E. R. Wikantyasning, S. D. Andasari, M. Da'i, Asyafra Nabila
{"title":"Nanoencapsulation of Zerumbone in Oleic Acid-Modified Chitosan Nanoparticles","authors":"E. R. Wikantyasning, S. D. Andasari, M. Da'i, Asyafra Nabila","doi":"10.1145/3155077.3155097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3155077.3155097","url":null,"abstract":"Zerumbone is an active compound of Zingiber zerumbet which has been shown to possess antioxidant and anticancer activities. The limited therapeutic application of this compound was due to its poor water solubility. The aim of this study was to encapsulate zerumbone in hydrophobic chitosan nanoparticles that modified using oleic acid. Oleic acid-modified chitosan was synthesized by coupling chitosan with oleic acid through the 1-ethyl-3-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)carbodiimide HCl-mediated reaction, and was characterized using Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. Isolated zerumbone was coated by oleic acid-modified chitosan using ionic-gelation method. The nanoparticles was characterized using particle size analyzer for particle size and zeta potential, and the entrapment efficiency was determined by measuring the concentration of zerumbone using gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy. It was found that prepared zerumbone loaded-nanoparticles had an average size in the range from 500 to 580 nm and carried a positive charge with the zeta potential in the range of +16 to +30 mV. The entrapment efficiency of nanoparticles was about 6 times higher than encapsulation efficiency of zerumbone in chitosan nanoparticles. The nanoparticles have great potential for delivery of zerumbone as anticancer.","PeriodicalId":237079,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127165661","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":"SWT and Spread Spectrum Coding Based Copyright Protection Technique for Digital Images","authors":"P. Nagarjuna, Dharmender Tyagi, R. B. Ramachandra","doi":"10.1145/3155077.3155085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3155077.3155085","url":null,"abstract":"In this manuscript, a new secure spread spectrum watermarking scheme for robust digital images in stationary wavelet transform domain is proposed, and that may be generalized to digital audio, video and documents. Digital image watermarking is to add some hidden message for maintaining the copyright data secure. The image is divided into four sub-bands after applying the stationary wavelet transform (SWT) and then spread spectrum algorithm is applied on the approximation coefficients for embedding process and the watermark is retrieved by using inverse wavelet transform. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme in terms of imperceptibility and robustness and also compared with some of the existing efficient techniques in-terms of normalized correlation and PSNR.","PeriodicalId":237079,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114846005","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":"Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) Investigations on Gelatin-Chitosan-Bioactive Glass (58s) Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering","authors":"Zarrin Ahmadi, F. Moztarzadeh","doi":"10.1145/3155077.3155094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3155077.3155094","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, finding a proper substitute for the damaged or lost tissue is still a crucial open problem for the clinical scientific research. The fundamental aspects of the bone resemble a natural composite which consists of a wide range of polymers and ceramics. Therefore, there is a large amount of effort put into combining a structure which could feature sufficient mechanical strength, good biocompatibility and acceptable rate of biodegradation as a bone scaffold. In this paper, gelatin and chitosan have been chosen to play a role as the polymer matrix and bioactive glass 58s as a ceramic phase to characterize a new composition. To create a spongy structure with differently-sized porosity, five samples of scaffolds with different proportions of bioactive glass have been synthesized in the laboratory, which was dried in a freeze dryer. The electron microscope scanning illustrates the size of porosities and also the amount of forming appetite in the scaffolds' surfaces. The porosities sizes are observed to have the approximate size of 160-377μm, which is qualified for angiogenesis and cell growth in the bone and makes the scaffold an ideal choice for bone substitution.","PeriodicalId":237079,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124162978","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":"Individual Drug Treatment Prediction in Oncology Based on Machine Learning Using Cell Culture Gene Expression Data","authors":"N. Borisov, Victor Tkachev, I. Muchnik, A. Buzdin","doi":"10.1145/3155077.3155078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3155077.3155078","url":null,"abstract":"Development of individual predictors of clinical