H. Yan, Xudong Lu, P. V. Gorp, S. Heines, Shan Nan, W. V. Mook, D. Bergmans, U. Kaymak, H. Duan
{"title":"On accurate, automated and insightful deviation analysis of clinical protocols","authors":"H. Yan, Xudong Lu, P. V. Gorp, S. Heines, Shan Nan, W. V. Mook, D. Bergmans, U. Kaymak, H. Duan","doi":"10.1109/BIBM.2018.8621133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBM.2018.8621133","url":null,"abstract":"Clinical guidelines, pathways and protocols are introduced to standardize and provide best-practice care. Analyzing deviations of actual care against the documented best practices is useful to find opportunities for complying better in the future. Prior work demonstrates that deviation analyses should be accurate, automated and insightful but only few studies manage to satisfy all three intentions. In this paper, we manage to reconcile accuracy with automation and insightfulness by combining the previously disconnected steps of checking and mining in compliance analysis software. Results are achieved using an algorithm that consists of three steps. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the algorithm via a real-life case from the intensive care unit of a Dutch hospital.","PeriodicalId":108667,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM)","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114588429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cell Tracking Across Noisy Image Sequences Via Faster R-CNN and Dynamic Local Graph Matching","authors":"Min Liu, Lehui Wu, Weili Qian, Yalan Liu","doi":"10.1109/BIBM.2018.8621192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBM.2018.8621192","url":null,"abstract":"Automated tracking of cells in time-lapse live-imaging datasets of developing multicellular tissues is gaining popularity in developmental biology for understanding the cell growth dynamics. The tracking of plant cells across noisy microscopy image sequences is very challenging, because plant cells in noisy region cannot be correctly segmented and cause serious errors in subsequent cell tracking procedure. In this paper, we present to track plant cells across noisy images using a tracking method which is based on Faster R-CNN and dynamic local graph matching. Faster R-CNN is employed to detect cells in noisy images, and it is improved by cell characteristic prior bounding box design and soft non-maximum suppression strategies. Then a dynamic local graph matching model is proposed to track the detected plant cells, by exploiting the cells’ tight spatial and temporal contextual information. It tends to prevent the cell matching error accumulation by selecting the most similar cell pair in the dynamically growing neighbor set of matched cells. Compared with the existing tracking methods for plant cells, the experimental results show that the proposed method can greatly improve the tracking accuracy.","PeriodicalId":108667,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM)","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114871029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ying Shen, Kaiqi Yuan, Yaliang Li, Buzhou Tang, Min Yang, Nan Du, Kai Lei
{"title":"Drug2Vec: Knowledge-aware Feature-driven Method for Drug Representation Learning","authors":"Ying Shen, Kaiqi Yuan, Yaliang Li, Buzhou Tang, Min Yang, Nan Du, Kai Lei","doi":"10.1109/BIBM.2018.8621390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBM.2018.8621390","url":null,"abstract":"Proper representations of drugs have broad applications in healthcare analytics, such as drug-drug interaction (DDI) prediction and drug-drug similarity (DDS) computation. However, drug application involves accurate drug representation and rich annotated data, requiring tremendous expert time and effort. Thereby, drug feature sparseness creates a substantial barrier for drug representation learning, making it difficult to accurately identify new drug properties prior to public release. To alleviate these deficiencies, we propose a knowledge-aware feature-driven method (Drug2Vec) for exploring the interaction between two drugs. The method of Drug2Vec captures the medical information, taxonomy information and semantic information of drugs. The results of experiments demonstrate that compared with existing methods, Drug2Vec can effectively learn the drug representation and discover accurate drug-drug interaction.","PeriodicalId":108667,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114889193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xinyu He, Lishuang Li, Jia Wan, Dingxin Song, Jun Meng, Zhanjie Wang
