M. A. Faudzi, R. Rahmat, P. S. Sulaiman, M. Z. Dimon
{"title":"Image Stitching of Textures for Augmented Reality Medical Training","authors":"M. A. Faudzi, R. Rahmat, P. S. Sulaiman, M. Z. Dimon","doi":"10.1109/CASH.2014.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CASH.2014.20","url":null,"abstract":"Augmented reality is an area that requires the participants to be fully immersed in the environment. As such, the appearance of the object must be as close as possible with the real object, which is really challenging. In achieving a realistic model, a camera capture images are mapped onto the model. The main phase in fulfilling these criteria are seamless image registration and ensuring the mapping of the images onto the model. The virtual model, in this case, the virtual heart, is going to be created by capturing multiple images of the real heart from different angles. The images are then going to be stitched before they can be mapped onto the 3D model of a heart. A preliminary experiment on the texture mapping is implemented using two well-known methods, Scale Invariant Feature Transform and Speeded-up Robust Feature.","PeriodicalId":131954,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Computer Assisted System in Health","volume":"205 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116185365","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. A. Samah, L. K. Wah, Muhammad Ishak Desa, H. Majid, Nurulhuda Firdaus Mohd Azmi, Nordin Salleh, Azlina Abu Bakar, Adilius Manual
{"title":"Decision Support System Using System Dynamics Simulation Modelling for Projection of Dentist Supply","authors":"A. A. Samah, L. K. Wah, Muhammad Ishak Desa, H. Majid, Nurulhuda Firdaus Mohd Azmi, Nordin Salleh, Azlina Abu Bakar, Adilius Manual","doi":"10.1109/CASH.2014.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CASH.2014.18","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the development of a decision support system (DSS) using System Dynamics (SD) simulation approach to project and analyse the supply of dentist at both local and private Malaysian healthcare provider from 2015 to 2030. The project was driven by the need to provide sustainable, quality dental services in a complex environment given fluctuations in dental graduate numbers, migrations, attritions and activities. The developed DSS using VENSIM software described in this paper is flexible and expandable. It can be used to monitor future changes in dental workforce and provide a comprehensive and structured policy analysis to policy-makers and health managers, within the Ministry of Health Malaysia.","PeriodicalId":131954,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Computer Assisted System in Health","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117177485","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":"Investigating the Empirical Relation and Importance of Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use and Intention to Use Online Information Resources for Evidence Based Medicine","authors":"F. Chandio, F. Anwar, A. Khedher, S. Rizvi","doi":"10.1109/CASH.2014.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CASH.2014.13","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores the empirical relationship and importance of perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use and intention to use online information resources for Evidence-based Medicine (EBM). Although a significant literature is available that investigates the effect of various factors on intention to use digital information sources to practice EBM in developed countries. However, literature is a lacking in exploring the intention to practice EBM by physicians in developing countries like Pakistan. This is the motivation behind this study. This research is a cross sectional quantitative survey study (N=352). Based on related literature a questionnaire was developed. Selected participant sample of the survey is those physicians, who were in clinical practice and were having the knowledge of EBM. Structural equation modelling technique (SEM) with the Analysis of Moment Structures software (AMOS) is used for data analysis. The findings showed the significance and causal linkage between perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use and intention to use online information resources for EBM. Perceived usefulness is found as a strong predictor in acceptance and behavioral intention as compared to the perceived ease of use.","PeriodicalId":131954,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Computer Assisted System in Health","volume":"656 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114098121","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":"Prediction of Urinary System Disease Diagnosis: A Comparative Study of Three Decision Tree Algorithms","authors":"Mahmood Hussain Kadhem, A. Zeki","doi":"10.1109/CASH.2014.