{"title":"A Deconstructed Replication of a Time of Test Study Using the AGIS Metric","authors":"S. Counsell, S. Swift, A. Tucker","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2017.60","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2017.60","url":null,"abstract":"In medical practice, glaucoma severity is usually measured using the Advanced Glaucoma Intervention Studies (AGIS) metric. In a previous study [2], we replicated the work of Montolio et al., [5] and demonstrated that, for a larger dataset, time of day of test using the AGIS metric did make a difference to the measurement of glaucoma, supporting Montolio et als work. However, in our earlier study, we used the AGIS scores for both eyes combined. In this paper, we use the measurement from just one eye at a time. A dataset of 14389 left eye AGIS scores and the same number for the right eye from 2468 Moorfield Eye Hospital patients was used as the empirical basis. We then re-compared time of test results with those of Montolios study. Results revealed that using the values from just one eye (as opposed to both) may give a distorted picture of the AGIS scores; differences in the same time period were found between the two eyes. This may have implications for choice of sampling data and analysis of glaucoma using the AGIS metric.","PeriodicalId":141105,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 30th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125988894","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}
Johannes Schobel, R. Pryss, Marc Schickler, M. Reichert
{"title":"Towards Patterns for Defining and Changing Data Collection Instruments in Mobile Healthcare Scenarios","authors":"Johannes Schobel, R. Pryss, Marc Schickler, M. Reichert","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2017.61","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2017.61","url":null,"abstract":"Especially in healthcare scenarios and clinical trials, a large amount of data needs to be collected in a rather short time. In this context, smart mobile devices can be a feasible instrument to foster data collection scenarios. To enable domain experts to create and maintain mobile data collection applications themselves, the QuestionSys framework relies on a model-driven approach to digitize paper-based questionnaires. This digital transformation is based on manual as well as automated tasks. The manual tasks applied by the domain experts can be eased by the use of change patterns. They describe features to easily add or delete the elements of a questionnaire. This work summarizes crucial change patterns and shows how they can be applied in practice. We believe that the patterns constitute an important means to implement sophisticated mobile data collection applications by domain experts themselves.","PeriodicalId":141105,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 30th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127969948","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}
Arne Schneck, S. Kalle, R. Pryss, W. Schlee, T. Probst, B. Langguth, M. Landgrebe, M. Reichert, M. Spiliopoulou
{"title":"Studying the Potential of Multi-target Classification to Characterize Combinations of Classes with Skewed Distribution","authors":"Arne Schneck, S. Kalle, R. Pryss, W. Schlee, T. Probst, B. Langguth, M. Landgrebe, M. Reichert, M. Spiliopoulou","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2017.136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2017.136","url":null,"abstract":"The identification of subpopulations with particular characteristics with respect to a disease is important for personalized diagnostics and therapy design. For some diseases, the outcome is described by more than one target variable. An example is tinnitus: the perceived loudness of the phantom signal and the level of distress caused by it are both relevant targets for diagnosis and therapy. In this work, we study the potential of multi-target classification for the identification of those screening variables, which separate best among the different subpopulations of patients, paying particular attention to subpopulations with discordant value combinations of loudness and distress. We analyse the screening data of 1344 tinnitus patients from the University Hospital Regensburg, including questions from 7 questionnaires, and report on the performance of our workflow in target separation and in ranking the questionnaires variables on their discriminative power.","PeriodicalId":141105,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 30th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129771910","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}
Giuseppe Palestra, Mohamed Rebiai, E. Courtial, K. Giokas, D. Koutsouris
{"title":"A Fall Prevention System for the Elderly: Preliminary Results","authors":"Giuseppe Palestra, Mohamed Rebiai, E. Courtial, K. Giokas, D. Koutsouris","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2017.130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2017.130","url":null,"abstract":"The fall prevention in the elderly population is a field of growing interest. This paper presents the preliminary results of a fall prevention system based on a customized exergame program. Results show that the participants involved in the experiments evaluate positively the system usability. Moreover, in order to evaluate the efficiency of the system, a global improvement of around 8.8% has been observed in the postural response after just two sessions with the system.","PeriodicalId":141105,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 30th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122667344","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}
