27 research outputs found
Integration of Remote Patient Monitoring Systems into Physicians Work in Underserved Communities: Survey of Healthcare Provider Perspectives
Remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies have been identified as a viable
alternative to improve access to care in underserved communities. Successful
RPM platforms are designed and implemented for seamless integration into
healthcare providers work to increase adoption and availability for offering
remote care. A quantitative survey was designed and administered to elicit
perspectives from a wide range of stakeholders, including healthcare providers
and healthcare administrators, about barriers and facilitators in the adoption
and integration of RPM into clinical workflows in underserved areas. Ease of
adoption, workflow disruption, changes in the patient-physician relationship,
and costs and financial benefits are identified as relevant factors that
influence the widespread use of RPM by healthcare providers; significant
communication and other implementation preferences also emerged. Further
research is needed to identify methods to address such concerns and use
information collected in this study to develop protocols for RPM integration
into clinical workflow
It is all about where you start: Text-to-image generation with seed selection
Text-to-image diffusion models can synthesize a large variety of concepts in
new compositions and scenarios. However, they still struggle with generating
uncommon concepts, rare unusual combinations, or structured concepts like hand
palms. Their limitation is partly due to the long-tail nature of their training
data: web-crawled data sets are strongly unbalanced, causing models to
under-represent concepts from the tail of the distribution. Here we
characterize the effect of unbalanced training data on text-to-image models and
offer a remedy. We show that rare concepts can be correctly generated by
carefully selecting suitable generation seeds in the noise space, a technique
that we call SeedSelect. SeedSelect is efficient and does not require
retraining the diffusion model. We evaluate the benefit of SeedSelect on a
series of problems. First, in few-shot semantic data augmentation, where we
generate semantically correct images for few-shot and long-tail benchmarks. We
show classification improvement on all classes, both from the head and tail of
the training data of diffusion models. We further evaluate SeedSelect on
correcting images of hands, a well-known pitfall of current diffusion models,
and show that it improves hand generation substantially
A Rare Case of Light Chain Amyloidosis of the Gastrointestinal Tract
A 65-year-old Hispanic female presented with a one-year history of anorexia, nausea, early satiety, epigastric discomfort, and a 20 kg weight loss. Computed tomography (CT) demonstrated heterogeneous liver parenchyma. Upper endoscopy revealed large, fungating, infiltrative mass at the lesser gastric curvature incisura, highly suspicious of gastric tumor; however, initial biopsy of the gastric mass was equivocal and an exploratory laparoscopy was performed. Repeated intraoperative biopsies of the gastric mass and of liver parenchyma demonstrated diffuse hyalinized stroma consistent with amyloid deposition, and a bone marrow biopsy confirmed the diagnosis of primary light chain (AL) amyloidosis