Essays about: "pneumonia"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 67 essays containing the word pneumonia.

  1. 6. Image classification of pediatric pneumonia : A comparative study of supervised statistical learning techniques

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statistiska institutionen

    Author : Jacob Rönnefall; Jakob Wendel; [2022]
    Keywords : Machine learning; Algorithm; Logistic regression; K-nearest-neighbor; Support vector machine; Neural network; Sensitivity; Specificity; ROC; Accuracy;

    Abstract : A child dies of pneumonia every 39 seconds, and the process of preventing deaths caused by pneumonia has been considerably slower compared to other infectious diseases. Meanwhile, the traditional method of manually diagnosing patients has reached its ceiling on performance. READ MORE

  3. 7. Nurse’s experience during COVID-19 epidemic : A descriptive literature review

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för vårdvetenskap

    Author : Xu Huangfang; Jin Jin; [2022]
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    Abstract : Background: Since December 2019, one month before China's Spring Festival, there had been many cases of pneumonia with unknown etiology in Wuhan, Hubei. The outbreak of the Novel Coronavirus outbreak had brought great challenges to people's lives and public health. READ MORE

  4. 8. Measuring Respiratory Frequency Using Optronics and Computer Vision

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Datorseende

    Author : Per Antonsson; Jesper Johansson; [2021]
    Keywords : Computer Vision; Optical Flow; Motion Vectors; Respiratory Frequency; Signal Processing;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the development and use of software to measure respiratory frequency on cows using optronics and computer vision. It examines mainly two different strategies of image and signal processing and their performances for different input qualities. READ MORE

  5. 9. Effects of Elaphostrongylus spp. infection on haematology and blood chemistry – in moose (Alces alces), reindeer (Rangifer tarandus), goat (Capra aegagrus hircus) and sheep (Ovis aries)

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Anatomy, Physiology and Biochemistry

    Author : Elin Engerström; [2021]
    Keywords : E. alces; E. rangiferi; elaphostrongylosis; muscleworm; brainworm; small ruminant; eosinophilia; biochemistry; serum chemistry;

    Abstract : The aim with this study was to investigate the effects Elaphostrongylus alces and Elaphostrongylus rangiferi have on haematology and blood chemistry in experimentally infected animals. The nematodes of genus Elaphostrongylus spp. can cause neurologic disease, myositis, verminous pneumonia and increased mortality. READ MORE

  6. 10. Lentivirus hos små idisslare : en fallbeskrivning av lentivirus i en svensk getbesättning

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Clinical Sciences

    Author : Emelie Hedlund Salenstedt; [2021]
    Keywords : get; lentivirus; kaprin artrit encefalit; maedi; visna; SRLV; CAE; MV; CAEV; VMV;

    Abstract : Lentivirus är ett genus bestående av icke-onkogena virus i virusfamiljen Retroviridae, subfamilj Orthoretrovirinae, som karaktäriseras av lång inkubationstid, snabb mutationstakt och en omfattande motståndskraft mot värdens immunförsvar. Lentivirus som infekterar får och getter går under det gemensamma namnet small ruminant lentivirus (SRLV). READ MORE