N. Oshima, J. Solis, H. Ishii, N. Matsuoka, K. Hatake, A. Takanishi
{"title":"Acquisition of quantitative data for the detailed analysis of the suture/ligature tasks with the WKS-2R","authors":"N. Oshima, J. Solis, H. Ishii, N. Matsuoka, K. Hatake, A. Takanishi","doi":"10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407356","url":null,"abstract":"Up to now, there is no scientific methodology for the assessment of surgical skills during the training progress. Nowadays, an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) has been proposed as a modern type of examination often used in medicine to test skills such as communication, clinical examination, medical procedures, etc. The assessment of skills is realized by practical exams, in which students are evaluated by experienced examiner using a check list. However, this approach highly depends on the examiner's criteria. In fact, the examiner lacks of information to objectively evaluate trainees' performance (which cannot be obtained trough the simple observation of the task). For that purpose, we have proposed the development of a suture/ligature training system which provides quantitative information of the movement of an artificial skin as well as information of the quality of the suture. Such information is provided by means of the Waseda-KyotoKagaku Suture No.2 Refined (WKS-2R) which has been developed by the authors. In this paper, the evaluation parameters proposed for the assessment of the suture/ligature task are detailed. Such evaluation parameters were proposed based on the functionalities of the WKS-2R and our studies of the OSCE examination. Preliminary experiments were carried out to analyze the performance of trainees while performing the suture/ligature task with the WKS-2R. From the experimental results, we could collect information from the seven proposed evaluation parameters and analyze their behavior.","PeriodicalId":129874,"journal":{"name":"2007 6th International Special Topic Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine","volume":"16 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132118817","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}
Dong Hoon-Han, Sun K-Yoo, Ki Won-Kang, Do Yoon-Kim, Yong Kwi-Lee, Dong Keun-Kim, Jeong Chae-Kim
{"title":"Computerized triage system for paramedics in the pre-hospital emergency medical service phase","authors":"Dong Hoon-Han, Sun K-Yoo, Ki Won-Kang, Do Yoon-Kim, Yong Kwi-Lee, Dong Keun-Kim, Jeong Chae-Kim","doi":"10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407415","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this study was to design a triage system for emergency patients in the pre-hospital EMS phase without special knowledge related to the triage system. For this, we selected the Manchester system considering the pre-hospital emergency situation. Through this study, without the special knowledge about the complex triage system, the paramedics were able to produce the triage result by recording information through a newly designed ambulance report.","PeriodicalId":129874,"journal":{"name":"2007 6th International Special Topic Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132131404","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 Middleware of DICOM and Web Service for Home-based Elder Healthcare Information System","authors":"C. Huang, J. Su","doi":"10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407375","url":null,"abstract":"Developing properly information technology in order to overcome the lack of manpower will be one of main issue in a developed country. The numerous vital signals and image data which were archived by the devices and were modified by information technology would support physician or computer aided diagnosis (CAD) system for diagnosis. Therefore, in order to avoid erroneous identification, the encoded formats are necessary to be unified for communicating within heterogeneous information systems. In this study we designed a home-based elder healthcare information system which was established by Microsoftreg XP operation system. And, the DICOM was used as the core of data file format to reserve the profit, Microsoft SQL server as the database to store and manage the encoded DICOM files, and IIS to provide Web service for families and health care providers to viewing the data saved in the database. Results show that a vital signal is easy to obtain in Web browser as users request thru this system.","PeriodicalId":129874,"journal":{"name":"2007 6th International Special Topic Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine","volume":"66 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131464519","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":"Baroreflex Sensitivity with Pulse Arrival Time","authors":"Y. Chee, Jongshill Lee, HunKi Park, I. Kim","doi":"10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407345","url":null,"abstract":"Baroreflex sensitivity is defined as the pulse interval variations with the systolic blood pressure changes. It is known to have the information about autonomic nervous system to regulate the blood pressure and pulse intervals. Pulse arrival time, the time difference between R peak from electrocardiography and the steepest ascending point of pulse waveform, is the cardiovascular parameter that can be measured and calculated in simple and economic way. In this study, the possibility of PAT (pulse arrival time) as a surrogate signal of complicated SBP(systolic blood pressure) waveform was tested. For the controlled breathing with the time period of 10 seconds, ECG (electrocardiography), beat-to-beat blood pressure, and photoplethysmography on a finger were measured. For the validation, we compared the BRS (baroreflex sensitivity) values with conventional method and new method with PAT. The result shows its potential that the suggested method can be used more conveniently. PAT has more integrative information than the SBP based on its inherent properties that are related with sympathetic and para-sympathetic activities.","PeriodicalId":129874,"journal":{"name":"2007 6th International Special Topic Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132799997","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":"Reflections on Information Technology in Biomedicine","authors":"N. Saranummi","doi":"10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407419","url":null,"abstract":"Healthcare services are changing. One