INTRODUCTION Prediction of death and prolonged mechanical ventilation is important in terms of projecting resource utilization and in establishing protocols for clinical studies of acute lung injury (ALI). We aimed to identify risk factors for a combined end-point of death and/or prolonged ventilator dependence and developed an ALI-specific prediction model. METHODS In this retrospective anal...

background avoidable mortality as an indicator for assessing the health system performance has caught the attention of researchers for a long time. in this study we aimed to compare the health system performance using this indicator in rural and urban areas of one of iran’s southern provinces.   methods all deaths (29916) which happened during 2004–2011 in bushehr province were assessed. nolte ...

according to world health organization, breast cancer is one of the most deadly cancers occurred in women. therefore accurate diagnosis and prediction is important to decrease the high death rate. the aim of this paper is twofold. first, improving breast cancer detection accuracy using modified fuzzy logic (mfl) then improving the performance of mfl algorithm using gpu platform. the experimenta...

BACKGROUND We sought to determine whether treadmill exercise time may be of value as an initial prognostic screening tool in ambulatory patients with impaired systolic function who are referred for cardiopulmonary exercise testing. METHODS AND RESULTS We studied 2231 adult systolic heart failure patients (27% of whom were women) who underwent cardiopulmonary stress testing using a modified Na...

Myocardial infarction is still one of the leading causes of death and morbidity. The early prediction of such disease can prevent or reduce the development of it. Machine learning can be an efficient tool for predicting such diseases. Many people have suffered myocardial infarction in the past. Some of those have survived and others were dead after a period of time. A machine learning system ca...

Introduction: During the last half century, all indices of mortality imply the prompt and continuous decrease of nationwide mortality. Alongside reduction of mortality, there happened a comprehensive form of transition of mortality causes, from epidemical and other communicable diseases such as mothers' (birth giving) mortalities and birth related ones, to other causes like chronic diseases r...

Origin of the coronavirus was the seafood market of Wuhan city, Hubei province in China. The cases of someone suffering from COVID-19 can be traced back to the end of December 2019 in China. This is the most infectious disease and spread worldwide within three months after the first case reported. The World Health Organization renames Coronavirus as COVID-19. COVID-19 is the β-Coronavirus famil...