Vinícius Maran, J. Oliveira, R. Pietrobon, Iara Augustin
{"title":"Ontology Network Definition for Motivational Interviewing Learning Driven by Semantic Context-Awareness","authors":"Vinícius Maran, J. Oliveira, R. Pietrobon, Iara Augustin","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2015.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2015.22","url":null,"abstract":"Context-awareness proposes that computer systems should use the information from the environment to adapt their execution and content to benefit the user. With the recent adoption of Massive Open Online Courses by educational institutions, the use of context information can be a determining factor in course retention and learning effectiveness. In this study, we modeled an ontology network for the adaptation and suggestion of materials to students based on context information, using a health course in the area of Motivational Interviewing taught in OpenEDX platform. Through a validation of this ontology network in a case study, it was found that the ontology network offered the possibility of recommending materials based on context information. The recommendations were made through the inference based on a set of rules defined in the ontology network.","PeriodicalId":164356,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 28th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115115140","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}
Luiza Dri Bagesteiro, L. F. Oliveira, Daniel Weingaertner
{"title":"Blockwise Classification of Lung Patterns in Unsegmented CT Images","authors":"Luiza Dri Bagesteiro, L. F. Oliveira, Daniel Weingaertner","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2015.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2015.32","url":null,"abstract":"Diagnosis of lung diseases is usually accomplished by detecting abnormal characteristics in Computed Tomography (CT) scans. We report an initial study for classifying texture patterns in High-Resolution lung CTs using the Completed Local Binary Pattern (CLBP) descriptor with a Support Vector Machine (SVM). The main contribution of the proposed method is that it does not depend on a previously segmented lung, as it performs a coarse segmentation by classifying body areas outside the lungs. The classified patterns are: non lung, normal lung tissue, emphysema, ground-glass opacity, fibrosis and micronodules. Using image blocks of 32x32 pixels, extracted from a public dataset with 113 patients, correct block wise classification of non lung patterns was achieved with an accuracy of 98.91%. Regarding normal and pathological lung patterns, a mean accuracy of 91.81% was obtained. This is similar to the reported results in literature which used a presegmented lung.","PeriodicalId":164356,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 28th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems","volume":"06 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127273551","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":"Regional Anaesthesia Simulator and Assistant (RASimAs): Medical Image Processing Supporting Anaesthesiologists in Training and Performance of Local Blocks","authors":"T. Deserno, J. E. E. D. Oliveira, O. Grottke","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2015.61","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2015.61","url":null,"abstract":"In worldwide health systems, regional anaesthesia (RA) is not applied as frequent as it should be and benefits to patient's cure and cost savings are wasted. The Regional Anaesthesia Simulator and Assistant (RASimAs) project combines image processing, physiological models, and virtual reality to support ultrasound-guided and electrical nerve stimulation-guided RA. The simulator component maps patient-specific data to general models and composes virtual reality environments using a haptic device coupled with the needle. The assistant component provides enhanced feedback mapping online-acquired ultrasound data. Regarding image processing, RASimAs aims at acquiring subject data for model development and composing a library of segmentation and registration algorithms to provide localized, patient-specific, material properties within anatomical context. Subject posing and extrapolation of body regions without patient-specific data are central challenges.","PeriodicalId":164356,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 28th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125418099","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, M. Reichert, Jochen Herrmann, B. Langguth, W. Schlee
{"title":"Mobile Crowd Sensing in Clinical and Psychological Trials -- A Case Study","authors":"R. Pryss, M. Reichert, Jochen Herrmann, B. Langguth, W. Schlee","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2015.