Computer methods and programs in biomedicine update最新文献

{"title":"Delayed matrix pencil method for local shear wave viscoelastographic estimation","authors":"X. Li,&nbsp;S. Turco,&nbsp;R.M. Aarts,&nbsp;H. Wijkstra,&nbsp;M. Mischi","doi":"10.1016/j.cmpbup.2024.100156","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cmpbup.2024.100156","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Shear wave (SW) elastography is an ultrasound imaging modality that provides quantitative viscoelastic measurements of tissue. The phase difference method allows for local estimation of viscoelasticity by computing the dispersion curve using phases from two laterally-spaced pixels. However, this method is sensitive to measurement noise in the estimated SW particle velocities. Hence, we propose the delayed matrix pencil method to investigate this problem, and validated its feasibility both <em>in-silico</em> and <em>in-vitro</em>. The performance was compared with the original phase difference method and other two alternative techniques based on lowpass filtering and discrete wavelet transform denoising. The estimated viscoelastic values are summarized in box plots and followed by statistical analysis. Results from both studies show the proposed method to be more robust to noise with the smallest interquartile range in both elasticity and viscosity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72670,"journal":{"name":"Computer methods and programs in biomedicine update","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100156"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666990024000235/pdfft?md5=407281c736aa0eadcc9ebd09eb287aa3&pid=1-s2.0-S2666990024000235-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140780086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Studying usability of public health surveillance maps through framework based heuristic evaluation","authors":"Hurmat Ali Shah,&nbsp;Mowafa Househ,&nbsp;Jens Schneider,&nbsp;Dena A. Al-Thani,&nbsp;Marco Agus","doi":"10.1016/j.cmpbup.2024.100143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmpbup.2024.100143","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Public health surveillance systems play a crucial role in detecting and responding to disease outbreaks. Visualizations of surveillance data are important for decision-making, but little attention has been paid to the usability and interaction of such systems. In this paper, we developed a set of 10 heuristics to assess the visualization and usability of public health surveillance systems. The heuristics cover aspects of perception, cognition, and interaction. The perception deals with how the system looks in the first glance and whether it has pleasant effect on the user or otherwise. Cognition deals with the question of whether enough information is provided to use the system, while usability and interaction deal with whether the system is user-friendly in terms of the tools provided for interaction and use. We recruited a panel of experts to evaluate a set of systems using our heuristics. Results showed that there was variation in the scores of the experts' assessments, indicating the importance of multiple expert evaluations. Our heuristics provide a practical and comprehensive tool for assessing the visualization and usability of public health surveillance systems, which can lead to improved decision-making and ultimately better public health outcomes. The results suggest that the heuristic based evaluation through a panel of experts can provide meaningful results and insights into the usability aspects of public health systems. The results suggest that for some systems there can be agreement in terms of evaluation while for some other systems the experts’ opinions can vary based on the weightage and importance each expert gives to a particular aspect.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72670,"journal":{"name":"Computer methods and programs in biomedicine update","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666990024000107/pdfft?md5=1561ce8d225c67f6c84e908ae17b6e6d&pid=1-s2.0-S2666990024000107-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140000141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Artificial Intelligence for Clinical Prediction: Exploring Key Domains and Essential Functions","authors":"Mohamed Khalifa ,&nbsp;Mona Albadawy","doi":"10.1016/j.cmpbup.2024.100148","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cmpbup.2024.100148","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>Clinical prediction is integral to modern healthcare, leveraging current and historical medical data to forecast health outcomes. The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in this field significantly enhances diagnostic accuracy, treatment planning, disease prevention, and personalised care leading to better patient outcomes and healthcare efficiency.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>This systematic review implemented a structured four-step methodology, including an extensive literature search in academic databases (PubMed, Embase, Google Scholar), applying specific inclusion and exclusion criteria, data extraction focusing on AI techniques and their applications in clinical prediction, and a thorough analysis of the collected information to understand AI's roles in enhancing clinical prediction.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Through the analysis of 74 experimental studies, eight key domains, where AI significantly enhances clinical prediction, were identified: (1) Diagnosis and early detection of disease; (2) Prognosis of disease course and outcomes; (3) Risk assessment of future disease; (4) Treatment response for personalised medicine; (5) Disease progression; (6) Readmission risks; (7) Complication risks; and (8) Mortality prediction. Oncology and radiology come on top of the specialties benefiting from AI in clinical prediction.