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Auscultation is a classic method of examining patients with respiratory and cardiovascular pathologies. Auscultation is a subjective method, its diagnostic accuracy is highly dependent on the doctor’s experience. Electronic stethoscopes can increase the volume of audio recordings, eliminate noise, and store and transmit sound to a computer or smartphone. Wavelet transform, Butterworth filter, low and high pass filters are used to filter the resulting audio recordings. Machine learning methods, w...

Background. Long-term outcomes of screening programs are challenging to evaluate in randomized clinical trials. The role of predictive modeling is becoming increasingly popular in oncology. Modeling the interventions consequences in oncology is based, among other things, on the use of toolkits, denoted by the term «mathematical oncology» Aim. To study approaches to modeling screening scenarios for breast cancer, aimed at developing tools to support medical decision-making in the healthcare syste...

Hypertension is a complex cardiovascular condition, defined as an abnormally high blood pressure. Such long-term and consistent increase in blood pressure could result in coronary heart disease, stroke, kidney damage and other serious debilitating conditions. Complication rate from hypertension depends on how well you can predict and prevent those complications, considering individual patient’s risks. Several mathematical models and computer algorithms that are currently used for these purposes ...