Taimur Hassan, Anam Usman, M. Akram, Momina Masood, Ubaidullah Yasin
{"title":"Deep Learning Based Automated Extraction of Intra-Retinal Layers for Analyzing Retinal Abnormalities","authors":"Taimur Hassan, Anam Usman, M. Akram, Momina Masood, Ubaidullah Yasin","doi":"10.1109/HealthCom.2018.8531198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HealthCom.2018.8531198","url":null,"abstract":"Extraction of retinal layers from optical coherence tomography (OCT) scans is critical for analyzing retinal anomalies and manual segmentation of these retinal layers is a very cumbersome task. Recently, deep learning has gained much popularity in medical image analysis due to its underlying precision and robustness. Many researchers have utilized deep learning for extracting retinal layers from OCT images. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no literature available that presents a robust segmentation framework that is able to extract retinal layers from OCT scans having different retinal pathological syndromes. Therefore, this paper presents a deep convolutional neural network and structure tensor-based segmentation framework (CNN-STSF) for the fully automated segmentation of up to eight retinal layers from normal as well as diseased OCT scans. First of all, the proposed framework computes coherent tensor from the candidate scan through which retinal layers are extracted. Afterwards, the pixels representing the layers are further classified using cloud based deep convolutional neural network (CNN) model trained on 1,200 retinal layers patches. CNN model in the proposed framework computes the probability of each layer pixels and assign it to be part of that layer for which it has the highest probability. The proposed framework was tested and validated on more than 39,000 retinal OCT scans from different publicly available datasets and from local Armed Forces Institute of Ophthalmology (AFIO) dataset where it outperformed all the existing solutions by achieving the overall layer segmentation accuracy of 0.9375.","PeriodicalId":232709,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom)","volume":"52 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":"124904526","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}
Maryamsadat Shokrekhodaei, Stella Quinones, R. Martínek, H. Nazeran
{"title":"A Robust PPG-based Heart Rate Monitor for Fitness and eHealth Applications","authors":"Maryamsadat Shokrekhodaei, Stella Quinones, R. Martínek, H. Nazeran","doi":"10.1109/HealthCom.2018.8531082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HealthCom.2018.8531082","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the design and implementation of a Heart Rate Monitor (HRM) based on photoplethysmography (PPG). This optical method is noninvasive and provides a convenient means of implementing a low-cost wearable HRM for eHealth applications. Our novel design consists of a light source that emits a modulated or unmodulated light signal through the finger tissue and measures the changes in the reflected light from the arterial blood. These reflections correspond well with the blood volume changes in synchrony with the heartbeat. Here we aim to provide a detailed description of how to design and implement an HRM device based on two approaches: 1) PPG using an unmodulated light source; 2) PPG using a modulated light source. Noise analysis in these devices enabled us to conceptualize and compare their performance and infer which one offers a better choice for optical heart rate monitoring. Based on the measurement results, the latter approach offers superior performance due to better noise cancellation and higher Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) and is therefore robust against movement artefacts, power line noise, flicker noise of electronic components, as well as background environmental light interference.","PeriodicalId":232709,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom)","volume":"109 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":"131814389","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}
B. Sekar, J. Lamy, Naiara Muro, Amaia Ugarriza Pinedo, B. Séroussi, N. Larburu, Gilles Guézennec, J. Bouaud, Frank Guijarro Masero, Mónica Arrúe, Hui Wang
