The Delphi Technique: Making Sense of Consensus
The Delphi technique is a widely used and accepted method for gathering data from respondents within their domain of expertise. The technique is designed as a group communicatio...
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Model-Based Clustering, Discriminant Analysis, and Density Estimation
Cluster analysis is the automated search for groups of related observations in a dataset. Most clustering done in practice is based largely on heuristic but intuitively reasonab...
Clinical characteristics of 113 deceased patients with coronavirus disease 2019: retrospective study
Abstract Objective To delineate the clinical characteristics of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) who died. Design Retrospective case series. Setting Tongji Hosp...
Substantial undocumented infection facilitates the rapid dissemination of novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2)
Undetected cases The virus causing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has now become pandemic. How has it managed to spread from China to all around the world within 3 to 4 mon...
WHO Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Dashboard
World Health Organization Coronavirus disease situation dashboard presents official daily counts of COVID-19 cases and deaths worldwide, along with vaccination rates and other v...
High Performance of <sup>18</sup>F-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography and Contrast-Enhanced CT in a Rapid Outpatient Diagnostic Program for Patients with Suspected Lung Cancer
<b><i>Background:</i></b> The diagnostic evaluation of patients presenting with possible lung cancer is often complex and time consuming. A rapid outpati...
Snakes, shapes, and gradient vector flow
Snakes, or active contours, are used extensively in computer vision and image processing applications, particularly to locate object boundaries. Problems associated with initial...