Publications
THE ROLE OF THE PHYSIOTHERAPIST IN PALLIATIVE CARE IN ONCOLOGY PATIENTS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Background Physiotherapy in palliative oncology patients is less discussed in literature and needs to be thoroughly investigated. Aim The aim of this study was to gather and analyze the available evidence on the effect of physiotherapy in oncology patients who require palliative care. Design This review was conducted by including studies published in the last 23 years, using PubMed and Web of Science as databases. Out of 933 studies, only ten ...
Reducing Bias in Sentiment Analysis Models Through Causal Mediation Analysis and Targeted Counterfactual Training Vrije Universiteit Brussel
A multidimensional ODE-based model of Alzheimer's disease progression Vrije Universiteit Brussel Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre
Representation Learning with Information Theory to Detect COVID-19 and its Severity Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Lung-heart toxicity in a randomized clinical trial of hypofractionated image guided radiation therapy for breast cancer Vrije Universiteit Brussel
BACKGROUND: TomoBreast hypothesized that hypofractionated 15 fractions/3 weeks image-guided radiation therapy (H-IGRT) can reduce lung-heart toxicity, as compared with normofractionated 25-33 fractions/5-7 weeks conventional radiation therapy (CRT).
METHODS: In a single center 123 women with stage I-II operated breast cancer were randomized to receive CRT (N=64) or H-IGRT (N=59). The primary endpoint used a composite four-items ...
How to quantify limb volume: Vrije Universiteit Brussel
essential to understand the evolution of certain pathologies and to
ensure good medical follow-up of the patient. There are many
different methods of measuring volume and perimetry, each with its
own specificities, but none of them being at the same time accurate,
repeatable, reproducible, transportable, fast and easy to use, etc. We
then ...
COVID-19 Lesion Segmentation Framework for the Contrast-Enhanced CT in the Absence of Contrast-Enhanced CT Annotations Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Medical imaging is a dynamic domain where new acquisition protocols are regularly developed and employed to meet changing clinical needs. Deep learning models for medical image segmentation have proven to be a valuable tool for medical image processing. Creating such a model from scratch requires a lot of effort in terms of annotating new types of data and model training. Therefore, the amount of annotated training data for the new imaging ...
Non-parametric ODE-Based Disease Progression Model of Brain Biomarkers in Alzheimer’s Disease Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Lymphoscintigraphic Investigations for Axillary Web Syndromes Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Background: Axillary web syndrome (AWS) is a frequent complication after surgery for breast cancer, but its lymphatic involvement is not definitively established. Here we report the results of lymphoscintigraphic investigations in patients with AWS. Methods and Findings: We conducted a retrospective, single-center review of lymphoscintigraphic investigations performed in 46 patients with AWS that was either clinically obvious or suspected. Of ...