{"title":"Gamification system to support family-based behavioral interventions for childhood obesity","authors":"Ruofei Hu, G. Fico, J. Cancela, M. Arredondo","doi":"10.1109/BHI.2014.6864334","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BHI.2014.6864334","url":null,"abstract":"Childhood obesity is becoming one of the most serious public health problems both in health and economic terms. This paper introduces a technological solution, “OB CITY” that supports the management of childhood obesity. The system mainly uses the behavior treatment, providing two types of user terminal for the parents and the children, through an establishment of a children's social network game, letting parents grow children with a scientific way, and letting children have good living habits and learn the relevant knowledge in the game, and get a normal value of BMI. The system is in a definition phase, and will be validated with user interaction experts, leading to a first mockup to be tested with end-users.","PeriodicalId":177948,"journal":{"name":"IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121265585","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":"Patient similarity using network structure properties in online communities","authors":"T. Chomutare","doi":"10.1109/BHI.2014.6864487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BHI.2014.6864487","url":null,"abstract":"The growing amount of user generated content in healthcare social media requires new methods to gain new insights about patients as users of online health communities. One interesting general problem is filtering information and making relevant information more conspicuous to users in Internet websites. Previously, collaborative filtering techniques have been successfully applied in recommender systems for personalizing Internet shopping and movie portals. Current work uses network structures - inferred from patient interactions - to enhance patient-similarity analysis, for predicting the top-N threads in online communities. Using network structure properties unique to healthcare social networks, experimental results based on the Euclidean distance, Pearson correlation and Tanimoto similarity, confirm that community structure properties can enhance recommendations. The results are comparable to other collaborative filtering methods proposed in the literature. These findings have implications for designing personalized health-related social media.","PeriodicalId":177948,"journal":{"name":"IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127750438","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}
D. Jayatilake, Kenji Suzuki, Y. Teramoto, Tomoyuki Ueno, K. Nakai, Kikue Hidaka, S. Ayuzawa, K. Eguchi, A. Matsumura
{"title":"Swallowscope: A smartphone based device for the assessment of swallowing ability","authors":"D. Jayatilake, Kenji Suzuki, Y. Teramoto, Tomoyuki Ueno, K. Nakai, Kikue Hidaka, S. Ayuzawa, K. Eguchi, A. Matsumura","doi":"10.1109/BHI.2014.6864459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BHI.2014.6864459","url":null,"abstract":"Dysphagia can cause serious challenges to both physical and mental health. Aspiration due to dysphagia is a major health risk that could cause pneumonia, and even death. As a result, monitoring and managing dysphagia is of utmost importance. This study investigates the development of a smartphone-based device and a feasible real-time swallowing sound processing algorithm for the automatic screening for swallowing ability. The videofluoroscopic swallow study (VFSS), which is considered the gold standard for the diagnosis of dysphagia, is not widely available, expensive and causes exposure to radiation. The screening tests used for dysphagia need to be carried out by trained staff and the evaluations are often non-quantifiable. The Swallowscope we developed is a wearable device based on mobile health, and uses the swallowing sound to quantitatively evaluate swallowing ability. As swallowing sound can be captured continuously and during activities of daily life with minimal intervention, it is an ideal approach to monitor swallowing activities, and its continuous monitoring has a better probability of capturing aspirations and risky swallow patterns. This paper describes the real-time smartphone based algorithm and the application we developed to monitor swallowing activities and evaluates the recognition accuracy by comparing them with VFSS evidence.","PeriodicalId":177948,"journal":{"name":"IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127785325","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":"Generalised stochastic model for characterisation of subcutaneous glucose time series","authors":"N. Khovanova, Yan Zhang, T. Holt","doi":"10.1109/BHI.2014.6864408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BHI.2014.6864408","url":null,"abstract":"A generalised stochastic model with second order differential equations is proposed to describe the response of blood glucose concentration to meals in groups of nondiabetic people and two types of diabetic patients. A variational