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CASH.2014.25","url":null,"abstract":"Data mining (DM) has a wide range of applications in the health care field. DM can be used to discover hidden patterns among different diagnoses or to predict the disease of patients based on certain number of symptoms. It can be used also to analyze the success major of a given treatment for a group of patients based on a number of characteristics and parameters available. This paper demonstrates the ability of DM to develop a prediction model for a presumptive diagnosis of two familiar urinary diseases: the acute inflammation of the urinary bladder and nephritis of renal pelvis. The dataset used in this work includes a number of characteristics, which are important in diagnosing any patient with an acute inflammation of urinary bladder or nephritis. This research evaluates the supervised machine learning algorithms Ridor, OneR, and J48 in terms of performance and accuracy to determine the best classification algorithm which will be used to develop the accurate prediction model. The decision tree (J48) shows a powerful accuracy and capability in prediction, and has been used to classify the patients' data with the proper acute inflammation diseases. The analyzed dataset has been trained using the 10-fold cross validation. The decision tree for the acute urinary bladder and nephritis has been generated.","PeriodicalId":131954,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Computer Assisted System in Health","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125263988","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}
Amjad M. R. Alzeer Alhouseini, I. Al-Shaikhli, Abdul Wahab Bin Abdul Rahman, K. Alarabi, M. A. Dzulkifli
{"title":"Stress Assessment While Listening to Quran Recitation","authors":"Amjad M. R. Alzeer Alhouseini, I. Al-Shaikhli, Abdul Wahab Bin Abdul Rahman, K. Alarabi, M. A. Dzulkifli","doi":"10.1109/CASH.2014.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CASH.2014.14","url":null,"abstract":"Stress and anxiety are one of the most widespread problems presently, stress treatment has been featured in many researches. The use of Quran offers a substantial help in treating stress. The purpose of this study is to examine the various aspects and perspectives of human emotions while listening to Quran Recitation. This study aims to identify and select verses that have more psychological impact than other verses and to identify the most Quran reciter that respondents believe his voice brings calmness and tranquility to their mind. Quantitative and qualitative methods were adopted. An online distributed questionnaire was sent to the academic staffs of all the Islamic faculties in the Malaysian public universities, five subjects participated in EEG experiment to identify their emotions while listening to these Quran verses. Five Quran verses and one reciter were identified, while experiment indicates that the subjects are more relieved and relaxed when listening to these Quran verses.","PeriodicalId":131954,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Computer Assisted System in Health","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125187439","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":"Automatic Generation of ANFIS Rules in Modelling Breast Cancer Survival","authors":"H. Hamdan, J. Garibaldi","doi":"10.1109/CASH.2014.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CASH.2014.16","url":null,"abstract":"Data collected to be processed by means of rules can be done in multiple ways. In our previous papers, the Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) has been applied to breast cancer data for modelling survival in the presence of censorship. In initial work, the membership functions for the input data were defined by experts, along with an estimation of output. However, if knowledge about the data is vague or the expert cannot express the knowledge explicitly, the initial membership functions can be defined by partitioning the input space equally. Extracting fuzzy rules from the data using clustering methods is another technique used to initialise the position of membership functions of the input data. In this paper, we investigate whether such automatic methods can be used to initialise the antecedents of our model. Two clustering methods were applied to partition the input space, namely fuzzy c-means clustering and subtractive clustering, to establish the initial membership functions and a set of rules for the models. Further, to improve the model performance and high model accuracy, model optimisation was performed using the ANFIS approach.","PeriodicalId":131954,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Computer Assisted System in Health","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126044812","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":"Emotion Detection through Speech and Facial Expressions","authors":"K. M. Kudiri, A. Said, M. Nayan","doi":"10.1109/CASH.2014.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CASH.2014.22","url":null,"abstract":"Human machine interaction is one of the most burgeoning area of research in the field of information technology. To date a majority of research in this field has been conducted using unimodal and multimodal systems with asynchronous data. Because of the above, the improper synchronization, which has become a common problem, due to that, the system complexity increases and the system response time decreases. To counter this problem, a novel approach has been introduced to predict human emotions using human speech and facial expressions. The approach uses two feature vectors, namely, relative bin frequency coefficient (RBFC) and relative sub-image based coefficient (RSB) for speech and visual data respectively. Support vector machine with radial basis kernel is used for feature level classification based fusion technique between two modalities. The proposed novel approach has resulted in galvanizing results for a myriad of inputs and can be adapted to asynchronous data.","PeriodicalId":131954,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Computer Assisted System in Health","volume":"126 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127963911","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}
