BACKGROUND This study compared the estimated costs and times required for ABO/Rh(D) typing and unexpected antibody screening using an automated system and manual methods. METHODS The total cost included direct and labor costs. Labor costs were calculated on the basis of the average operator salaries and unit values (minutes), which was the hands-on time required to test one sample. To estimat...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Cerebral infarct volume as observed in follow-up CT is an important radiologic outcome measure of the effectiveness of treatment of patients with acute ischemic stroke. However, manual measurement of CIV is time-consuming and operator-dependent. The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate a robust automated measurement of the CIV. MATERIALS AND METHODS The CIV...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Thrombus characterization is increasingly considered important in predicting treatment success for patients with acute ischemic stroke. The lack of intensity contrast between thrombus and surrounding tissue in CT images makes manual delineation a difficult and time consuming task. Our aim was to develop an automated method for thrombus measurement on CT angiography and va...

Manual procedures have been developed for determination in human cerebrospinal fluid of the immunoglobulins lgG, IgA, and 1gM. An automated continuous-flow procedure for determination of lgG in human CSF is also described. The immunoglobulins are quantitated in both cases by immunoprecipitin reactions, with use of commercial antiserum. Values determined for the immunoglobulins by the manual met...

PURPOSE To assess the diagnostic validity of a fully automated image analysis algorithm of in vivo confocal microscopy images in quantifying corneal subbasal nerves to diagnose diabetic neuropathy. METHODS One hundred eighty-six patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T1/T2DM) and 55 age-matched controls underwent assessment of neuropathy and bilateral in vivo corneal confocal micr...

We developed and verified an automated sample processing protocol for use with the AMPLICOR HIV-1 MONITOR test, version 1.5 (Roche Diagnostics, Indianapolis, Ind.). The automated method uses the MagNA Pure LC instrument and total nucleic acid reagents (Roche Applied Science, Indianapolis, Ind.) to extract human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) RNA from plasma specimens. We compared the HIV...

วารสารโลหติวทิยาและเวชศาสตร บรกิารโลหติ ป ที ่11 ฉบบัที ่1 มกราคม-มนีาคม 2544 The reticulocyte count is one of the most valuable test to assess the bone marrow erythropoietic activity1. In the present day, there are two common methods to perform reticulocyte count, manual and automated reticulocyte count. Manual reticulocyte count is basic common laboratory method for determination of the numbe...

Background Manual left ventricular (LV) volumes and function analysis is time consuming and operator dependent. Automated and semi-automated LV analysis tools could be helpful, especially in high volume clinical and research centres. Inline VF (Siemens) is a fully-automated assessment tool performing LV volume analysis during scan acquisition. The aims of this study were: 1) to assess performan...

BACKGROUND The corticomotor silent period (CSP), as assessed noninvasively by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in the primary motor cortex, has been found to reflect intracortical inhibitory mechanisms. Analysis of CSP is mostly conducted manually. However, this approach is time-consuming, and comparison of results from different laboratories may be compromised by inter-rater variability...