Publications by authors named "V L Phillips"
Introduction Multiple sclerosis (MS) afflicts over 2.8 million individuals worldwide and is a leading cause of neurological impairment in young adults. This study investigates the public interest in MS and its treatment options in the United States over the past decade, utilizing Google Trends data.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Brain cancer is a serious global health problem, leading to increasing mortality and morbidity. Understanding the risk factors is crucial in early diagnosis and treatment. This retrospective cohort study thus aimed at assessing the temporal trends in the incidence of brain cancer based on age, gender, and race from 1999-2020.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCochlear implantation (CI) is an effective intervention for individuals with severe to profound hearing loss; however, it may impact vestibular function due to its proximity to related anatomical structures. Vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMPs) assess the function of the saccule and utricle, critical components of the vestibular system. This review examines CI's impact on air conduction (AC) and bone conduction (BC) VEMP responses.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The large language models (LLMs), most notably ChatGPT, released since November 30, 2022, have prompted shifting attention to their use in medicine, particularly for supporting clinical decision-making. However, there is little consensus in the medical community on how LLM performance in clinical contexts should be evaluated.
Methods: We performed a literature review of PubMed to identify publications between December 1, 2022, and April 1, 2024, that discussed assessments of LLM-generated diagnoses or treatment plans.
Article Synopsis
- Age-at-death estimation is crucial in forensic medicine, and the pulp/tooth area ratio (PAR) method is a popular technique for estimating the age of adult decedents by analyzing the size of the pulp cavity.
- This study evaluated the PAR method using maxillary canines from South African adults, focusing on reliability, sex bias, and the impact of different types of images (radiographs vs. tooth section images) and whether to include enamel area in calculations.
- Results showed that the PAR method is reliable and accurate, with tooth section images yielding the best estimates, and excluding the enamel area improved the model's performance across all image types, contributing valuable insights for age estimation in forensic dentistry.