drug efficiency becomes the mainstream in modern oncology. According to this approach, for a given patient with known type of cancer and a chosen drug, we should be able to estimate the treatment effect caused by the drug. Almost all works in this field apply machine learning techniques, which perform deep statistical analysis of a set of clinical cases supported by gene expression data for every patient. This important approach, unfortunately, suffers from an essential obstacle: the total set of cases available for analysis is very limited (usually several tens, very seldom several hundreds). On the other hand, in biotech drug industry, there are thousands of cell line cultures, supported by the gene expression data, which are analyzed to measure drug scoring. In this paper, we show how the cell lines data can be incorporated into to machine learning analysis to improve the development of individual predictors.","PeriodicalId":237079,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129586661","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":"Unsupervised Learning of Sequencing Read Types","authors":"Jan Tomljanovic, Tomislav Sebrek, M. Šikić","doi":"10.1145/3155077.3155080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3155077.3155080","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, we present a novel method for improvement of de novo genome assembly which is based on detection of chimeric and repeat reads. Using this information, we can facilitate the detection of unique sequences which results in more contiguous final sequences. We showed that read types can be separated by transforming a coverage graph for each read into 1D signal. We found that signals for repeat and chimeric reads differ significantly from signals for regular reads. Because manual determination of correct read types is a tedious and time-consuming job, we chose unsupervised learning. For feature extraction, we applied and compared variational and denoising autoencoders. Clustering was performed by K-means algorithm. We tested the method on four bacterial genomes sequenced by Pacific Biosciences devices. The achieved results show that using labelled read types can significant improve the contiguity of the assembled final sequence.","PeriodicalId":237079,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics","volume":"124 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121457990","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}
Chahes Chopra, S. Sinha, Shubham Jaroli, A. Shukla, Saumil Maheshwari
{"title":"Recurrent Neural Networks with Non-Sequential Data to Predict Hospital Readmission of Diabetic Patients","authors":"Chahes Chopra, S. Sinha, Shubham Jaroli, A. Shukla, Saumil Maheshwari","doi":"10.1145/3155077.3155081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3155077.3155081","url":null,"abstract":"Hospital readmissions are recognized as indicators of poor quality of care, such as inadequate discharge planning and care coordination. Moreover, most experts believe that many readmissions are unnecessary and avoidable. In the present paper, we design a Recurrent Neural Network model to predict whether a patient would be readmitted in the hospital and compared its accuracy with basic classifiers such as SVM, Random Forest and with Simple Neural Networks. RNN showed highest prediction power in all the models used and thus this can be used by hospitals to target high risk patients and prevent recurrent admissions.","PeriodicalId":237079,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121644224","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":"Improving Classification Performance by Combining Feature Vectors with a Boosting Approach for Brain Computer Interface (BCI)","authors":"R. Rajan, Sunny Thekkan Devassy","doi":"10.1145/3155077.3155087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3155077.3155087","url":null,"abstract":"Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) are an interesting emerging technology providing an efficient communication system between human brain and external devices like computers or neuroprosthesis. Among assorts of neuroimaging techniques, electroencephalogram (EEG) is among one of the non-invasive methods exploited mostly in BCI studies. Recent studies have shown that Motor Imagery (MI) based BCI can be used as a rehabilitation tool for patients with severe neuromuscular disabilities. The spatial and spectral information related to brain activities associated with BCI paradigms are usually pre-determined as default in EEG analysis without speculation, which can lead to loses effects in practical applications due to individual variability across different subjects. Recent studies have shown that feature combination of each specifically tailored for different physiological phenomena such as Readiness Potential (RP) and Event Related Desynchronization (ERD) might benefit BCI making it robust against artifacts. Hence, the objective is to design a CSSBP with combined feature vectors, where the signal is divided into several sub bands