T. Kumar, Vidhya Ramani, Ijaz Ahmad, An Braeken, E. Harjula, M. Ylianttila
{"title":"Blockchain Utilization in Healthcare: Key Requirements and Challenges","authors":"T. Kumar, Vidhya Ramani, Ijaz Ahmad, An Braeken, E. Harjula, M. Ylianttila","doi":"10.1109/HealthCom.2018.8531136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HealthCom.2018.8531136","url":null,"abstract":"Blockchain is so far well-known for its potential applications in financial and banking sectors. However, blockchain as a decentralized and distributed technology can be utilized as a powerful tool for immense daily life applications. Healthcare is one of the prominent applications area among others where blockchain is supposed to make a strong impact. It is generating wide range of opportunities and possibilities in current healthcare systems. Therefore, this paper is all about exploring the potential applications of blockchain technology in current healthcare systems and highlights the most important requirements to fulfill the need of such systems such as trustless and transparent healthcare systems. In addition, this work also presents the challenges and obstacles needed to resolve before the successful adoption of blockchain technology in healthcare systems. Furthermore, we introduce the smart contract for blockchain based healthcare systems which is key for defining the pre-defined agreements among various involved stakeholders.","PeriodicalId":232709,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124441710","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}
Evgenia Papavasileiou, Redona Brahimetaj, F. Temmermans, Bruno Cornelis, I. Willekens, J. Mey, B. Jansen
{"title":"Towards a CAD System for Breast Cancer Based on Individual Microcalcifications?","authors":"Evgenia Papavasileiou, Redona Brahimetaj, F. Temmermans, Bruno Cornelis, I. Willekens, J. Mey, B. Jansen","doi":"10.1109/HealthCom.2018.8531134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HealthCom.2018.8531134","url":null,"abstract":"Microcalcifications (MCs) are small calcium deposits which are often present in breast tissue. Although they may be an early indicator of breast cancer, they are often present in healthy women. Judging on the malignancy of MCs based on their appearance on mammograms is a challenging task for radiologists as mammography projects a 3D object onto a 2D plane, as a consequence, superposition of tissue may alter their appearance. Although Computer Aided Detection and Diagnosis (CAD) systems have been developed to assist radiologists in detecting and characterizing MCs, they mainly focus on analyzing MCs’ spatial configuration rather than their individual characteristics. In this study, we propose a CAD system for the characterization of individual MCs, whose shape is visualized in 3D by scanning breast tissue with micro-CT, a high resolution 3D imaging modality. By calculating a large amount of radiomic features we are able to classify MCs as benign or malignant with 75.88% accuracy, 62.13% sensitivity and 86.39% specificity, outperforming the state of the art and proving that there is a difference regarding the shape and the texture of individual MCs. Although this methodology is not applicable in vivo, its potential for use in intra operative imaging is high, as it can reduce the waiting time between tissue extraction and result of the anatomopathological investigation, facilitating and accelerating the procedure.","PeriodicalId":232709,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121341914","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":"Multipurpose Sensor for Human Movement Analysis","authors":"Jan Foltýn, Radek Halfar, M. Cerný, N. Noury","doi":"10.1109/HealthCom.2018.8531166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HealthCom.2018.8531166","url":null,"abstract":"Inertial sensors are nowadays commonly used in many applications including medical devices, consumer electronics, automotive etc. Thanks to this wide range of use, a development of micro electro mechanical sensors has significantly grown in past ten years. There are some devices on the market, that are designed for measuring of human body motion. Some of them can be used for research, allowing user to change settings of sensors or data transmission using their software development kits. But the aim of this project was to develop the data measurement unit and control every acquisition process inside, with possibility to extend the device in the future. Also, segments of this complex device can be used in other custom applications. Therefore, a multipurpose device for analysis of human body movement was developed.","PeriodicalId":232709,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom)","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125177813","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":"Evaluation of facial attractiveness for purposes of plastic surgery using machine-learning methods and image analysis","authors":"Lubomír Štěpánek, P. Kasal, J. Mesták","doi":"10.1109/HealthCom.2018.8531195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HealthCom.2018.8531195","url":null,"abstract":"Many current studies conclude that facial attractiveness perception is data-based and irrespective of the perceiver. However, analyses of facial geometric image data and its visual impact always exceeded power of classical statistical methods. In this study, we have applied machine-learning methods to identify geometric features of a face associated with an increase of facial attractiveness after undergoing