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Key Publications

These "key publications" are a few of the more relevant publications which provide the technical support for the KAMM-12.  They are listed here for your review (click on the sub-heading for the complete text):

 

Presentation at CDC Symposium:

Sic Transit Gloria Numeri:  Methodology and Practical Tools for Mining Diagnostic Information From Useless and Seemingly Normal Data;  7th Biennial CDC and ATSDR Symposium on Statistical Methods – Emerging Statistical Issues in Public Health for the 21st Century.

 

The International Society for the Systems Sciences:

Balascopy-Based General Systems Technology:  Theory, Methodology and Practical Tools; the 43rd Annual conference of The International Society for the Systems Sciences.

Adding Balascopy-Based General Systems Feature to What is Known in Liver Disease; the 43rd Annual conference of The International Society for the Systems Sciences.

 

First publication on the technology (1983):

Balascopy as a Tool For Heuristic Diagnosis; American Association for Medical Systems and Informatics.

First publication on the computer implementation  (1985):

Computerized Medical Balascopy; American Association for Medical Systems and Informatics.

 

Application in AIDS research:

Improved Clinical Evaluation of Prospective Vaccines and New Therapies against AIDS; The New York Academy of Sciences.

 

Application of the technology in gerontology:

An Artificial Intelligence System to Predict Progression of Immune Dysfunction in Healthy Older Patients; Journal of Medical Systems.

 

 

Related Publications (English)

Balascopy Methodology

1.       Kvitash, V.I. “Balascopy as a Tool for Heuristic Diagnosis”, AAMSI CONGRESS 83, Proceedings of the Congress on Medical Informatics, San Francisco, California 1983. pp. 121-125.

2.       Kvitash, V.I., Kaufman, H.S., “Computerized Medical Balascopy”, AAMSI CONGRESS 85, Proceedings of the Congress on Medical Informatics, San Francisco, California, 1985. pp. 365-369.

3.       Kvitash, V.I.,  “A New Tool for Immunopathology – IBa”, Annals of Allergy, 1985, August, Vol. 55, Number 2, Part II, p. 405.

4.       Kvitash, V.I.,  “Balascopy: Method for Detecting and Rapidly Evaluating Multiple Imbalances Within Multi-Parametric Systems. U.S. Patent No. 4,527,240.

5.       Kvitash, V.I.,, Schmidt, R.M., Kaufman, H.S.  “Nutrition-Immunity-Disease Continuum: Novel Technology for Detection, Quantification and Representation”, Proceeding of International Symposium, Nutritional Regulation of Immunity and Infection, Toronto, Canada 1986.

6.       Kvitash, V.I., “Balascopy”, Generation, Fall 1989, pp. 14-15.

7.       Kvitash, V.I., “Mapping Systemic Disorders of IgG-A-M-E Equilibrium in Atopic Adults with Self-Perceived Food Allergy (SPFA).” VIII International Food Allergy Symposium, July 9-11, 1993, Denver, Colorado, P.  316; Annals of Allergy, 1993, Vol. 71, No.  3, p.  269.

8.       Kvitash, V.I., “Balascopy-Based Cognitive Tools for Dynamical Systems Analysis,” Conversation on the Future of International Society for the Systems Sciences, Strategic Planning Conference, October 3-5, 1993, Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, California, p. 44.

9.       Kvitash, V.I., “Novel tools for Functional Medicine: Medical Balascopy,” Second International Symposium on Functional Medicine, March 31-April 2, 1994, Rancho Mirage, California, pp.  19-20.

10.   Kvitash, V.I., “Balascopy-Based Systems Science Technology: From Theoretical Foundations to Pragmatic Cognitive Tools,” Workshop/Tutorial, New Systems Thinking and Action for a New Century, Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meting of International Society for the Systems Sciences, Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, California, June 14-19, 1994 Vol. 2, pp. 1613-1614.

11.   Kvitash, V.I.  “Sic Transit Gloria Numeri: Methodology and Practical Tools for Mining Diagnostic Information from Useless and Seemingly Normal Data” Emerging Statistical Issues in Public Health for the 21st Century, 7th Biennial CDDC and ATSDR Symposium on Statistical Methods, January 27-29, 1999, Atlanta, Georgia, p. 96.

12.   Kvitash, V.I., “Balascopy-Based General Systems Technology: Theory, Methodology and Practical Tools”, (Accepted for publication)

 

Balascopy in AIDS

13.   Schmidt, R.M., Kvitash, V.I., Kaufman, H.S., “Immuno-Deficiency: Abnormal Immuno-Metabolic Networks in ARC and AIDS”, 7th European Immunology Meeting, Jerusalem, Israel, September 1-13, 1985, Abstracts, p. 26.

14.   Kvitash, V.I., “Early Identification of AIDS Resistant and Pre-AIDS Individuals Among ARC Patients by Immuno-Balascopy”, Archives of AIDS Research, 1987, Vol. 1, Number 1, pp. 37-44.

