Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics最新文献

{"title":"Cholesteryl Ester Transfer Protein (CETP) Targets Coronary Artery Disease","authors":"P. Chen","doi":"10.37421/2157-7420.2021.12.381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37421/2157-7420.2021.12.381","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49032,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88390827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ontologies Applied to Prostate Cancer","authors":"J. Deanehan","doi":"10.37421/2157-7420.2021.12.382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37421/2157-7420.2021.12.382","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49032,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics","volume":"21 5-6 1","pages":"1-1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82637287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial on Osteoarthritis Pathogenesis","authors":"W. Kim","doi":"10.37421/2157-7420.2021.12.384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37421/2157-7420.2021.12.384","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49032,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics","volume":"30 1","pages":"1-1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72558842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessment of Knowledge, Perception and Practices about Malaria in Some Rural Communities of South West Region, Cameroon","authors":"B. Tientche, J. Fru-cho, D. Anong, H. Ngouakam, T. Nkuo-Akenji","doi":"10.37421/jhmi.2020.11.344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37421/jhmi.2020.11.344","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Understanding local knowledge about malaria can help in designing sustainable community-based malaria control programs. Thus, the purpose of this study was to generate information on knowledge, perceptions and practices and the preventive measures as regards to malaria in the rural farming community. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted September to October 2013 among 851 households from 9 villages in Ekondo Titi Subdivision using structured questionnaire. Questions assessed knowledge, perceptions and practices about malaria among tribal villagers. The data were analyzed using SPSS 20.0 statistical software program. Results: Most of the respondents 58.2% attributed malaria to mosquito bites. However, some of the respondents (28.8%) mentioned drinking dirty water, midges and standing in the sun as the causes of malaria transmission. Avoiding stagnant water (60.9%) and Clearing of bushes (71.5%) were the most frequently mentioned malaria preventive measures perceived and practiced by the respondents. Only 11.05% of 851 participants owned at least one long lasting insecticide treated net (LLIN). Thirty-nine point nine (39.9%) of respondents indicated that they experienced the last malaria episode more than three months ago. Malaria chemoprophylactic treatment was related to the educational status of the participants (p=0.001) Conclusions: Despite this fair knowledge and good attitudes, practices towards malaria prevention and control were poor. A considerable proportion had misconceptions about the cause and transmission of malaria suggesting the necessity of health education. To close the gap between knowledge about transmission and ownership and use of bed nets as a preventive measure, there is the need to re-energize the CHWs activities and implement the concept of night watch in the rural communities.","PeriodicalId":49032,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics","volume":"75 1","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72832967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Technological Hindrances of Behavioral Medicine Patient Access: A Literature Review","authors":"Jacob Rounds","doi":"10.37421/2157-7420.2020.11.343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37421/2157-7420.2020.11.343","url":null,"abstract":"Technology is a pervasive tool utilized throughout inpatient and outpatient hospital care. Behavioral medicine has a plethora of technology to integrate and support medical infrastructure and processes. A systematic literature review was performed to classify the technological hinderances that specifically plague behavioral medicine. Researchers examined articles contained within the databases of CORE, Elsevier, PubMed, ResearchGate, and ScienceOpen and pulled all relevant articles. A total of 85 articles were collected after the removal of duplicates. Several themes have been identified in the systematic literature review that negatively affects behavioral medicine treatment at the provider, clinical staff, non-clinical staff, patient, and organizational levels. These themes are a lack of behavioral medicine patient resources, a surfeit of stigmas surrounding treatment, higher levels of comorbidities in these patients as compared to non-behavioral medicine specialties, and a reliance on outdated educational protocols for training staff. The themes significantly affect patients within the behavioral medicine specialty more than other subsectors of medicine due to the unique ailments that behavioral medicine encompasses. The future climate of behavioral medicine treatment could be affected by the aforementioned hinderances. However, evidence in the literature review displays positive findings when employee education and technological integration are combined. Further research should be directed towards the implementation of SBE into clinical and non-clinical behavioral medicine employee training.","PeriodicalId":49032,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics","volume":"320 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80230114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Current Status and Unusual Mechanism of Multiresistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis","authors":"A. Chakraborty","doi":"10.4172/2157-7420.1000328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2157-7420.1000328","url":null,"abstract":"TB is a deadly disease and MDR-TB is spreading even DOTS drug regime has rigorously maintained with at least ten new drugs like isoniazid, capreomycin, dapsone, linezolid, pyrazinamide, ethambutol and Beda quinolone apart from traditional drugs like rifampicin, streptomycin, amikacin and clarithromycin. Rifampicin inhibits RNA polymerase and mutations in rpo gene codons give resistance. Streptomycin inhibits protein synthesis and mutation of ribosomal proteins and rRNA genes give resistance but no strAB or mphA1-9 mdr genes reported in Mycobacterium. Bedaquiline kills M. tuberculosis by inhibition of the membrane-bound F1F0-ATP synthase complex. Ciprofloxacin and ofloxacin were replaced by moxifloxacin that binds to DNA gyrase inhibiting DNA replication and/or transcription and mutations of gyrA at position 90 and 94 and gyrB at position 74, 88 and 91 give resistance. Kanamycin and amikacin inhibit protein synthesis and mutation of rrs gene gives resistance. However, aac2’-Ic type acetylating