The field of general practice and family medicine is diverse and has to deal with several complex health problems. Essential characteristics of general practitioner (GP) services cover among others a comprehensive, ...

Mit dem immer umfassenderen Einsatz von Implantaten in der Zahnmedizin stellte sich die Frage, ob konventionelle Totalprothesen heute noch die zeitgemäße Versorgung zahnloser Kiefer darstellen.
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Background: About ten percent of European households are unable to cover payment obligations and living expenses with available income and assets on an ongoing basis, and are thus considered over-indebted. Mounting ...

Zielsetzung: Auf dem Gebiet der Neuroonkologie werden ständig neue Konzepte für individuelle, auf den Patienten abgestimmte Behandlungsstrategien entwickelt. Systemische Labormarker können Einblicke in die ...

The analysis of longitudinal data plays an important role in medical research. The data is typically collected during follow-up visits in epidemiological observational studies. These studies often investigate the natural ...

This habilitation thesis summarized current state-of-art advances in machine learning for biomedical applications. The first contribution was the development of a framework for tuning KDSN to increase prediction performance ...

Health-related research questions require methods that can deal with the growing complexity and dimensionality of biomedical data sets. A popular alternative to common parametric regression approaches are tree-based models, ......

People with a migration background represent more than a quarter of the German population and are increasingly at risk of suffering from dementia due to demographic change. Diagnosing dementia depends on language skills, ...

In longitudinalen klinischen Studien wird eine bestimmte Gruppe von Patienten/Patientinnen, die spezifische Einschlusskriterien erfüllt, über einen vorgegebenen Zeitraum hinweg beobachtet. Neben der Bestimmung von klinischen ...

In times of growing availability of large biobanks with extensive genetic data, polygenic prediction modeling has gained importance and aims at capturing an individual's genetic predisposition to specific, often complex, ...