{"title":"Towards the framework of adaptive user interfaces for eHealth","authors":"E. Vasilyeva, Mykola Pechenizkiy, S. Puuronen","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2005.101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2005.101","url":null,"abstract":"Diversity inside a group of users having their individual abilities, interests, and needs challenge the developers of eHealth projects with heterogeneous needs in information delivery and/or other eHealth services. This paper considers an adaptive user interface approach as an opportunity in addressing this challenge. We briefly overview the recent achievements in the area of user interface adaptation and discuss application of these achievements in the eHealth context. We introduce the basic elements of our framework for adaptive user interface (AUI) for eHealth systems. Then, we use this framework in our review of work in the area of AUI for eHealth applications. As a result, we conclude with a brief discussion on the current focus on AUI research in eHealth, and interesting directions for further research.","PeriodicalId":119367,"journal":{"name":"18th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'05)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128277699","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":"Handheld medical devices negotiating for reconfigurable resources using agents","authors":"Timothy O'Sullivan, Richard Studdert","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2005.63","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2005.63","url":null,"abstract":"The nomadic nature of medical professionals can hinder their ability to access efficient medical tools at locations of their choice. The portability and connectivity characteristics of handheld medical devices can help resolve this issue. However, these handhelds have a physical size constraint inhibiting their system resource capacity. This limits their ability to support a wide range of medical applications effectively. Reconfigurable hardware incorporated within distributed servers has vast potential to improve the system performance and versatility of mobile medical devices. To fully realise the benefit of networked reconfigurable resources, portable computers need an effective middleware to enable them to efficiently utilise surrounding adaptive servers. Agent technology is a sophisticated and intelligent middleware framework that can empower handheld medical devices to exploit networked reconfigurable hardware resources. This paper outlines a deployment strategy that incorporates a high-level protocol to facilitate mobile device computational offloading. This protocol is based on efficient cooperation and negotiation between agents in a distributed medical environment. An experimental demonstrator system is shown and simulation results of the negotiation technique are presented.","PeriodicalId":119367,"journal":{"name":"18th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'05)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127256893","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}
L. Black, M. McTear, N. Black, R. Harper, M. Lemon
{"title":"Appraisal of a conversational artefact and its utility in remote patient monitoring","authors":"L. Black, M. McTear, N. Black, R. Harper, M. Lemon","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2005.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2005.33","url":null,"abstract":"The escalating rise in chronic illnesses, coupled with the shift in population demographics and increasing sedentary lifestyle has placed current health resources under considerable strain. In order to extend care to a wider audience, methods for managing these patients via telecommunications technology should be safe, usable and affordable. This paper reports on the development of a management solution for patients with diabetes and co-existing hypertension. The proposed system, known as DI@L-log, is an intelligent, automated remote monitoring system which involves patients proactively in the care of their condition by using spoken dialogue technology. We discuss the preliminary findings of a recent study involving 5 hypertensive diabetic patients from the Ulster community hospitals trust (UCHT) in Northern Ireland and its potential use in augmenting care for the increasing number of chronic disease patients.","PeriodicalId":119367,"journal":{"name":"18th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'05)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132504368","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":"Biclustering of expression data using simulated annealing","authors":"K. Bryan, P. Cunningham, N. Bolshakova","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2005.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2005.37","url":null,"abstract":"In a gene expression data matrix a bicluster is a grouping of a subset of genes and a subset of conditions which show correlating levels of expression activity. The difficulty of finding significant biclusters in gene expression data grows exponentially with the size of the dataset and heuristic approaches such as Cheng and Church's greedy node deletion algorithm are required. It is to be expected that stochastic search techniques such as genetic algorithms or simulated annealing might produce better solutions than greedy search. In this paper we show that a simulated annealing approach is well suited to this problem and we present a comparative evaluation of simulated annealing and node deletion on a variety of datasets. We show that simulated annealing discovers more significant biclusters in many cases.","PeriodicalId":119367,"journal":{"name":"18th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'05)","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130418529","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":"Combining algorithms in automatic detection of R-peaks in ECG signals","authors":"José Fernández, M. Harris, Carsten Meyer","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2005.43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2005.43","url":null,"abstract":"R-peak detection is the crucial first step in every automatic ECG analysis. Much work has been carried out in this field, using various methods ranging from filtering and threshold methods, through wavelet methods, to neural networks, and others. Performance is generally good, but each method has situations where it fails. In this paper we suggest an approach to automatically combine different algorithms, here the Pan Tompkins and wavelet algorithms, for detection of R-peaks in ECG signals, in order to benefit from the strengths of both algorithms. Experimental results and analysis are provided on the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database. We obtained substantial improvements on the test data with respect to the best individual algorithm.","PeriodicalId":119367,"journal":{"name":"18th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'05)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130454632","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}
A. Vainshelboim, Michael Hayes, Kenneth S. Momoh, Corissa Raatsi, S. Peirce, K. Korotkov, Nikolay Prijatkin
