M. Krizmaric, Tanja Zmauc, D. M. Turk, G. Štiglic, P. Kokol
{"title":"Time allocation simulation model of clean and dirty pathways in hospital environment","authors":"M. Krizmaric, Tanja Zmauc, D. M. Turk, G. Štiglic, P. Kokol","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2005.100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2005.100","url":null,"abstract":"In usual modern hospital architectural design we try to separate the clean and dirty corridor that should facilitate traffic flow of clean and dirty items. However that is not the case in the hospitals with older architectural design, where clean and dirty pathways flow through a single corridor systems. The most common solution which enables separation of clean and dirty pathways in such systems is introduction of time allocation for dirty and clean items transportation. Currently such schedules are fixed and do not allow quick changes in case of specific events. We propose a solution to the problem using multi-agent based system able to quickly adapt the schedule of transports.","PeriodicalId":119367,"journal":{"name":"18th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'05)","volume":"41 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134363317","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}
Dimitrios K. Iakovidis, D. Maroulis, S. Karkanis, A. Brokos
{"title":"A comparative study of texture features for the discrimination of gastric polyps in endoscopic video","authors":"Dimitrios K. Iakovidis, D. Maroulis, S. Karkanis, A. Brokos","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2005.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2005.6","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we extend the application of four texture feature extraction methods proposed for the detection of colorectal lesions, into the discrimination of gastric polyps in endoscopic video. Support Vector Machines have been utilized for the texture classification task. The polyp discrimination performance of the surveyed schemes is compared by means of Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC). The results advocate the feasibility of a computer-based system for polyp detection in video gastroscopy that exploits the textural characteristics of the gastric mucosa in conjunction with its color appearance.","PeriodicalId":119367,"journal":{"name":"18th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'05)","volume":"81 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":"116078691","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":"Markov model-based clustering for efficient patient care","authors":"S. McClean, M. Faddy, P. Millard","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2005.72","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2005.72","url":null,"abstract":"Phase-type distributions were used to carry out model-based clustering of patients using the time spent by the patients in hospital, with maximum likelihood estimation of the model parameters. These parameters were allowed to vary with covariates so that the probability of cluster membership was dependent on these covariates. Expressions for the cluster membership probabilities and corresponding distributions of length of stay in care were found where the membership probabilities can be updated to take account of length of stay to date. The approach was applied to data on geriatric patients from an administrative database of a London hospital. The age of the patients at admission to care and the year of admission were included as covariates. Differential effects of these covariates on the various parameters of the fitted model were demonstrated, and interpretations of these effects made. The clusters here corresponded to patient pathways, with different length of stay distributions, varying care needs and different associated costs. By using the membership probabilities to assign patients to such clusters, care may thus be suited to their predicted pathway. Such an approach might be used in association with healthcare process improvement technologies, such as Lean Thinking or Six Sigma.","PeriodicalId":119367,"journal":{"name":"18th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'05)","volume":"32 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":"113962058","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":"Web-based monitoring system for home-based rehabilitation with stroke patients","authors":"Huiru Zheng, R. Davies, N. Black","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2005.107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2005.107","url":null,"abstract":"Research on developing low cost home-based rehabilitation systems aim to provide support for the rehabilitation of post stroke patients in the home environment to promote/aid functional recovery and ultimately enhance their quality of life (QoL). A Web-based system has been proposed for monitoring the home-based rehabilitation and providing both therapeutic instruction and support information. The system will support specific rehabilitation interventions, provide a three-dimensional (3D) visual output and measure the effectiveness of the resulting actions undertaken by the participant. Information regarding process can be reviewed and accessed by the patient, their carers and health professionals.","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":"130254212","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":"iAPERAS - intelligent athlete's personal assistant","authors":"M. Verlic, M. Zorman, M. Mertik","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2005.66","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2005.66","url":null,"abstract":"Non-professional athletes usually rely on the information about training methods and nutrition recommendations provided online. However, the quality of online information sources is extremely variable. iAPERAS is an expert system using Bayes networks and designed for athletes. It represents a better alternative to online resources, because it is based on scientific research findings and evaluated by domain experts.","PeriodicalId":119367,"journal":{"name":"18th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'05)","volume":"1 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":"129250076","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":"Ontology interaction with a patient electronic health record","authors":"Olivier Curé","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2005.80","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2005.80","url":null,"abstract":"The XIMSA system (extented interactive multimedia system for auto-medication) aims to propose information and services to patients on mild clinical signs and associated