1.Guideline-driven clinical decision support for colonoscopy patients using the hierarchical multi-label deep learning method.
Junling WU ; Jun CHEN ; Hanwen ZHANG ; Zhe LUAN ; Yiming ZHAO ; Mengxuan SUN ; Shufang WANG ; Congyong LI ; Zhizhuang ZHAO ; Wei ZHANG ; Yi CHEN ; Jiaqi ZHANG ; Yansheng LI ; Kejia LIU ; Jinghao NIU ; Gang SUN
Chinese Medical Journal 2025;138(20):2631-2639
BACKGROUND:
Over 20 million colonoscopies are performed in China annually. An automatic clinical decision support system (CDSS) with accurate semantic recognition of colonoscopy reports and guideline-based is helpful to relieve the increasing medical burden and standardize the healthcare. In this study, the CDSS was built under a hierarchical-label interpretable classification framework, trained by a state-of-the-art transformer-based model, and validated in a multi-center style.
METHODS:
We conducted stratified sampling on a previously established dataset containing 302,965 electronic colonoscopy reports with pathology, identified 2041 patients' records representative of overall features, and randomly divided into the training and testing sets (7:3). A total of five main labels and 22 sublabels were applied to annotate each record on a network platform, and the data were trained respectively by three pre-training models on Chinese corpus website, including bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (BERT)-base-Chinese (BC), the BERT-wwm-ext-Chinese (BWEC), and ernie-3.0-base-zh (E3BZ). The performance of trained models was subsequently compared with a randomly initialized model, and the preferred model was selected. Model fine-tuning was applied to further enhance the capacity. The system was validated in five other hospitals with 3177 consecutive colonoscopy cases.
RESULTS:
The E3BZ pre-trained model exhibited the best performance, with a 90.18% accuracy and a 69.14% Macro-F1 score overall. The model achieved 100% accuracy in identifying cancer cases and 99.16% for normal cases. In external validation, the model exhibited favorable consistency and good performance among five hospitals.
CONCLUSIONS
The novel CDSS possesses high-level semantic recognition of colonoscopy reports, provides appropriate recommendations, and holds the potential to be a powerful tool for physicians and patients. The hierarchical multi-label strategy and pre-training method should be amendable to manage more medical text in the future.
Humans
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Colonoscopy/methods*
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Deep Learning
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Decision Support Systems, Clinical
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Female
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Male
2.Identification of high-risk preoperative blood indicators and baseline characteristics for multiple postoperative complications in rheumatoid arthritis patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty: a multi-machine learning feature contribution analysis.
Kejia ZHU ; Zhiyang HUANG ; Biao WANG ; Hang LI ; Yuangang WU ; Bin SHEN ; Yong NIE
Chinese Journal of Reparative and Reconstructive Surgery 2025;39(12):1532-1542
OBJECTIVE:
To explore, identify, and develop novel blood-based indicators using machine learning algorithms for accurate preoperative assessment and effective prediction of postoperative complication risks in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) undergoing total knee arthroplasty (TKA).
METHODS:
A retrospective cohort study was conducted including RA patients who underwent unilateral TKA between January 2019 and December 2024. Inpatient and 30-day postoperative outpatient follow-up data were collected. Six machine learning algorithms, including decision tree, random forest, logistic regression, support vector machine, extreme gradient boosting, and light gradient boosting machine, were used to construct predictive models. Model performance was evaluated using the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC), F1-score, accuracy, precision, and recall. SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) values were employed to interpret and rank the importance of individual variables.
RESULTS:
According to the inclusion criteria, a total of 1 548 patients were enrolled. Ultimately, 18 preoperative indicators were identified as effective predictive features, and 8 postoperative complications were defined as prediction labels for inclusion in the study. Within 30 days after surgery, 453 patients (29.2%) developed one or more complications. Considering overall accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score, the random forest model [AUC=0.930, 95% CI (0.910, 0.950)] and the extreme gradient boosting model [AUC=0.909, 95% CI (0.880, 0.938)] demonstrated the best predictive performance. SHAP analysis revealed that anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibody, C-reactive protein, rheumatoid factor, interleukin-6, body mass index, age, and smoking status made significant contributions to the overall prediction of postoperative complications.
