abstract background: evaluation of breast masses in women under 40 years old starts with a triple test score (tts) which is composed of clinical breast examination, mammography and fine needle aspiration. increased breast density in this age group decreases the sensitivity of mammography. so deciding whether to biopsy such nondiagnostic lesions or not is subject to challenge. breast masses up t...

This paper presents results of the usability evaluation performed according to the methodology of fuzzy usability evaluation that was presented in the previous research of the authors. As a result of a particular evaluation, a usability score is obtained. The score combines various factors affecting the usability of target system. The authors demonstrate the methodology on the example of usabil...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Multimodal imaging in acute ischemic stroke defines the extent of arterial collaterals, resultant penumbra, and associated infarct core, yet limitations abound. We identified superficial and deep venous drainage patterns that predict outcomes in patients with a proximal arterial occlusion of the anterior circulation. METHODS An observational study that used computed tom...

OBJECTIVE Develop a method for the evaluation of patients nutritional status through a score that expresses universal nutritional status, as well as investigate if that score would be efficient for the prognostic stratification of advanced heart failure (HF) pts. METHODS The score was reached by the selection of evaluation methods that would quantify nutritional status: ideal body weight perc...

Methods of incorporating the evaluation of professional conduct have varied widely by specialty, institution, and level of training. Medical educators now are tasked with developing more operationally-defined evaluative tools while balancing the ongoing need to reduce administrative load and survey fatigue that have been linked with physician burnout. Our aim was to investigate the value of a s...

This paper is an analysis of project proposals for mine clearance of mine-affected areas. Specifically we are studying the relationship between proposals and their evaluation scores influencing their funding possibilities. First we investigate the possibility of building a reliable predictive model for automatic evaluation score prediction from the attributes of the proposal, and second we anal...

In DUC 2005, the pyramid method for content evaluation was used for the first time in a crosssite evaluation. We discuss the method used in creating pyramid models and performing peer annotation. Analysis of score averages for the peers indicates that the best systems score half as well as humans, and that systems can be grouped into better and worse performers. There were few significant diffe...

objective: to evaluate the adnexal masses with conventional gray scale and color doppler flow imaging and to assess their diagnostic reliability to differentiate benign and malignant adnexal masses. materials and methods: we evaluated 30 patients with adnexal mass. morphological characterization of the mass was done using sassone score. color doppler parameters noted down in each patient and ca...