</p></div><div><h3>Discussion</h3><p>The review highlights AI's transformative impact across various clinical prediction domains, including its role in revolutionising diagnostics, improving prognosis accuracy, aiding in personalised medicine, and enhancing patient safety. AI-driven tools contribute significantly to the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare delivery.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion and recommendations</h3><p>AI's integration in clinical prediction marks a substantial advancement in healthcare. Recommendations include enhancing data quality and accessibility, promoting interdisciplinary collaboration, focusing on ethical AI practices, investing in AI education, expanding clinical trials, developing regulatory oversight, involving patients in the AI integration process, and continuous monitoring and improvement of AI systems.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72670,"journal":{"name":"Computer methods and programs in biomedicine update","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100148"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666990024000156/pdfft?md5=25b89b60dd2d132f8cd31e3852e51d32&pid=1-s2.0-S2666990024000156-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140086333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Comparative evaluation of low-cost 3D scanning devices for ear acquisition","authors":"Michaela Servi,&nbsp;Elisa Mussi,&nbsp;Yary Volpe","doi":"10.1016/j.cmpbup.2024.100135","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cmpbup.2024.100135","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Autologous ear reconstruction is a surgical procedure performed in the case of defects of the outer ear in which the malformed anatomy is reconstructed with autologous cartilage tissue and often involves the use of surgical guides modelled from a digital reconstruction of the ear anatomy. To obtain such three-dimensional anatomy, traditional imaging methods, which are expensive and invasive, can be replaced by professional 3D scanners or low-cost commercial devices. In this context, this paper focuses on the evaluation of two devices for the acquisition of the outer ear, the Intel® RealSense D405™ (stereo camera) and the TrueDepth camera of the iPhone® 13 (structured light camera), proposing a comparison based on four parameters: accuracy, precision, deviation range and point-to-point distance, in order to assess their usability in the medical field, and in particular in the context of autologous ear reconstruction. The results show that, despite significantly different handling of the raw data, the performance of the two devices is comparable: average accuracy is 0.76 mm for the D405 and 0.95 mm for the iPhone 13, average precision is 0.071 mm for the D405 and 0.065 mm for the iPhone 13, average range of deviation is 3.12 mm for the D405 and 3.64 mm for the iPhone 13.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72670,"journal":{"name":"Computer methods and programs in biomedicine update","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666990024000028/pdfft?md5=2b3a59598fbf0e022f831d85098b0645&pid=1-s2.0-S2666990024000028-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139392022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"TCM-GPT: Efficient pre-training of large language models for domain adaptation in Traditional Chinese Medicine","authors":"Guoxing Yang ,&nbsp;Xiaohong Liu ,&nbsp;Jianyu Shi ,&nbsp;Zan Wang ,&nbsp;Guangyu Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.cmpbup.2024.100158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmpbup.2024.100158","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Pre-training and fine-tuning have emerged as a promising paradigm across various natural language processing (NLP) tasks. The effectiveness of pretrained large language models (LLM) has witnessed further enhancement, holding potential for applications in the field of medicine, particularly in the context of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). However, the application of these general models to specific domains often yields suboptimal results, primarily due to challenges like lack of domain knowledge, unique objectives, and computational efficiency. Furthermore, their effectiveness in specialized domains, such as Traditional Chinese Medicine, requires comprehensive evaluation.</p><p>To address the above issues, we propose a novel domain specific TCMDA (TCM Domain Adaptation) approach, efficient pre-training with domain-specific corpus. Specifically, we first construct a large TCM-specific corpus, TCM-Corpus-1B, by identifying domain keywords and retrieving from general corpus. Then, our TCMDA leverages the LoRA which freezes the pretrained model’s weights and uses rank decomposition matrices to efficiently train specific dense layers for pre-training and fine-tuning, efficiently aligning the model with TCM-related tasks, namely TCM-GPT-7B. We further conducted extensive experiments on two TCM tasks, including TCM examination and TCM diagnosis. TCM-GPT-7B archived the best performance across both datasets, outperforming other models by relative increments of 17% and 12% in accuracy, respectively. To the best of our knowledge, our study represents the pioneering validation of domain adaptation of a large language model with 7 billion parameters in TCM domain. We will release both TCM-Corpus-1B and TCM-GPT-7B model once accepted to facilitate interdisciplinary development in TCM and NLP, serving as the foundation for further study.