Ultrasound may play an important role in the management of labor and delivery. Induction of labor is a common obstetric intervention, performed in about 20% of pregnancies. Pre-induction cervical length, measured by transvaginal sonography, has been shown to have a significant association with the induction-to-delivery interval and the risk for cesarean section. In the management of labor there...

Objective The aim of this study was to assess the influence of premature rupture of membranes (PROM) on the induction of labor. Material and Method This historical cohort study analyzed 1861 inductions of labor at term using misoprostol which occurred between 2010 and 2015. Exclusion criteria included intrauterine fetal death, previous cesarean section, and fetal structural or chromosomal ano...

OBJECTIVE Our purpose was to assess economic and health consequences of elective induction at term. STUDY DESIGN A decision-tree model incorporating a Markov analysis was used to compare the decision either to electively induce labor at term or expectantly manage the pregnancy until 42 weeks' gestation. Main outcome measures, stratified by parity, cervical ripeness, and gestational age at ind...

Bayesian topic models have recently been shown to perform well in word sense induction (WSI) tasks. Such models have almost exclusively used bag-of-words features, and failed to attain improvement by including other feature types. In this paper, we investigate the impact of integrating syntactic and knowledge-based features and show that both parametric and non-parametric models consistently be...