{"title":"An Energy-Balanced Clustering Routing Strategy for wireless sensor networks","authors":"Dengyin Zhang, Zhen-wei Xie","doi":"10.1109/BMEI.2013.6747046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BMEI.2013.6747046","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the imbalance of energy consumption of nodes in wireless sensor network, this paper proposes an Energy-Balanced Clustering Routing (EBCR) Strategy for Wireless Sensor Networks. In the stage of selecting cluster head, we take the node residual energy, the speed of energy consumption and the distance to the base station (BS) into consideration, by improving the cluster head selection process. The clusters closers to the BS have smaller size than those farther away, to achieve an effective balance between energy and distribution of cluster heads. This strategy focuses on the application of precision agriculture. Simulation results show that in small scale wireless sensor networks the EBCR strategy reduces the energy consumption among cluster heads, by balancing the network energy consumption distribution, and effectively extend the network lifetime.","PeriodicalId":163211,"journal":{"name":"2013 6th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Informatics","volume":"317 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125775320","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}
Sung-Hoon Jeong, Sung-wook Shin, Jae-yong An, Sung-Taek Chung
{"title":"3D modeling of musculoskeletal Cobb's angles","authors":"Sung-Hoon Jeong, Sung-wook Shin, Jae-yong An, Sung-Taek Chung","doi":"10.1109/BMEI.2013.6746970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BMEI.2013.6746970","url":null,"abstract":"The growth of industries has led to not only the improvement in quality of life but also increased musculoskeletal diseases due to accumulation of micro-sized damages in muscles or other tissues due to simple and repetitive lifestyle. Similarly, having curvature in the vertebrae is referred to as scoliosis, which is increasingly occurring mostly in teenagers. To diagnose such scoliosis easily, the patient was allowed to easily perceive about scoliosis by realizing a 3D backbone data through usage of the tilt sensor and encoder sensor. This is harmless to the human body compared to the expensive X-rays or MRI in addition to being possible to be mobile. The spinal curvature was made easily understandable by mapping the spinal data obtained through the devices that is proposed in this study into 3D modeling spinal image. By utilizing such image, Cobb's angle was able to be easily obtained.","PeriodicalId":163211,"journal":{"name":"2013 6th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Informatics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129889055","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}
Tomoki Ishino, I. Nishikawa, Y. Tohsato, S. Fukuchi, K. Nishikawa
{"title":"Prediction of protein phosphorylation sites by support vector machines","authors":"Tomoki Ishino, I. Nishikawa, Y. Tohsato, S. Fukuchi, K. Nishikawa","doi":"10.1109/BMEI.2013.6747053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BMEI.2013.6747053","url":null,"abstract":"Protein phosphorylation is one of the most important post-translational modifications, and revealing its mechanism is an important research topic. In this paper, phosphorylation sites in human proteins are predicted by support vector machine (SVM). First, two types of SVMs are constructed, each for phosphorylation sites in domain and in intrinsically disordered region (IDR). In domain, wide range of information of amino acid sequence is found effective, while it is not effective in IDR. As phosphorylation is abundant in IDR, the second part of the study focuses on the prediction of phosphorylation sites in IDR, especially, the phosphorylation sites with any known function. Then, it is found that the evolutionary conservation of each site is different in IDR, and multiple ortholog sequences which contain the conservation information is effective for the prediction compared with single sequence information.","PeriodicalId":163211,"journal":{"name":"2013 6th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Informatics","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126673030","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":"Recognition of cough using features improved by sub-band energy transformation","authors":"Chunmei Zhu, Lianfang Tian, Xiangyang Li, Hongqiang Mo, Zeguang Zheng","doi":"10.1109/BMEI.2013.6746943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BMEI.2013.6746943","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this paper is to improve mel frequency cepstrum coefficients (MFCCs) for cough recognition. To highlight high energy, the most remarkable characteristic of cough sound, we propose a method of sub-band energy transformation to improve traditional MFCCs. This method enhances bands with high energy and ignores the ones with low energy according to the sub-band energy distribution acquired by investigation of varieties of cough sounds. Cough recognition experiments using hidden Markov models (HMMs) show that the average recognition rate rises from 87% to 91% and robustness of the system in noisy environment is improved by the proposed method.","PeriodicalId":163211,"journal":{"name":"2013 6th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Informatics","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127026896","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":"Laws of large numbers for uncertain variables","authors":"Lanzhen Yang, Minghu Ha","doi":"10.1109/BMEI.2013.6747043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BMEI.2013.6747043","url":null,"abstract":"So far, little work has been done on laws of large numbers in uncertainty theory. This paper builds two types of laws of large numbers for independent (not necessary identically distributed) uncertain variables on uncertainty space, i.e., Type I law of large numbers and Type II law of large numbers. Note that such two types of laws of large numbers are essentially variants of strong laws of large numbers and weak laws of large numbers on probability space, respectively. Besides, an interesting result is obtained, where convergence almost surely is equivalent to convergence in uncertain measure whenever their relevant universe is finite. All these work not only refines uncertainty theory, but also provides more possibilities for applications of such theories in the future.","PeriodicalId":163211,"journal":{"name":"2013 