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  vaccine could be deployed later, particularly if it has only a short duration of protection and the intention was to protect against infectious mononucleosis. There is a lack of high-quality data on the prevalence and age of EBV infection outside of Europe, North America and South-East Asia, which are essential for informing effective vaccination policies in these settings. Background Data on mortality burden and excess deaths attributable to diabetes are sparse and frequently unreliable, particularly in low and middle-income countries. Estimates in Brazil to date have relied on death certificate data, which do not consider the multicausal nature of deaths. Our aim was to combine cohort data with national prevalence and mortality statistics to estimate the absolute number of deaths that could have been prevented if the mortality rates of people with diabetes were the same as for those without. In addition, we aimed to estimate the increase in burden when considering undiagnosed diabetes. Methods We estimated self-reported diabetes prevalence from the National Health Survey (PNS) and overall mortality from the national mortality information system (SIM). We estimated the diabetes mortality rate ratio (rates of those with vs without diabetes) from the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil), an ongoing cohort study. Joining estimates from these three sources, we calculated for the population the absolute number and the fraction of deaths attributable to diabetes.  https://www.selleckchem.com/products/favipiravir-t-705.html  We repeated our analyses considering both self-reported and unknown diabetes, the latter estimated based on single point-in-time glycemic determinations in ELSA-Brasil. Finally, we compared results with diabetes-related mortality information from death certificates. Results In 2013, 65 581 deaths, 9.1% of all deaths between the ages of 35-80, were attributable to known diabetes. If cases of unknown diabetes were considered, this figure would rise to 14.3%. In contrast, based on death certificates only, 5.3% of all death had diabetes as the underlying cause and 10.4% as any mentioned cause. Conclusions In this first report of diabetes mortality burden in Brazil using cohort data to estimate diabetes mortality rate ratios and the prevalence of unknown diabetes, we showed marked underestimation of the current burden, especially when unknown cases of diabetes are also considered. Purpose Mammography plays a key role in the diagnosis of breast cancer; however, decision-making based on mammography reports is still challenging. This paper aims to addresses the challenges regarding decision-making based on mammography reports and propose a Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) using data mining methods to help clinicians to interpret mammography reports. Methods For this purpose, 2441 mammography reports were collected from Imam Khomeini Hospital from March 21, 2018, to March 20, 2019. In the first step, these mammography reports are analyzed and program code is developed to transform the reports into a dataset.  https://www.selleckchem.com/products/favipiravir-t-705.html  Then, the weight of every feature of the dataset is calculated. Random Forest, Naïve Bayes, K-nearest neighbor (K-NN), Deep Learning classifiers are applied to the dataset to build a model capable of predicting the need for referral to biopsy. Afterward, the models are evaluated using cross-validation with measuring Area Under Curve (AUC), accuracy, sensitivity, specificity indices. Results The mammography type (diagnostic or screening), mass and calcification features mentioned in the reports are the most important features for decision-making. Results reveal that the K-NN model is the most accurate and specific classifier with the accuracy and specificity values of 84.06% and 84.72% respectively. The Random Forest classifier has the best sensitivity and AUC with the sensitivity and AUC values of 87.74% and 0.905 respectively. Conclusions Accordingly, data mining approaches are proved to be a helpful tool to make the final decision as to whether patients should be referred to biopsy or not based on mammography reports. The developed CDSS may also be helpful especially for less experienced radiologists. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020.Computerized techniques for Cardiotocograph (CTG) based labor stage classification would support obstetrician for advance CTG analysis and would improve their predictive power for fetal heart rate (FHR) monitoring. Intrapartum fetal monitoring is necessary as it can detect the event, which ultimately leads to hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, cerebral palsy or even fetal demise. To bridge this gap, in this paper, we propose an automated decision support system that will help the obstetrician identify the status of the fetus during ante-partum and intra-partum period. The proposed algorithm takes 30 min of 275 Cardiotocograph data and applies a fuzzy-rule based approach for identification and classification of labor from 'toco' signal. Since there is no gold standard to validate the outcome of the proposed algorithm, the authors used various statistical means to establish the cogency of the proposed algorithm and the degree of agreement with visual estimation were using Bland-Altman plot, Fleiss kappa (0.918 ± 0.0164 at 95% CI) and Kendall's coefficient of concordance (W = 0.845). Proposed method was also compared against some standard machine learning classifiers like SVM, Random Forest and Naïve Bayes using weighted kappa (0.909), Bland-Altman plot (Limits of Agreement 0.094 to 0.0155 at 95% CI) and AUC-ROC (0.938). The proposed algorithm was found to be as efficient as visual estimation compared to the standard machine learning algorithms and thus can be incorporated into the automated decision support system. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020.Classification of Motor Imagery (MI) signals is the heart of Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) based applications. Spatial filtering is an important step in this process that produce new set of signals for better discrimination of two classes of EEG signals. In this work, a new approach of spatial filtering called Space-Frequency Localized Spatial Filtering (SFLSF) is proposed to enhance the performances of MI classification. The SFLSF method initially divides the scalp-EEG channels into local overlapping spatial windows. Then a filter bank is used to divide the signals into local frequency bands. The group of channels, localized in space and frequency, are then processed with spatial filter, and features are subsequently extracted for classification task. Experimental results corroborate that the proposed space localization helps to increase the classification accuracy when compared to the existing methods using spatial filters. The classification performance is further improved when frequency localization is incorporated.