Abdelhak Kaddari, M. Malki, Said Benomar Elmdeghri
{"title":"Toward a patient-centred and pattern-based workflow for interoperable hospital information systems","authors":"Abdelhak Kaddari, M. Malki, Said Benomar Elmdeghri","doi":"10.1504/IJMEI.2017.10004452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMEI.2017.10004452","url":null,"abstract":"At the time, the proper management of business processes is considered among the potential points that make up the business development debate. Workflow management with service composition in a business process is one of the levers to achieve this goal by acting on the modelling techniques. The adoption of web services platform in medical field did not attain good success. For from the organisational point of view, it is a prerequisite to find a good mechanism that allows the establishment of a good correspondence between the medical activities performed and the functionalities of related web services. We proposed in this paper, the automation approach based on a medical activity reference pattern. This approach includes two interesting steps: the first is presented by automation workflow of the planning task of medical process to be performed on each patient. The second is presented by automation workflow of implementation and management of planned medical processes. We used different business process management (BPM) technologies to achieve the implementation of an intermediate layer between cooperative systems. Our proposal ensures proper organisation of cooperative work and reinforces action's traceability for each stakeholder.","PeriodicalId":193362,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Medical Eng. Informatics","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129215054","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":"Enhancement and segmentation of pituitary gland from MR brain images","authors":"S. A. Banday, A. H. Mir","doi":"10.1504/IJMEI.2017.10004446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMEI.2017.10004446","url":null,"abstract":"The work herein proposes a framework for semi-automatic segmentation of pituitary gland from MRI brain images. The proposed framework initially uses a fused stationary wavelet transform (SWT) and discrete wavelet transform (DWT) to obtain a high resolution image of the input MRI brain image. After the input MRI brain image enhancement, the method applies thresholding and mathematical morphology to segment the pituitary gland from the input MRI brain image. The proposed algorithm for the same is coded in MATLAB 7.9 on MRI brain images. The segmented pituitary gland obtained using the proposed method is compared with the manually segmented pituitary gland (by an expert), region growing-based brain segmentation and watershed brain segmentation using Jackard's similarity coefficient (JSI) and overlap index (OI). The visual evaluation by a team of radiologists has demonstrated the efficacy of the proposed framework of pituitary gland extraction.","PeriodicalId":193362,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Medical Eng. Informatics","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116776091","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":"Brain tumour segmentation and detection using modified region growing and genetic algorithm in MRI images","authors":"A. Kavitha, C. Chellamuthu","doi":"10.1504/IJMEI.2017.10004454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMEI.2017.10004454","url":null,"abstract":"In modern medical research several approaches of image segmentation are used for the detection of brain tumour. Several pieces of medical equipment such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, X-ray and computed tomography (CT) are used for diagnosis of brain tumour. This paper proposes a new segmentation method which combines modified region growing and genetic algorithm for detecting brain tumour. This consists of four steps-pre-processing, segmentation, classification and fitness calculation. Pre-processing uses Gaussian filter for removal of noise present in the image. The pre-processed image is segmented using modified region growing (MRG) method which includes the orientation constraint in addition to the intensity constraint used in region growing (RG) method. Back propagation neural network (BPNN) classifier classifies the tumour as normal or abnormal. Then a genetic approach of initial population and fitness calculation is done to find the optimum value for the best segmented tumour portion of the MRI image. The proposed approach overcomes dark abnormalities as well as over segmentation problem. Implementing the proposed method on MRI image helps in creating awareness to patients and it also serves as a perquisite for Radiologists, doctors in rural areas for providing effective treatment to the brain tumour patients.","PeriodicalId":193362,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Medical Eng. Informatics","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127116305","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}
Md. Nizamuddin Salman, P. Rao, Muhammad Zia Ur Rahman