{"title":"Biomedical Event Trigger Detection Based on BiLSTM Integrating Attention Mechanism and Sentence Vector","authors":"Xinyu He, Lishuang Li, Jia Wan, Dingxin Song, Jun Meng, Zhanjie Wang","doi":"10.1109/BIBM.2018.8621217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBM.2018.8621217","url":null,"abstract":"As the crucial and prerequisite step in biomedical event extraction, trigger detection has attracted much attention. Most of the existing trigger detection methods either rely on elaborately designed features or consider features only within a window. Another challenge is that the existing methods treat each word in sentence equally. Also, most methods ignore the sentence-level semantic information. Therefore, we propose a trigger detection method based on Bidirectional Long Short Term Memory (BiLSTM) neural network, which can skip manual complex feature extraction. Furthermore, to obtain more semantic and syntactic information, we train dependency-based word embeddings to represent words, and add sentence vector to enrich sentence-level features. Finally, we integrate attention mechanism to capture the most important semantic information in a sentence. The experimental results on the multi-level event extraction (MLEE) corpus show that the proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art systems.","PeriodicalId":108667,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114740162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identification of lncRNA-disease association using bi-random walks","authors":"Yiqun Gao, Jialu Hu, Xuequn Shang","doi":"10.1109/BIBM.2018.8621132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBM.2018.8621132","url":null,"abstract":"There is evidence to suggest that lncRNAs are associated with distinct and diverse biological processes. The dysfunction or mutation of lncRNAs are implicated in a wide range of diseases. An accurate prediction of potential lncRNA-disease association can benefit the diagnosis of diseases and help us to gain a better understanding of the molecular mechanism. Although many related algorithms have been proposed, there still have much room for improvement. In this paper, we develop an algorithm, BiWalkLDA, to predict lncRNA-disease association by using bi-random walks. It constructs a lncRNA-disease network by integrating interaction profile and gene ontology information. Then, bi-random walks was applied to three real biological datasets. Results show that our method outperforms other algorithms in predicting lncRNA-disease association in terms of both accuracy and specificity. The source code of BiWalkLDA can be freely accessed at https://github.com/screamer/BiwalkLDA.","PeriodicalId":108667,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM)","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114991218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Overlapping Community Detection in Multi-view Brain Network","authors":"Ling Huang, Changdong Wang, Hongyang Chao","doi":"10.1109/BIBM.2018.8621075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBM.2018.8621075","url":null,"abstract":"Community detection in multi-view brain network is a significant research topic. Many efforts have been made on developing multi-view network community detection approaches. However, most of them can only reveal non-overlapping community structure, and the task of discovering overlapping community structure in multi-view brain network remains largely unsolved. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for Overlapping Community Detection in Multi-view Brain Network (oComm). The main idea is to design a network generative model and a node-wise cross-view consistency model for respectively measuring the within-view community quality and characterizing the cross-view community consistency. Some experiments have been conducted to confirm the effectiveness of the proposed method.","PeriodicalId":108667,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116031079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Pappalardo, G. Russo, M. Pennisi, G. Sgroi, G. Palumbo, S. Motta, Epifanio Fichera
{"title":"An agent based modeling approach for the analysis of tuberculosis – immune system dynamics","authors":"F. Pappalardo, G. Russo, M. Pennisi, G. Sgroi, G. Palumbo, S. Motta, Epifanio Fichera","doi":"10.1109/BIBM.2018.8621355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBM.2018.8621355","url":null,"abstract":"Tuberculosis is one of the world’s deadliest diseases that infects one third of the world’s population, mostly in developing countries. However, tuberculosis is becoming again very dangerous also for developed countries, due to the increased mobility of the world population, and the appearance of several new bacterial strains that are multi-drug resistant. With the aim to help in finding new therapeutic interventions against tuberculosis, we present the application of a computational modeling infrastructure named UISS (Universal Immune System Simulator) able to simulate the main features and dynamics of the immune system activities. We show a further development of UISS to consider the underlying tuberculosis pathogenesis and its interaction with the host immune system. Even though the model can be further personalized employing immunological parameters and genetic information, based on the available data, we obtained simulation scenarios able to reproduce persistent latent infection or the development of active disease. In particular, UISS is able to simulate those mechanisms in which M. tuberculosis is involved in the early influx of alveolar macrophages and recruited neutrophils until the formation of the tuberculous granuloma, at both cellular and molecular levels.","PeriodicalId":108667,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM)","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116316215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jie Hao, Youngsoon Kim, Tejaswini Mallavarapu, J. Oh, Mingon Kang
