Computer-assisted decision support for the usage of preventive antibacterial therapy in children with febrile pyelonephritis: A preliminary study

• DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e31255
• Publication Date: 2024-05-16T17:52:51Z
• Authors: Zhengguo Chen; Ning Li; Zhu Chen; Li Zhou; Liming Xiao; Yangsong Zhang
• Keywords: Social sciences (General); H1-99; Urinary tract infection; Q1-390; 03 medical and health sciences; Science (General); 0302 clinical medicine; Deep learning; Convolutional neural networks; Classification; Research Article

Urinary tract infection (UTI) is one of the most common infectious diseases among children, but there controversy regarding use preventive antibiotics for children first diagnosed with febrile pyelonephritis. To best our knowledge, no studies have addressed this issue by deep learning technology. Therefore, in current study, we conducted a study using