F. Cordeiro, Kallebe Felipe Pereira Bezerra, W. Santos
{"title":"Random Walker with Fuzzy Initialization Applied to Segment Masses in Mammography Images","authors":"F. Cordeiro, Kallebe Felipe Pereira Bezerra, W. Santos","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2017.40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2017.40","url":null,"abstract":"Segmentation of masses in mammography images is an important task in early detection of breast cancer. Although the quality of segmentation is crucial to avoid misdiagnosis, the segmentation process is a challenging task even for specialists, due to the presence of ill-defined edges and low contrast images. In this work, we propose an improvement on Random Walker algorithm to segment masses, by applying a fuzzy approach in the initialization stage. We evaluated the new approach compared with classical Random Walker, using 57 images of Mini-MIAS database. The segmented images were compared with ground truth, using the metrics of sensitivity, specificity, balanced accuracy, Jaccard index and dice. Results showed that the proposed method obtained better segmentation results when compared with classical Random Walker, requiring lower user interaction.","PeriodicalId":141105,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 30th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS)","volume":"2016 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114188068","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":"Disease-Based Clustering of Hospital Admission: Disease Network of Hospital Networks Approach","authors":"Nouf Albarakati, Z. Obradovic","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2017.87","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2017.87","url":null,"abstract":"To improve the quality of healthcare planning, healthcare systems face challenges in identifying clusters of similar hospitals while considering varying factors. Clustering hospitals based on their admission behavior would be helpful whereas diagnosis of patients is vital in understanding variation in admission. Therefore, grouping hospitals that show similar behavior on their admission distribution while considering similarity among disease symptoms in admission is the objective of our study. This is achieved by a Disease Network of Hospital Networks model which is used to represent hospital admission distribution of multiple diseases as different hospital networks that correspond to disease nodes in a top-layer disease network. This disease network that was extracted from the Human Symptoms Disease Network models the similarity among different disease-specific hospital networks. We assume that disease-specific hospital networks have different underlying clustering structure while share the same underlying clustering structure if corresponding diseases share similar symptoms. Experiments were conducted on more than 14 million electronic health records of monthly admission of 160 diseases over 4 years at 301 hospitals in California. Results of clustering 160 disease-specific hospitals networks that share similar symptoms among corresponding diseases show consistent behavior among these networks when similarity among diseases is considered in clustering process. Patterns of consistent behavior were lacking in results when similarity among diseases is not considered.","PeriodicalId":141105,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 30th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS)","volume":"23 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132477394","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":"Anomaly Detection Through Temporal Abstractions on Intensive Care Data: Position Paper","authors":"G. J. Gelatti, A. Carvalho, P. Rodrigues","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2017.146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2017.146","url":null,"abstract":"A large amount of information is continuously generated in intensive health care. An analysis of these data streams can supply valuable insights to improve the monitoring of the patients. The volume, frequency and complexity of data, which come unlabeled, make their analysis a challenging task. Machine learning (ML) techniques have been successfully employed for mining data streams to extract useful knowledge for health care monitoring. It includes the detection of changes in the behavior of sensors, failures on machines or systems, and data anomalies. Anomaly (or outlier) detection is a ML task that aims to find exceptions or abnormalities in a dataset. These exceptions, in a medical context, can represent a new disease pattern, an event to be further investigated, behavior changes or potential health complications. Despite of its analysis in data streams is a challenging task, temporal abstractions techniques should help due to they deal with the management and abstraction of time based data, offering high level of visualization of each data object in its context. The aim of this paper is to review recent research in anomaly detection and temporal abstractions and discuss the application of their combination to intensive care data streams.","PeriodicalId":141105,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 30th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131453301","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. Pryss, T. Probst, W. Schlee, Johannes Schobel, B. Langguth, P. Neff, M. Spiliopoulou, M. Reichert