{"title":"Cox-PASNet: Pathway-based Sparse Deep Neural Network for Survival Analysis","authors":"Jie Hao, Youngsoon Kim, Tejaswini Mallavarapu, J. Oh, Mingon Kang","doi":"10.1109/BIBM.2018.8621345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBM.2018.8621345","url":null,"abstract":"An in-depth understanding of complex biological processes associated to patients’ survival time at the cellular and molecular level is critical not only for developing new treatments for patients but also for accurate survival prediction. However, highly nonlinear and high-dimension, low-sample size (HDLSS) data cause computational challenges in survival analysis. We developed a novel pathway-based, sparse deep neural network, called Cox-PASNet, for survival analysis by integrating highdimensional gene expression data and clinical data. Cox-PASNet is a biologically interpretable neural network model where nodes in the network correspond to specific genes and pathways, while capturing nonlinear and hierarchical effects of biological pathways to a patient’s survival. We also provide a solution to train the deep neural network model with HDLSS data. Cox-PASNet was evaluated by comparing the performance of different cutting-edge survival methods such as Cox-nnet, SurvivalNet, and Cox elastic net (Cox-EN). Cox-PASNet significantly outperformed the benchmarking methods, and the outstanding performance was statistically assessed. We provide an open-source software implemented in PyTorch (https://github.com/DataX-JieHao/Cox-PASNet) that enables automatic training, evaluation, and interpretation of Cox-PASNet.","PeriodicalId":108667,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM)","volume":"148 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116333433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Muggianu, A. Benso, R. Bardini, E. Hu, G. Politano, S. Carlo
{"title":"Modeling biological complexity using Biology System Description Language (BiSDL)","authors":"F. Muggianu, A. Benso, R. Bardini, E. Hu, G. Politano, S. Carlo","doi":"10.1109/BIBM.2018.8621533","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBM.2018.8621533","url":null,"abstract":"The Nets-within-Nets formalism (NWN) allows to model complex biological systems expressing hierarchy, encapsulation, selective communication, spatiality, quantitative mechanisms, and stochasticity. To make NWN usable by life science researchers as well as systems biologists, we introduce a new human-readable description language able to express these same NWN model properties, at different levels of abstraction. BiSDL (Biology Systems Description Language) is derived from the VHDL specification, a standard description language for hardware systems. In this paper we chose a simple signaling pathway example to show how BiSDL enables modeling complex biological systems by separating the behavioral model from the architectural details.","PeriodicalId":108667,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124013664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Efficient Implementation of a Subgraph Isomorphism Algorithm for GPUs.","authors":"Vincenzo Bonnici, R. Giugno, N. Bombieri","doi":"10.1109/BIBM.2018.8621444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBM.2018.8621444","url":null,"abstract":"The subgraph isomorphism problem is a computational task that applies to a wide range of today’s applications, ranging from the understanding of biological networks to the analysis of social networks. Even though different implementations for CPUs have been proposed to improve the efficiency of such a graph search algorithm, they have shown to be bounded by the intrinsic sequential nature of the algorithm. More recently, graphics processing units (GPUs) have become widespread platforms that provide massive parallelism at low cost. Nevertheless, parallelizing any efficient and optimized sequential algorithm for subgraph isomorphism on many-core architectures is a very challenging task. This article presents GRASS, a parallel implementation of the subgraph isomorphism algorithm for GPUs. Different strategies are implemented in GRASS to deal with the space complexity of the graph searching algorithm, the potential workload imbalance, and the thread divergence involved by the non-homogeneity of actual graphs. The paper presents the results obtained on several graphs of different sizes and characteristics to understand the efficiency of the proposed approach.","PeriodicalId":108667,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM)","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124035556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}