Factors predicting complicated cholecystectomies

It's complicated - Factors predicting decisional conflict in prenatal diagnostic testing.

BACKGROUND The technologies currently available to detect the presence of foetal genetic abnormalities are complex, and undergoing prenatal diagnostic testing can have wide-ranging repercussions. Before individuals can decide with certainty whether or not to take these tests, they first need to grasp the many psychosocial and clinical dimensions of prenatal genetic testing. OBJECTIVE To test ...

Video Summarization of Laparoscopic Cholecystectomies

We compared image features with a distance metric and support vector machine to identify the critical view of a laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Our accuracy was up to 91%. We are currently experimenting with particle analysis, edge analysis, and feature clustering to create a more robust image classifier.

Factors Predicting Positive Outcomes

Factors Predicting Satisfaction Judgments

A number of psychological processes (e.g. social comparison, aspirations) may explain why people differ in their satisfaction with various hfe domains. This study compared the impact of a number of such processes on satisfaction judgments in a sample of 149 college students. Social comparison and positive affect were strong predictors of satisfaction across most domains. Obje~ive conditions and...

Predicting the complicated neutropenic fever in the emergency department

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to identify independent factors that can be used to predict whether febrile neutropenic patients who appear healthy at presentation will develop subsequent complications, using variables that are readily available in the emergency department (ED). METHOD The medical records of 192 episodes in which the patients presented to the ED with neutropenic feve...