using a band pass filter, and this channel and frequency configurations are then modeled as preconditions before learning base learners and introducing a new heuristic of stochastic gradient boost for training the base learners under these preconditions. The effectiveness and robustness of this algorithm along with feature combination is evaluated on two different data sets recorded from distinct populations. Results showed that Boosting approach with feature combination clearly outperformed the state-of-the-art algorithms, and improved the classification performance and resulted in increased robustness. This method can also be used to explore the neurophysiological mechanism of underlying brain activities.","PeriodicalId":237079,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics","volume":"359 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116054811","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}
Ching-Yu Huang, Reuben Hernandez, Shean Ballesteros, X. Lin
{"title":"An Online Medical Image Management System","authors":"Ching-Yu Huang, Reuben Hernandez, Shean Ballesteros, X. Lin","doi":"10.1145/3155077.3155089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3155077.3155089","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposed an under development online medical imaging management system with advanced web-based tools at the front-end that can perform functions, in real-time to load and process images, extract important features at front-end, and save the information into the back-end database server. The modern laptops and smart phones are very powerful and the internet speed is much faster than 10 years ago. The goal of this research is to study and develop a client-server system to utilize browsers on laptops or mobile device to process images and store the images and images' information on a centralized server. The online system and architecture prototype has been developed and several functions and results will be discussed in the paper.","PeriodicalId":237079,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123006526","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":"Fatigue Analysis in Biceps Brachii Muscles Using Semg Signals and Polynomial Chirplet Transform","authors":"D. M. Ghosh, S. Ramakrishnan","doi":"10.1145/3155077.3155090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3155077.3155090","url":null,"abstract":"Muscle fatigue analysis finds significant applications in the areas of biomechanics, sports medicine and clinical studies. Surface electromyography (sEMG) signals have wide application because of its non invasiveness. By nature, signals recorded using surface electrodes from muscles are highly nonstationary and random. The objective of this work is to analyze muscle related fatigue using sEMG signals and polynomial chirplet transform (PCT). sEMG signals are acquired from biceps brachii muscles of twenty volunteers (Mean (sd): age, 23.5 (4.3) years) in isometric contractions. The initial 500 ms is considered as nonfatigue and final 500 ms of the signals are considered as fatigue zone. Then signals are subjected to polynomial chirplet transform to estimate the time-frequency spectrum. Four features, instantaneous mean frequency (IsMNF), instantaneous median frequency (IsMDF), instantaneous spectral entropy (ISpEn) and instantaneous spectral skewness (ISSkw) are extracted for further analysis. Results show that the PCT is able to characterize the nonstationary and multi component nature of sEMG signals. The IsMNF, IsMDF, ISpEn are found to be high in nonfatigue conditions. Further, all the features are very distinct in muscle nonfatigue and fatigue conditions (p<0.001). This technique can be used in analyzing different neuromuscular disorders.","PeriodicalId":237079,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121462974","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}
N. Sengee, Chinzorig Radnaabazar, Suvdaa Batsuuri, Khurel-Ochir Tsedendamba
{"title":"A Comparison of Filtered Back Projection and Maximum Likelihood Expected Maximization","authors":"N. Sengee, Chinzorig Radnaabazar, Suvdaa Batsuuri, Khurel-Ochir Tsedendamba","doi":"10.1145/3155077.3155091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3155077.3155091","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, we compare two commonly used image reconstruction methods which are the filtered back projection (FBP) and the maximum likelihood expectation maximization (ML-EM) on some medical and phantom image with noise. To evaluate those methods, we used one evaluation measurement which is called a peak signal-to-noise ratio. It is most commonly used to measure the quality of reconstruction. In this experiment, the methods are tested with two images of computer tomography, two phantom images, and one SPECT images. Experimental result shows that FBP and ML-EM are closely similar result but MLEM is better than FBP in noisy images.","PeriodicalId":237079,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115311621","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}