{"title":"Mobile Crowdsensing for the Juxtaposition of Realtime Assessments and Retrospective Reporting for Neuropsychiatric Symptoms","authors":"R. Pryss, T. Probst, W. Schlee, Johannes Schobel, B. Langguth, P. Neff, M. Spiliopoulou, M. Reichert","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2017.100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2017.100","url":null,"abstract":"Many symptoms of neuropsychiatric disorders such as tinnitus are subjective and vary over time. Usually, in interviews or self-report questionnaires, patients are asked to report symptoms as well as their severity and duration retrospectively. However, only little is known to what degree such retrospective reports reflect the symptoms experienced in daily life some time ago. Mobile technologies can help to bridge this gap: mobile self-help services allow patients to record their symptoms prospectively when (or shortly after) they occur in daily life. In this study, we present results that we obtained with the mobile crowdsensing platform TrackYourTinnitus to show that there is a discrepancy between the prospective assessment of symptom variability and the retrospective report thereof. To be more precise, we evaluated the real-time entries provided to the platform by individuals experiencing tinnitus. The results indicate that mobile technologies like the TrackYourTinnitus crowdsensing platform may go beyond the role of an assistive service for patients by contributing to more accurate diagnosis and, hence, to a more elaborated treatment.","PeriodicalId":141105,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 30th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130874210","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":"Self-Adaptive Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithm for Molecular Design","authors":"Christos C. Kannas, C. Pattichis","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2017.129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2017.129","url":null,"abstract":"Self-adaptation is an efficient way to control the strategy parameters of an Evolutionary Algorithm automatically during optimization. It is based on implicit evolutionary search in the space of strategy parameters, and has been proven to work well as on-line parameter control method for a variety of strategy parameters, from local to global ones. Our proposed Self-Adaptive Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm is a two level algorithm. The proposed solution is applied on the problem of de novo molecular design. The outer level is the algorithm that is responsible for the self adaptive techniques and is based on Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm. The inner level is based on the elite Multi-Objective Evolutionary Graph Algorithm. Both the outer and inner algorithms are variations of our previously proposed Multi-Objective Evolutionary Graph Algorithm framework. The outer Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm operates on a chromosome of elements, while the inner elite Multi-Objective Evolutionary Graph Algorithm operates on molecular graph chromosomes. In general, the proposed solution: (i) searches a larger space, (ii) generates far more solutions per iteration, (iii) evaluates different sets of parameter options for the given problem, and (iv) proposes the fittest parameter sets that should be used for the given problem.","PeriodicalId":141105,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 30th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS)","volume":"368 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126705834","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 Intermixed Color Paradigm for P300 Spellers: A Comparison with Gray-Scale Spellers","authors":"Mina R. Meshriky, S. Eldawlatly, G. Aly","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2017.123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2017.123","url":null,"abstract":"P300 speller systems represent one of the most basic applications of Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs). A traditional P300 speller consists of a 6 by 6 grid of characters in which each column or row in this grid intensifies at random. During such intensification process, the electroencephalography (EEG) data of the subject is recorded and analyzed to determine the character to be spelled. In this paper, we demonstrate how to improve on the traditional P300 speller by investigating the effects of incorporating different color luminance in the columns and rows of the spellers grid-of-characters (i.e. red, green and blue) as opposed to the conventional one-color (i.e. gray-scale) luminance. In our analysis, we used the Emotiv Neuroheadset to record scalp EEG obtained from the frontal, parietal and occipital brain regions. We examine four different feature extraction techniques in addition to two classifiers, namely, Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) and Linear Support vector machines (LSVM). Offline and online tests conducted on four subjects demonstrate a significant performance increase (up to 16%) for the intermixed color luminance case compared to the gray luminance one. These results indicate the efficacy of incorporating colors into P300 spellers interface.","PeriodicalId":141105,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 30th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123194247","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}