Publications

Federated Learning: Challenges, Methods, and Future Directions

Federated learning involves training statistical models over remote devices or siloed data centers, such as mobile phones or hospitals, while keeping data localized. Training in...

The effect of travel restrictions on the spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak

Outbreak to pandemic In response to global dispersion of severe acute respiratory syndrome–coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), quarantine measures have been implemented around the world...

Persistence of coronaviruses on inanimate surfaces and their inactivation with biocidal agents

Advances and Open Problems in Federated Learning

Federated learning (FL) is a machine learning setting where many clients (e.g. mobile devices or whole organizations) collaboratively train a model under the orchestration of a ...

Comorbidity and its impact on 1590 patients with COVID-19 in China: a nationwide analysis

Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak is evolving rapidly worldwide. Objective To evaluate the risk of serious adverse outcomes in patients with COVID-19 b...

SARS-CoV-2 variants, spike mutations and immune escape

BCLC strategy for prognosis prediction and treatment recommendation: The 2022 update

Features of 20 133 UK patients in hospital with covid-19 using the ISARIC WHO Clinical Characterisation Protocol: prospective observational cohort study

Abstract Objective To characterise the clinical features of patients admitted to hospital with coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) in the United Kingdom during the growth phase ...

Code Saturation Versus Meaning Saturation

Saturation is a core guiding principle to determine sample sizes in qualitative research, yet little methodological research exists on parameters that influence saturation. Our ...

Randomised trial of intravenous streptokinase, oral aspirin, both, or neither among 17,187 cases of suspected acute myocardial infarction: ISIS-2. ISIS-2 (Second International Study of Infarct Survival) Collaborative Group.

17,187 patients entering 417 hospitals up to 24 hours (median 5 hours) after the onset of suspected acute myocardial infarction were randomised, with placebo control, between: (...

RNA-seq: An assessment of technical reproducibility and comparison with gene expression arrays

Ultra-high-throughput sequencing is emerging as an attractive alternative to microarrays for genotyping, analysis of methylation patterns, and identification of transcription fa...

Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver, Steatohepatitis, and the Metabolic Syndrome

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has been associated with the insulin–resistance syndrome, at present defined as the metabolic syndrome, whose limits were recently set. ...