Publications by authors named "Zehua Dong"

Background: Several recent studies have found that the efficacy of computer-aided polyp detection (CADe) on the adenoma detection rate (ADR) diminished in real-world settings. The role of unmeasured factors in AI-human interaction, such as monitor approaches, remains unknown. This study aimed to validate the effectiveness of CADe in the real world and assess the impact of monitor approaches.

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Recent reports have suggested an inverse relationship between Alzheimer's disease (AD) and cancer, although the underlying mechanism remains unclear. We performed an epidemiological meta-analysis to assess cancer likelihood in AD patients and vice versa and explored the role of APOE in tumor immunity across 33 The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) cancer types. Our analysis revealed that people with AD are epidemiologically less likely to develop cancer than individuals without AD (RR: 0.

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Background And Aim: The implementation of computer-aided detection (CAD) devices in esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) could autonomously identify gastric precancerous lesions and neoplasms and reduce the miss rate of gastric neoplasms in prospective trials. However, there is still insufficient evidence of their use in real-life clinical practice.

Methods: A real-world, two-center study was conducted at Wenzhou Central Hospital (WCH) and Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University (RHWU).

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  • * EUS-AIRS was developed using eight deep learning models trained on over 235,000 images and was tested through retrospective and prospective methods, demonstrating greater completeness in capturing standard biliopancreatic stations compared to human endoscopists.
  • * Results showed that EUS-AIRS significantly outperformed endoscopists in accuracy and completeness, indicating its potential to enhance the quality of EUS imaging through the integration of artificial intelligence.
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Decoding gene regulatory networks is essential for understanding the mechanisms underlying many complex diseases. GENET is developed, an automated system designed to extract and visualize extensive molecular relationships from published biomedical literature. Using natural language processing, entities and relations are identified from a randomly selected set of 1788 scientific articles, and visualized in a filterable knowledge graph.

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Gliomas are highly heterogeneous in molecular, histology, and microenvironment. However, a classification of gliomas by integrating different tumor microenvironment (TME) components remains unexplored. Based on the enrichment scores of 17 pathways involved in immune, stromal, DNA repair, and nervous system signatures in diffuse gliomas, we performed consensus clustering to uncover novel subtypes of gliomas.

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Background And Aims: The impact of various categories of information on the prediction of post-ERCP pancreatitis (PEP) remains uncertain. We comprehensively investigated the risk factors associated with PEP by constructing and validating a model incorporating multimodal data through multiple steps.

Methods: Cases (n = 1916) of ERCP were retrospectively collected from multiple centers for model construction.

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Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a major etiology of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). An interesting question is how different are the molecular and phenotypic profiles between HBV-infected (HBV+) and non-HBV-infected (HBV-) HCCs? Based on the publicly available multi-omics data for HCC, including bulk and single-cell data, and the data we collected and sequenced, we performed a comprehensive comparison of molecular and phenotypic features between HBV+ and HBV- HCCs. Our analysis showed that compared to HBV- HCCs, HBV+ HCCs had significantly better clinical outcomes, higher degree of genomic instability, higher enrichment of DNA repair and immune-related pathways, lower enrichment of stromal and oncogenic signaling pathways, and better response to immunotherapy.

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Background And Aim: Early whitish gastric neoplasms can be easily misdiagnosed; differential diagnosis of gastric whitish lesions remains a challenge. We aim to build a deep learning (DL) model to diagnose whitish gastric neoplasms and explore the effect of adding domain knowledge in model construction.

Methods: We collected 4558 images from two institutions to train and test models.

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  • Researchers developed an AI system to identify gastric atrophy (GA) using the Kimura-Takemoto classification, which helps predict gastric cancer risk and guides endoscopy surveillance intervals.
  • The AI system was trained and tested on a substantial amount of retrospective images and videos, outperforming human endoscopists in sensitivity and accuracy for identifying and stratifying GA.
  • Overall, the AI demonstrated expert-level performance, indicating a strong potential to enhance endoscopic evaluations and patient management strategies for gastric conditions.
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Study Objective: To explore how American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status classification affects different machine learning models in hypotension prediction and whether the prediction uncertainty could be quantified.

Design: Observational Studies SETTING: UofL health hospital PATIENTS: This study involved 562 hysterectomy surgeries performed on patients (≥ 18 years) between June 2020 and July 2021.

Interventions: None MEASUREMENTS: Preoperative and intraoperative data is collected.

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Importance: The adherence of physicians and patients to published colorectal postpolypectomy surveillance guidelines varies greatly, and patient follow-up is critical but time consuming.

Objectives: To evaluate the accuracy of an automatic surveillance (AS) system in identifying patients after polypectomy, assigning surveillance intervals for different risks of patients, and proactively following up with patients on time.

