Clinical validation of using a commercial synthetic-computed tomography solution for brain MRI-only radiotherapy treatment planning by Lamyaa Aljaafari, Richard Speight, David L. Buckley, David Bird, Bashar Al-Qaisieh

“…The clinical plan produced on the CT was recalculated on the sCT. …”
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Dexamethasone in brain tumor patients: a real-world pharmacovigilance audit by Vindhya Prasad, Ali Elhag, Louis Onyiriuka, Engelbert Mthunzi, Sarah Hatch, Awais Naeem, Fatmahelzahraa Noureldin, Francesco Marchi, Francesco Marchi, Ahmed Raslan, Yasir A. Chowdhury, Jonathan Shapey, Jonathan Shapey, Richard Gullan, Ranjeev Bhangoo, Francesco Vergani, Keyoumars Ashkan, Jose Pedro Lavrador, Jose Pedro Lavrador

“…Prolonged steroid use (>2 weeks) (OR = 3.5, [95% CI: 1.1–11.0], p = 0.04), and absence of an MDT steroid plan (OR = 4.2, [95% CI: 1.2–15.0], p = 0.03) were significant predictors of complications, particularly of Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) Grade 2–3 severity. Nurse-led clinic follow-up was more common in surgical patients (91%) than BSC patients (24.6%, p < 0.001) and supported steroid monitoring.DiscussionProlonged steroid use and incomplete documentation of steroid plan were associated with increased steroid-related complications highlighting the need for more robust prescribing protocols and improved multidisciplinary follow-up.…”
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Correlation between Head Midline Shift CT-Scan with Glasgow Coma Scale in Head Injury Patient at Waled General Hospital, Cirebon, Indonesia by Aditia Permana, Nunik Royyani, Evan Wahyudy Ladala

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An effective brain stroke diagnosis strategy based on feature extraction and hybrid classifier by Maha Samir Elsayed, Gehad Ahmed Saleh, Ahmed I. Saleh, Abeer Twakol Khalil

“…The hybrid deep learning framework integrates Vision Transformer (ViT) and VGG16 to enable accurate and interpretable stroke detection from CT images. The model was trained and evaluated using a publicly available dataset from Kaggle, achieving impressive results: a test accuracy of 99.6%, a precision of 1.00 for normal cases and 0.98 for stroke cases, a recall of 0.99 for normal cases and 1.00 for stroke cases, and an overall F1-score of 0.99. …”
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The Application Value of Brain Natriuretic Peptide in the Prognostic Evaluation of Patients With Chronic Left Heart Failure by Congling Xiang, Weier Zhou

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Masked and Noise-Masked Multimodal Brain Tumor Image Segmentation Using SegFormer and Shared Encoder Framework by K. Hemalatha, P. R. Vishnu Vardhan, Alfred Dharmaraj Aravindraj, S. Hari Hara Sudhan

“…Medical image segmentation is a critical task in clinical diagnosis and treatment, particularly for brain tumor analysis using imaging modalities such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Computed Tomography (CT) scans. …”
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Ischemic stroke of undetermined source as a priming event for brain metastasis: a case report and systematic literature review by Paolo Amisano, Antonio Ciacciarelli, Svetlana Lorenzano, Irene Berto, Sara Belcastro, Danilo Toni, Manuela De Michele

“…A follow-up whole-body computed tomography (CT) scan confirmed a right upper lobe lung mass, which was diagnosed as pulmonary adenocarcinoma on subsequent mediastinal lymph node biopsy. …”
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Osteoporosis in Wilson’s disease: A large cohort study highlighting age, sex and skeletal symptoms as key risk factors for clinical surveillance by Ling Zhu, Bin Song, Yun Xu, Yu-long Zhu, Lei Hua, Na Nian, Long Zhang, Quan Sun, Ben-chun Xue, Yin Xu, Yong-sheng Han

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REMODELING OF THE RIGHT HEART AND THE LEVEL OF BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC THROMBOEMBOLIC PULMONARY HYPERTENSION: A COMPARATIVE CROSS-SECTIONAL OBSERVATIONAL... by A. A. Klimenko, N. A. Shostak, N. A. Demidova, I. V. Novikov, S. M. Sorokoletov, S. V. Madoyan

