"What baffles me in this day and age is that we can't predict the progression of the disease," Amit said.
That classification system allows clinicians to predict the progression and risk of relapse of neuroblastoma and to tailor therapy to individual patients.
To identify baseline structural parameters that predict the progression of visual field (VF) loss in patients with open-angle glaucoma.
It seems unlikely that any single marker can offer sufficient sensitivity and specificity to predict the progression of arthritis and detect response to medical treatment.
Furthermore, a recent study reported that urinary CYSC levels and tubular proteinuria may predict the progression of type 2 diabetic nephropathy [40].
We have used an artificial neural network in an attempt to classify and predict the progression of thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy (TAO) at the first clinical examination.
Moreover, the experimental analysis on a real bone disease data set shows that the proposed framework can successfully predict the progression of osteoporosis.
As effective agents for OA are developed and tested in clinical studies, biomarkers that reliably mirror or predict the progression or amelioration of OA will also be needed.
Since there are no specific predictive clinical signs in sepsis, it would be helpful to have a biological tool to predict the progression of the disease but also to understand the pathophysiology and especially the immune status of the patients.
Close to our work are the methods of Tucker et al. [14] and Li et al. [15], who predict the progression of glaucoma from cross-sectional data (rather than longitudinal data).
More studies are needed to understand whether vitamin D levels can predict the progression of subclinical atherosclerosis as measured by imaging markers as well as cardiovascular events in patients with lupus.
