Rüdiger Pryss's research while affiliated with University Hospital Würzburg and other places
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Publications (255)
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the novel coronavirus had an impact not only on public health but also on the mental health of the population. Public sentiment on mental health and depression is often captured only in small, survey-based studies, while work based on Twitter data often only looks at the period during the pandemic and does not make com...
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Purpose
Breast cancer survivors are more likely to report psychological distress and unmet need for support compared to healthy controls. Psychological mobile health interventions might be used in follow-up care of breast cancer patients to improve their mental health.
Methods
We searched MEDLINE, PsychINFO, Cochrane and PROSPERO for articles on c...
Blood oxygen saturation is an important clinical parameter, especially in postoperative hospitalized patients, monitored in clinical practice by arterial blood gas (ABG) and/or pulse oximetry that both are not suitable for a long-term continuous monitoring of patients during the entire hospital stay, or beyond. Technological advances developed rece...
BACKGROUND
Numerous studies have been conducted to predict depressive symptoms using passive smartphone data, mostly integrating the GPS signal as a measure of mobility. Environmental factors have been identified as correlated with depressive symptoms in specialized studies both before and during the pandemic.
OBJECTIVE
The present study combined...
Introduction:
Meta introduced the Segment Anything Model (SAM), a new Machine Learning model for segmentation with zero-shot generalization and no need for additional training data, in April 2023 [1]. Since then, the model has already been applied to medical imaging, such as skin cancer segmentation [2] and brain extraction from MRI images [3]. How...
Introduction:
Currently, there exist no standardized approaches to objectively and reproducibly determine the intratumor heterogeneity of Glioblastoma (GBM). Instead, neuropathologists manually analyze GBM in a time-consuming and error-prone process with no guarantee of exact reproducibility.
Objectives:
To objectively determine the heterogeneity...
Background:
Medical use cases for machine learning (ML) are growing exponentially. The first hospitals are already using ML systems as decision support systems in their daily routine. At the same time, most ML systems are still opaque and it is not clear how these systems arrive at their predictions.
Methods:
In this paper, we provide a brief ov...
Background
Tinnitus is a leading cause of disease burden globally. Several therapeutic strategies are recommended in guidelines for the reduction of tinnitus distress; however, little is known about the potentially increased effectiveness of a combination of treatments and personalized treatments for each tinnitus patient.
Methods
Within the Unifi...
Introduction: During the COVID-19 pandemic, questions about both consequences and helpful strategies to maintain quality of life (QoL) have become increasingly important. Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate the distribution of coping factors during the COVID-19 pandemic, their associations with QoL and the moderating role of certain soci...
Mobile applications have gained popularity in healthcare in recent years. These applications are an increasingly important pillar of public health care, as they open up new possibilities for data collection and can lead to new insights into various diseases and disorders thanks to modern data analysis approaches. In this context, Ecological Momenta...
Glioblastoma is the most common malignant brain tumor with a poor survival rate due to its high intra- and intertumor heterogeneity. The current heterogeneity determination is based on a microscopic analysis of Hematoxilyn and Eosinstained tumor slides carried out by experienced neuropathologists. There is no standardized procedure yet, to quantify...
Purpose
To investigate the trade-off between survival outcome and quality of life (QoL) in Multiple Myeloma (MM).
Methods
We developed a questionnaire that asked patients amongst others, whether they would choose a shortened time of progression-free survival (PFS) in favor of an increased QoL
Results
Of 194 MM patients who answered this question,...
Unlabelled:
The proliferation of online eHealth has made it much easier for users to access healthcare services and interventions from the comfort of their own homes. This study looks at how well one such platform-eSano-performs in terms of user experience when delivering mindfulness interventions. In order to assess usability and user experience,...
With mHealth apps, data can be recorded in real life, which makes them useful, for example, as an accompanying tool in treatments. However, such datasets, especially those based on apps with usage on a voluntary basis, are often affected by fluctuating engagement and by high user dropout rates. This makes it difficult to exploit the data using mach...
Introduction:
Modern consciousness research has developed diagnostic tests to improve the diagnostic accuracy of different states of consciousness via electroencephalography (EEG)-based mental motor imagery (MI), which is still challenging and lacks a consensus on how to best analyse MI EEG-data. An optimally designed and analyzed paradigm must de...