{"title":"GDV technology applications for cosmetic sciences","authors":"A. Vainshelboim, Michael Hayes, Kenneth S. Momoh, Corissa Raatsi, S. Peirce, K. Korotkov, Nikolay Prijatkin","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2005.56","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2005.56","url":null,"abstract":"The technique of gas discharge visualization (GDV) quantifies the phenomenon of corona discharge, and has been used effectively in both testing of raw materials and in testing physiological reaction through measuring potentials in human skin. This technique was used to evaluate human reactions, including hair's response to electrical and magnetic fields, the human subconscious reactions to odorants, and the response of the human body to various spa treatments. The results verify that freshly cut human hair has a greater corona discharge with application of both a magnetic and an electrical field as opposed to hair that has been detached from the scalp for a significant period of time. Additionally, GDV is able to quantify subconscious measurements and confirms that it takes a longer period of time for a person to become accustomed to an aroma if they consider it to be unpleasant. The results also show that one's GDV profile has a direct correspondence to spa therapies. Overall, GDV presents a highly sensitive and reproducible technique for testing specific properties of the human body.","PeriodicalId":119367,"journal":{"name":"18th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'05)","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120935523","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":"A grid enabled PSE for medical imaging: experiences on MedIGrid","authors":"V. Boccia, M. Guarracino","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2005.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2005.9","url":null,"abstract":"A key issue in designing applications codes which are able to effectively take advantage of grid computing environments is to deal and manage all the software components complexity, this is even more true for medical imaging applications. We are concerned with development of a medical imaging PSE for advanced and grid computing environments. Specifically, MedIGrid is a distributed application for the management, processing and visualization of biomedical images that integrates a set of software and hardware components, or, more specifically, a set of grid collaborative applications useful to nuclear doctors. It results from the interaction of computing scientists devoted to the design and deployment of new tomographic reconstruction algorithms techniques, computer scientists researchers in the field of distributed and parallel architectures and physicians involved in nuclear medicine. We'll describe MedIGrid general architecture, as well as improvements and enhancements, essentially regarding the semantic power of the GUI (the Portal) (its language and its realization), and the entire phase of monitoring and migration of the parallel computational kernel for images reconstruction, mainly based on a performance contract inked taking into account historical performances and an ad hoc developed performance model.","PeriodicalId":119367,"journal":{"name":"18th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'05)","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115976104","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":"Grid-enabled workflows for data intensive medical applications","authors":"T. Glatard, J. Montagnat, X. Pennec","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2005.61","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2005.61","url":null,"abstract":"Data intensive medical image processing applications can easily benefit from grid capabilities. However, the setting up of complex medical experiments is not straight forward on current grid infrastructures. To ease such experiments we are developing a generic and grid-enabled workflow framework, relying on current standards. We show results on a concrete application to medical image registration assessment. We discuss the limitations induced by current standards and tools and how they were overcome for deploying the application.","PeriodicalId":119367,"journal":{"name":"18th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'05)","volume":"42 13","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113974447","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":"Hospital care watch (HCW): an ontology and rule-based intelligent patient management assistant","authors":"V. Payne, Douglas P. Metzler","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2005.64","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2005.64","url":null,"abstract":"Hospital care watch (HCW) is a prototype medical intelligent assistant to improve patient care and safety and to reduce medical errors in the hospital setting. The system is based on an ontology of hospital care concepts including hospital activities, procedures, and policies, and insurance policies, as well as medical knowledge per se. A set of abstract rule types model general situations that need to be identified to detect potential problems and particular instantiations of those rule types identify individual situations. The system is not designed to provide medical diagnosis or other professional decision making; but rather to track the implications of such medical decisions taken by physicians and other medical professionals within the context of the guidelines and regulations of the medical environment, and the background of established medical knowledge.","PeriodicalId":119367,"journal":{"name":"18th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'05)","volume":"191 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122482761","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":"Putting fun into function with QuizMed-an interactive medical application","authors":"Finola Bradley, B. Jung","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2005.91","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2005.91","url":null,"abstract":"QuizMed is a Web-based visual medicine application aiming to meet the following three distinct objectives: medical information resource, educational tool and professional communication and case discussion forum. The prototype-in-operation presents primarily dermatology and cytology images together with (optional) auxiliary case descriptions. These can be classified by the user with varying functionality depending on the user role. Anonymous users (e.g. students) can propose and submit a diagnosis for an existing image/case and view the statistical analysis of all previously given and recorded answers for it. Registered users (e.g. medical professionals) in addition can upload new images, including a clinical history, and submit comments to existing cases. This paper addresses the medical and technical goals challenges and solutions for the QuizMed application and describes the prototype. It presents a first set of evaluation analysis results that were collected from students and a variety of medical professionals during the initial phase of the live implementation. Can one application successfully serve as educational as well as communication tool? What sort of reaction will the application generate amongst healthcare users?.","PeriodicalId":119367,"journal":{"name":"18th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'05)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133338147","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}