Functional-thermoregulatory model for the differential diagnosis of psoriatic arthritis

BioMedical Engineering Online

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Ismail, Enas ^a,b   Capo, Alessandra ^a   Amerio, Paolo ^a   Merla, Arcangelo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b ITAB Institute of Advanced Biomedical Technologies   (Italy)

Author keywords

Control system; Cutaneous temperature; Isometric exercise; Modeling; Multinomial logistic regression; Psoriatic arthritis; Thermal infrared imaging

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEMS; DISEASES; FEEDBACK; INFRARED IMAGING; INFRARED RADIATION; MODELS; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ISOMETRIC EXERCISE; MULTINOMIAL LOGISTIC REGRESSION; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK LOOP; PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS; REGION CLASSIFICATIONS; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; THERMAL INFRARED IMAGING;

DIAGNOSIS;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; ISOMETRIC EXERCISE; MALE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; STEADY STATE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMOREGULATION; WARMING; ARTHRITIS, PSORIATIC; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EXERCISE; FINGER; HAND JOINT; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SKIN;

ARTHRITIS, PSORIATIC; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FINGERS; HAND JOINTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SKIN;

EID: 84924415957     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1475925X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-925X-13-162     Document Type: Article

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