{"title":"Cardiac signal enhancement using normalised variable step algorithm for remote healthcare monitoring systems","authors":"Md. Nizamuddin Salman, P. Rao, Muhammad Zia Ur Rahman","doi":"10.1504/IJMEI.2017.10002622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMEI.2017.10002622","url":null,"abstract":"In telecardiology, it is highly essential that good resolution signals are to be presented to the doctor for immediate diagnosis. In this aspect adaptive noise cancellers (ANCs) are promising tools to enhance cardiac signals (CS) from various artefacts. To cope with this, in the proposed paper an attempt has been made to present a new ANC using normalised variable step size least mean square (NVLMS) algorithm and its variants. In order to minimise the computational complexity, we apply sign-based and maximum normalisation treatments to the weight update recursion of NVLMS algorithm. These implementations are suitable for telecardiology applications, where large signal to noise ratios with less computational complexity are required. Finally, the developed ANCs are tested on real cardiac signals obtained from the MIT-BIH database and performance measures are compared. Simulation studies confirm that the performances of the proposed models are better than the conventional LMS-based noise cancellers.","PeriodicalId":193362,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Medical Eng. Informatics","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130977417","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. Khnouf, E. Abdulhay, Rawan Al Junaidi, F. Rifai
{"title":"Gait signal classification using an in-house built goniometer and naïve Bayes classifier","authors":"R. Khnouf, E. Abdulhay, Rawan Al Junaidi, F. Rifai","doi":"10.1504/IJMEI.2017.10002621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMEI.2017.10002621","url":null,"abstract":"This work aims at designing and implementing a knee and an ankle goniometer, both based on potentiometry, and applying the naive Bayes classifier on the signals obtained from the goniometers to differentiate between male and female gait signals, and to also differentiate between healthy and restricted knee gait signals. Gait signals and other parameters were collected from 60 subjects using the goniometers and WEKA was used to classify this data. The designed goniometers were 97.8% accurate and the naive Bayes classifier was highly accurate in categorising the signals with an accuracy of at least 86.7%.","PeriodicalId":193362,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Medical Eng. Informatics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134052705","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 emotional states in response to audio-visual inductions based on nonlinear analysis and self-organisation map classification","authors":"S. Hatamikia, A. Nasrabadi","doi":"10.1504/IJMEI.2017.10002606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMEI.2017.10002606","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, emotion recognition using biological signals has attracted much attention by researchers due to the rapid development of machine learning algorithms and various applications of brain computer interface (BCI). This study addresses the emotion recognition system from electroencephalogram signals, in which different emotional states are represented on the valence and arousal dimensions. As regards to nonlinear nature and complex dynamics of EEG signals, we propose to use nonlinear features from brain electrical activity to evaluate emotional states. With this aim, we examined two different categories of nonlinear features: fractal-based features and entropy-based features. In addition to that, a two stage feature selection based on Dunn index and sequential forward feature selection (SFS) algorithm is employed for eliminating redundant and weak features, and finally SOM classifier was applied to selected features in order to classification of emotional classes. The experimental results show that the proposed method can represent user's emotional state effectively in both two-level and four-level of valence and arousal dimension. Furthermore, we determined the best channels and time segments for discriminating the emotions and the most related regions of brain to emotion-related sensory activities were found.","PeriodicalId":193362,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Medical Eng. Informatics","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114090255","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. P. Shahri, S. Haghighatnia, R. Moghaddam, H. Kobravi