{"title":"Intelligent Clinical Decision Support Systems for Patient-Centered Healthcare in Breast Cancer Oncology","authors":"B. Sekar, J. Lamy, Naiara Muro, Amaia Ugarriza Pinedo, B. Séroussi, N. Larburu, Gilles Guézennec, J. Bouaud, Frank Guijarro Masero, Mónica Arrúe, Hui Wang","doi":"10.1109/HealthCom.2018.8531128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HealthCom.2018.8531128","url":null,"abstract":"Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in women worldwide, with incidence rate being second highest to other types of cancer. In the current clinical setting, multidisciplinary breast units are introduced to improve the quality of the therapeutic decision based on the best evidence-based practices. DESIREE project aims to provide a web-based software ecosystem for personalized, collaborative and multidisciplinary management of primary breast cancer by specialized breast units, from diagnosis to therapy and follow-ups. In order to provide a multi-model decision support to clinicians in present clinical settings, the project develops and integrates three modalities of decision support, namely guideline-based decision support system (DSS), experience-based DSS and case-based DSS. Visual analytics GUI are developed to properly adapt the results of the DSSs and graphically represent them to the clinician in a user-friendly manner. DESIREE information management system (DESIMS), serves as the interface between the user and DSSs for entering patient data and viewing the results in the visual analytics GUI. In this paper, we present the overall architecture, workflow and integration of the three DSSs in the DESIREE platform.","PeriodicalId":232709,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom)","volume":"9 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":"130433054","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 wearable Kinematic Algorithms for the Monitoring of Ecological Activity","authors":"N. Noury, B. Perriot","doi":"10.1109/healthcom.2018.8531098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/healthcom.2018.8531098","url":null,"abstract":"Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) causes severe dyspnea during physical exercises. In order to detect a reduction in the intensity of physical activities of COPD subjects, we monitored their physical activity during intensive physical exercises as well as during normal daily activities. A field experiment was performed on 13 COPD patients over periods of 8 hours. Our classifier detects static postures (standing, sitting, lying) with sensitivities 77-94 % and specificities 86-91 %.","PeriodicalId":232709,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom)","volume":"38 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":"133345506","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}
Yara AlHumaidan, Lama AlAjmi, Moudhi M. Aljamea, M. Mahmud
{"title":"ANALYSIS OF CLOUD COMPUTING SECURITY IN PERSPECTIVE OF SAUDI ARABIA","authors":"Yara AlHumaidan, Lama AlAjmi, Moudhi M. Aljamea, M. Mahmud","doi":"10.1109/HealthCom.2018.8531141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HealthCom.2018.8531141","url":null,"abstract":"The cloud computing technology provides computing resources as services over the internet. Efficiency and cost-effectiveness are the main drivers for cloud computing adoption since it promises better scalability over legacy enterprise systems. With all benefits found in cloud technology, there are still some security issues because information and system components are completely controlled by an external company. Most of the discussions on cloud computing security topic are mainly focused on the organizational means to overcome these issues. This paper focusses on the main obstacles to adopting cloud computing technology in Saudi Arabia. It will also cover the technical means to secure cloud computing environment along with real cloud hacking scenarios.","PeriodicalId":232709,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom)","volume":"74 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":"129441542","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":"Measurement System for Classification of Hand’s Gesture","authors":"L. Peter, Filip Maryncak, A. Proto, M. Penhaker","doi":"10.1109/HealthCom.2018.8531079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HealthCom.2018.8531079","url":null,"abstract":"The goal was to create precise hardware that would be able to measure signal of myopotentials from defined area of forearm for the computer analysis without external noise and with right amplification. The second goal was to program an algorithm which could classify specific gestures of hand based on an analysis of myopotencial signals. The computer software was programmed in C# programming language. Signal processing and drawing to user interface was in real time. The one of five possible gestures that user made was analysed by using fuzzy logic and designed system of scaling. It was developed fuzzy classification which is able to recognize gestures with high accuracy.","PeriodicalId":232709,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom)","volume":"57 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":"133829394","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}
Gabriel Pires, Pedro D. F. Correia, Dario Jorge, Diogo Mendes, Nelson Gomes, Pedro Dias, Pedro Ferreira, Ana C. Lopes, A. Manso, L. Almeida, Luis Oliveira, Renato Panda, Paulo Monteiro, Carla Gracio, T. Pereira
