Our heart is a magical bag. When I asked people to explain this priceless entity, I came across a variety of definitions. Some call it a symbol of love and truthfulness; others define it as a locus of feelings and intuitions. Philosophy refers it as...
As I entered the forbidden gates, leaving behind an action-packed summer for the fourth time, ready to begin the long awaited “1st year”, a strange and entirely different thought gripped me to the bone. My mind was in a whirl of ambivalent emotions: happy to be...
pakistani Polling Stations – where the literate and the illiterate become equal!! Abraham Lincoln said and I quote “Democracy is a form of Government of the people, by the people and for the people”. Believing the above fact, I always talked against dictatorship or feudalism and...
Afew days, hmm, a week ago, I came across an article, titled as “Love chills but kills.” Thrilled by the spicy title I began skimming through it. What was in it? What did it say?… Ah!!! Rubbish…. Simply Junk!!! It had a heartsick, mournful hero who...
Second Prime Minister’s Entrepreneurial Challenge DISCOVER – Prosperity through entrepreneurship; was organized by the Center of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) Pakistan. Over 1600 students from across 55 universities of Pakistan participated in the competition to showcase 376 brilliantly...
C-arm Cone Beam CT (CBCT) systems – due to compact size, flexible geometry and low radiation exposure – inaugurated the era of on-board 3D image guidance in therapeutic and surgical procedures. Leksell Gamma Knife Icon by Elekta introduced an integrated CBCT system to determine patient...
CBCT images suffer from acute shading artifacts primarily due to scatter. Numerous image-domain correction algorithms have been proposed in the literature that uses patient-specific planning CT images to estimate shading contributions in CBCT images. However, in the context of radiosurgery applications such as gamma knife,...
Learning efficient and dense real-valued representations of high dimensional clinical codes remain a key challenge in data-driven clinical applications like predictive modelling, comparative effectiveness research and more. In this study, we used a slightly modified version of word2vec (a word embedding technique) to vectorise diagnostic...
The arc of history drawn by Sir Cyril Chantler in 1999 is increasingly clear; “Medicine used to be simple, ineffective, and relatively safe. Now it is complex, effective, and potentially dangerous”. Rising complexity in healthcare, results in ineffective decision-making that leads to detrimental effects on care...