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2015.26","url":null,"abstract":"Many highly prevalent diseases (e.g., tinnitus, migraine, chronic pain) are difficult to treat and universally effective treatments are missing. Available treatments are only effective in patient subgroups, i.e., medical doctors and patients have to figure out which therapy might be helpful in the patient's situation. Sufficiently large and qualitative longitudinal data sets, however, would be desirable to facilitate evidence-based treatment decisions for individual patients. On one hand, traditional sensing techniques (i.e., clinical trials) have many merits enabling evidence-based medicine. On the other, they have inherent limitations. First, clinical trials are very cost- and labour-intensive. Second, the traditional approach aims at reducing ecological heterogeneity to enable the investigation of homogeneous subsamples. Recently, a new paradigm emerged that offers promising perspectives for collecting large amounts of longitudinal patient data -- Mobile Crowd Sensing. By utilizing smart mobile devices of a large number of patients, health information can be gathered from large patient collections as well as at many different time points and in various real life environmental situations. In the Track Your Tinnitus project, we implemented such a mobile crowd sensing platform to reveal new medical aspects about tinnitus with a particular focus on the variability of tinnitus over time depending on the environmental situation. In this paper, the current project status as well as first lessons learned from running the mobile application for twelve months are presented. In turn, the lessons learned are discussed in the context of the new perspectives offered by mobile crowd sensing in the medical field.","PeriodicalId":164356,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 28th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126831408","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":"Obstructive Sleep Apnea Diagnosis: The Bayesian Network Model Revisited","authors":"P. Rodrigues, D. F. Santos, Liliana Leite","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2015.47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2015.47","url":null,"abstract":"Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is a disease that affects approximately 4% of men and 2% of women worldwide but is still underestimated and underdiagnosed. The standard method for assessing this index, and therefore defining the OSA diagnosis, is polysomnography (PSG). Previous work developed relevant Bayesian network models but those were based only on variables univariatedly associated with the outcome, yielding a bias on the possible knowledge representation of the models. The aim of this work was to develop and validate new Bayesian network decision support models that could be used during sleep consult to assess the need for PSG. Bayesian models were developed using a) expert opinion, b) hill-climbing, c) naïve Bayes and d) TAN structures. Resulting models validity was assessed with in-sample AUC and stratified cross-validation, also comparing with previously published model. Overall, models achieved good discriminative power (AUC>70%) and validity (measures consistently above 70%). Main conclusions are a) the need to integrate a wider range of variables in the final models and b) the support of using Bayesian networks in the diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea.","PeriodicalId":164356,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 28th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122682414","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":"Interactive Segmentation Relabeling for Classification of Whole-Slide Histopathology Imagery","authors":"Anoop Haridas, F. Bunyak, K. Palaniappan","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2015.89","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2015.89","url":null,"abstract":"Collecting ground-truth or gold standard annotations from expert pathologists for developing histopathology analytic algorithms and computer-aided diagnosis for cancer grading is an expensive and time consuming process. Efficient visualization and annotation tools are needed to enable ground-truthing large whole-slide imagery. KOLAM is our scalable, cross-platform framework for interactive visualization of 2D, 2D+t and 3D imagery of high spatial, temporal and spectral resolution. In the current work KOLAM has been extended to support rapid interactive labelling and correction of automatic image classifier-based region labels of the tissue microenvironment by pathologists. Besides annotating regions-of-interest (ROIs), KOLAM enables extraction of the corresponding large polygonal image subregions for input into automatic segmentation algorithms, single-click region label reassignment and maintaining hierarchical image subregions. Experience indicates that clinicians prefer simple-to-use interfaces that support rapid labelling of large image regions with minimal effort. The incorporation of easy-to-use tissue annotation features in KOLAM makes it an attractive candidate for integration within a multi-stage histopathology image analysis pipeline supporting assisted segmentation and labelling to improve whole-slide imagery (WSI) analytics.","PeriodicalId":164356,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 28th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114543775","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. Masoodian, S. Luz, Manuel Cesario, R. R. Cesario, Bill Rogers, Diones A. Borges
