background: depression is one of the most common psychiatry disorders. the most common treatments for this disorder are pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy. due to the side effects and expensiveness of these methods, developing the non-drug treatments seems to be necessary. this study tries to determine the effect of eight weeks of aerobic exercises on depression, frequency of negative automatic ...

Introduction: Although many factors can affect the choice of destination in medical tourism, some factors are indispensable to medical tourists and medical tourism. The aim of this study was to analyze important factors affecting the selection of a destination by potential medical tourists. Methods: This descriptive, cross-sectional study, conducted in Tu...

We describe the parallels between findings from cognitive science and neuroscience and Common-Sense Models in four areas: (1) Activation of illness representations by the automatic linkage of symptoms and functional changes with concepts (an integration of declarative and perceptual and procedural knowledge); (2) Action plans for the management of symptoms and disease; (3) Cognitive and behavio...

In fluoroscopy guided interventional procedures, a ceiling suspended screen is used to protect personnel for scattered X-ray radiation arising from patient treatment. The correct positioning of the crucial proper occupational protection. proposed solution in this paper provides reliable and efficient protection radiation, based on an device protective merging into one system via appropriate int...

Medical images annotation is most of the time a repetitive hard task. Collecting old similar annotations and assigning them to new medical images may not only enhance the annotation process, but also reduce ambiguity caused by repetitive annotations. The goal of this work is to propose an approach based on Hausdorff distance able to compute similarity between a new medical image and old stored ...