1+ day, 20+ min ago   (512+ words) REBA, RULA, and OWAS are widely used observational ergonomic risk assessment methods based on predefined ordinal scoring rules. The final risk scores generated by these methods play a critical role in determining and prioritizing ergonomic interventions under limited resources to…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (519+ words) Background: The aim of this prospective longitudinal study was to evaluate three-dimensional facial soft tissue changes following treatment with the Sander Bite Jumping Appliance (BJA) in growing patients with skeletal class II malocclusion. Methods: Seventeen consecutive growing patients (14 males and…...

4+ day, 14+ min ago   (537+ words) Automating the identification of International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes from electronic health records (EHRs) presents a critical challenge, particularly for rare diseases where existing computational methods severely underperform due to extreme long-tail label distributions. To address this, we propose a…...

4+ day, 14+ min ago   (422+ words) Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based prediction of multiple sclerosis (MS) progression depends on how imaging data are prepared, represented, modelled, and evaluated. This systematic review synthesized artificial intelligence (AI) methods across the MRI-to-prediction pipeline. PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (466+ words) Neonatal sepsis remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, while timely diagnosis continues to be challenging because of nonspecific clinical manifestations and limitations of conventional diagnostic methods. Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have created new opportunities for…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (555+ words) Background: Markerless motion capture systems are increasingly used in clinical and educational settings to assess functional movement. However, differences in system design and data processing may influence measurement outputs, raising questions about the systematic differences in these technologies. Methods: A…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (468+ words) Introduction: MRI is the gold-standard imaging modality for rectal cancer (RC) local staging, but the ability to determine tumor invasion (pT) and nodal status (pN) remains limited in clinical practice. The main objective of this study is to evaluate the…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (669+ words) A symmetric integrity seal is worth exactly what its key is worth. Any party holding the keyed-hash (HMAC) key of an Internet of Things (IoT) audit trail can forge a record, re-seal a modified one, and leave no cryptographic trace,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (389+ words) As a result of population ageing, rehabilitation assistive products for older adults increasingly need to meet long-term user requirements in terms of usability, comfort, and interactive experience. Although existing hand rehabilitation robots (HRRs) are capable of supporting hand training tasks,…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (486+ words) This study presents a closed-loop digital–physical workflow for manufacturing patient-specific anatomical models and surgical guides for maxillofacial reconstruction. The workflow combines medical-image segmentation, additive manufacturing of anatomical models, surgeon-led physical simulation, re-digitization of the modified models, landmark-based and surface-based…...