{"title":"A Serious Game for Improving Community-Based Prevention of Neglected Diseases","authors":"M. Masoodian, S. Luz, Manuel Cesario, R. R. Cesario, Bill Rogers, Diones A. Borges","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2015.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2015.17","url":null,"abstract":"Community-based healthcare strategies are becoming increasingly important in developing sustainable practices for prevention of neglected and emerging diseases in remote regions. In this paper, we discuss the use of \"serious games\" as one of the strategies for improving local populations' knowledge of the causes, preventive measures, and treatment options for neglected tropical diseases. We illustrate the potential of such a strategy for fostering engagement between local communities and healthcare workers by presenting a serious game architecture we have developed in collaboration with medical researchers and practitioners working in Amazonia. Although this first game focuses on Leishmaniases, it can be extended to easily include other similar diseases. This prototype game has been presented to a group of experts on neglected tropical diseases, and their opinions are reported here.","PeriodicalId":164356,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 28th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114696895","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}
Z. Xue, D. You, S. Candemir, Stefan Jaeger, Sameer Kiran Antani, L. Long, G. Thoma
{"title":"Chest X-ray Image View Classification","authors":"Z. Xue, D. You, S. Candemir, Stefan Jaeger, Sameer Kiran Antani, L. Long, G. Thoma","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2015.49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2015.49","url":null,"abstract":"The view information of a chest X-ray (CXR), such as frontal or lateral, is valuable in computer aided diagnosis (CAD) of CXRs. For example, it helps for the selection of atlas models for automatic lung segmentation. However, very often, the image header does not provide such information. In this paper, we present a new method for classifying a CXR into two categories: frontal view vs. lateral view. The method consists of three major components: image pre-processing, feature extraction, and classification. The features we selected are image profile, body size ratio, pyramid of histograms of orientation gradients, and our newly developed contour-based shape descriptor. The method was tested on a large (more than 8,200 images) CXR dataset hosted by the National Library of Medicine. The very high classification accuracy (over 99% for 10-fold cross validation) demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed method.","PeriodicalId":164356,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 28th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124094755","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}
Elena Baralis, T. Cerquitelli, S. Chiusano, A. Giordano, A. Mezzani, D. Susta, Xin Xiao
{"title":"Predicting Cardiopulmonary Response to Incremental Exercise Test","authors":"Elena Baralis, T. Cerquitelli, S. Chiusano, A. Giordano, A. Mezzani, D. Susta, Xin Xiao","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2015.60","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2015.60","url":null,"abstract":"Cardiopulmonary exercise testing is a non-invasive method widely used to monitor various physiological signals, describing the cardiac and respiratory response of the patient to increasing workload. Since this method is physically very demanding, innovative data analysis techniques are needed to predict patient response thus lowering body stress and avoiding cardiopulmonary overload. This paper proposes the Cardiopulmonary Response Prediction (CRP) framework for early predicting the physiological signal values that can be reached during an incremental exercise test. The learning phase creates different models tailored to specific conditions (i.e., single-test and multiple-test models). Each model can be exploited in the real-time stream prediction phase to periodically predict, during the test execution, signal values achievable by the patient. Experimental results on a real dataset showed that CRP prediction is performed with a limited and acceptable error.","PeriodicalId":164356,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 28th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126449023","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. McClatchey, Jetendr Shamdasani, A. Branson, K. Munir, Z. Kovács, G. Frisoni
{"title":"Traceability and Provenance in Big Data Medical Systems","authors":"R. McClatchey, Jetendr Shamdasani, A. Branson, K. Munir, Z. Kovács, G. Frisoni","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2015.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2015.10","url":null,"abstract":"Providing an appropriate level of accessibility to and tracking of data or process elements in large volumes of medical data, is an essential requirement in the Big Data era. Researchers require systems that provide traceability of information through provenance data capture and management to support their clinical analyses. We present an approach that has been adopted in the neuGRID and N4U projects, which aimed to provide detailed traceability to support research analysis processes in the study of biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease, but is generically applicable across medical systems. To facilitate the orchestration of complex, large-scale analyses in these projects we have adapted CRISTAL, a workflow and provenance tracking solution. The use of CRISTAL has provided a rich environment for neuroscientists to track and manage the evolution of data and workflow usage over time in neuGRID and N4U.","PeriodicalId":164356,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 28th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems","volume":"428 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132337972","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}