Background Breathlessness is a common, distressing symptom in people with advanced disease and a marker of deterioration. Holistic services that draw on integrated palliative care have been developed ...

Similar to pain, dyspnea is subjective, ... and at its worst, using an appropriate scale such as the Visual Analog Scale (VAS) or Borg -- see below) Any associated symptoms (eg, cough, dizziness) ...

Recently, using large visual vocabulary or codebooks to quantize and partition the set of local feature descriptors into large set of disjoint subsets termed visual words (or large visual words) has ...