15.   Kvitash, V.I., Schmidt, R.M., “Avoidable Pitfalls in Design and Evaluation of Clinical Trials with Anti-AIDS Compounds,” IV International Conference on AIDS, June 12-16, 1988, Stockholm, Sweden, Vol. 62, No. 3, p. 264.

16.   Kvitash, V.I., Schmidt, R.M., “Evidence for AIDS and ARC Latency in Asymptomatic HIV Seropositives,” Annals of Allergy, 1989, Vol. 62, No. 3, p. 264.

17.   Kvitash, V.I., Schmidt, R.M.  “Forecasting Individual Rates of Progression from ARC to AIDS Using Routine Clinical Laboratory Tests,” V International Conference on AIDS, June 4-9, 1989, Montreal, Canada, p. 364.

18.   Kvitash, V.I., Schmidt, R.M.  “Improved Clinical Evaluation of Prospective Vaccines and New Therapies Against AIDS,” AIDS: Anti-HIV Agents, Therapies and Vaccines, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 616, December 26, 1990, pp. 549-551.

19.   Schmidt, R.M., Mahler, E.M., Kvitash, V.I.,  “Metabolic Cofactors Associated with Progression to Kaposi’s Sarcoma or PCP as the Initial Diagnosis of AIDS,” Abstracts of 1Xth International Conference on AIDS and IVth – STD World Congress, June 6-11, 1993, Berlin, B02-0920, Vol. , p. 288.

 

Balascopy in Allergy & Immunology

20.   Kvitash, V.I., Schmidt, R.M., Kaufman, H.S., “Immuno-Deficiency: Novel Immunoregulatory Mechanisms”, 7th European Immunology Meeting, Jerusalem, Israel, September 8-13, 1985, Abstracts, p. 187.

21.   Kvitash, V.I., Schmidt, R.M., Kaufman, H.S., “Five Types of Multiple Immunoregulatory Dysfunction (MIRD)”, Proceedings of First I.U.I.S Conference on Clinical Immunology, Toronto, Canada 1986.

22.   Kvitash, V.I., Schmidt, R.M., Kaufman, H.S., “Immuno-Deficiency: Novel Immuno-Metabolic Mechanisms”, 6th International Congress of Immunology, Toronto, Canada, 1986. p. 455.

23.   Kvitash, V.I., “Diagnostic Expert System for Imaging of Multiple Imbalances Among Major Classes of Immunoglobulins Revealed a New Class of Immunoglobulin Pathology in Allergic Population,” The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 1993, vol. 91, No. 1, Part 2, p. 141.

24.   Kvitash, V.I., “HealthGuard (HG) Diagnostic Classification of IgG-A-M-E-G1-G2-G3-G4 Systemic Deficiency: A Novel Cognitive Diagnostic Tool,” Immunology & Allergy Practice, 1993, Vol. 15, No. pp. 144-145.

25.   Kvitash, V.I., “Mapping Systemic Disorders of IgG-A-M-E Equilibrium in Atopic Adults Reveals Existence of New Gender-Specific Systemic Markers Associated with Drug Reactions,” The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 1994, Vol. 93, No. 1, Part 2, p. 265.

26.   Kvitash, V.I., Erdberg, P., Gaines R. “Gender-Specific Disorders of IgG-A-M-E Equilibrium in Atopic Adults with Red Wine-Induced Headache,” XV International Congress of Allergology and Clinical Immunology, Annual Meeting of the European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology, June 26-July 1, 1994, Stockholm, Sweden, p. 193.

27.   Kvitash, V.I., Erdberg P., Gaines R., “Kvitash-Erdberg-Gaines Syndrome (KEGS) in Atopic Females: Red Wine-Induced Headache, Low Total IgE, Chronic Tiredness, Personality Disorders, Drugs and Animal Hypersensitivity,” XV International Congress of Allergology and Clinical Immunology, Annual Meeting of the European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology, June 26-July 1, 1994, Stockholm, Sweden, p. 178.

 

Balascopy in Cardiology

28.   Kvitash, V.I., Kaufman, H.S., Elevitch, F.R., Leeds, S.E., Abouay, J., Fishman, N.H., Modin, G. W.,  “Computerized Immuno-Balascopy in Ischemic Heart Disease”, AAMSI CONGRESS 85, Proceedings of the Congress on Medical Informatics, San Francisco, California 1985. pp. 370-371.

29.   Kvitash, V.I., Kaufman, H.S., Elevitch F.R., “Balascopic Patterns of Early Multiple Metabolic Abnormalities in Patients with Acute Coronary Heart Disease”, Proceedings of AAMSI Congress 1986.  Computer Applications in Medicine and Health Care.  Anaheim, California, 1986, pp. 303-304.

