers are crucial for examination, diagnosis, and prognosis in pulmonary diseases. However, the manual delineation of airway structures remains prohibitively time-consuming. While significant efforts have been made towards enhancing automatic airway modelling, current public-available datasets predominantly concentrate on lung diseases with moderate morphological variations.

"Publish or Perish": barriers to research publication in an undergraduate medical research program.

Objectives: Publication is one of the crucial parameters in research, and the inability to publish has been noted in many medical students' projects due to different reasons. This cross-sectional study aimed to determine the obstacles that prevented medical students in a health science university from publishing their research from 2018 to 2021. First, an online survey was distributed to assess the obstacles to publication perceived by the medical students.

Clinical presentation of patients with Ebola virus disease in Conakry, Guinea.

Background: In March 2014, the World Health Organization was notified of an outbreak of Zaire ebolavirus in a remote area of Guinea. The outbreak then spread to the capital, Conakry, and to neighboring countries and has subsequently become the largest epidemic of Ebola virus disease (EVD) to date.

Methods: From March 25 to April 26, 2014, we performed a study of all patients with laboratory-confirmed EVD in Conakry.

Caring for critically ill patients with ebola virus disease. Perspectives from West Africa.

The largest ever Ebola virus disease outbreak is ravaging West Africa. The constellation of little public health infrastructure, low levels of health literacy, limited acute care and infection prevention and control resources, densely populated areas, and a highly transmissible and lethal viral infection have led to thousands of confirmed, probable, or suspected cases thus far. Ebola virus disease is characterized by a febrile severe illness with profound gastrointestinal manifestations and is complicated by intravascular volume depletion, shock, profound electrolyte abnormalities, and organ dysfunction.

Predictive factors of intensive care unit admission in patients with haematological malignancies and pneumonia.

Objective: To describe early signs at the onset of pneumonia occurring in the haematology ward which could be associated with a transfer to the ICU.

Design: A 13-month preliminary prospective observational cohort study.

Setting: Department of haematology and (32-bed) medical intensive care unit (ICU).