CONCLUSION
Machine learning-based models enable accurate prediction of postoperative complication risks among RA patients undergoing TKA. Inflammatory and immune-related blood biomarkers, such as anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibody, C-reactive protein, and rheumatoid factor, interleukin-6, play key predictive roles, highlighting their potential value in perioperative risk stratification and individualized management.
Humans
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Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee/adverse effects*
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Arthritis, Rheumatoid/blood*
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Machine Learning
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Postoperative Complications/blood*
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Female
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Male
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Retrospective Studies
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Middle Aged
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Aged
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Risk Factors
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Preoperative Period
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C-Reactive Protein/analysis*
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Risk Assessment
3.Macrophage ATF6 accelerates corticotomy-assisted orthodontic tooth movement through promoting Tnfα transcription.
Zhichun JIN ; Hao XU ; Weiye ZHAO ; Kejia ZHANG ; Shengnan WU ; Chuanjun SHU ; Linlin ZHU ; Yan WANG ; Lin WANG ; Hanwen ZHANG ; Bin YAN
International Journal of Oral Science 2025;17(1):28-28
Corticotomy is a clinical procedure to accelerate orthodontic tooth movement characterized by the regional acceleratory phenomenon (RAP). Despite its therapeutic effects, the surgical risk and unclear mechanism hamper the clinical application. Numerous evidences support macrophages as the key immune cells during bone remodeling. Our study discovered that the monocyte-derived macrophages primarily exhibited a pro-inflammatory phenotype that dominated bone remodeling in corticotomy by CX3CR1CreERT2; R26GFP lineage tracing system. Fluorescence staining, flow cytometry analysis, and western blot determined the significantly enhanced expression of binding immunoglobulin protein (BiP) and emphasized the activation of sensor activating transcription factor 6 (ATF6) in macrophages. Then, we verified that macrophage specific ATF6 deletion (ATF6f/f; CX3CR1CreERT2 mice) decreased the proportion of pro-inflammatory macrophages and therefore blocked the acceleration effect of corticotomy. In contrast, macrophage ATF6 overexpression exaggerated the acceleration of orthodontic tooth movement. In vitro experiments also proved that higher proportion of pro-inflammatory macrophages was positively correlated with higher expression of ATF6. At the mechanism level, RNA-seq and CUT&Tag analysis demonstrated that ATF6 modulated the macrophage-orchestrated inflammation through interacting with Tnfα promotor and augmenting its transcription. Additionally, molecular docking simulation and dual-luciferase reporter system indicated the possible binding sites outside of the traditional endoplasmic reticulum-stress response element (ERSE). Taken together, ATF6 may aggravate orthodontic bone remodeling by promoting Tnfα transcription in macrophages, suggesting that ATF6 may represent a promising therapeutic target for non-invasive accelerated orthodontics.
Animals
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Mice
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Macrophages/metabolism*
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Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha/genetics*
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Tooth Movement Techniques/methods*
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Activating Transcription Factor 6/metabolism*
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Bone Remodeling
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Flow Cytometry
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Blotting, Western
4.Theta Oscillations Support Prefrontal-hippocampal Interactions in Sequential Working Memory.
Minghong SU ; Kejia HU ; Wei LIU ; Yunhao WU ; Tao WANG ; Chunyan CAO ; Bomin SUN ; Shikun ZHAN ; Zheng YE
Neuroscience Bulletin 2024;40(2):147-156
The prefrontal cortex and hippocampus may support sequential working memory beyond episodic memory and spatial navigation. This stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG) study investigated how the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) interacts with the hippocampus in the online processing of sequential information. Twenty patients with epilepsy (eight women, age 27.6 ± 8.2 years) completed a line ordering task with SEEG recordings over the DLPFC and the hippocampus. Participants showed longer thinking times and more recall errors when asked to arrange random lines clockwise (random trials) than to maintain ordered lines (ordered trials) before recalling the orientation of a particular line. First, the ordering-related increase in thinking time and recall error was associated with a transient theta power increase in the hippocampus and a sustained theta power increase in the DLPFC (3-10 Hz). In particular, the hippocampal theta power increase correlated with the memory precision of line orientation. Second, theta phase coherences between the DLPFC and hippocampus were enhanced for ordering, especially for more precisely memorized lines. Third, the theta band DLPFC → hippocampus influence was selectively enhanced for ordering, especially for more precisely memorized lines. This study suggests that theta oscillations may support DLPFC-hippocampal interactions in the online processing of sequential information.