{"title":"VITASENIOR-MT: a telehealth solution for the elderly focused on the interaction with TV","authors":"Gabriel Pires, Pedro D. F. Correia, Dario Jorge, Diogo Mendes, Nelson Gomes, Pedro Dias, Pedro Ferreira, Ana C. Lopes, A. Manso, L. Almeida, Luis Oliveira, Renato Panda, Paulo Monteiro, Carla Gracio, T. Pereira","doi":"10.1109/HealthCom.2018.8531126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HealthCom.2018.8531126","url":null,"abstract":"Remote monitoring of health parameters is a promising approach to improve the health condition and quality of life of particular groups of the population, which can also alleviate the current expenditure and demands of healthcare systems. The elderly, usually affected by chronic comorbidities, are a specific group of the population that can strongly benefit from telehealth technologies, allowing them to reach a more independent life, by living longer in their own homes. Usability of telehealth technologies and their acceptance by end-users are essential requirements for the success of telehealth implementation. Older people are resistant to new technologies or have difficulty in using them due to vision, hearing, sensory and cognition impairments. In this paper, we describe the implementation of an IoT-based telehealth solution designed specifically to address the elderly needs. The end-user interacts with a TV-set to record biometric parameters, and to receive warning and recommendations related to health and environmental sensor recordings. The familiarization of older people with the TV is expected to provide a more user-friendly interaction ensuring the effectiveness integration of the end-user in the overall telehealth solution.","PeriodicalId":232709,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom)","volume":"20 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":"125542424","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":"Personalized Effect of Health Behavior on Blood Pressure: Machine Learning Based Prediction and Recommendation","authors":"Po-Han Chiang, S. Dey","doi":"10.1109/HealthCom.2018.8531109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HealthCom.2018.8531109","url":null,"abstract":"Blood pressure (BP) is one of the most important indicator of human health. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between BP and health behavior (e.g. sleep and exercise). Using the data collected from off-the-shelf wearable devices and wireless home BP monitors, we propose a data driven personalized model to predict daily BP level and provide actionable insight into health behavior and daily BP. In the proposed machine learning model using Random Forest (RF), trend and periodicity features of BP time-series are extracted to improve prediction. To further enhance the performance of the prediction model, we propose RF with Feature Selection (RFFS), which performs RF-based feature selection to filter out unnecessary features. Our experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach is robust to different individuals and has smaller prediction error than existing methods. We also validate the effectiveness of personalized recommendation of health behavior generated by RFFS model.","PeriodicalId":232709,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom)","volume":"1 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":"130976087","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 Low Complexity Low Power Indoor Positioning System Based on Wireless Received Signal Strength","authors":"Hung-Yi Li, Hsi-Pin Ma","doi":"10.1109/HealthCom.2018.8531137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HealthCom.2018.8531137","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose an indoor positioning system based on Bluetooth low energy (BLE), and the localization tag is with characteristics of low power, low cost, and high portability. The proposed system consists of BLE tags, BLE/WiFi repeaters, and a fusion server. The BLE tag is a device which broadcasts BLE beacons. The BLE/WiFi repeaters collect the beacons transmitted from the tag and extract the received signal strength (RSS). The RSS values are then transmitted to the fusion server through WiFi, and the server will estimate the position of the BLE tag with RSS-based positioning algorithm. We propose an indoor positioning algorithm which is a hybrid from received signal strength indication (RSSI)-fingerprint and cell of origin (CoO) to estimate the BLE tag’s location. Some modifications are made to typical RSSI-fingerprint and CoO algorithm to get better accuracy. The test results show 1.2 m to 1.4 m positioning accuracy. The size of the BLE tag is 1.7 cm in radius and 0.5 cm thick. Each BLE tag costs 3 US dollars. The current consumption of the tag is 50 μA which can be used without charge for 136 days with a CR2025 battery.","PeriodicalId":232709,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom)","volume":"34 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":"127352206","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}