I. Hassan, Masrah Azrifah Azmi Murad, Rozi Nor Haizan Binti Nor, Salfarina Binti Abdullah
{"title":"Towards Developing a New I-P Technology Adoption Framework: A Research Road Map","authors":"I. Hassan, Masrah Azrifah Azmi Murad, Rozi Nor Haizan Binti Nor, Salfarina Binti Abdullah","doi":"10.1109/CASH.2014.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CASH.2014.15","url":null,"abstract":"While several studies have been conducted relating to the acceptability and use of Smart National Identity Card (SNIC), research in determining factors that influence the citizens' acceptance and use of health information application in (SNIC) has not yet been conducted. This paper presents a new paradigm of individual level technology acceptance and use framework known as I-P (Individual-Privacy) to study the acceptance and use of health information application in SNIC. Furthermore, the prior literatures discovered that there are factors such as trust, perceived risk, Privacy concern and perceived credibility need to be incorporated into technology adoption models. Therefore, this research contributes to the body of knowledge towards acceptance and use of SNIC applications from e-government perspective by providing a clear understanding on interrelationships of both technology adoption and privacy calculus factors in predicting health information application in SNIC acceptance and use. This study applies extended Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2) along with the privacy calculus model as the foundation information system theories. Nevertheless it is argued that UTAUT2 is a broad framework of technology adoption. For that reason, this study integrates the UTAUT2 with privacy calculus model and adds perceived credibility as a new variable to support the existing UTAUT2 model. The research framework and recommendations of this study may enable to establish better innovative e-health services as to cover the desires of the citizens through the use of health information application embedded in all in one card. Initial results to assess the validity of measurement items are presented in this paper. Further statistical analysis will be conducted in the future to provide proof and empirically validate the I-P framework.","PeriodicalId":131954,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Computer Assisted System in Health","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122539982","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}
R. M. Tayebi, R. Wirza, Puteri Suhaiza Binti Sulaiman, M. Z. Dimon, F. Khalid, Aqeel A. Al-Surmi, S. Mazaheri
{"title":"Cardiac Components Categorization and Coronary Artery Enhancement in CT Angiography","authors":"R. M. Tayebi, R. Wirza, Puteri Suhaiza Binti Sulaiman, M. Z. Dimon, F. Khalid, Aqeel A. Al-Surmi, S. Mazaheri","doi":"10.1109/CASH.2014.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CASH.2014.19","url":null,"abstract":"Coronary artery analysis is an important phase of each cardiac image processing system. Once physicians decide to check up coronary arteries and also other cardiac components in CT Angiography, it should be done precisely to give the correct information about them. In this paper, we proposed a new method for cardiac components categorization, aorta segmentation, and coronary artery enhancement from CT Angiography images. This method is very helpful for the surgeon and cardiologist to have a clear view of each components and also to visualize coronary arteries prior to coronary artery bypass graft surgery or other types of cardiac treatments. To this end, firstly we constructed a proper mask based on the Hounsfield Unit to categorize CT Angiography slices' components. Then aorta as an important component is segmented from initial slices. And finally coronary arteries are enhanced as tubular shape objects in all slices.","PeriodicalId":131954,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Computer Assisted System in Health","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114458704","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}
M. Arif, N. A. Abdullah, Shiva Kumara Phalianakote, N. Ramli, Manzoor Elahi
{"title":"Maximizing Information of Multimodality Brain Image Fusion Using Curvelet Transform with Genetic Algorithm","authors":"M. Arif, N. A. Abdullah, Shiva Kumara Phalianakote, N. Ramli, Manzoor Elahi","doi":"10.1109/CASH.2014.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CASH.2014.11","url":null,"abstract":"The existing medical image fusion techniques lack of the ability to produce fused image that can maintain fine details of information content from the source images. In this paper, we introduce curve let transform and Genetic Algorithm (GA). The curve let transform performs better than wavelet transform in preserving visual image content particularly the edges. The use of GA can further refine the features of the fused image, and solve the existing uncertainty and ambiguity in the smooth region of the input image. Our method is beneficial to image fusion techniques whose applications rely on the source information of local images. Our experimental results indicate that our method performs betters than baseline methods in terms of quantitative image fusion performance.","PeriodicalId":131954,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Computer Assisted System in Health","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121922837","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}