enzymes have also been suggested for multi-resistance. Ethambutol interferes with the biosynthesis of arabinogalactan in the cell wall and embB gene mutation at position 306 gives resistance. ErmMT methyl transferase adds methyl group to 23S rRNA at A2058 giving resistance to azithromycin and clarithromycin where capreomycin or viomycin peptide antibiotics may be effective drug. Ethionamide is a derivative of isonicotinic acid inhibits mycolic acid synthesis disrupting membrane function. Ethionamide resistance were linked due to mutations in etaA, ethA, ethR and inhA genes. Isoniazid is also a pro-drug and katG gene (S315T) mutation was reported for its resistance. Pyrazinamide after conversion to pyrazinoic acid disrupts membrane function inhibiting ATP synthesis and pncA or rpsA gene mutation likely gives resistance. Cycloserine is a peptidoglycan synthesis inhibitor competing D-Alanine ligase. We find beta-lactamase (BlaC) and penicillin binding protein (penA) as well as well studied emrB and qacB drug efflux proteins by genome wide search. But no 50-500 kb MDR plasmid carrying five or more mdr genes as found in most Enterobacteriaceae, have not sequenced in M. tuberculosis. We conclude that search for Mycobacterium plasmids must be accelerated pointing multi-resistance. Surely, phage therapy and gene medicines also have got momentum to overcome multi-resistance and antibiotics void.","PeriodicalId":49032,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics","volume":"13 6","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4172/2157-7420.1000328","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72475623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Timing and Assimilation of New Technology Adoption in Healthcare","authors":"Srikanth R. Gaddam","doi":"10.4172/2157-7420.1000332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2157-7420.1000332","url":null,"abstract":"Background and Objective: Over the last two decades, substantial researches have focused on the factors influencing the success and failure of technology adoption. However, there is little to no research on the optimal time to adopt technology concerning the lag time between its availability and adoption. This paper explores the optimal timing for technology adoption.Methods: The study involves a qualitative inquiry based on semi-structured interviews conducted with individuals who have worked with or have served as information technology executives, managers or business users in mid-sized and large healthcare industries in the United States.Results: From these interview results, a comparison was made between the institutions that have successfully adopted technology and those that have not.Conclusion: Furthermore, this work seeks to understand the technology assimilation effects of individual motivations, organizational readiness, external environmental factors, and the timing of adoption.","PeriodicalId":49032,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics","volume":"19 1","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89202928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Compassionate Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) for Cancer: The Human Touch","authors":"Shakila","doi":"10.4172/2157-7420.1000327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2157-7420.1000327","url":null,"abstract":"We have witnessed tremendous progress in cancer treatment and care during the past decades and with continuous innovations with one discovery building on another are responsible for most new advances in medicine that often leads to early detection and more effective options for treatment. However a diagnosis of cancer is still likely to be frightening and it often brings up a wide range of difficult emotions which have the significant impact on many areas of a person’s life. In this pursuit, a new dimension has been developed to work along with the clinical assessment and medical management-Emotion-Focussed Therapy (EFT). Emotion-focused therapy is empirically supported humanistic treatment that arose out the theoretical integration of research on psychotherapy with ideas from constructivist psychology, emotion theory and attachment theory.","PeriodicalId":49032,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82051578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"In Silico Identification of Interaction between Ageing and Cardiovascular Disease Genes","authors":"Nikita Chordia, Teena Patidar, Priyesh Hardia","doi":"10.4172/2157-7420.1000329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2157-7420.1000329","url":null,"abstract":"Heart is the central organ that pumps pure blood to whole body through blood vessels. This circulation system involves functioning of large number of genes that interacts for proper functioning. Any malfunctioning of single gene leads to the cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) Aging is an inevitable part of life and unfortunately the risk of CVDs increases with ageing. Although numerous studies were carried on cardiovascular diseases that considered both young and aged humans, but still there are many unanswered questions as to how the genetic pathways that regulate aging influence cardiovascular disease and vice versa. Therefore, this is of great interest to identify the interaction between cardiovascular diseases and ageing genes. Genes for CVDs and ageing were collected from various databases and a network was created for their common genes. Network in analyzed to find the interaction between ageing and cardiovascular disease genes.","PeriodicalId":49032,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics","volume":"87 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79685437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Robust and Secured Medical Image Watermarking Using Daub4 and CoAST Transforms","authors":"V. Kavitha, C. Palanisamy, T. Sureshkumar","doi":"10.1166/jmihi.2018.2513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1166/jmihi.2018.2513","url":null,"abstract":"A hybrid watermarking technique using wavelet and Shearlet transform is proposed in this paper. The DWT variant Daub4 transform model is applied on the medical image to generate different frequency sub-bands. The HL and LH sub-bands which are resistant to compression attacks are chosen\u0000 for second level of transformation, a DST variant 'Cone adaptive Shearlet transform' technique is used to calculate the Shearlet coefficients of the selected sub-bands. By using SVD on the Shearlet coefficients, the singular values of watermark image are embedded into the singular values of\u0000 the host image. The proposed approach is examined using three medical images and a watermark image. The experimental results show that the proposed approach is robust against JPEG compression, Geometric and Noise attacks.","PeriodicalId":49032,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics","volume":"239 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76120110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}