BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
25(1)
Published: Jan. 9, 2025
Urinary
tract
infection
(UTI)
is
a
frequent
health-threatening
condition.
Early
reliable
diagnosis
of
UTI
helps
to
prevent
misuse
or
overuse
antibiotics
and
hence
antibiotic
resistance.
The
gold
standard
for
urine
culture
which
time-consuming
also
an
error
prone
method.
In
this
regard,
complementary
methods
are
demanded.
the
recent
decade,
machine
learning
strategies
that
employ
mathematical
models
on
dataset
extract
most
informative
hidden
information
center
interest
prediction
purposes.
study,
approaches
were
used
finding
important
variables
UTI.
Several
types
machines
including
classical
deep
purpose.
Eighteen
selected
features
from
test,
blood
demographic
data
found
as
features.
Factors
extracted
such
WBC,
nitrite,
leukocyte,
clarity,
color,
blood,
bilirubin,
urobilinogen,
factors
test
like
mean
platelet
volume,
lymphocyte,
glucose,
red
cell
distribution
width,
potassium,
age,
gender
previous
use
determinative
prediction.
An
ensemble
combination
XGBoost,
decision
tree,
light
gradient
boosting
with
voting
scheme
obtained
highest
accuracy
(AUC:
88.53
(0.25),
accuracy:
85.64
(0.20)%),
according
Furthermore,
results
showed
importance
age
This
study
highlighted
potential
suggested.
approach
85.64%.
Gender
Scientific Reports,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
15(1)
Published: Jan. 7, 2025
Pathology
provides
the
definitive
diagnosis,
and
Artificial
Intelligence
(AI)
tools
are
poised
to
improve
accuracy,
inter-rater
agreement,
turn-around
time
(TAT)
of
pathologists,
leading
improved
quality
care.
A
high
value
clinical
application
is
grading
Lymph
Node
Metastasis
(LNM)
which
used
for
breast
cancer
staging
guides
treatment
decisions.
challenge
implementing
AI
widely
LNM
classification
domain
shift,
where
Out-of-Distribution
(OOD)
data
has
a
different
distribution
than
In-Distribution
(ID)
train
model,
resulting
in
drop
performance
OOD
data.
This
work
proposes
novel
clustering
sampling
method
automatically
curate
training
datasets
an
unsupervised
manner
with
aim
improving
model
generalization
abilities.
To
evaluate
proposed
models,
we
applied
use
Two
One-sided
Tests
(TOST)
method.
examines
whether
on
ID
equivalent,
serving
as
proxy
generalization.
We
provide
first
evidence
computing
equivalence
margins
that
data-dependent,
reduces
subjectivity.
The
framework
shows
ensembled
models
constructed
from
generalized
across
both
tumor
normal
patches
enhanced
performance,
achieving
F1
score
0.81
unseen
samples.
Interactive
viewing
slide-level
segmentations
can
be
accessed
PathcoreFlow™
through
https://web.pathcore.com/folder/18555?s=QTJVHJuhrfe5
.
Segmentation
available
at
https://github.com/IAMLAB-Ryerson/OOD-Generalization-LNM
PLOS Digital Health,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
4(1), P. e0000707 - e0000707
Published: Jan. 9, 2025
Postnatal
care
refers
to
the
support
provided
mothers
and
their
newborns
immediately
after
childbirth
during
first
six
weeks
of
life,
a
period
when
most
maternal
neonatal
deaths
occur.
In
30
countries
studied,
nearly
40
percent
women
did
not
receive
postpartum
check-up.
This
research
aims
evaluate
compare
effectiveness
machine
learning
algorithms
in
predicting
postnatal
utilization
Ethiopia
identify
key
factors
involved.
The
study
employs
techniques
analyse
secondary
data
from
2016
Ethiopian
Demographic
Health
Survey.
It
predict
predictors
via
Python
software,
applying
fifteen
machine-learning
sample
7,193
women.
Feature
importance
were
used
select
top
predictors.
models’
was
evaluated
using
sensitivity,
specificity,
F1
score,
precision,
accuracy,
area
under
curve.
Among
four
experiments,
tenfold
cross-validation
with
balancing
Synthetic
Minority
Over-sampling
Technique
outperformed.
From
models,
MLP
Classifier
(f1
score
=
0.9548,
AUC
0.99),
Random
Forest
0.9543,
0.98),
Bagging
0.9498,
0.98)
performed
excellently,
strong
ability
differentiate
between
classes.
Region,
residence,
education,
religion,
wealth
index,
health
insurance
status,
place
delivery
are
identified
as
contributing
that
utilization.
assessed
models
for
forecasting
usage.
Ten-fold
Oversampling
produced
best
results,
emphasizing
significance
addressing
class
imbalance
healthcare
datasets.
approach
enhances
accuracy
dependability
predictive
models.
Key
findings
reveal
regional
socioeconomic
influencing
PNC
utilization,
which
can
guide
targeted
initiatives
improve
ultimately
enhance
child
health.
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
25(1)
Published: Jan. 9, 2025
Urinary
tract
infection
(UTI)
is
a
frequent
health-threatening
condition.
Early
reliable
diagnosis
of
UTI
helps
to
prevent
misuse
or
overuse
antibiotics
and
hence
antibiotic
resistance.
The
gold
standard
for
urine
culture
which
time-consuming
also
an
error
prone
method.
In
this
regard,
complementary
methods
are
demanded.
the
recent
decade,
machine
learning
strategies
that
employ
mathematical
models
on
dataset
extract
most
informative
hidden
information
center
interest
prediction
purposes.
study,
approaches
were
used
finding
important
variables
UTI.
Several
types
machines
including
classical
deep
purpose.
Eighteen
selected
features
from
test,
blood
demographic
data
found
as
features.
Factors
extracted
such
WBC,
nitrite,
leukocyte,
clarity,
color,
blood,
bilirubin,
urobilinogen,
factors
test
like
mean
platelet
volume,
lymphocyte,
glucose,
red
cell
distribution
width,
potassium,
age,
gender
previous
use
determinative
prediction.
An
ensemble
combination
XGBoost,
decision
tree,
light
gradient
boosting
with
voting
scheme
obtained
highest
accuracy
(AUC:
88.53
(0.25),
accuracy:
85.64
(0.20)%),
according
Furthermore,
results
showed
importance
age
This
study
highlighted
potential
suggested.
approach
85.64%.
Gender