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72670,"journal":{"name":"Computer methods and programs in biomedicine update","volume":"6 ","pages":"Article 100158"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666990024000259/pdfft?md5=774f0f1fccc75e9ae296f5c0ed05fda2&pid=1-s2.0-S2666990024000259-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141304020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Examining the mediating roles of eHealth literacy dimensions between health status and well-being perspectives among seniors in the digital era","authors":"Gizell Green","doi":"10.1016/j.cmpbup.2024.100150","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cmpbup.2024.100150","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>There is a need to explore models of eHealth literacy that serve as mediators in the relationship between health status and well-being from multidimensional perspectives among the elderly population.</p></div><div><h3>Aims</h3><p>To examine series models in which eHealth literacy dimensions, including awareness of sources, recognizing quality and meaning, understanding information, perceived efficiency, and validating information, serve as mediators between health status and factors related to well-being, such as financial, physical, eudaimonic, and hedonic well-being.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>This cross-sectional study included 437 Israeli seniors aged 65 or above and employed the eHEALS-E scale with six dimensions to assess eHealth literacy in the first section of the questionnaire. The second section utilized a well-being scale with five categories to measure financial, physical, social, eudaimonic, and hedonic well-being. Ethical approval was obtained from the Institutional Review Board (IRB).</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>eHealth literacy dimensions such as understanding information, awareness of sources, validating information, and recognizing quality play a crucial role in mediating the relationship between health status and different aspects of financial, social, eudaimonic and hedonic well-being.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>Interventions and educational programs are needed to focus on enhancing eHealth literacy, specifically targeting the dimensions of understanding information, awareness of sources, validating information, and recognizing quality. By improving these eHealth literacy dimensions, individuals' financial well-being, social well-being, and overall eudaimonic and hedonic well-being can be positively influenced.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72670,"journal":{"name":"Computer methods and programs in biomedicine update","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266699002400017X/pdfft?md5=4f4dd65fc8824371fe7530e936a76f1b&pid=1-s2.0-S266699002400017X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140272056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An X-ray image-based pruned dense convolution neural network for tuberculosis detection","authors":"Edna Chebet Too ,&nbsp;David Gitonga Mwathi ,&nbsp;Lucy Kawira Gitonga ,&nbsp;Pauline Mwaka ,&nbsp;Saif Kinyori","doi":"10.1016/j.cmpbup.2024.100169","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cmpbup.2024.100169","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>According to the Ministry of Health in Kenya, tuberculosis (TB) is the fifth greatest cause of death and the main infectious disease killer in Kenya and across the world. In Kenya and throughout Africa, TB continues to wreak havoc on many vulnerable populations, homes, and communities despite being preventable and treatable. Common TB diagnostics, like blood and skin tests, frequently fail to identify the precise kind of TB. As a result, the World Health Organization (WHO) advises expanding the use of X-rays, for screening. In TB-prevalent regions of Kenya, a shortage of radiologists hampers effective screening and diagnosis, highlighting the need for scalable solutions for accurate X-ray analysis.</div><div>Recent advancements in deep learning techniques have shown promise in the healthcare sector, particularly in radiology. However, many deep convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures are computationally intensive due to their size and resource requirements. This study designed and developed a Pruned CNN to address this issue by applying pruning techniques to baseline architectures. This approach significantly reduced model sizes while maintaining accuracy levels. Specifically, the pruned version of the DenseNet model achieved an impressive 99 % accuracy with a reduction rate of 65.8 %. These results highlight the potential of this pruned CNN as an effective and efficient tool for TB detection, particularly in resource-constrained environments. This study addresses the shortage of radiological expertise in many regions by providing a tool that can assist in the interpretation of X-ray images. This capability can help healthcare providers deliver timely and accurate diagnoses, thereby improving patient care.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":72670,"journal":{"name":"Computer methods and programs in biomedicine update","volume":"6 ","pages":"Article 100169"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143161897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Predicting chronic kidney disease progression using small pathology datasets and explainable machine learning models","authors":"Sandeep Reddy ,&nbsp;Supriya Roy ,&nbsp;Kay Weng Choy ,&nbsp;Sourav Sharma ,&nbsp;Karen M Dwyer ,&nbsp;Chaitanya Manapragada ,&nbsp;Zane Miller ,&nbsp;Joy Cheon ,&nbsp;Bahareh Nakisa","doi":"10.1016/j.cmpbup.2024.100160","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cmpbup.2024.100160","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>Chronic kidney disease (CKD) poses a major global public health burden, with over 700 million affected. Early identification of those in whom the disease is likely to progress enables timely therapeutic interventions to delay advancement to kidney failure.