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Quality assurance of the international computerised 24 h dietary recall method (EPIC-Soft) Universiteit Gent
The interview-administered 24h dietary recall (24-HDR) EPIC-Soft((R)) has a series of controls to guarantee the quality of dietary data across countries. These comprise all steps that are part of fieldwork preparation, data collection and data management; however, a complete characterisation of these quality controls is still lacking. The present paper describes in detail the quality controls applied in EPIC-Soft, which are, to a large extent, ...
Machine Learning for Quality Assurance of Myocardial Strain Curves KU Leuven
© 2018 IEEE. Speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) is a well-established technique to quantify regional myocardial function. Reliability of STE-derived strain curves, however, depends strongly on the quality of the acquired B-mode images and can significantly be influenced by image artifacts. Artifactual images could lead to tracking errors and as a result, the measured deformation patterns might be similar to those obtained in pathology. It ...
Development of a quality assurance process for the SoLid experiment KU Leuven Vrije Universiteit Brussel Universiteit Gent Universiteit Antwerpen
© 2019 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab. The SoLid experiment has been designed to search for an oscillation pattern induced by a light sterile neutrino state, utilising the BR2 reactor of SCKCEN, in Belgium. The detector leverages a new hybrid technology, utilising two distinct scintillators in a cubic array, creating a highly segmented detector volume. A combination of 5 cm cubic polyvinyltoluene cells, with 6LiF:ZnS(Ag) sheets on two ...
Quality assurance in the treatment of colorectal cancer: the EURECCA initiative KU Leuven
Colorectal cancer is one of the most common cancers in Europe. Over the past few decades, important advances have been made in screening, staging and treatment of colorectal cancer. However, considerable variation between and within European countries remains, which implies that further improvements are possible. The most important remaining question now is: when are we, health care professionals, delivering the best available care to patients ...
Quality Assurance for Self-Adaptive, Self-Organising Systems (Message from the Workshop Organisers) KU Leuven
© 2014 IEEE. Welcome to the first edition of the Workshop on Quality Assurance for Self-adaptive, Self-organising Systems (QA4SASO 2014). Developing self-adaptive, self-organising systems that fulfil the requirements of different stakeholders is no simple matter. Quality assurance is required at each phase of the entire development process, starting from requirements elicitation, agent design, system architecture design, and finally in the ...
Quality assurance at Faculty level: finding the balance between HE-accreditation and transnational program-accreditation KU Leuven
The Faculty of Engineering Science at KU Leuven has a longstanding tradition in engineering education. A wide variety of different engineering programs are offered both at the Bachelor’s level (2), at the Master’s level (23) and at the Advanced Master’s level (6). Over 3,000 students are trained in line with an academic tradition in which education is strongly based on research. The quality of the education is a top priority of the Faculty.The ...
Harmonizing by reducing inter-run variability: performance evaluation of a quality assurance program for antinuclear antibody detection by indirect immunofluorescence KU Leuven
Background The introduction of automated anti-nuclear antibody (ANA) indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) analysis may allow for more harmonized ANA IIF reporting, provided that a thorough quality assurance program controls this process. The aim of this study was to evaluate various quality indicators used for ANA IIF analysis with the final goal of optimizing the iQC program. Methods In an experimental setup, we introduced artificial errors, ...
Future of Personalised Medicine: Quality Assurance of Oncology Biomarker Testing is Essential KU Leuven
Future of personalised medicine: quality assurance of oncology biomarker testing is essential
Tumour specific mutations play an increasing role in the selection of targeted therapy. However testing forthese mutations is not straightforward and errors occur. This could lead to a denial of treatment to patients whowould actually benefit from it, or a superfluous use of high-priced therapeutic agents and unnecessary side
effects in ...
Tumour specific mutations play an increasing role in the selection of targeted therapy. However testing forthese mutations is not straightforward and errors occur. This could lead to a denial of treatment to patients whowould actually benefit from it, or a superfluous use of high-priced therapeutic agents and unnecessary side
effects in ...
Provision and quality assurance of preimplantation genetic diagnosis in Europe Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is now well established and provided in many European countries. However, regulations, professional standards and accreditation requirements can differ notably. Furthermore, no comprehensive independent data exist either about practice and provision in Europe or about the quality assurance practices and procedures designed to optimize the quality of the results. Consequently, a study was launched to obtain ...