Machine learning is a modern approach to problem-solving and task automation. In particular, machine learning is concerned with the development and applications of algorithms that can recognize patterns in data and us...
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Background Dynamic functional network connectivity (dFNC) estimated from resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) is a potentially powerful approach to investigate human behavior and cognition. Ho...
Background Dynamic functional network connectivity (dFNC) estimated from resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) is a potentially powerful approach to investigate human behavior and cognition. However, previous studies barely investigate the reproducibility of dFNC features links with cognition. This study aims to examine whether the data collected in four different sessions reproduce the same results using the sleep scores by applying a dFNC method to resting-state fMRI (rs-fMRI) data from the Human Connectome Project (HCP) Young Adult. Method We used the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) scores and four sessions of rs-fMRI (15 minutes each) from 833 young adults (age between 22 to 37yrs). We calculated the dFNC for each participant using a fully automated Neuromark independent component analysis and a sliding window technique to estimate dFNCs. A k-means clustering approach partitioned dFNCs into two group-level distinct states and subject-level state vectors. Next, we estimated dFNC features from each individual’s state vector and dFNCs. Finally, we trained a 10-fold support vector regression model to predict the sleep scores based on the dFNC features. We applied all the procedures mentioned above to all four sessions separately. Result We found dFNC features can successfully predict each participant’s night sleep time. The correlation between the actual score and the predicted one was R = 0.0853 (p = 0.0182) for session1, R = 0.0696 (p = 0.0485) for session2, R = 0.0764 (p = 0.0393) for session2, and r = 0.0788 (p = 0.0285) for session4. The dFNC features for none of four sessions could predict other sleep scores. Conclusion We showed that the dFNC feature could predict the amount of sleep during the night in the HCP Young Adult population. Additionally, we showed the prediction result replicates across all four rs-fMRI sessions. Future studies are needed to explore the reproducibility of the result within the age range of the HCP data
Epidemiological studies have reported an association between chronic cadmium (Cd) exposure and increased cardiovascular risk; however, their causal relationship remains unclear. The aim of this study is to explore the...
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Epidemiological studies have reported an association between chronic cadmium (Cd) exposure and increased cardiovascular risk; however, their causal relationship remains unclear. The aim of this study is to explore the effects of Cd exposure on the cardiac and arterial systems in mice. According to the concentration of cadmium chloride in drinking water, male mice were randomly divided into control and low-dose and high-dose Cd exposure groups. The intervention duration was 12 weeks. In cardiac tissues, Cd exposure led to focal necrosis, myofibril disarray, perivascular and interstitial fibrosis, and disorganized sarcomere structures. Cd also induced the apoptosis of cardiomyocytes and increased the expression levels of matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-2 and MMP-14 in cardiac tissues. In the arterial tissues, Cd exposure damaged the intimal and medial layers of the aorta. Cd further reduced the viability of aortic smooth muscle cells in vitro. This study provides evidence for the Cd-induced damage of the cardiovascular system, which may contribute to various cardiovascular diseases.
The novel coronavirus or officially known as SARS-CoV 2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2) has caused a severe pandemic over the world affecting not only the economy of the countries but also the lifest...
The novel coronavirus or officially known as SARS-CoV 2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2) has caused a severe pandemic over the world affecting not only the economy of the countries but also the lifestyle of the people worldwide. As on 31.12.2020, Covid-19 (coronavirus disease) has infecting more than 10266674 people and causing about 148738 deaths in India. It has been seen through various statistics of various countries that the number of Covid-19 cases grows exponentially as the number of test increases then after some period, the rate of new cases decreases. In this research paper, researchers have created deep learning-based model to predict the curve of the new Covid-19 cases vs the total number of tests conducted in India. There is still lockdown in some part of the country while some states have partially relaxed the rules and some states totally lifted the lockdown. Predicting the number of new cases and their trend can help in deciding what is the optimal time to release the lockdown. It will also help in determining when the coronavirus will loosen its grip from India.
To address the increasing need for detecting and validating protein biomarkers in clinical specimens,mass spectrometry(MS)-based targeted proteomic techniques,including the selected reaction monitoring(SRM),parallel r...
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To address the increasing need for detecting and validating protein biomarkers in clinical specimens,mass spectrometry(MS)-based targeted proteomic techniques,including the selected reaction monitoring(SRM),parallel reaction monitoring(PRM),and massively parallel dataindependent acquisition(DIA),have been *** optimal performance,they require the fragment ion spectra of targeted peptides as prior *** this report,we describe a MS pipeline and spectral resource to support targeted proteomics studies for human tissue *** build the spectral resource,we integrated common open-source MS computational tools to assemble a freely accessible computational workflow based on *** then applied the workflow to generate DPHL,a comprehensive DIA pan-human library,from 1096 data-dependent acquisition(DDA)MS raw files for 16 types of cancer *** extensive spectral resource was then applied to a proteomic study of 17 prostate cancer(PCa)***,PRM validation was applied to a larger study of 57 PCa patients and the differential expression of three proteins in prostate tumor was *** a second application,the DPHL spectral resource was applied to a study consisting of plasma samples from 19 diffuse large B cell lymphoma(DLBCL)patients and 18 healthy control *** expressed proteins between DLBCL patients and healthy control subjects were detected by DIA-MS and confirmed by *** data demonstrate that the DPHL supports DIA and PRM MS pipelines for robust protein biomarker *** is freely accessible at https://***/page/***?id=IPX0001400000.
This study presents the outcomes of the shared task competition BioCreative VII (Task 3) focusing on the extraction of medication names from a Twitter user's publicly available tweets (the user's 'timeline...
This study presents the outcomes of the shared task competition BioCreative VII (Task 3) focusing on the extraction of medication names from a Twitter user's publicly available tweets (the user's 'timeline'). In general, detecting health-related tweets is notoriously challenging for natural language processing tools. The main challenge, aside from the informality of the language used, is that people tweet about any and all topics, and most of their tweets are not related to health. Thus, finding those tweets in a user's timeline that mention specific health-related concepts such as medications requires addressing extreme imbalance. Task 3 called for detecting tweets in a user's timeline that mentions a medication name and, for each detected mention, extracting its span. The organizers made available a corpus consisting of 182 049 tweets publicly posted by 212 Twitter users with all medication mentions manually annotated. The corpus exhibits the natural distribution of positive tweets, with only 442 tweets (0.2%) mentioning a medication. This task was an opportunity for participants to evaluate methods that are robust to class imbalance beyond the simple lexical match. A total of 65 teams registered, and 16 teams submitted a system run. This study summarizes the corpus created by the organizers and the approaches taken by the participating teams for this challenge. The corpus is freely available at https://***/tasks/biocreative-vii/track-3/. The methods and the results of the competing systems are analyzed with a focus on the approaches taken for learning from class-imbalanced data.
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