Bayesian approach is applied in order to infer parameters of the models, and the best model was selected based on the computed log-evidence for each prandial event. The model with a linear structure represents most of the events, while the nonlinear terms need to be included more frequently for Type II diabetic patients. This indicates different physiological mechanisms of glucose absorption for different groups. The deterministic parameters and intensities of stochastic components are compared by groups using the ANOVA test, and the results show significant differences between the groups. This model can potentially be used for long term prediction of the glucose concentration response to external stimuli.","PeriodicalId":177948,"journal":{"name":"IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128112145","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. Baig, H. Gholamhosseini, M. Connolly, Ghodsi Kashfi
{"title":"Real-time vital signs monitoring and interpretation system for early detection of multiple physical signs in older adults","authors":"M. Baig, H. Gholamhosseini, M. Connolly, Ghodsi Kashfi","doi":"10.1109/BHI.2014.6864376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BHI.2014.6864376","url":null,"abstract":"Advanced engineering, communication and information technologies combined with medical and clinical knowledge enable the possibility of remote, wireless, continuous physiological monitoring. These technologies facilitate the implementation of patient monitoring and diagnostic systems virtually anywhere: home, hospital and outdoors (on the move). Physiological parameters are considered as critical information to assess health condition and the type of possible illness of patients. In this work, vital signs are collected using wireless medical devices and fed to a computerised decision support system consist of a diagnostic model. The proposed vital signs monitoring system is able to help clinicians by illustrating the trace of critical physiological parameters, generating early warning/alerts and indicating any significant changes to the data. Moreover, it can assist patients to monitor their health status and communicate their concerns with the healthcare providers. The system was validated with different set of collected data from 20 hospitalised older adults and achieved an accuracy of 95.83%, sensitivity of 100%, specificity of 93.15%, and predictability of 90.38% in compare with a clinician assessment for tachycardia, hypertension, hypotension, hypoxemia and hypothermia.","PeriodicalId":177948,"journal":{"name":"IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133689929","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":"Visual interpretation of class C GPCR subtype overlapping from the nonlinear mapping of transformed primary sequences","authors":"M. Cárdenas, A. Vellido, J. Giraldo","doi":"10.1109/BHI.2014.6864476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BHI.2014.6864476","url":null,"abstract":"This brief paper addresses the problem of visually assessing the natural discriminability of the different subtypes that characterize class C G-Protein-Coupled Receptors, which are membrane proteins of interest in pharmacology, from diverse transformations of their primary amino acid sequences. Visualization, achieved using nonlinear dimensionality reduction techniques, is used as an exploratory tool to increase the interpretability of the data subtype structure. Combined with a quantitative estimation of subtype overlapping, this approach should be of help to experts in proteomics.","PeriodicalId":177948,"journal":{"name":"IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134508232","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":"Breast tissue removal for enhancing microcalcification cluster detection in mammograms","authors":"Wissam J. Baddar, Dae Hoe Kim, Yong Man Ro","doi":"10.1109/BHI.2014.6864378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BHI.2014.6864378","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a novel normal breast tissue removal approach using sparse representation (SR), in order to emphasize subtle microcalcifications (MCs) for MC cluster (MCC) detection in mammograms. The proposed method adopts SR to estimate normal breast tissue texture only; such that the difference between estimated image and the original image can emphasize subtle MCs. Comparative experiments have been conducted to validate the effectiveness of the proposed preprocessing with the publicly available DDSM database. The experimental results showed that the MCC detection performances in terms of FROC were improved with the proposed approach compared with the commonly used wavelet decomposition approach. Furthermore, the improved detection performance increases the overall performance for the malignant MCC classification.","PeriodicalId":177948,"journal":{"name":"IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132064232","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 basic study on a method of evaluating 3-dimentional foot movements in