Lung cancer is one of the most common types of cancer worldwide. It is also one of the deadliest types of cancer. Using computed tomography scans of the human lungs radiologists can detect dangerous nodules in early stages. When more... more
Lung cancer is one of the most common types of cancer worldwide. It is also one of the deadliest types of cancer. Using computed tomography scans of the human lungs radiologists can detect dangerous nodules in early stages. When more people adopting for these scans, the workload on the radiologists rises. Automatic detection systems that automatically detect these nodules can support radiologists and reduce their workload. Histopathological analysis of whole-slide images is one of the most widely used techniques for diagnosis of lung cancers. In this study, a fully automated pipeline was developed to detect cancer from histopathology slides of lung tissue. We obtained 220023images of dataset consisting of 89116 Histopathologic cancer images, 130907 not affected by Histopathologic cancer and used them to test the proposed methodology. At preprocessing step, we trained a classification model to detect clinically relevant patches of images using statistical measurements. In the next step, cells and nuclei of the cells were segmented and various texture and morphology features were extracted from images and segmented objects. At the final step, different classification models were applied to distinguish between malignant tissues and adjacent normal cells. The results indicates that the usage of machine learning algorithms at pre-processing step for detecting relevant sections of whole slide images improves the performance of automated cancer detection systems substantially.
Background Mucormycosis, a severe fungal infection, is an emerging public health concern during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to investigate the perception of mucormycosis among Bangladeshi healthcare workers. Results An... more
Background Mucormycosis, a severe fungal infection, is an emerging public health concern during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to investigate the perception of mucormycosis among Bangladeshi healthcare workers. Results An exploratory cross-sectional study was carried out among the Bangladeshi healthcare workers from May 25, 2021, to June 5, 2021. The study found 422 responses from the healthcare workers of Bangladesh. Among the respondents, nearly half of them (45.26%) were doctors (n = 191). This study explored that the healthcare workers’ mucormycosis perception scores were significantly associated with their age, gender, profession, monthly income, marital status, job type, and death of friends and family members due to COVID-19. Conclusions This study emphasized the healthcare workers’ mucormycosis perception along with other associated factors. The findings could help policymakers to mitigate mucormycosis and related infectious diseases emergencies in the post-COVID-19...
Background: Mucormycosis, a severe fungal infection, is an emerging public health concern during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to investigate the perception of mucormycosis among Bangladeshi healthcare workers. Results: An... more
Background: Mucormycosis, a severe fungal infection, is an emerging public health concern during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to investigate the perception of mucormycosis among Bangladeshi healthcare workers. Results: An exploratory cross-sectional study was carried out among the Bangladeshi healthcare workers from May 25, 2021, to June 5, 2021. The study found 422 responses from the healthcare workers of Bangladesh. Among the respondents, nearly half of them (45.26%) were doctors (n = 191). This study explored that the healthcare workers' mucormycosis perception scores were significantly associated with their age, gender, profession, monthly income, marital status, job type, and death of friends and family members due to COVID-19. Conclusions: This study emphasized the healthcare workers' mucormycosis perception along with other associated factors. The findings could help policymakers to mitigate mucormycosis and related infectious diseases emergencies in the post-COVID-19 situation.
The United States has experienced dramatic growth in both the technical capabilities and share of resources devoted to medical care. While the benefits of more medical care are widely recognized, the possibility that harm may result from... more
The United States has experienced dramatic growth in both the technical capabilities and share of resources devoted to medical care. While the benefits of more medical care are widely recognized, the possibility that harm may result from growth has received little attention. Because harm from more medical care is unexpected, findings of harm are discounted or ignored. We suggest that such findings may indicate a more general problem and deserve serious consideration. First, we delineate 2 levels of decision making where more medical care may be introduced: (1) decisions about whether or not to use a discrete diagnostic or therapeutic intervention and (2) decisions about whether to add system capacity, eg, the decision to purchase another scanner or employ another physician. Second, we explore how more medical care at either level may lead to harm. More diagnosis creates the potential for labeling and detection of pseudodisease--disease that would never become apparent to patients du...
Burnout is a global health problem affecting physicians across all medical specialties and Radiologists experience higher than average rates of burnout. With advance in information technologies, Radiologists are accepting and adopting... more
Burnout is a global health problem affecting physicians across all medical specialties and Radiologists experience higher than average rates of burnout. With advance in information technologies, Radiologists are accepting and adopting filmless environment efficiently. However, the importance of optimizing workplace ergonomics has received little attention. The ergonomic design of any radiology facility has extremely important to optimizing work performance, comfort and wellbeing of radiologist, and can reducing burnout in radiologist. The main objective of this article is to provide an overview of radiologist burnout and we will review the different areas of ergonomics in radiology promoting health and wellness for radiologist.
Violence against radiologists is a growing problem. This study evaluated the psychosocial factors associated with this phenomenon. A questionnaire was administered to 992 Italian radiologists. Physical violence experienced in the previous... more
Violence against radiologists is a growing problem. This study evaluated the psychosocial factors associated with this phenomenon. A questionnaire was administered to 992 Italian radiologists. Physical violence experienced in the previous 12-month period was associated with the radiologist's poor mental health [odds ratio (OR) 1.11] and overcommitment to work (OR 1.06), whereas radiologists in good physical health (OR 0.64), with job satisfaction (OR 0.96) and with overall happiness (OR 0.67) were less exposed. Nonphysical abuse was equally associated with the radiologist's poor mental health (OR 1.10) and overcommitment (OR 1.14) and negatively associated with physical health (OR 0.54), job satisfaction (OR 0.96), happiness (OR 0.81), organisational justice (OR 0.94) and social support (OR 0.80). Preventive intervention against violence in the workplace should improve workplace organisation and relationships between workers.
This study sought to evaluate professional satisfaction among Italian radiologists and identify what personal characteristics of radiologists and features of their work and work setting affect job satisfaction. Satisfaction was assessed... more
This study sought to evaluate professional satisfaction among Italian radiologists and identify what personal characteristics of radiologists and features of their work and work setting affect job satisfaction. Satisfaction was assessed by using Warr et al.'s 17-item Job Satisfaction Scale (JSS) in 206 radiologists, 108 radiotherapists and 34 specialists in infectious diseases used as controls. Forty-nine per cent of diagnostic radiologists reported being satisfied with their jobs. The frequency is significantly lower than that found among radiotherapists (64%) and controls (62%). Middle-aged radiologists on lower rungs of the career ladder were more dissatisfied than were their older colleagues in top positions. Female radiologists were less satisfied than their male counterparts with regard to recognition for good work, amount of job variety and distribution of workloads. Stepwise logistic regression analysis showed that job satisfaction was especially affected by physical wor...
Radiology Case Reports is one of the exciting and interesting medical courses that makes the use of imaging to distinguish and treat diseases available in the body. Radiology represents a branch of medicine that deals with radiant energy... more
Radiology Case Reports is one of the exciting and interesting medical courses that makes the use of imaging to distinguish and treat diseases available in the body. Radiology represents a branch of medicine that deals with radiant energy in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. This field can be divided into two broad areas – diagnostic radiology and interventional radiology. A variety of imaging techniques such as X-ray radiography, ultrasound, computed tomography (CT), nuclear medicine including positron emission tomography (PET), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are used to diagnose and/or treat diseases. Interventional radiology is the performance of (usually minimally invasive) medical procedures with the guidance of imaging technologies. • Nuclear Radiology For more details on sessions of the conference and abstracts submission, PS: https:// clinicalcasereports.conferenceseries.com/call-for-abstracts.php
