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ACL-reconstruction in vain?
How does the knee age after ACL-surgery? The image is CC by Thomas Mues. Nordenvall et al. [1] recently report in PLOS ONE an interesting study on cruciate ligament (CL) injuries where they could not...
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We all have our trigger
Every surgeon likes to cut. It is therefore nice to see what happens if we refrain from cutting. The image is CC by Andrew E. Russell Surgical treatment for trigger finger consists of cleaving the A1...
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Confused on a higher level – the haunted degenerative meniscus
Where is the evidence actually pointing? The image has been kindly provided by Rinna-Ranna. One, never-ending thread on this blog seems to be the degenerative meniscus. Gauffin et al. recently...
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How-to go parallel in R – basics + tips
Don’t waist another second, start parallelizing your computations today! The image is CC by Smudge 9000 Today is a good day to start parallelizing your code. I’ve been using the parallel package since...
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Are the fancy locking plates for distal radius fractures nothing more than...
Shinier is not always better. The image is CC by Dennis Skley. Costa et. al. performed recently a multi-center study including 18 trauma centers throughout the United Kingdom. They randomized patients...
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Introducing the htmlTable-package
How should we convey complex data? The image is is CC by Sacha Fernandez. My htmlTable-function has perhaps been one of my most successful projects. I developed it in order to get tables matching those...
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Financial incentives in health-care – a podcast recommendation
Water-ducks on land. Image is CC by GrooverFW. I recently e-mailed Freakonomics asking them to look into the economic incentives that govern health-care. Guess if I was thrilled when I found these two...
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Benchmarking ReLU and PReLU using MNIST and Theano
The abilities of deep learning are fascinating, just as this Paschke arch CC by David DeHetre One of the successful insights to training neural networks has been the rectified linear unit, or short the...
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End of the blood reign?
Will Carson et al.’s study be the garlic that deters the most blood thirsty colleagues? The image is CC by Gaviota Paseandera. As I have a weakness for studies that challenge the dogma, I was ecstatic...
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Stop (em)bracing burst fractures?
Jailbreaking spine fracture braces. The image is CC by Parée. Continuing on the theme of #2MuchMed (see BMJ’s campaign) I figured it may be worth highlighting two recent studies on stable compression...
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A bloody mess
Is the evidence on blood transfusions going down the drain? The image is CC by Steve Koukoulas. In a recent RCT by Gregersen et al. they manage to complicate blood transfusions in orthopaedic patients...
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The proximal humerus fracture – a lost cause?
Time to give up on the proximal humerus fracture? The image is CC by Crouchy99. Most orthopaedic surgeons have met patients with poor shoulder function after a proximal humerus fracture, and many of us...
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Canakinumab – difficult to pronounce but useful for treating gout?
Gout onset is sudden and be intensely painful. The image is CC by Mike Gout can be incredibly painful where the main treatment option are nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID). Unfortunately...
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Cuff surgery: Still no cigar
The degenerative cuff tear still unresolved. The image is CC by Brian I’ve previously reported on Kukkonen et al’s excellent three-armed rotator cuff surgery RCT. They’ve now just published the 2-year...
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R trends in 2015 (based on cranlogs)
What are the current tRends? The image is CC from coco + kelly. It is always fun to look back and reflect on the past year. Inspired by Christoph Safferling’s post on top packages from published in...
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LMWH – a Big Pharma bluff?
Tales of Big Pharma Horror. The image is CC from Mike Licht. Thromboprophylaxis is a given for patients operated due to lower limb injuries, at least if we believe Big Pharma-studies. This dogma is now...
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Dealing with non-proportional hazards in R
As things change over time so should our statistical models. The image is CC by Prad Prathivi Since I’m frequently working with large datasets and survival data I often find that the proportional...
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The torch-dataframe – subsetting and sampling
Subsetting and batching is like dealing cards – should be random unless you are doing a trick. The image is cc from Steven Depolo. In my previous two posts I covered the most basic data manipulation...
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Integration between torchnet and torch-dataframe – a closer look at the mnist...
It’s all about the numbers and getting the tensors right. The image is cc by David Asch. In previous posts we’ve looked into the basic structure of the torch-dataframe package. In this post we’ll go...
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Setting up a multilabel classification network with torch-dataframe
Working with multiple outcomes per input can be challenging. The image is cc by Markus Lütkemeyer. A common situation is that you have an image that can represent more than one class, e.g. a image may...
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