rhinoplasty. Furthermore, we explored how accurate classification of faces into sets of facial emotions and their facial manifestations is, since categorization of human faces into emotions manifestation should take into consideration the fact that total face impression is also dependent on expressed facial emotion.Both profile and portrait facial image data were collected for each patient (n = 42), processed, landmarked and analysed using R language. Multivariate linear regression was performed to select predictors increasing facial attractiveness after undergoing rhinoplasty. The sets of used facial emotions originate from Ekman-Friesen FACS scale, but was improved substantially. Bayesian naive classifiers, decision trees (CART) and neural networks were learned to allow assigning a new face image data into one of facial emotions.Enlargements of both a nasolabial and nasofrontal angle within rhinoplasty were determined as significant predictors increasing facial attractiveness (p < 0.05). Neural networks manifested the highest predictive accuracy of a new face classification into facial emotions. Geometrical shape of a mouth, then eyebrows and finally eyes affect in descending order final classified emotion, as was identified using decision trees.We performed machine-learning analyses to point out which facial geometric features, based on large data evidence, affect facial attractiveness the most, and therefore should preferentially be treated within plastic surgeries.","PeriodicalId":232709,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126082864","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}
Raafat Aburukba, A. Sagahyroon, F. Aloul, Niha Thodika
{"title":"Brokering Services for Integrating Health Cloud Platforms for Remote Patient Monitoring","authors":"Raafat Aburukba, A. Sagahyroon, F. Aloul, Niha Thodika","doi":"10.1109/HealthCom.2018.8531151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HealthCom.2018.8531151","url":null,"abstract":"Remote patient monitoring (RPM) uses technology to assess patients’ health within and beyond the healthcare facilities. RPM is becoming a reality by connecting the patient’s healthcare devices to the Internet. Modern healthcare devices come with a cloud-based support that provides patients with new features such as the broad network access to their vitals’ readings from anywhere. This shift of cloud-based support brought a new way to interact with the patients’ devices, as well as, new challenges that are different from the traditional Bluetooth interaction that is heavily studied in the literature. In real situations, patients usually have multiple devices to measure different vital signs that are made by different providers. Hence, it is not possible with the current approaches to have all patient vital readings consolidated in a single location. This consolidation enables the management of the chronic disorders and to analyze the health trends as part of the valuation of the treatment process. This work proposes a cloud-based brokering solution that seamlessly integrates multiple health cloud providers through a set of services that uses the web services cloud standard for the purpose of remote patient monitoring application. This work is validated by a prototype implementation.","PeriodicalId":232709,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom)","volume":"3 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114146242","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. Proto, L. Peter, M. Cerný, M. Penhaker, Daniele Bibbo, S. Conforto, M. Schmid
{"title":"Human Body Energy Harvesting Solutions for Wearable Technologies","authors":"A. Proto, L. Peter, M. Cerný, M. Penhaker, Daniele Bibbo, S. Conforto, M. Schmid","doi":"10.1109/HealthCom.2018.8531189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HealthCom.2018.8531189","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents an overview of recent and noninvasive technologies used to harvest electrical energy on the surfaces of human body. New electronic materials developed to provide sufficient comfort for the people wearing them are analyzed, and an inventory of common sensors for monitoring applications, which can profit from these technologies, is provided. In this way, a comprehensive panorama of what is currently available to design ultra-low-power systems is given. The purpose of the paper is to provide the basis for the development of non-invasive wearable devices, powered by the energy harvested on the surfaces of human body, which consider wearability and comfort constraints.","PeriodicalId":232709,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom)","volume":"Suppl 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128451422","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}
Ismael Villanueva-Miranda, H. Nazeran, R. Martínek
