{"title":"The efficacy of the gas discharge visualisation technique as a measure of physical and mental health","authors":"P. Dobson, E. O'Keeffe","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2005.98","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2005.98","url":null,"abstract":"On the basis of our research, the GDV does not seem to possess a specific medical diagnostic capability, however, the GDV does display very significant change with interventions designed to reduce stress; therefore, the GDV technique can potentially be used in tracking the effectiveness of physical and mental fitness programmes. We also concluded that the level of GDV-entropy is an important indicator of mental health and can help to identify which individuals are more likely to suffer from stress and its consequences.","PeriodicalId":119367,"journal":{"name":"18th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'05)","volume":"18 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":"127816081","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":"Guided interactive diagnostic systems","authors":"G. M. Sacco","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2005.62","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2005.62","url":null,"abstract":"A guided interactive approach to computer-aided medical diagnosis is presented. This approach is based on dynamic taxonomies, a knowledge management model that allows the guided interactive exploration of complex information bases. The problem of the diagnosis of pathologies is recasted as a problem of exploring and thinning out candidate pathologies on the basis of symptoms and other observable features.","PeriodicalId":119367,"journal":{"name":"18th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'05)","volume":"2 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":"128399293","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-based stochastic simulation of unitary and membrane Ca/sup 2+/ currents in spherical cells","authors":"V. González-Vélez, H. González-Vélez","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2005.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2005.10","url":null,"abstract":"We present a stochastic simulation of L-type Ca/sup 2+/ current assuming thousands of calcium channels on the membrane of a spherical cell. We propose a three-state Markov model to simulate the individual contribution of each channel. Rather than using a statistical approximation, we actually consider each individual channel transitions between states and evaluate the unitary channel current. We compare this aggregated unitary contributions with simulated whole cell currents, both in response to a depolarising voltage pulse. On the computational side, we have employed a parameter-sweep, component based approach. Being embarrassingly parallel by design, we have parallelised it in a naive manner. We argue its possible extension using algorithmic skeletons. The results presented account for hours of processing time on a dedicated grid.","PeriodicalId":119367,"journal":{"name":"18th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'05)","volume":"33 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":"129238920","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":"Experiences on a large scale grid deployment with a computationally intensive biomedical application","authors":"J. M. Alonso, V. Hernández, Germán Moltó","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2005.52","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2005.52","url":null,"abstract":"With the recent advent of Grid Computing technologies, resource-starved applications can greatly benefit from the power that the Grid aims to deliver. In this paper, we focus on the application of Grid Computing to a biomedical computationally intensive application that simulates the electrical activity on cardiac tissues. A user level tool, called GMarte, was developed to simplify the usage of Grid facilities for the execution of scientific applications on distributed deployments. A cardiac case study has been executed, via GMarte, on the largest distributed Grid deployment available in Europe (the EGEE testbed) in order to assess the benefits of Grid Computing. The usage of a Grid infrastructure has dramatically reduced the time required to execute the case study, thus increasing research productivity.","PeriodicalId":119367,"journal":{"name":"18th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'05)","volume":"220 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":"124347140","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 public access defibrillation trial in urban and rural communities in Northern Ireland: developing the roster model","authors":"K. Cairns, A. Marshall, F. Kee","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2005.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2005.18","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces a special computer-based roster scheme developed to allocate and manage volunteers working as part of a public access defibrillation trial. The roster scheme, developed for the urban region, is rooted on population statistics and demographics for that area and utilizes geographical mapping software and spatial modelling techniques to subdivide the geographical location into appropriate paging zones. The central location for zones was constrained to be within a reasonable travelling time for each volunteer. By estimating sudden cardiac arrest occurrences using a Poisson process, the model, together with road network information, selects a roster which minimizes volunteer response time.","PeriodicalId":119367,"journal":{"name":"18th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'05)","volume":"454 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":"123364413","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":"Vessel segmentation and analysis in laboratory skin transplant micro-angiograms","authors":"A. Condurache, T. Aach, S. Grzybowski, H. Machens","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2005.104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2005.104","url":null,"abstract":"The success of skin transplantations depends on