treatments, a domain usually called self-medication. An important number of XIMSA's services benefit from inferences which are the results of collaborations between a self-medication knowledge base (ontology and concept instances), drug and symptom databases and a patient simplified electronic health record. This paper focuses on the electronic health record/knowledge base interactions which enable to validate drug consumption considering a patient profile but also to design usable and user-friendly graphical user interfaces.","PeriodicalId":119367,"journal":{"name":"18th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'05)","volume":"133 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":"129267605","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":"Dynamic response measurement of clinical gas analysers","authors":"Kabita Shakya, C. Deegan, F. Hegarty, C. Markham","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2005.50","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2005.50","url":null,"abstract":"Capnographs are devices that use CO/sub 2/ from a patients' expired breath to monitor the cardiopulmonary status during anaesthesia and mechanical ventilation. The waveforms are called capnograms. Capnographs at present are routinely calibrated via a static calibration method only. There is no specific method of dynamically testing capnographs. Since capnograms are time varying, there is a definite requirement to evaluate the dynamic response of these systems. This paper presents a technique to determine the time and frequency response of capnographs using a custom built EtCO/sub 2/ simulator system. This system is computer controlled via a C program. A portable version of the simulator system has also been developed using a microprocessor. The waveforms obtained using the simulator system are recorded and image analysis is performed using Matlab to obtain the time and frequency responses of the capnographs. This paper explains the image analysis part of the technique in detail. Measurements of several types of capnograph systems proved that older capnographs usually do not satisfy the manufacturer quoted specifications for time and frequency response. Monitoring capnographs on a routine basis is thus important and is recommended. This new technique of time and frequency response measurement can be used as part of a quality control protocol for capnographs; for commissioning and routine monitoring as well as to verify manufacturer quoted specifications in new units.","PeriodicalId":119367,"journal":{"name":"18th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'05)","volume":"31 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":"128841748","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 wearable ECG-recording system for continuous arrhythmia monitoring in a wireless tele-home-care situation","authors":"R. Fensli, E. Gunnarson, Torstein Gundersen","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2005.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2005.22","url":null,"abstract":"New wireless technology for tele-home-care purposes gives new possibilities for monitoring of vital parameters with wearable biomedical sensors, and will give the patient the freedom to be mobile and still be under continuously monitoring and thereby to better quality of patient care. This paper describes a new concept for wireless and wearable electrocardiogram (ECG) sensor transmitting signals to a diagnostic station at the hospital, and this concept is intended for detecting rarely occurrences of cardiac arrhythmias and to follow up critical patients from their home while they are carrying out daily activities.","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":"121112380","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":"GIMI: generic infrastructure for medical informatics","authors":"A. Simpson, D. Power, M. Slaymaker, E. Politou","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2005.59","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2005.59","url":null,"abstract":"Breakthroughs in medical informatics have yielded a wealth of data across all aspects of patient care. One of the fundamental goals of e-Science should be facilitate the appropriate use of such data to improve patient care: both in the short-term and the long-term. Developments in Grid technology have brought about the promise of such data being used to, for example, support research into evidence-based patient centred care and facilitate on-demand decision support for practitioners. For such health grid dreams to become reality, however, it will first be necessary to tackle key technical challenges, such as those of interoperability and security. The GIMI (Generic Infrastructure for Medical Informatics) proposes to tackle exactly these generic problems within the context of healthcare in the United Kingdom.","PeriodicalId":119367,"journal":{"name":"18th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'05)","volume":"28 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":"122941281","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}
K. Nozaki, Toyokazu Akiyama, S. Shimojo, S. Maeda, H. Tamagawa
{"title":"Integration of computational fluid dynamics and computational aero acoustics on grid for dental applications","authors":"K. Nozaki, Toyokazu Akiyama, S. Shimojo, S. Maeda, H. Tamagawa","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2005.70","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2005.70","url":null,"abstract":"The hybrid applications are needed in dental research because the result of their operation could be predicted by both modeling of an oral truct and more than two kind of physical simulations. However, it takes long time to perform the hybrid applications, cost a lot of money and needs some experience to deal with them. This paper proposes a new execution procedure of two applications which can reduce the implementation time by considering parallel efficiency of those applications. It can determine which attitude should be taken, sequential or separate execution of two different applications related with each other. Following the execution procedure, the dental hybrid application was performed. As a result of that, desirable pairs of the number of CPUs allocated to each simulation could be found. This means that the adequate procedure should be considered before execution of the hybrid applications, in order to play a compute power producer for dental clinics and hospitals.","PeriodicalId":119367,"journal":{"name":"18th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'05)","volume":"24 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":"123927195","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}