walking","authors":"Maho Shiotani, Takashi Watanabe","doi":"10.1109/BHI.2014.6864422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BHI.2014.6864422","url":null,"abstract":"Lower limb motor function is important for activities of daily living. Since gait movements of elderly subjects differ from those of young people, gait measurement is considered to be effective for evaluating lower limb motor function. In this paper, focusing on foot movements during gait, a method of evaluating 3-dimentional movements of the foot during walking was examined. Gait movements were measured with 3 healthy females using the wireless inertial sensor system developed by our research group. Then, foot inclination angle and vector locus of the foot vector were calculated from angular velocity and acceleration signals by using quaternion-based attitude representation. They were projected onto each plane of the global coordinate system. The results showed similar angle waveforms and locus patterns between subjects. These suggested that the angles and the vector loci would be useful in evaluation of lower limb motor function. Developing quantitative evaluation method and making clear meanings of the angles and the vector loci projected to the planes are necessary.","PeriodicalId":177948,"journal":{"name":"IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI)","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116197530","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}
Paschalis A. Bizopoulos, A. Sakellarios, D. Koutsouris, D. Iliopoulou, L. Michalis, D. Fotiadis
{"title":"Randomly generated realistic vessel geometry using spline interpolation and 2D Perlin noise","authors":"Paschalis A. Bizopoulos, A. Sakellarios, D. Koutsouris, D. Iliopoulou, L. Michalis, D. Fotiadis","doi":"10.1109/BHI.2014.6864328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BHI.2014.6864328","url":null,"abstract":"The importance of using artificial vessel walls for examining the effects of the geometry to the risk of plaque rupture, has grown. This has also become essential, mainly because of the lack of an extensive dataset of real vessel geometries that covers an adequate number of cases (e.g. variable amplitude of stenosis for the same vessel). In this paper, we propose a method for creating realistic artificial vessel geometry. The centerline is constructed using PseudoRandom Noise Generator (PRNG) and 3d spline interpolation and the artificial wall using a variation of the 2d Perlin Noise. The resulted geometry indicates that this method achieves realistic representations of vessel walls with user defined parameters.","PeriodicalId":177948,"journal":{"name":"IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI)","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115542617","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. Punithakumar, M. Noga, P. Boulanger, Ismail Ben Ayed, Mariam Afshin, A. Goela, A. Islam, S. Li
{"title":"Detecting left ventricular impaired relaxation using MR imaging","authors":"K. Punithakumar, M. Noga, P. Boulanger, Ismail Ben Ayed, Mariam Afshin, A. Goela, A. Islam, S. Li","doi":"10.1109/BHI.2014.6864365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BHI.2014.6864365","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates automatic assessment of the left ventricular (LV) diastolic function using cine cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. Most of the existing LV assessment algorithms addressed the systolic function, which essentially pertains to the analysis of regional wall motion abnormalities or the estimation of the ejection fraction. However, several recent clinical studies suggested that evaluating the diastolic function is essential. The diastolic function plays an important role in assessing cardiovascular abnormalities, particularly in the case of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. The assessments of LV relaxation and stiffness abnormalities can be achieved with cardiac MR imaging. Unlike with transthoracic echocardiography, MR is not limited by an acoustic window, and allows exhaustive myocardial imaging with excellent spatial resolution. We propose an algorithm that evaluates the LV relaxation from short-axis cine MR images. The method is based on three main steps: (1) non-rigid registration, which yields a sequence of points over time, given a user-provided contour on the first frame; (2) computations of the LV filling rate and volume over the cardiac cycle; and (3) automatic detection of the maxima of the E and A waves. We report comprehensive experimental evaluations over MR data sets acquired from 53 subjects, including comparisons with independent reports for the same subjects from echocar-diography. The proposed algorithm yielded a Kappa measure of 0.66, a substantial agreement with the echocardiography results.","PeriodicalId":177948,"journal":{"name":"IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI)","volume":"364 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121651644","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}