Detection of Atrial Fibrillation on Stroke Units: Look Harder, Look Longer, Look in More Sophisticated Ways

Atrial fibrillation in cryptogenic stroke: look harder, look longer, but just keep looking.

D espite atrial fibrillation (AF) being the most common cardiac arrhythmia, its asymptomatic (and sometimes, paroxysmal) nature makes subsequent detection and diagnosis challenging. Ischemic stroke as a result of AF is usually more severe and results in greater functional loss, and patients with undetected AF will undoubtedly by at greater risk of recurrent stroke. The failure to diagnose AF af...

ILP: A Short Look Back and a Longer Look Forward

Inductive logic programming (ILP) is built on a foundation laid by research in machine learning and computational logic. Armed with this strong foundation, ILP has been applied to important and interesting problems in the life sciences, engineering and the arts. This paper begins by briefly reviewing some example applications, in order to illustrate the benefits of ILP. In turn, the application...

Individualized therapy in patients with atrial fibrillation: new look at atrial fibrillation.

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained arrhythmia and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality, the so-called AF burden. Despite significant progress in the understanding, the mechanisms and pathophysiology of AF treatments are often unsatisfactory. This in part may be related to the complexity of this arrhythmia, as well as its evolution overtime. Atrial fibrillati...

ILP: A Short Look Ba k and a Longer Look Forward

Research in Iran: Look on the Bright Side

Regarding to Dr. Richard Stone’s report entitled “Iran, a shady market for papers flourishes” published in Science 15th September 2016.  There are several points in the articles that require particular attention. The report, although presents some truth, lacks depth and balance on a problem that is not unique to Iran. To begin to understand this, perhaps one needs to remi...