of the change drivers is the inclusion of individuals (patients) into health service delivery with the objective of proactively addressing health problems as early as possible. Another change driver is information technology, which enables new improved health services and also new ways of organizing and delivering these. The established relations between stakeholders are the major barrier in making the change towards a health continuum environment.","PeriodicalId":129874,"journal":{"name":"2007 6th International Special Topic Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114937797","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":"Extracting Feature Patterns in the Health Status of Elderly People Needing Nursing Care by Data Synchronization","authors":"T. Miyano, T. Tsutsui","doi":"10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407367","url":null,"abstract":"We devised a method for data mining from multivariate data using a network of coupled phase oscillators subject to an analogue of the Kuramoto model for collective synchronization. In our method, the natural frequencies of the phase oscillators are extended to vector quantities to which multivariate data are assigned. The common frequency vectors of partially synchronized groups of phase oscillators are interpreted to be the template vectors representing the major features of the data set. We applied our method to care-needs-certification data in the Japanese public long-term care insurance program, and extracted major patterns in the health status of the elderly needing nursing care and their dependence on the model parameter representing the level of coarse-graining for data clustering.","PeriodicalId":129874,"journal":{"name":"2007 6th International Special Topic Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115420153","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":"Handle Electrode System for Selecting Load Level of Treadmill","authors":"M. Watanabe, S. Tsukamoto, H. Hoshino","doi":"10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407385","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a handle-electrode system is proposed for obtaining heart-rate of the user during exercising of a treadmill. The system was designed to be measurable the user's heart-rate by only gripping the parallel bar. Three electrodes that made from conductive cloth were adhered to the handle. A method detecting heart-rate from obtained electrocardiogram was also proposed. To assess the applicability of the proposed system, a simple experiment was performed. Eight healthy volunteer (aged 25 plusmn 5 years) participated in this experiment. As the result, the heart rates of 7 out of 8 subjects were successfully obtained.","PeriodicalId":129874,"journal":{"name":"2007 6th International Special Topic Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125008164","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":"Mass Lesions Classification in Digital Mammography using Optimal Subset of BI-RADS and Gray Level Features","authors":"Saejoon Kim, Sejong Yoon","doi":"10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407354","url":null,"abstract":"Computer-aided diagnosis of mass lesions in Digital Database for Screening Mammography (DDSM) is investigated using a recently developed SVM based on recursive feature elimination (SVM-RFE) as the classification technique. To evaluate the generalizability, computer-aided diagnosis using cross-institutional mammograms is also examined. The results in this paper indicate that using only a subset of the available set of features facilitates increased computer-aided diagnosis accuracy, and that computer-aided diagnosis accuracy using cross-institutional mammograms is generally lower than when using same-institutional mammograms.","PeriodicalId":129874,"journal":{"name":"2007 6th International Special Topic Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127174500","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":"Basic Study on Relationship between Respiratory Flow Volume and Volume Change of Thorax Surface","authors":"Y. Mizobe, H. Aoki, K. Koshiji","doi":"10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407386","url":null,"abstract":"The pulmonary function test by spirometer is generally conducted. The test subject, especially child, woman and older person, feels uncomfortable as the mouthpiece and nasal plug must be attached to the face of them. We have studied the nonrestraint pulmonary function test using the dot matrix pattern projection in order to decrease the burden to the examinee. In our proposed system, the pattern light projector illuminates the thorax with the dot matrix pattern light. And the CCD camera takes a series of images of the dot matrix pattern. The three dimensional shape of the thorax surface can be calculated by the distribution of light dots. And the respiratory waveform is calculated by the time-series change of the three dimensional shape. The respiratory waveform of our system was similar to one of spirometer. Therefore, we clarified that our proposed system can equivalently measure the respiration with spirometer in previous research. In this paper, we compared the volume change of the three dimensional shape calculated by our system with the flow volume. And we examined the relationship between the flow volume and the volume change of the thorax surface.","PeriodicalId":129874,"journal":{"name":"2007 6th International Special Topic Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129002986","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":"Development of Wireless Biosignal Monitoring Device","authors":"Yusuke Sakaue, M. Makikawa","doi":"10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407409","url":null,"abstract":"In this study we have developed a wireless biosignal monitoring device. This device consists of a chip micro processing unit, a three axis acceleration sensor, an ECG amplifier and a wireless serial communication module. This device was set on subject's waist near the center of gravity and was evaluated in filed exercises. As a result it was proved that real time remote monitoring of these biosignals in filed exercise can be achieved using this wireless communication device.","PeriodicalId":129874,"journal":{"name":"2007 6th International Special Topic Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133630748","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}