Background: Most individuals seeking asylum in Germany live in collective housing and are thus exposed to a higher risk of contagion during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Objective: In this study, we aimed to test the feasibility and efficacy of a culture-sensitive approach combining mobile app–based interventions and a face-to-face group intervention to i...
Recent advances in technology and societal changes have increased the amount of patient data that is being collected remotely, outside of hospitals. As technology enables the ability to collect Ecological Momentary Assessments (EMAs) of patient symptoms remotely, personalised predictors have become especially relevant in the field of medicine. Howe...
Tinnitus affects a considerable part of the population and develops into a severe disorder in some sufferers. App-based interventions are able to provide low-threshold, cost-effective, and location-independent care for tinnitus patients. Therefore, we developed a smartphone app combining structured counseling with sound therapy and conducted a pilo...
BACKGROUND
Specialized studies have shown that smartphone-based social interaction data are predictors of depressive and anxiety symptoms. Moreover, at times during the COVID-19 pandemic, social interaction took place primarily in virtual space. To appropriately test these objective data for their added value for epidemiological research during the...
During the last years, paradigms like crowdsensing arose in the context of mobile technologies promising to support researchers in life sciences and healthcare with new opportunities. By the use of smartphones, data can be gathered in everyday life and easily compared to other users of the crowd, especially when taking environmental factors or sens...
Sensors represent the prerequisites for data collection in the field of digital phenotyping and mobile sensing. Today, many sensors are connected over the Internet or feature advanced processing, thus provide smart functions that go beyond simple measurements. Embedded in everyday devices such as smartphones and wearables, smart sensors enable the...
Tinnitus is a condition associated with a continuous noise in the ears or head and can arise from many different medical disorders. The perception of tinnitus can vary within and between days. In the recent years, Ecological Momentary Assessments of tinnitus have been used to investigate these tinnitus variations during the daily life of the patien...
The advent of chatbots (also called conversational agents) has been recognized to support various treatment procedures in the medical and psychological fields. Chatbots may be particularly useful before and after medical procedures when patients are at home. For example, while being in the preparation phase of a colonoscopy, a chatbot might answer...
At a time, in which people are more and more suffering from lifestyle-related diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, or obesity, changing health behavior and preserving a healthy lifestyle are salient factors of any public health effort. Hence, research on predictors and pathways of health behavior change is increasingly important. Fol...
BACKGROUND
Most individuals seeking asylum in Germany live in collective housing and are thus exposed to a higher risk of contagion during the COVID-19 pandemic.
OBJECTIVE
In this study, we aimed to test the feasibility and efficacy of a culture-sensitive approach combining mobile app–based interventions and a face-to-face group intervention to im...
Through a novel approach, which we call Adjusted Reality, it should become possible to virtually adapt physical reality by shrinking it virtually. You could also call it the reverse approach of Augmented Reality (AR). We see the main application in the medical field, for example with Highly Sensitive Persons (HSP). These individuals experience imme...
Process models represent important information artifacts for organizations for documentation, communication and collaboration. Proper understanding of such models is critical for effective application in practice (e.g., to have the right information in the right place at the right time). A key aspect of understanding process models is how visual in...
We are presenting the conceptual framework for a Just-In-Time Adaptive Intervention (JITAI) for adults with breast cancer after completion of primary medical treatment. The intervention is nested in the BetterCare project (BrEasT cancer afTER CARE) and is offered to its participants once elevated distress (PHQ-8 and/or GAD-7 > 10) is identified.
With about 300 million affected people, major depressive disorder (MDD) is one of the most common diseases worldwide. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of cases increased even further, by 28%. Many factors may be correlated with MDD, including the excessive use of social media apps. In this paper, we investigated the relationship between the...
Background: Challenging behaviour (CB) comprises various forms of aggressive and problematic behaviours frequently occurring in children with intellectual and developmental disability (IDD) or autism spectrum disorder (ASD). CB often arises from impaired communication or problem solving skills. It is often met with coercive measure due to a lack of...
Background
Tinnitus is a leading cause of disease burden globally. Several therapeutic strategies are recommended in guidelines for the reduction of tinnitus distress; however, little is known about the potential increased effectiveness of a combination of treatments and personalized treatments for each tinnitus patient.