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Young Adult
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Epilepsy
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Hippocampus
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Memory, Short-Term
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Mental Recall
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Prefrontal Cortex
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Theta Rhythm
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Male
5.The protective effect and mechanism of tea polyphenols on oral cancer in mice
Zelin ZHAO ; Kejia SUN ; Zhaojie ZHENG ; Xiaoming JIN ; Yi WU
Journal of Chinese Physician 2024;26(3):366-371
Objective:To explore the protective mechanism of tea polyphenols (TP) on mouse oral cancer.Methods:A total of 50 mice were divided into control group, model group, TP group, Selisistat group, TP+ Selisistat group, with 10 mice in each group. The control group was gavaged with physiological saline, while the model group, TP group, Selisistat group, and TP+ Selisistat group were gavaged with 300 mg/L 4-NQO to establish a mouse oral cancer model. Physiological saline, 200 mg/kg TP, 0.01 mg/kg Selisistat, and 200 mg/kg TP+ 0.01 mg/kg Selisistat were gavaged respectively. The weight changes of each group of mice were compared; HE staining was used to observe the morphology of mouse oral tumor tissue; Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay was used to detect the levels of malondialdehyde (MDA) and superoxide dismutase (SOD) in serum; Immunoblotting and immunohistochemistry were used to detect the expression of silencing information regulatory factor (Sirt1) and nuclear factor E2 related factor 2 (Nrf2) proteins in mouse oral tissues.Results:Compared with the control group, the model group mice had a decrease in body weight [(23.19±1.36)g], a decrease in serum SOD level [(91.64±8.75)U/ml], an increase in MDA level [(5.18±0.46)nmol/ml], a decrease in Sirt1 (0.38±0.05) and Nrf2 (0.36±0.05) protein expression in oral tissue, and an increase in Nrf2 acetylation level (0.84±0.11) (all P<0.05). Compared with the model group, the TP group mice had an increase in body weight [(25.28±1.25)g], elevated serum SOD levels [(121.24±10.68)U/ml], decreased MDA levels [(3.89±0.42)nmol/ml], increased expression of Sirt1 (0.61±0.09) and Nrf2 (0.58±0.06) proteins in oral tissue, and decreased Nrf2 protein acetylation levels (0.39±0.05); The Selisistat group mice showed a decrease in body weight [(21.41±1.07)g], a decrease in serum SOD levels [(72.16±7.43)U/ml], an increase in MDA levels [(5.87±0.41)nmol/ml], a decrease in Sirt1 (0.23±0.04) and Nrf2 protein (0.24±0.03) expression in oral tissue, and an increase in Nrf2 acetylation levels (1.12±0.14) ( P<0.05). The body weight [(23.32±1.27)g], serum SOD levels [(92.58±8.13)U/ml], and oral Sirt1 (0.41±0.06) and Nrf2 (0.38±0.05) protein expression in the TP+ Selisistat group mice were higher than those in the Selisistat group, while MDA [(5.11±0.38)nmol/ml] and Nrf2 acetylation levels (0.82±0.09) were lower than those in the Selisistat group (all P<0.05). Conclusions:Tea polyphenols can alleviate oral tissue damage and alleviate oxidative stress in mice with oral cancer, and their mechanism may be related to the upregulation of the Sirt1/Nrf2 pathway.