the adequate revascularization of the transplanted dermal matrix. To induce vessel growth or angiogenesis, pharmacological substances may be applied to the dermal matrix. The effectiveness of different such substances has been evaluated in laboratory experiments. For this purpose, the surface and length of newly grown vessels have to be measured in micro-angiograms (x-ray images of the blood vessels recorded after the injection of a radiopaque substance) of tissue transplanted on the back of laboratory animals. To this end we describe in this contribution a vessel analysis environment central to which is a vessel segmentation tool for surface quantification in fasciocutaneous skin transplant micro-angiograms.","PeriodicalId":119367,"journal":{"name":"18th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'05)","volume":"23 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":"122651432","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":"Analysis and monitoring of the human energy state with gas discharge visualization technique","authors":"K. Korotkov","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2005.30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2005.30","url":null,"abstract":"Recent applications of the GDV Technique - Stimulated opto-electron emission of biological subjects - are under consideration. Overview of the main applications is presented: analysis and monitoring of patients in medicine; estimation of readiness for the competitive activity among elite athletes; Frontier Science Study; study of water and liquids. The data presented demonstrate high sensitivity of the GDV technique for the follow-up of individual person's reaction to different treatment modalities and influences, evaluation of different states of consciousness; detection of small impurities in water.","PeriodicalId":119367,"journal":{"name":"18th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'05)","volume":"71 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":"125277398","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":"Improving genericity and performances of medical systems based on image analysis","authors":"Jean-Baptiste Fasquel, V. Agnus","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2005.67","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2005.67","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with the improvement of the genericity of the well-known ITK medical image processing library. Such a library is the core of any medical system/software based on the medical image analysis (e.g. computer aided diagnosis, surgery planning...). This proposed improvement consists in, without algorithm rewriting, extending ITK iterators (leading to an ITK++framework) in order to constrain algorithms to user-specified image areas. We experimentally evaluate this work by considering the practical case of liver vessel segmentation from CT-scan images, where it is pertinent to constrain processing's to the liver area: this reduces the number of voxels to process. Experimental results clearly prove the interest of this work: for example, the anisotropic filtering of this area is performed in only 16 seconds with our proposed solution, while 52 seconds are required using the native limited ITK framework. Moreover, we also show that the code resulting from the proposed improvement remains easy to manage. A major advantage of the proposed solution is that the native ITK library is not modified because the improvement consists in some add-ons: this facilitates the further evaluation of the pertinence of the proposed design while preserving the native ITK framework.","PeriodicalId":119367,"journal":{"name":"18th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'05)","volume":"54 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":"121660516","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":"Optimization of the physiological capacities of human: the bio-nutritional assumption of responsibility of sportsman","authors":"C. Bordes, A. Chausse","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2005.82","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2005.82","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of the paper is about the optimization of the physiological capacities of human and the bio-nutritional assumption of the responsibility of sportsman. The two main evaluation methods on the capabilities of human adaptation are presented, which is simple and practical. The two approaches are IOMET (Ionic Mineral Enzymo Therapy) analysis and GDV (Gas Discharge Visualization) technique. IoMET will test the subjects from a simple questionnaire in order to enable an individual bio nutritional preparation. GDV will practise true \"energy balances\" on the participants all along the expedition. The two approaches are closely related to the data processing tool.","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":"126902613","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 initial investigation into the role of health informatics in the context of global health","authors":"G. Stephens, G. Woods","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2005.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2005.26","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports on an initial investigation into the role of health informatics in the context of global health. Statistics from the World Health Organisation (WHO) concerning mortality rates and disease burden are presented and based on these statistics HIV/AIDS is chosen as a clinical domain for investigation. The results highlight the lack of health service capacity in some geographical regions. The Millennium Development Goals (MDG), some funding initiatives and some current and new ways to apply Information and Communication Technology (ICT) are put forward. The paper concludes with a description of a collaborative project between Trinity College Dublin, St. James's hospital Dublin and Mulago hospital, Uganda.","PeriodicalId":119367,"journal":{"name":"18th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'05)","volume":"16 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":"129290404","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}