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Comput Biol Med 2022 Jun 17;147:105729. Epub 2022 Jun 17.

Department of Digital Media Technology, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, 310018, China. Electronic address:

Semi-supervised learning has become a popular technology in recent years. In this paper, we propose a novel semi-supervised medical image classification algorithm, called Pseudo-Labeling Generative Adversarial Networks (PLGAN), which only uses a small number of real images with few labels to generate fake images or mask images to enlarge the sample size of the labeled training set. First, we combine MixMatch to generate pseudo labels for the fake and unlabeled images to do the classification. Read More

Comput Biol Med 2022 Jun 8;147:105717. Epub 2022 Jun 8.

Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Macau, Taipa, Macao Special Administrative Region of China; Institute of Science and Environment, University of Saint Joseph, Estr. Marginal da Ilha Verde, Macao Special Administrative Region of China. Electronic address:

Ligand peptides that have high affinity for ion channels are critical for regulating ion flux across the plasma membrane. These peptides are now being considered as potential drug candidates for many diseases, such as cardiovascular disease and cancers. In this work, we developed Multi-Branch-CNN, a CNN method with multiple input branches for identifying three types of ion channel peptide binders (sodium, potassium, and calcium) from intra- and inter-feature types. Read More

Neuroimage Clin 2022 Jun 17;35:103090. Epub 2022 Jun 17.

Psychosomatic Medicine, Department of Neurology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Switzerland. Electronic address:

Background: Patients suffering from functional neurological disorder (FND) experience disabling neurological symptoms not caused by an underlying classical neurological disease (such as stroke or multiple sclerosis). The diagnosis is made based on reliable positive clinical signs, but clinicians often require additional time- and cost consuming medical tests and examinations. Resting-state functional connectivity (RS FC) showed its potential as an imaging-based adjunctive biomarker to help distinguish patients from healthy controls and could represent a "rule-in" procedure to assist in the diagnostic process. Read More

Tissue Cell 2022 Jun 14;77:101854. Epub 2022 Jun 14.

Department of Respiratory, Hwa Mei Hospital, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Ningbo Institute of Life and Health Industry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

Background And Objective: Improving ability to predict the prognosis of patients with progressive lung cancer is an important task in the era of precision medicine. Here, a predictive model based on liquid biopsy for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) was established to improve prognosis prediction in patients with progressive NSCLC.

Methods: Clinical data and blood samples of 500 eligible patients were collected and screened from the electronic case database and blood sample center of Hwa Mei Hospital, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ningbo Institute of Life and Health Industry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Read More

Int J Biometeorol 2022 Jun 25. Epub 2022 Jun 25.

College of Fashion and Design, Donghua University, West Yan'an Road 1882, Shanghai, 200051, China.

The thermo-physiological human simulator has been used in many regions for estimating thermal behavior of the locals. The applicability of the human simulator to populations from different regions is, however, questioned due to its lack of consideration for the ethnic diversities in thermoregulation. This study checked the potential of improving the applicability of the Newton human simulator, one of the most popular simulators, by correcting its local set point skin temperatures according to the target population (Chinese as an example). Read More