A two-step approach for mining patient treatment pathways in administrative healthcare databases

A Najjar, D Reinharz, C Girouard, C Gagné - Artificial intelligence in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Clustering electronic medical records allows the discovery of information on healthcare
practices. Entries in such medical records are usually composed of a succession of diagnostics …

[HTML][HTML] A comprehensive experimental and kinetic modeling study of 1-and 2-pentene

S Dong, K Zhang, EM Ninnemann, A Najjar… - Combustion and …, 2021 - Elsevier
and 2-pentene are components in gasoline and are also used as representative alkene
components in gasoline surrogate fuels. Most of the available ignition delay time data in the …

[HTML][HTML] Innate immunity activation in the early brain injury period following subarachnoid hemorrhage

…, P Laplante, P Thebault, R Cayrol, A Najjar… - Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Background Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is a catastrophic disease with
devastating consequences, including a high mortality rate and severe disabilities among …

[HTML][HTML] Implantable pulse generators for deep brain stimulation: challenges, complications, and strategies for practicality and longevity

…, C Iorio-Morin, DH Aguirre-Padilla, A Najjar… - Frontiers in Human …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) represents an important treatment modality for movement
disorders and other circuitopathies. Despite their miniaturization and increasing sophistication, …

[HTML][HTML] Simple approach for the histomolecular diagnosis of central nervous system gliomas based on 2021 World Health Organization Classification

…, RH Moshref, Y Katib, E Faizo, AA Najjar… - World Journal of …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The classification of central nervous system (CNS) glioma went through a sequence of
developments, between 2006 and 2021, started with only histological approach then has been …

[HTML][HTML] Bedside transcranial sonography monitoring in a patient with hydrocephalus post subarachnoid hemorrhage

A Najjar, AY Denault, MW Bojanowski - Critical Ultrasound Journal, 2017 - Springer
Background Development of hydrocephalus can occur after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH).
Typically, it is diagnosed with computed tomography, CT, scan. However, transcranial …

Cool flame chemistry of diesel surrogate compounds: n-Decane, 2-methylnonane, 2, 7-dimethyloctane, and n-butylcyclohexane

…, DM Popolan-Vaida, KK Yalamanchi, A Najjar… - Combustion and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Elucidating the formation of combustion intermediates is crucial to validate reaction pathways,
develop reaction mechanisms and examine kinetic modeling predictions. While high-…

A novel mixed values k-prototypes algorithm with application to health care databases mining

A Najjar, C Gagné, D Reinharz - 2014 IEEE Symposium on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The current availability of large datasets composed of heterogeneous objects stresses the
importance of large-scale clustering of mixed complex items. Several algorithms have been …

[HTML][HTML] Association between CD204-expressed tumor-associated macrophages and MGMT-promoter methylation in the microenvironment of grade 4 astrocytomas

…, A Alkhotani, S Alkhayyat, AA Najjar… - World Journal of …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) are principal immune cells in glioma
microenvironment which support tumor growth and proliferation. Our aim in this study was to …

[PDF][PDF] Severe cerebral vasospasm caused by acute on top of chronic spontaneous subdural hematoma: a case report and review of the literature

BE Hafiz, BY Sheikh, AS Alautabi, AA Najjar, A Alautabi - Cureus, 2023 - cureus.com
Cerebral vasospasm is a well-known phenomenon that has been associated with
subarachnoid hemorrhage due to aneurysmal bleeding. It can lead to serious outcomes if not …