{"title":"Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures, recent advances and commentary on, Vasta et al., the application of artificial intelligence to understand the biological bases of the disorder","authors":"N. Boutros","doi":"10.21037/JMAI.2018.12.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/JMAI.2018.12.01","url":null,"abstract":"As many as 33 per 100,000 people experience episodes of paroxysmal impairment associated with a range of manifestations that can be motor, sensory, and/or mental and closely mimic and frequently mistaken for epileptic seizures (1). These episodes are termed psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES). The prevalence of PNES episodes is much higher in epilepsy practices, reaching as high as 30% (2). The diagnosis of PNES remains a process of excluding epilepsy and thus leads to an average time from onset of these paroxysms to diagnosis of close to seven years.","PeriodicalId":73815,"journal":{"name":"Journal of medical artificial intelligence","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.21037/JMAI.2018.12.01","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43175427","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":"Computer-aided diagnosis to differentiate colorectal polyps: are we nearing primetime?","authors":"N. Shahidi, M. Byrne","doi":"10.21037/JMAI.2018.11.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/JMAI.2018.11.02","url":null,"abstract":"Colorectal cancer screening has proven to be an effective preventative health measure (1). This is, in part, achieved by the identification and removal of neoplastic adenomatous polyps. However, within the rectum and sigmoid colon, non-neoplastic hyperplastic polyps are also common.","PeriodicalId":73815,"journal":{"name":"Journal of medical artificial intelligence","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.21037/JMAI.2018.11.02","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46169198","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":"Can texture features computed from the joint intensity distribution of different MRI sequences accurately predict prostate cancer grade?","authors":"V. Stavrinides, L. C. Echeverria, H. Whitaker","doi":"10.21037/JMAI.2018.11.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/JMAI.2018.11.01","url":null,"abstract":"The diagnostic landscape of prostate cancer has evolved rapidly, from prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing to exciting new technologies that allow visualization of the disease, moving away from random sampling to targeted biopsies. Multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) is a new modality that combines T2-weighted (T2W), diffusion-weighted (DW) and dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) sequences, each designed to reveal specific microstructural features typically associated with malignancy such as increased vascularity and cellularity.","PeriodicalId":73815,"journal":{"name":"Journal of medical artificial intelligence","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41440471","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}