Design, Setting, And Participants: In this diagnostic/prognostic study, endoscopic and pathological reports of 47 544 patients undergoing colonoscopy at 3 hospitals between January 1, 2017, and June 30, 2022, were collected to develop an AS system based on natural language processing.

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Background: Alzheimer's disease (AD) and cancer are common age-related diseases, and epidemiological evidence suggests an inverse relationship between them. However, investigating the potential mechanism underlying their relationship remains insufficient.

Methods: Based on genome-wide association summary statistics for 42,034 AD patients and 609,951 cancer patients from the GWAS Catalog using the two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) method.

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Background: Artificial intelligence (AI) performed variously among test sets with different diversity due to sample selection bias, which can be stumbling block for AI applications. We previously tested AI named ENDOANGEL, diagnosing early gastric cancer (EGC) on single-center videos in man-machine competition. We aimed to re-test ENDOANGEL on multi-center videos to explore challenges applying AI in multiple centers, then upgrade ENDOANGEL and explore solutions to the challenge.

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Background: This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) blended with early rehabilitation on the diaphragm and skeletal muscle in sufferers on mechanical ventilation (MV).

Method: This is a prospective randomized controlled study. Eighty patients on MV for respiratory failure were divided into a study group (40 cases) and a control group (40 cases) randomly.

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Studies of how positive and negative coping styles affect social anxiety show mixed results. Hence, our two meta-analyses determined the overall effect sizes of problem solving-focused coping (PSC) styles and emotion-focused coping (EFC) styles on social anxiety in mainland China (PSC: k = 49 studies, N = 34,669; EFC: k = 52, N = 36,531). PSC was negatively linked to social anxiety (- .

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Background: This protocol is for a multi-centre randomised controlled trial to determine whether the computer-aided system ENDOANGEL-GC improves the detection rates of gastric neoplasms and early gastric cancer (EGC) in routine oesophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD).

Methods: Study design: Prospective, single-blind, parallel-group, multi-centre randomised controlled trial.

Settings: The computer-aided system ENDOANGEL-GC was used to monitor blind spots, detect gastric abnormalities, and identify gastric neoplasms during EGD.

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Stereo matching in binocular endoscopic scenarios is difficult due to the radiometric distortion caused by restricted light conditions. Traditional matching algorithms suffer from poor performance in challenging areas, while deep learning ones are limited by their generalizability and complexity. We introduce a non-deep learning cost volume generation method whose performance is close to a deep learning algorithm, but with far less computation.

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White light endoscopy is the most pivotal tool for detecting early gastric neoplasms. Previous artificial intelligence (AI) systems were primarily unexplainable, affecting their clinical credibility and acceptability. We aimed to develop an explainable AI named ENDOANGEL-ED (explainable diagnosis) to solve this problem.

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Background: Changes in gastric mucosa caused by () infection affect the observation of early gastric cancer under endoscopy. Although previous researches reported that computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems have great potential in the diagnosis of infection, their explainability remains a challenge.

Objective: We aim to develop an explainable artificial intelligence system for diagnosing infection (EADHI) and giving diagnostic basis under endoscopy.

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Background And Aims: EGD is essential for GI disorders, and reports are pivotal to facilitating postprocedure diagnosis and treatment. Manual report generation lacks sufficient quality and is labor intensive. We reported and validated an artificial intelligence-based endoscopy automatic reporting system (AI-EARS).

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Background: White light (WL) and weak-magnifying (WM) endoscopy are both important methods for diagnosing gastric neoplasms. This study constructed a deep-learning system named ENDOANGEL-MM (multi-modal) aimed at real-time diagnosing gastric neoplasms using WL and WM data.

Methods: WL and WM images of a same lesion were combined into image-pairs.

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Background: Timely identification and regular surveillance of patients at high risk are crucial for early diagnosis of upper gastrointestinal cancer. However, traditional manual surveillance method is time-consuming, and current surveillance rate is below 50%. Here, we aimed to develop a surveillance system named ENDOANGEL-AS (automatic surveillance) for automatic identification and surveillance of high-risk patients.

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Background: Although transcriptomic data have been widely applied to explore various diseases, few studies have investigated the association between transcriptomic perturbations and disease development in a wide variety of diseases.

Methods: Based on a previously developed algorithm for quantifying intratumor heterogeneity at the transcriptomic level, we defined the variation of transcriptomic perturbations (VTP) of a disease relative to the health status. Based on publicly available transcriptome datasets, we compared VTP values between the disease and health status and analyzed correlations between VTP values and disease progression or severity in various diseases, including neurological disorders, infectious diseases, cardiovascular diseases, respiratory diseases, liver diseases, kidney diseases, digestive diseases, and endocrine diseases.

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