Academic Articles & Research Papers

SNPPhenA: a corpus for extracting ranked associations of single-nucleotide polymorphisms and phenotypes from literature

Abstract Background Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) are among the most important types of genetic variations influencing common diseases and phenotypes. Recently, some corpora and methods have been developed with the purpose of extra...

A pairwise residue contact area-based mean force potential for discrimination of native protein structure

Abstract Background Considering energy function to detect a correct protein fold from incorrect ones is very important for protein structure prediction and protein folding. Knowledge-based mean force potentials are certainly the most popula...

Medical informatics and institutional strategy.

Programs in medical informatics can help academic medical centers make effective use of information technology. But to achieve the greatest strategic benefits from these programs, an institution must forge proper linkage between informatics...

Medical Informatics Europe '96: Human Facets in Information Technologies

This volume covers all aspects of medical informatics, with a focus on human facets in application of information technologies in health care, from ergonomic user interfaces to virtual reality technologies....

Medical Informatics in Iran and the Emergence of Clinical Informatics.

Medical Informatics, an emerging multidisciplinary field at the intersection of medicine, technology, and information sciences, is believed to significantly impact health and medical practice....

Health and Medical Informatics Education

Health and medical informatics education has meanwhile gained considerable importance for medicine and for health care. Specialized programs in health/medical informatics have therefore been established within the last decades. This special...

Regenstrief medical informatics

Training residents in medical informatics.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: A number of medical educators have called for an increased emphasis on medical informatics training, but few family practice residency programs have provided more than cursory teaching efforts in this area. This p...

Medical informatics Europe '97

This publication contains the proceedings of MIE '97, the main informatics and telematics event, where users meet the industry and decision makers are presented with the available informatics and telematics solutions to challenges in medici...

Are Medical Informatics and Nursing Informatics Distinct Disciplines?: The 1999 ACMI Debate

The 1999 debate of the American College of Medical Informatics focused on the proposition that medical informatics and nursing informatics are distinctive disciplines that require their own core curricula, training programs, and professiona...

American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) betaAHIC PDF

The document titled "American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) betaAHIC PDF" is a comprehensive resource that outlines essential insights and developments in the field of medical informatics as presented by the American Medical Inform...

Ontology Technology in Medical Informatics

The main purpose of this paper is to overview the current issues in the area of medical ontology. Ontology technology in Medical Informatics is evolved from the three different research areas: namely, web application for the Semantic Web, K...

Medical Informatics, Artefacts or Science?

Successful and productive medical informatics research is evidently a combination of luck, creative art, and science, but some researchers focus too much on building computer artefacts and writing anecdotal reports of their experience. They...

Медицинская информатика [Medical Informatics]

A 2009 Russian-language textbook by Boris A. Kobrinsky and Tatyana V. Zarubina on medical informatics. The book covers the principles and methods of information technology in medicine, including medical information systems, biomedical data ...

Workshop on medical informatics and engineering

MI&E 2009 will bring researchers, developers, practitoners, and users to present their latest research, results, and ideas in all areas of medical informatics, engineering and artificial intelligence in medicine and health care....

Actual problems in medical informatics.

Medical informatics has been the first science that connects all traditional medical disciplines, thanking to common information needs and requirements of these disciplines. Its goal is incorporating of information technology into medical p...

A history of medical informatics in the United States, 1950 to 1990

A Virtual Reading Center Model Using Crowdsourcing to Grade Photographs for Trachoma: Validation Study

BackgroundAs trachoma is eliminated, skilled field graders become less adept at correctly identifying active disease (trachomatous inflammation—follicular [TF]). Deciding if trachoma has been eliminated from a district or if treatment strat...

Deep learning-based multimodal data fusion in bone tumor management: Advances in clinical decision support

Bone tumors (BTs)—including osteosarcoma, Ewing sarcoma, and chondrosarcoma—are rare but biologically complex malignancies characterized by pronounced heterogeneity in anatomical location, histological subtype, and molecular alterations. Re...

Examining the characteristic features of lipedema and the usefulness of BMI and WHtR in clinical evaluation

Abstract Background Lipedema is an adipose tissue disorder involving mostly women. One of the most characteristic lipedema symptoms is painful accumulation of adipose tissue in lower and upper extremities leading to disproportion. Due to th...