Methods
Within the Unifica...
Early investigations of subjective well-being responses to the COVID-19 pandemic indicated average deterioration but also high variability related to vulnerability of population groups and pandemic phase. Thus, we aimed to gain new insights into the characteristics of certain groups and their differences in subjective well-being response patterns o...
Zusammenfassung. Digitale Phänotypisierung stellt einen neuen, leistungsstarken Ansatz zur Realisierung psychodiagnostischer Aufgaben in vielen Bereichen der Psychologie und Medizin dar. Die Grundidee besteht aus der Nutzung digitaler Spuren aus dem Alltag, um deren Vorhersagekraft für verschiedenste Anwendungsmöglichkeiten zu überprüfen und zu nut...
Smart mobile devices such as smartphones or tablets have become an important factor for collecting data in complex health scenarios (e.g., psychological studies, medical trials), and are more and more replacing traditional pen-and-paper instruments. However, simply digitizing such instruments does not yet realize the full potential of mobile device...
Background
Over the recent years, technological advances of wrist-worn fitness trackers heralded a new era in the continuous monitoring of vital signs. So far, these devices have primarily been used for sports.
Objective
However, for using these technologies in health care, further validations of the measurement accuracy in hospitalized patients a...
BACKGROUND
Over the recent years, technological advances of wrist-worn fitness trackers heralded a new era in the continuous monitoring of vital signs. So far, these devices have primarily been used for sports.
OBJECTIVE
However, for using these technologies in healthcare, further validations of the measurement accuracy in hospitalised patients ar...
Tinnitus is an auditory phantom perception without external sound stimuli. This chronic perception can severely affect quality of life. Because tinnitus symptoms are highly heterogeneous, multimodal data analyses are increasingly used to gain new insights. MHealth data sources, with their particular focus on country- and season-specific differences...
Background:
The COVID-19 symptom monitoring apps provide direct feedback to users about the suspected risk of infection with SARS-CoV-2 and advice on how to proceed to prevent the spread of the virus. We have developed the CoronaCheck mobile health platform, the first free app that provides easy access to valid information about the risk of infect...
Background
Tinnitus is a heterogeneous condition which may be associated with moderate to severe disability, but the reasons why only a subset of individuals is burdened by the condition are not fully clear. Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) allows a better understanding of tinnitus by capturing the fluctuations of tinnitus symptoms, such as di...
With mHealth apps, data can be recorded in real life, which makes them useful, for example, as an accompanying tool in treatments. However, such datasets, especially those based on apps with usage on a voluntary basis, are often affected by fluctuating engagement and by high user dropout rates. This makes it difficult to exploit the data using mach...
The COVID-19 situation shows that a deep understanding of how pandemics spread and how they can be managed is important in a multitude of domains. Various studies have shown that students benefit from game-based learning approaches. Therefore, we introduce the concept of a web-based serious game to teach students important aspects when dealing with...
Training cognitive skills of people suffering from dementia by using serious games has been found to be a successful approach. But there is still no approach which takes advantage of performance measurements to evaluate the treatment of the patient. The literature describes several games which aim to improve cognitive skills, but none of them colle...
Theoretischer Hintergrund: In der aktuellen Pandemie stellten Gemeinschaftsunterkünfte für Asylbewerber mehrmals Hotspots für COVID-19-Ausbrüche dar. Solche Ausbrüche werden durch beengte Wohnverhältnisse, Fehlinformationen der Bewohner und kulturelle Barrieren für präventives Verhalten begünstigt. Die geplante Studie zielte darauf ab, weit verbrei...
The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of different coping styles on situational coping in everyday life situations and gender differences. An ecological momentary assessment study with the mobile health app TrackYourStress was conducted with 113 participants. The coping styles Positive Thinking, Active Stress Coping, Social Support, S...
Risk prediction in patients with heart failure (HF) is essential to improve the tailoring of preventive, diagnostic, and therapeutic strategies for the individual patient, and effectively use health care resources. Risk scores derived from controlled clinical studies can be used to calculate the risk of mortality and HF hospitalizations. However, t...
Ecological Momentary Assessments (EMA) deliver insights on how patients perceive tinnitus at different times and how they are affected by it. Moving to the next level, an mHealth app can support users more directly by predicting a user's next EMA and recommending personalized services based on these predictions. In this study, we analyzed the data...