{"title":"CardiaQloud: A Remote ECG Monitoring System Using Cloud Services for eHealth and mHealth Applications","authors":"Ismael Villanueva-Miranda, H. Nazeran, R. Martínek","doi":"10.1109/HealthCom.2018.8531164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HealthCom.2018.8531164","url":null,"abstract":"Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death around the world. It is estimated that 17.7 million people die each year from such health conditions. The World Health Organization promotes the development of specific strategies to reduce the mortality rate due to cardiovascular diseases. This paper proposes an ECG monitor and its implementation using three approaches: hardware, software, and cloud services. For the hardware approach, we used an e-Health platform for Arduino with three leads. However, the software- and cloud-based approaches were implemented using the NodeJS framework to create the network communication between a local server and a remote server hosted on the Amazon Web Services infrastructure. Additionally, a responsive web application was developed to display the ECG signal, its R-R intervals, and the heart rate. Finally, an assessment was conducted to measure the quality of the ECG signal using Dynamic Time Warping.","PeriodicalId":232709,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128513826","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. Alazrai, Faisal Alqasem, Saqr Alaarag, K. M. Yousef, M. Daoud
{"title":"A Bispectrum-based Approach for Detecting Deception using EEG Signals","authors":"R. Alazrai, Faisal Alqasem, Saqr Alaarag, K. M. Yousef, M. Daoud","doi":"10.1109/HealthCom.2018.8531183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HealthCom.2018.8531183","url":null,"abstract":"Deception is considered a ubiquitous social phenomenon that has a significant implications in clinical, moral, and law enforcement domains. In this study, we propose a novel electroencephalography (EEG)-based approach for detecting deception. The proposed approach utilizes higher-order spectra (HOS) analysis, namely the bispectrum analysis, to construct a representation of the EEG signals. The constructed bispectrum-based representation is utilized to compute a set of features that can be used to identify deception in EEG signals. Specifically, the extracted features are used to train a support vector machine (SVM) classifier to classify EEG signals into guilty or innocent classes. The performance of the proposed EEG-based deception detection approach was evaluated using EEG signals that were recorded for eleven subjects who participated in a guilty knowledge test (GKT). The results reported in the current study demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed in detecting deception using EEG signals. In particular, the average classification accuracy obtained in differentiating between the innocent and guilty classes is equal to 74%.","PeriodicalId":232709,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom)","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129271216","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}
Agnieszka Szczęsna, M. Błaszczyszyn, Magdalena Pawlyta, A. Michalczuk
{"title":"Assessment of Gait Parameters in Virtual Environment","authors":"Agnieszka Szczęsna, M. Błaszczyszyn, Magdalena Pawlyta, A. Michalczuk","doi":"10.1109/HealthCom.2018.8531159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HealthCom.2018.8531159","url":null,"abstract":"Human gait is the result of complex interplay of the nervous, musculoskeletal and cardiorespiratory systems. Unimpaired cognition and executive control are needed for safe walking. Balance and gait problems may be precursors of falls, which are the leading cause of elderly injuries. This article concerns using the Corridor application, run on the multi-sensory virtual reality system (CAREN, Computer Assisted Rehabilitation ENvironment) to evaluate chosen gait parameters of elderly participants. The presented application influences the conditions of postural stability by skewing the image of space in different directions, especially side to side. This provoking fall prevention strategy can be described by set of changed gait parameters. Differences are observed in the hip and ankle joints, spatio-temporal parameters and the results that differed during the gait with dual-task. To better evaluate the gait asymmetry the arm swing asymmetry and step length symmetry indices were used.","PeriodicalId":232709,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom)","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115806428","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}
J. Nedoma, M. Fajkus, S. Kepak, J. Cubik, S. Zabka, R. Martínek, Vlastimil Slaný, J. Mareček
{"title":"An Interferometric Sensor for Monitoring Respiratory and Heart Rate of the Human Body","authors":"J. Nedoma, M. Fajkus, S. Kepak, J. Cubik, S. Zabka, R. Martínek, Vlastimil Slaný, J. Mareček","doi":"10.1109/HealthCom.2018.8531130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HealthCom.2018.8531130","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on current trends in the noninvasive biomedical monitoring of the human body using a fiber-optic interferometric sensor. An interferometric sensor encapsulated into a thin circular layer of material polyurethane (code PU430 – PH30). This used material is immune to electromagnetic interference (EMI). The sensor is primarily designed for use in electromagnetic interference environments (MRI). The monitored vital parameters of the human body are respiratory rate (RR) and heart rate (HR). The sensor was tested in a laboratory environment on the ten volunteers upon their written consent, when the subjects tested were monitored in the supine and sitting position of the body. Testing was performed towards the reference ECG and the piezoelectric respiratory belt. Based on the objective Bland-Altman analysis (for respiratory rate averaging 96.49 % and for heart rate averaging 95.64 %), the sensor may be acceptable to clinicians. (the sensor is primarily intended for monitoring not for the diagnosis).","PeriodicalId":232709,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134342830","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}