Ahmet Kadir ARSLAN

Inonu University · Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics

Aim: Medical data mining (also called knowledge discovery process in medicine) processes for extracting patterns from large datasets. In the current study, we intend to assess different medical data mining approaches to predict ischemic stroke. Materials and methods: The collected dataset from Turgut Ozal Medical Centre, Inonu University, Malaty...

Background: Duodenal ulcer perforation is a serious condition. A number of methods have been defined and used in surgical treatment. In this study, it was aimed to compare the effectiveness of 'primary repair' and 'drain placement without repair' methods in duodenal perforations using an animal model. Methods: Three equivalent groups of ten rats...

Aim: To reveal the relationships between patient findings and tissue resection in elderly patients. Materials and methods: Between September 2020 and September 2022 three hundred eighty four patients over the age of 60 who were operated with the diagnosis of groin hernia were retrospectively analyzed. Gender, age, height, weight and body mass in...

Objective: The first imaging method to play an vital role in the diagnosis of COVID-19 illness is the chest X-ray. Because of the abundance of large-scale annotated picture datasets, convolutional neural networks (CNN) have shown remarkable success in image recognition and classification. The current study aims to construct a successful deep learni...

Aim: Data mining is the discovery process of beneficial information, not revealed from large-scale data beforehand. One of the fields in which data mining is widely used is health. With data mining, the diagnosis and treatment of the disease and the risk factors affecting the disease can be determined quickly. Association rules are one of the data...

Introduction Ischemia/reperfusion injury occurs after testicular torsion, levels of free oxygen radicals and inflammatory cytokines are increased in both the torsional and contralateral testis, leading to testicular injury. Objective The present study investigated whether orchiopexy or orchiectomy after testicular torsion was superior in terms of...

Aim: Heart diseases (HD) refer to many diseases such as coronary heart disease, heart failure, and heart attack. Every year, approximately 647.000 people die in the United States (U.S.) from HD. Genetic and environmental risk factors have been identified due to numerous studies to determine HD risk factors.Material and Method: In this study, the Mu...

Background Atrial fibrillation (AF), a condition that might occur after a heart bypass procedure, has caused differing estimates of its occurrence and risk. The current study analyses the possible risk factors of post-coronary artery bypass grafting (post-CABG) AF (postoperative AF [POAF]) and presents a software for preoperative POAF risk predicti...

Objective: Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration has been successfully applied in both diagnosis and staging of mediastinal and hilar lymphadenopathies and masses, especially in malignant cases. However, the optimal procedure of Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration to further increase diagnost...

Background: There is no consensus on the optimal drainage technique in the management of biliary anastomotic strictures occurring after right-lobe living-donor liver transplantation (RL LDLT). Aims: To investigate whether there is a superiority between unilateral and bilateral drainage groups in terms of efficacy and safety of biliary drainage i...

Objective: In our study, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in Malatya province, other than confirmed case deaths, were investigated. Material and methods: The records of those who died between 2016 and 2020 were reviewed on the official website of the Malatya Metropolitan Municipality, and the numbers of deaths in those 5 years were recorded...

Background and Aims. Sepsis causes release of free oxygen radicals that destroy membrane integrity.We evaluated the antioxidant effects of parsley, Petroselinum crispum(Pc), which has been used therapeutically for centuries in Anatolia, using a rat model of sepsis caused by cecal ligation and puncture (CLP). Methods.Wistar albino rats were separate...

Aim COVID‐19 pandemic has created a serious psychological impact worldwide since it has been declared. This study aims to investigate the level of psychological impacts of COVID‐19 pandemic on Turkish population and to determine related factors. Methods The study was carried out by using an online questionnaire using the virtual snowball sampling...

Objective: Hypothesis testing, correlation, and regression analysis are statistical methods developed to be used in the statistical inference process which is the main purpose of all scientific studies. The purpose of this study is to develop a web-based application using the Shiny package in R software, which allows the evaluation of the results o...

This study was designed to identify and assess risk factors for portal vein thrombosis (PVT) in patients with cirrhosis. A total of 98 cirrhosis patients with PVT were identified and 101 cirrhosis patients without PVT were chosen as the control group in this retrospective study. Several variables were measured and the two groups PVT and non-PVT wer...

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND Use of antineoplastic agents is increasing day by day. Cancer cells are similar to the normal human cells thereby anticancer agents are generally toxic to normal cells and can cause numerous side effects, some of which are life-threatening. Besides the important nephrotoxic and ototoxic side effects of cisplatin (CIS), which is...

ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to investigate the protective and therapeutic effects of the use of an antioxidant agent, embelin (EMB) in renal ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) model in rats. Thirtytwo rats were basic-randomised equally divided into 4 groups: Control, I/R, EMB+I/R, and I/R+EMB groups. At the end of the experiment, total antioxidant c...

Objective: Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is one of the important public health problems with elevated comorbidity, advanced mortality risk, and increasing healthcare costs. In this study, the objective is to explore and resolve the imbalanced class problem for the prediction of AF in obese individuals and to compare the predictive results of balanced an...

Objective: Pleural Effusion (PE) is a considerable and a common health problem. The classification of this condition is of great importance in terms of clinical decision making. The purpose of the study is to design an intelligent system for the classification of postoperative pleural effusion between 4 and 30 days after surgery by medical knowledg...

Objective: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most widely recognized cardiovascular arrhythmia. Symptomatic AF can decrease quality of life, functional condition, and performance of the heart. In order to make a clinical decision strategy, the present study attempts to investigate the optimal number of cross validation (CV) [NOCV] on the prediction of...

Colorectal cancer is one of the first reasons for death due to cancer in the world. The goal of this study is to predict important risk factors of colorectal cancer (CRC) by knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) methods. This study comprised a retrospective CRC data of patients who had been diagnosed with colorectal cancer. The selected records be...

The Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE II) is a beneficial tool for the estimation of risk and the comparison of the patients who received care with similar risk properties. Machine learning based systems can assist clinicians in the early diagnosis of diseases. This research aimed at predicting the APACHE II score using Support...