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Adapting foundation models for rapid clinical response: intracerebral hemorrhage segmentation in emergency settings by Alessia Gerbasi, Federico Mazzacane, Federica Ferrari, Beatrice Del Bello, Anna Cavallini, Riccardo Bellazzi, Silvana Quaglini

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Non-Contrast MRI Sequences for Ischemic Stroke: A Concise Overview for Clinical Radiologists by Bachtiar NA, Murtala B, Muis M, Ilyas MI, Abdul Hamid H, As'ad S, Tammasse J, Wuysang AD, Soraya GV

“…The current gold standards for vascular imaging in stroke include computed tomography angiography (CTA), digital subtraction angiography (DSA) and magnetic resonance angiography (MRA). …”
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Customised virus‐like particles: Opening a new chapter for clinical precision gene therapy by Xingyu Zhu, Qingye Zhang, Xujiao Zhou, Yujia Cai, Jiaxu Hong

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Evaluating the role of quantitative pupillometry in chronic subdural hematoma: A pilot study by Lukas Klein, Christopher Beynon, Daniel Kühlwein, Sandro M. Krieg, Alexander Younsi, Pavlina Lenga

“…Methods: This prospective study included 26 elderly cSDH patients between 65 and 97 years of age undergoing standard cranial computed tomography (cCT) and surgical burr-hole hematoma evacuation at our institution. …”
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Functional connectivity-related changes underlying mindfulness meditation for internet gaming disorder: a randomized clinical trial by Xuefeng Xu, Haosen Ni, Huabin Wang, Tongtong Wang, Chang Liu, Xiaolan Song, Guang-Heng Dong

“…Study 2- a randomized clinical trial, 80 IGD patients underwent either an MM intervention (twice-weekly for 8 sessions) or progressive muscle relaxation (PMR) as a control (pre-registered-Chinese clinical trial registry, ChiCTR2300075869, September 18, 2023). …”
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Clinical outcome of electrical transcutaneous auricular vagal stimulation in patients with stable symptomatic chronic heart failure - A pilot study by Regina Patricia Schukro, Christoph Schukro, Sibylle Pramhas, Asami Naka, Sabine Sator-Katzenschlager

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Individualized transcranial temporal interference stimulation (tTIS) for cognitive impairments and negative symptoms in patients with schizophrenia: a study protocol for a randomiz... by Shuzhe Wang, Junhao Chen, Linxuan Wang, Jingxuan Liu, Lijun Wang, Wenjie Sun, Shen Li, Jie Li

“…Trial registration Chinese Clinical Trial Registry (ChiCTR2500102724). Recruitment is scheduled to begin on May 27, 2025.…”
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Case Report: A case of neuropsychiatric lupus with primary central nervous system diffuse large B-cell lymphoma by Yuexi Zhang, Shaoling Zheng, Yiming Li, Shuyang Chen, Xin Guo, Zhixiang Huang, Weiming Deng, Yuheng Xing, Zhengping Huang, Tianwang Li, Tianwang Li

“…Laboratory tests revealed elevated infection markers and Epstein-Barr virus infection. Brain CT and MRI showed an abnormal intracranial lesion on the left side, which was initially considered to be a brain abscess. …”
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The potential of generative AI with prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) PET/CT: challenges and future directions by Islam Md Zobaer, Spiro Ergi, Yap Pew-Thian, Gorin Michael A., Rowe Steven P.

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A novel automated CT biomarker to predict outcomes in acute ischemic stroke: net water uptake by Monica Mallavarapu, Hyun Woo Kim, Ananya Iyyangar, Sergio Salazar-Marioni, Albert J. Yoo, Luca Giancardo, Sunil A. Sheth, Jerome A. Jeevarajan

“…CT images were pre-processed and segmented, then NWU was calculated by automated comparison of density on ipsilateral and contralateral brain regions. …”
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Immunological barriers to immunotherapy in primary and metastatic breast cancer by Mara De Martino, Claire Vanpouille‐Box, Lorenzo Galluzzi

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