6.Evaluation of reaction inhibition among military university students by multitasking operation based on Go/No-Go paradigm
Qian ZHANG ; Kejia WU ; Hongqi ZHAO ; Shuo FAN ; Nannan JIANG ; Chuanrui YANG ; Lulu TANG ; Hao YU
Academic Journal of Naval Medical University 2024;45(9):1185-1189
Objective To explore the characteristics of response inhibition of military university students during multitasking operation. Methods Repeated measures of ANOVA as well as distribution test were employed to explore how the performance of 127 military university students in Go/No-Go test was affected by simulated driving task. Results The test results of 127 participants showed that there was a interaction between the interference task and the Go trial proportion on the hit rate and false alarm rate,that is,no significant difference was observed between the 60% and 40% of trial proportion without interference task (both P>0.05),but the hit rate and false alarm rate in the 60% trial proportion condition were significantly higher than those in the 40% trial proportion condition under interference task (both P<0.01).In addition,significant main effects of interference task were observed on hit rate,false alarm rate,and discrimination index d' (all P<0.01),that is,the interference task reduced the hit rate and discrimination,but increased the false alarm rate.Moreover,individual differences existed in the discrimination index d' changes,and the participants were divided into easily disturbed group (n=23,18.11%),undisturbed group (n=20,15.75%),and intermediate group (n=84,66.14%) by adding or subtracting 1 standard deviation from the mean of the difference. Conclusion The interference tasks increase the psychological load of military university students during multitasking operation,and impair the response inhibition;and individual differences exist in response inhibition.
7.Research Progress on Design and Optimization of Centrifugal Blood Pumps
Journal of Medical Biomechanics 2024;39(3):552-558
Artificial hearts(blood pumps)exhibit excellent hydraulic performance and compatibility with blood.Improvement in blood pump performance depends on the design and optimization method.This review summarizes relevant work on designing and optimizing centrifugal blood pumps.First,the progress of numerical simulation methods is reviewed.High-fidelity flow field numerical simulations are prerequisites for design and optimization.The parameter sensitivity studies are summarized mainly from the aspects of the impeller,volute,and clearances.Several commonly used design and optimization methods have been summarized,including parameter sensitivity research,orthogonal optimization,machine learning/genetic algorithms,and topology optimization.Finally,the prospects and challenges for designing and optimizing blood pumps are discussed.This review provides valuable references and guidance for the future design and optimization of blood pumps.
8.Manipulation of isocitrate dehydrogenase genes affects the anti-autolytic ability of lager yeast.
Kejia YE ; Haobo WU ; Chunfeng LIU ; Chengtuo NIU ; Feiyun ZHENG ; Qi LI ; Jinjing WANG
Chinese Journal of Biotechnology 2023;39(8):3451-3463
Yeast autolysis affects the flavor and quality of beer. The regulation of yeast autolysis is a need for industrial beer production. Previous studies on brewer's yeast autolysis showed that the citric acid cycle-related genes had a great influence on yeast autolysis. To explore the contribution of isocitrate dehydrogenase genes in autolysis, the IDP1 and IDP2 genes were destroyed or overexpressed in typical lager yeast Pilsner. The destruction of IDP1 gene improved the anti-autolytic ability of yeast, and the anti-autolytic index after 96 h autolysis was 8.40, 1.5 times higher than that of the original strain. The destruction of IDP1 gene increased the supply of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) and the NADPH/NADP+ ratio was 1.94. After fermentation, intracellular ATP level was 1.8 times higher than that of the original strain, while reactive oxygen species (ROS) was reduced by 10%. The destruction of IDP2 gene resulted in rapid autolysis and a decrease in the supply of NADPH. Anti-autolytic index after 96 h autolysis was 4.03 and the NADPH/NADP+ ratio was 0.89. After fermentation, intracellular ATP level was reduced by 8% compared with original strain, ROS was 1.3 times higher than that of the original strain. The results may help understand the regulation mechanism of citric acid cycle-related genes on yeast autolysis and provide a basis for the selection of excellent yeast with controllable anti-autolytic performance.