6th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Informatics","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127249050","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":"Real time human motion compensation based on joint DoF constraints for upper limb soft tissue artefacts","authors":"Xu Jing, Shiguang Qiu, X. Fan","doi":"10.1109/BMEI.2013.6746951","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BMEI.2013.6746951","url":null,"abstract":"To correct the human motion tracking errors caused by the soft tissue artefacts (STA) in humerus axial rotation and forearm pronation/supination (PR-SU) rotation, a compensation method based on joint degree of freedom (DoF) constraints is presented. A seven DoFs upper limb model with four segments is used to describe the kinematic information which is obtained by retro-reflective skin-mounted marker clusters. The relative attitude angles of the connected limbs are calculated by matrix decomposition. The angles which are not satisfied joint DoF constraints of elbow and wrist are used to compensate the motion of humerus axial rotation and forearm PR-SU rotation, respectively. The feasibility of the proposed method was tested in vivo in terms of different flexion - extension angle of elbow and wrist joints. The results demonstrate that the method can effectively reduce the motion tracking error caused by STA for large range of motion, especially when the limb's rotational angle closes to the limit.","PeriodicalId":163211,"journal":{"name":"2013 6th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Informatics","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126026838","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. Lam, D. Collins, J. Sulé-Suso, R. Bhana, A. Moloney
{"title":"On evaluation of a multiscale-based CT image analysis and visualisation algorithm","authors":"K. Lam, D. Collins, J. Sulé-Suso, R. Bhana, A. Moloney","doi":"10.1109/BMEI.2013.6746924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BMEI.2013.6746924","url":null,"abstract":"Development of computed tomography (CT) protocols that minimise radiation dose for specific clinical treatments continues to be a major research focus. Building on the success of an earlier collaborative case study concerning prostate cancer diagnosis with pelvis CT images, this paper presents our evaluation results of a multi-scale texture analytic procedure developed to aid detection of specific anatomical features (abnormality, lesions, etc) in such images. This is a critical step in realising an intelligent and integrated image visualisation platform which will facilitate the construction of highly customised and personalised treatment plans. The ultimate aim is to provide in a single framework optimal software techniques for treatment planning, CT image-guided positioning and treatment delivery.","PeriodicalId":163211,"journal":{"name":"2013 6th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Informatics","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124097537","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 method for construction of Nitinol antenna for implantable medical devices","authors":"Kaijie Wu, S. P. Casey, Lei Zhao, X. Chai","doi":"10.1109/BMEI.2013.6746946","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BMEI.2013.6746946","url":null,"abstract":"A methods for construction of inductively coupled implants within human or animal bodies are disclosed. An internal coil assembly to be used with the implant and receives both power and data from the external transmitting coil. The internal coil assembly design and choice of specific construction materials significantly reduces size while improving biocompatibility and ease of implantation. Nickel Titanium shape-memory alloy (Nitinol) is used with other materials to form a functional, biocompatible antenna. The geometry of the internal receiving coil assembly and distance are chosen to reduce the influence of noise and increase efficiency.","PeriodicalId":163211,"journal":{"name":"2013 6th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Informatics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129120898","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}
Zhihui Zhou, Guixia Liu, Lingtao Su, Lun Yan, Liang Han
{"title":"CChi: An efficient cloud epistasis test model in human genome wide association studies","authors":"Zhihui Zhou, Guixia Liu, Lingtao Su, Lun Yan, Liang Han","doi":"10.1109/BMEI.2013.6747047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BMEI.2013.6747047","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the vast amounts of SNPs and huge search space, how to decrease the total computation costs is a challenge in genome wide association studies (GWAS). Triggered by this problem, we develop an effective and efficient algorithm for epistasis detection in GWAS. We propose a cloud-based algorithm using chi-square test, denoted as CChi. CChi adopts a pruning strategy by utilizing an upper bound to prune amounts of unnecessary SNP pairs, and is implemented under Google's MapReduce framework. A best-fit model is proposed by us to distribute SNP pairs to each reducer. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that CChi is practically and computationally efficient.","PeriodicalId":163211,"journal":{"name":"2013 6th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Informatics","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130397572","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":"Handwriting analysis for assistant diagnosis of neuromuscular disorders","authors":"Min Liu, Guoli Wang","doi":"10.1109/BMEI.2013.6746939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BMEI.2013.6746939","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a handwriting movement analysis approach and its application in assistant diagnosis of the neuromuscular disorders rehabilitation by measuring the movement smoothness. The time-varying primitives extraction algorithm is developed to segment the handwriting strokes from natural handwriting data. Further seven smoothness metrics are proposed to evaluate the motor control abilities of neuromuscular disorders and normal people. In experimental studies, the real world handwriting data from five neuromuscular disorders' are acquired to verify the developed algorithm as well as the proposed smoothness criteria. Comparative analysis of the experimental results demonstrates that the presented approach can work well in assisting the rehabilitation diagnosis.","PeriodicalId":163211,"journal":{"name":"2013 6th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Informatics","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131155739","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}