30.   Femino, G., Ghezzy, G., Kaufman, H.S., Kvitash, V.I., “Myocardial Infarction?”, CHEST, 1988, Vol. 93, No. 6, pp. 1315-1316.

31.   Kaufman H.S., Kvitash, V.I., “Immunologic Abnormalities Associated with Acute Ischemic Heart Disease (A Pilot Study),” Annals of Allergy, 1989, Vol. 63, No. 1. pp. 287-290.

 

Balascopy in Gerontology

32.   Kvitash, V.I., Schmidt, R.M., “Forecasting Individual Rates of Immune Dysfunction Progression in Aging and AIDS using a Computer-assisted Analysis of Biochemical, Hematological and Immunological Data,” The Gerontologist, 1989, Vol. 29, Special Issue, October, p. 95A.

33.   Kvitash, V.I., Schmidt, R.M., “Immunology, Aging and the Primary Care Practice: Forecasting, Progression of Immune Dysfunction in Older Patients,” The Gerontologist, Vol. 31, Special Issue II, October 1991, p. 181.

34.   Kvitash, V.I., Schmidt, R.M., “Immunology, Aging and the Primary Care Practice: Forecasting, Progression of Immune Dysfunction in Older Patients,” Research Symposium 1992, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California, p. 42.

35.   Mahler, E.M., Schmidt, R.M., Kvitash, V.I.,  “An Artificial Intelligence System to Predict Progression of Immune Dysfunction in Healthy Older Patients,” Journal of Medical Systems, 1993, Vol. 17, Nos. 3/4, pp. 173-181.

 

Balascopy in Immuno-Psychology

36.   Kvitash, V.I., Schmidt, R.M., Kaufman, H.S., “Patterns of Hormonal-Immuno-Behavioral Interaction”, First International Conference on Hormones and Immunity, Toronto, Canada, 1986.

37.   Schmidt, R.M., Kvitash, V.I., “Behavioral, Immunological and Biochemical Patterns in ARC and AIDS”, III International Conference on AIDS, June 1-5, 1987, Washington, D.C., p. 95.

38.   Kvitash, V.I., Schmidt, R.M., “Behavior Target for Possible Immunomodulation Therapy in AIDS Patients,” V International Conference on AIDS, June 4-9, 1989, Montreal, Canada, p. 731.

39.   Kvitash, V.I., Schmidt, R.M., Mahler, E.M. “Computer-Assisted Analysis of Behavioral, Immunological and Biochemical Data from Persons with HIV/AIDS.”  Health Evaluation Personal Preventive Medicine Informatics: The New Synergies, September 3-5, 1992, Geneva, Switzerland, p. 28.

40.   Kvitash, V.I., Erdberg P., Gaines, R., “IgE-Dependent Gender-Specific Personality Traits in Atopic Individuals,” Annals of Allergy, 1993, Vol. 70, No. 1, p. 88.

41.   Kvitash, V.I., Erdberg P., “Stress-Triggered Allergy Symptoms in Atopic Individuals Associated with Low Total IgE and Personality Disorders,” Annals of Allergy & Immunology, 1995, Vol. 74, No. 1, p. 76.

42.   Kvitash, V.I., Erdberg, P., Kouznetsova, N., “Psycho-Protective Role of High Total IgE in Atopic Females,” Annals of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology, 1996, Vol. 76, No. 1, p. 123.

43.   Kvitash, V.I., Erdberg, P., Kouznetsova, N., “Extra-Immunological Psycho-Protective Function of IgE in Atopic Individuals,” The 9th International Congress on Immunology, July 23-29, 1995, San Francisco, California USA, p.  781.

44.   Zelman, D.C., Fitzpatrick, C.M., Kvitash, V.I., Erdberg, P., “Psychosomatic Models of Allergy: A Critical Analysis of Significant Correlations Between MMPI and Physiological Measures,”, Proceedings of 8th Annual Convention, American Psychological Society, San Francisco California, 1996, p. 111.

45.   Kvitash, V.I., Erdberg, P., “Extent of Personality Disorders in Atopic Individuals are Gender-Dependent”, Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, 1996, Vol. 76, No. 1, p. 124.

46.   Kvitash, V.I., Erdberg, P., “Immunological Basis for Creativity: Empirical Evidence from San Francisco Immuno-Psychology Project (A Serendipity)”, 5th International Congress on the Disorders of Personality, June 25-27, 1997, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 1997, p. 90.

Balascopy in Pulmonology

47.   Fallat, R.J., Kvitash, V.I., “Computerized Pulmo-Balascopy”, AAMSI CONGRESS 85, Proceedings of the Congress on Medical Informatics, San Francisco, California, 1985, pp. 372-374.

48.   Fallat, R.J., Kvitash, V.I., “Pulmo-Balascopy: Graphical Screening Test for Evaluation of Pulmonary Function”, Nineteenth Annual Congress, The American Association for Clinical Immunology and Allergy, San Francisco, California, 1985, p. 23.

 

 

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