Tinnitus is an auditory phantom perception in the ears or head in the absence of a corresponding external stimulus. There is currently no effective treatment available that reliably reduces tinnitus. Educational counseling is a treatment approach that aims to educate patients and inform them about possible coping strategies. For this feasibility st...
Background
There is evidence that extraversion and associated frequent personal and digital social contacts are associated with mental health, reflected in reduced risk for anxiety or depression. However, excessive social media use (SMU) has been related to a decrease of mental health. We test how extraversion moderates the effect of SMU on anxiety...
Background
Tinnitus is a heterogeneous condition associated with moderate to severe disability, but the reasons why only a subset of individuals is burdened by the condition are not fully clear. Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) allows a better understanding of tinnitus by allowing individualized models and by capturing the fluctuations of tinn...
Tinnitus is an auditory phantom perception in the ears or head in the absence of a corresponding external stimulus. There is currently no effective treatment available that reliably reduces tinnitus. Educative counseling is a treatment approach that aims to educate patients and inform them about possible coping strategies. For this feasability stud...
The usage of mobile applications in healthcare has gained popularity in recent years. In 2018, at least, 10,000 apps related to mental health could be downloaded in the app stores. The popularity of healthcare apps, especially in the field of mental health, is based on in their simplicity in large-scale data collection scenarios used for the improv...
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A deep understanding about a field of research is valuable for academic researchers. In addition to technical knowledge, this includes knowledge about subareas, open research questions, and social communities (networks) of individuals and organizations within a given field. With bibliometric analyses, researchers can acquire quantitatively valuable...
The ubiquity of mobile devices fosters the combined use of ecological momentary assessments (EMA) and mobile crowdsensing (MCS) in the field of healthcare. This combination not only allows researchers to collect ecologically valid data, but also to use smartphone sensors to capture the context in which these data are collected. The TrackYourTinnitu...
Recent digitization technologies empower mHealth users to conveniently record their Ecological Momentary Assessments (EMA) through web applications, smartphones, and wearable devices. These recordings can help clinicians understand how the users’ condition changes, but appropriate learning and visualization mechanisms are required for this purpose....
Due to the increasing adoption of process-aware information systems (PAISs) in enterprises, extensive process model repositories have emerged. In turn, this has raised the need for properly querying, viewing, and evolving process models. In order to enable context-specific views on the latter as well as on related process data, a PAIS should provid...
Background: So far, planning of clinical trials in multiple myeloma (MM) has been based on traditional outcome measures such as progression free (PFS) and overall survival (OS). However, treatment with drugs, which prolong survival, usually impacts quality of life (QoL). A good example is lenalidomide (LEN) maintenance therapy in transplant eligibl...
Process models depict crucial artifacts for organizations regarding documentation, communication, and collaboration. The proper comprehension of such models is essential for an effective application. An important aspect in process model literacy constitutes the question how the information presented in process models is extracted and processed by t...
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about great changes to the everyday lives of the population in Germany. Social distancing, working from home and other measures to contain the pandemic are essentially dominating everyday life. With data from the CORONA HEALTH App study we analysed the quality of life of the adult population in Germany during the C...
Tinnitus is a phantom sound perception in the ears or head and can arise from many different medical disorders. Currently, there is no standard treatment for tinnitus that reliably reduces tinnitus. Individual patients reported that acupressure at various points around the ear can help to reduce tinnitus, which was investigated here. With this long...
Tinnitus is an auditory phantom perception in the absence of an external sound stimulation. People with tinnitus often report severe constraints in their daily life. Interestingly, indications exist on gender differences between women and men both in the symptom profile as well as in the response to specific tinnitus treatments. In this paper, data...
Mental health problems are becoming more common while access to treatment is often not available to everyone who needs help. Recent advances in information technology, the wide availability of the internet, the emergence of smartphones and their common usage worldwide raise hope for more treatment options for mental health disorders. Many mobile ph...
Tinnitus is a phantom sound perception in the ears or head and can arise from many different medical disorders. Currently, there is no standard treatment for tinnitus that reliably reduces tinnitus. Individual patients reported that acupressure at various points around the ear can help to reduce tinnitus, which was investigated here. With this long...