Humans
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Isocitrate Dehydrogenase/genetics*
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NADP
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Reactive Oxygen Species
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Autolysis
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Adenosine Triphosphate
9.Study on mechanism difference of baicalein and wogonin inhibiting energy metabolism of hepatoma cells
Kejia XU ; Zimeng ZHANG ; Chuankui FU ; Zhipeng CHEN ; Weidong LI ; Li WU
China Pharmacy 2022;33(11):1300-1305
OBJECTIVE To explore the difference in th e mechanis m of baicalein and wogonin inhibiting the energy metabolism of hepatoma cells. METHODS Human hepatoma HepG 2 cells were divided into blank control group (without medicine),different dose groups of baicalein and wogonin (1.25,2.5,5,10 and 20 μmol/L). The effects of baicalein and wogonin on the viability of HepG 2 cells were detected by MTT assay. HepG 2 cells were divided into blank control group (without medicine),baicalein group and wogonin group. After administration ,the concentration of ATP in cell was detected by enhanced ATP kit. The levels of cell glycolysis and mitochondrial energy metabolism were evaluated by glycolysis and mitochondrial pressure test kit ;the affinity of baicalein and wogonin with key enzymes of energy metabolism was predicted by molecular docking ,and the key enzymes of energy metabolism with high affinity were screened ;the expression of key enzymes of energy metabolism was detected by Western blot. RESULTS Within the dose range of 2.5-20 μmol/L,the half inhibitory concentrations of baicalein and wogonin were 12.84 and 24.09 μmol/L;baicalein 1.25 μmol/L and wogonin 2.5 μmol/L had no effect on cell viability ,so it was selected as the dosage for subsequent experiments. Compared with blank control group ,the concentration of ATP in HepG 2 cells decreased significantly in baicalein group and wogonin group (P<0.05);the inhibitory effects on basic acidification rate of HepG 2 cells in wogonin group were significantly stronger than those of baicalein group (P<0.05),but there was no significant difference between them on the basic oxygen consumption rate (P>0.05);baicalein had strong binding to pyruvate kinase M 2 and mitochondrial enzyme complexes Ⅰ(CⅠ),C Ⅱ and C Ⅳ,while wogonin only had strong binding to pyruvate kinase M 2; wogonin could significantly down-regulate the protein expressions of hexokinase ,phosphofructokinase,pyruvate kinase M 2,CⅠ, C Ⅱ and C Ⅳ(P<0.05),but there was no statistical significance in the effect of baicalein on the regulation of these enzymes (P> 0.05). CONCLUSIONS Both baicalein and wogonin can inhibit the energy metabolism of hepatoma HepG 2 cells,but the mechanism is different :the effect of baicalein is related to the activity of key enzymes ,while the effect of wogonin is related to the inhibition of the expression of key enzymes of energy metabolism.
10.Application of action research theory health education combined with swallowing rehabilitation nursing in stroke patients with dysphagia
Jinghui CAO ; Xiujuan HU ; Kejia WU ; Miao LI ; Baoping WU
Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing 2022;28(31):4376-4381
Objective:To explore the effect of health education based on action research theory and swallowing rehabilitation nursing for stroke patients with dysphagia.Methods:The random sampling method was used to select 128 stroke patients with dysphagia who were admitted to China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University from November 2020 to November 2021. According to the random number table method, they were divided into the control group and the experimental group. The control group received swallowing rehabilitation nursing, while the experimental group received action research theory health education on the basis of the control group. The swallowing function, self-care ability and quality of life were compared between the two groups.Results:Before nursing, there was no statistically significant difference in scores of Standardized Swallowing Assessment (SSA) , Exercise of Self-Care Agency (ESCA) and Swallowing-Quality of Life (SWAL-QOL) between the two groups ( P>0.05) . After 3 months of nursing, the SSA score of the two groups was lower than that before nursing, and the experimental group was lower than that of the control group, and the differences were statistically significant ( P<0.05) . The scores of each dimension of ESCA scale in the two groups were higher than those before nursing and the experimental group were higher than the control group, and the differences were statistically significant ( P<0.05) . The scores of each dimension of SWAL-QOL scale in the two groups were higher than those before nursing, and the experimental group were higher than the control group, and the differences were statistically significant ( P<0.05) . Conclusions:The application of action research theory health education combined with swallowing rehabilitation nursing in stroke patients with dysphagia can improve the swallowing function of patients, self-care ability and quality of life.

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