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>This study developed explainable machine learning models leveraging pathology data to accurately predict CKD trajectory, targeting improved prognostic capability even in early stages using limited datasets. Key variables used in this study include age, gender, most recent estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), mean eGFR, and eGFR slope over time prior to the incidence of kidney failure. Supervised classification modelling techniques included decision tree and random forest algorithms selected for interpretability. Internal validation on an Australian tertiary centre cohort (<em>n</em> = 706; 353 with kidney failure and 353 without) achieved exceptional predictive accuracy. To address the inherent class imbalance, centroid-cluster-based under-sampling was applied to the Australian dataset. For external validation, the model was applied to a dataset (<em>n</em> = 597 adults) sourced from a Japanese CKD registry. Transfer learning was subsequently employed by fine-tuning machine learning models on 15 % of the external dataset (<em>n</em> = 89) before evaluating the remaining 508 patients.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Internal validation achieved exceptional predictive accuracy, with the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC-AUC) reaching 0.94 and 0.98 on the binary task of predicting kidney failure for decision tree and random forest, respectively. External validation demonstrated performant results with an ROC-AUC of 0.88 for the decision tree and 0.93 for the random forest model. Decision tree model analysis revealed the most recent eGFR and eGFR slope as the most informative variables for prediction in the Japanese cohort.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>The research highlights the utility of deploying explainable machine learning techniques to forecast CKD trajectory even in the early stages utilising limited real-world datasets.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72670,"journal":{"name":"Computer methods and programs in biomedicine update","volume":"6 ","pages":"Article 100160"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666990024000272/pdfft?md5=990fdaf12f5d28d2cae65af47c229654&pid=1-s2.0-S2666990024000272-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142012917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"DiGAN Breakthrough: Advancing diabetic data analysis with innovative GAN-based imbalance correction techniques","authors":"Puyang Zhao ,&nbsp;Xinhui Liu ,&nbsp;Zhiyi Yue ,&nbsp;Qianyu Zhao ,&nbsp;Xinzhi Liu ,&nbsp;Yuhui Deng ,&nbsp;Jingjin Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.cmpbup.2024.100152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmpbup.2024.100152","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In the rapidly evolving field of medical diagnostics, the challenge of imbalanced datasets, particularly in diabetes classification, calls for innovative solutions. The study introduces DiGAN, a groundbreaking approach that leverages the power of Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) to revolutionize diabetes data analysis. Marking a significant departure from traditional methods, DiGAN applies GANs, typically seen in image processing, to the realm of diabetes data. This novel application is complemented by integrating the unsupervised Laplacian Score for sophisticated feature selection. The pioneering approach not only surpasses the limitations of existing techniques but also sets a new benchmark in classification accuracy with a 90% weighted F1-score, achieving a remarkable improvement of over 20% compared to conventional methods. Additionally, DiGAN demonstrates superior performance over popular SMOTE-based methods in handling extremely imbalanced datasets. This research, focusing on the integrated use of Laplacian Score, GAN, and Random Forest, stands at the forefront of diabetic classification, offering a uniquely effective and innovative solution to the long-standing data imbalance issue in medical diagnostics.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72670,"journal":{"name":"Computer methods and programs in biomedicine update","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666990024000193/pdfft?md5=465f3cbca9e1cb295e9d2d56ae5c71e1&pid=1-s2.0-S2666990024000193-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140552303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Role-playing recovery in social virtual worlds: Adult use of child avatars as PTSD therapy","authors":"Donna Davis ,&nbsp;Stephen Alexanian","doi":"10.1016/j.cmpbup.2023.100129","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cmpbup.2023.100129","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A study of a community of people with disabilities in a virtual world sheds new light on an important issue of health literacy that has to date remained underreported in the current body of research. Participants revealed a community of individuals who are adults role-playing <em>via</em> child avatars as a coping and recovery mechanism for childhood trauma. One case follows the experience of a woman who role plays an adopted child of a caring adult while another attempts to recreate different ages of herself to unpack past trauma and find therapeutic healing. This phenomenon, as well as both its risks and opportunities, are examined with important considerations for the future of digital mental health support for people who have experienced abuse as children. Researchers, policy makers, and mental health professionals are encouraged to consider the role of social virtual worlds in the future of telemedicine for PTSD therapy.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72670,"journal":{"name":"Computer methods and programs in biomedicine update","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100129"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266699002300037X/pdfft?md5=aee6f0c42be284ed2238561d6e7b28da&pid=1-s2.0-S266699002300037X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139301410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}