{"title":"Control the tumour growth via sliding mode control","authors":"A. P. Shahri, S. Haghighatnia, R. Moghaddam, H. Kobravi","doi":"10.1504/IJMEI.2017.10002633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMEI.2017.10002633","url":null,"abstract":"Cancer immunotherapy aims at provoke an immune response against tumour, which is done by the use of natural and synthetic substances. In this paper, due to uncertainties in tumour growth model as a nonlinear system, a sliding mode control based on the Lyapunov stability theory is designed to achieve the effective dose in immunotherapy treatment. Also, so as to provide a virtual patient to design a sliding mode controller, the description on the identification process for a particular cancer mathematical model under the immunotherapy treatment by recurrent neural networks is done. An appropriate sliding surface is acquired through a sliding mode control design such that the state trajectories of system will reach to desirable values. As a consequence, the system is simulated to demonstrate the efficacy of the presented method.","PeriodicalId":193362,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Medical Eng. Informatics","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123730553","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. A. Elhefny, M. Elmogy, Ahmed Abou El-Fetouh, F. Badria
{"title":"Developing a fuzzy OWL ontology for obesity related cancer domain","authors":"M. A. Elhefny, M. Elmogy, Ahmed Abou El-Fetouh, F. Badria","doi":"10.1504/IJMEI.2017.10002627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMEI.2017.10002627","url":null,"abstract":"Obesity is associated with various diseases, particularly cardiovascular diseases, diabetes type 2, obstructive sleep apnea, certain types of cancer, osteoarthritis, and asthma. The knowledge of the obesity related cancer (ORC) domain is highly required to be represented in a structured and formalised shape. In this paper, we develop an ontology to represent ORC domain knowledge with its diseases, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatments. The proposed ontology is based on the Web Ontology Language (OWL 2) integrated with the fuzzy logic. The fuzzy developed ontology handles the overlapping concepts, ingesting more concepts, and copes with the linguistic domain variables, which were not possible using the regular ontologies. It allows the users to query the fuzzy Dl reasoner for element and answer them with the fuzzy ontology. By developing the fuzzy ORC ontology, it is expected to be a good practice for the ontologists and knowledge engineers.","PeriodicalId":193362,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Medical Eng. Informatics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122092019","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":"Clinical decision support system as a risk assessment tool to aid in earlier diagnosis of pancreatic cancer","authors":"E. Adams, D. Mital, Shashi Mehta","doi":"10.1504/IJMEI.2017.10002620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMEI.2017.10002620","url":null,"abstract":"Pancreatic cancer is the most lethal form of cancer. More than 85% of diagnoses are made during the advanced stage and currently, there is no systematic approach for early diagnosis. Therefore, we developed a clinical decision support system that can be used as a heuristic approach in identifying pancreatic cancer risk levels in individuals and in turn, lead to earlier diagnosis. The design method included the use of 14 common pancreatic cancer risk factors stratified into five weight groups. Twelve case scenarios were used to test the system and the results show that it is possible to develop a system that can identify pancreatic cancer risk levels but the impact the system will have on earlier diagnoses of pancreatic cancer is uncertain. Further studies are needed to identify the specific weights and stratifications of the risk levels and risk factors for pancreatic cancer to develop a more effective CDSS.","PeriodicalId":193362,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Medical Eng. Informatics","volume":"398 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122201744","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":"Comparison of muscle activation patterns among healthy males and females during different lower limb movements","authors":"S. Mathur, Manvinder Kaur, D. Bhatia, S. Verma","doi":"10.1504/IJMEI.2016.079357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMEI.2016.079357","url":null,"abstract":"Motion abilities and lifestyle of an individual is highly affected by neuromuscular, musculoskeletal disorders and injuries to the lower limbs. Gender differences in kinematics during running have been speculated to be a contributing factor to the lower extremity injury rate showing disparity between men and women (Farahani and Gunjan, 2015; Chumanov et al., 2008). The purpose of this study was to examine the difference in non-sagittal motion of males and females in four prominent lower limb muscles namely, tibialis anterior (TA), soleus (SOL), hamstrings (biceps femoris) (HM) and quadriceps (rectus femoris) (QUAD) during different locomotion tasks involving knee flexion and extension, ankle plantar flexion and dorsiflexion. Time domain parameters of EMG were used for the quantification of EMG activity of muscles due to its implementation and computation simplicity. Statistical analysis of results demonstrated greater TA, SOL and HM activity in males but greater QUAD activity in females than males.","PeriodicalId":193362,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Medical Eng. Informatics","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126917465","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}