With the emerging use of speech technology in consumer goods, we experimented with application conversational agents for communication health information relating to HPV vaccine. Research have stated that one-to-one contact between providers and patients a variety positive influences on patients' perception towards vaccines, even leading uptake, compared paper-based methods. We implemented Wizard Oz experiment counsels adults children (n=18) vaccine, using an iPad tablet dialogue script...

To investigate parent-child agreement on fatigue reporting in pediatric otolaryngology patients and whether might vary by diagnosis other patient factors. Cross-sectional survey. Patients ages 5-18 years old being evaluated for hearing loss (HL) or obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) were recruited from a clinic center. Children parents completed the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory Multidimensional Fatigue Scale (PedsQL MFS). Responses 42 with HL, 49 OSA, 10 sleep-disordered breathing (SDB),...

Healthcare services, particularly in patient-provider interaction, often involve highly emotional situations, and it is important for physicians to understand respond their patients' emotions best ensure well-being. In order model the emotion domain, we have created Visualized Emotion Ontology (VEO) provide a semantic definition of 25 based on established models, as well visual representations utilizing shapes, lines, colors. As determined by ontology evaluation metrics, VEO exhibited better...

Objective To investigate the fatigue levels of children with hearing loss (HL) and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), hypothesizing that experienced by HL is under‐recognized. Study Design Cross‐sectional survey. Methods We identified aged 2–18 HL, OSA, sleep‐disordered breathing (SDB), controls from a pediatric otolaryngology clinic center. Children and/or parents completed Pediatric Quality Life Inventory Multidimensional Fatigue Scale (PedsQL MFS), Hearing Environments And Reflection on...

Orbital plasmacytoma is a rare plasma cell tumor that may arise as an aggressive form of extramedullary multiple myeloma. Treatment modalities include surgical excision, radiation, and chemotherapy. Chimeric antigen receptor T therapy currently reserved for refractory disease. The authors present case 69-year-old woman with extensive orbital to multimodal who was treated idecabtagene vicleucel chimeric therapy. Four days after infusion, the patient exhibited grade 1 cytokine release...

To investigate the relationship between pediatric obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) severity and quality of life (QOL).

Abstract Background Previously, we introduced our Patient Health Information Dialogue Ontology (PHIDO) that manages the dialogue and contextual information of session between an agent a health consumer. In this study, take next step introduce Conversational Operator (COO), software engine harnessing PHIDO. We also developed question-answering subsystem called Frankenstein Question-Answering for User-centric Systems (FOQUS) to support interaction. Methods tested both system using...

Abstract We explored the social influence of humor in a virtual human counselor's self‐disclosure while also varying ethnicity counselor. In 2 × 3 experiment (humor and counselor), participants experienced counseling interview interactions via Skype on smartphone. measured user responses to perceptions The results demonstrate that positively affects further suggest matching styles with influences perceptions. offer insight into effective design development realistic believable counselors....

Software tools now are essential to research and applications in the biomedical domain. However, existing software repositories mainly built using manual curation, which is time-consuming unscalable. This study took initiative manually annotate names 1,120 MEDLINE abstracts titles used this corpus develop evaluate machine learning–based named entity recognition systems for software. Specifically, two strategies were proposed feature engineering: (1) domain knowledge features (2) unsupervised...

CASE DESCRIPTION A 15-month-old male Newfoundland was examined because of an inability to urinate, lethargy, inappetence, and intermittent vomiting that first became evident after bilateral cryptorchidectomy 2 days previously. The patient referred for further evaluation treatment. CLINICAL FINDINGS Results physical examination, serum biochemical analysis, abdominocentesis led a diagnosis uroperitoneum. Retrograde cystography indicated urinary tract obstruction. In view the history recent...

To enhance the characterization of primary bulbar conjunctival basal cell carcinoma (BCC) clinically and histologically, via report a case review relevant medical literature. We 73-year-old man with no history skin cancer who presented nodule without connection to eyelid or caruncle, originally thought represent pyogenic granuloma. After one month improvement on topical prednisolone, excisional biopsy was performed, routine histopathology immunohistochemistry. The tumor found histologically...

Optical blur is an inherent property of any lens system and challenging to model in modern cameras because their complex optical elements. To tackle this challenge, we introduce a high-dimensional neural representation blur$-$$\textit{the field}$$-$and practical method for acquiring it. The field multilayer perceptron (MLP) designed (1) accurately capture variations the 2D point spread function over image plane location, focus setting and, optionally, depth (2) represent these parametrically...

Emotions influence our perceptions and decisions are often felt more strongly in situations related to healthcare. Therefore, it is important understand how both providers patients express their emotions face-to-face scenarios. An ontology a way represent domain concepts the relationships between them polyarchical manner. We have created an ontological model called Visualized Emotion Ontology (VEO) that expresses semantic definitions visualizations of 25 based on published research. With...

For every semiconductor device, digital processor, FPGA (field programmable gate array), etc. on a typical electronics board, there are usually dozen or more associated MLCCs. They perform power supply bypassing, DC isolation, EMI filtering functions and many others. Over the last decade in drive toward higher density, number of multilayered stacks have increased to hundreds, while dielectrics (typically doped BaTiO3) become thinner, approaching submicrometer regime. We developed technique...

Background Dermoscopy is a growing field that uses microscopy to allow dermatologists and primary care physicians identify skin lesions. For given lesion, wide variety of differential diagnoses exist, which may be challenging for inexperienced users name understand. Objective In this study, we describe the creation dermoscopy diagnosis explorer (D3X), an ontology linking dermoscopic patterns diagnoses. Methods Existing ontologies were incorporated into D3X include elements visuals ontology,...

Ophthalmoscopy is a challenging skill to learn but essential for identifying ophthalmic pathology. Typically, there are few opportunities early learners practice this in the non-clinical setting.

Many studies have examined the impact of exercise and other physical activities in influencing health outcomes individuals. These entail an intricate sequence series anatomy, physiological movement, movement etc. To better understand how these components interact with one another their downstream on outcomes, there needs to be information model that conceptualizes all entities involved. In this study, we introduced our early development ontology computationally describe human various compose...

We prove two results about transforming any convex polyhedron, modeled as a linkage L of its edges. First, if we subdivide each edge in half, then can be continuously flattened into plane. Second, is equilateral and again reversed, i.e., turned inside-out. A linear number subdivisions optimal up to constant factors, show (nonequilateral) examples that require subdivisions. For nonequilateral linkages, more required: even tetrahedron an arbitrary reverse. tetrahedra, provide algorithm matches...

Islamic geometric patterns are a rich and venerable ornamental tradition. Many classic designs feature periodic arrangements of rosettes: star shapes surrounded by rings hexagonal petals. We present new technique for generating 'freeform' compositions finite that freely mix rosettes unusual sizes while retaining the aesthetics traditional patterns. use circle packing as scaffolding developing patch polygons fill each polygon with motif based on established constructions from art.