{"title":"Sensitivity Comparison Between Reflection and Transmission Coefficient by Free Space Method for Non-Invasive Glucose Monitoring Sensor","authors":"Kento Fujimori, Ning Li, Y. Sugimoto","doi":"10.1109/BIBE.2017.00-25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBE.2017.00-25","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the comparison of sensitivity between the reflection and transmission coefficient by free space method for non-invasive blood glucose monitoring. In this study, aqueous glucose solutions with concentration values of 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4 w/v% have been tested. The calculation is done using formulas based on a three-layer model. The calculation results are then compared with the simulation results. Both calculation and simulation show almost the same results. The measurement of reflection and transmission coefficient is also implemented by using horn antenna. The results show that transmission coefficient is more sensitive with respect to the change of glucose concentration.","PeriodicalId":262603,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 17th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE)","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126684103","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}
S. Djorovic, N. Filipovic, A. Milosavljevic, L. Velicki
{"title":"Comparative Finite Element Analysis of Patient-Specific Tricuspid and Bicuspid Aortic Valve","authors":"S. Djorovic, N. Filipovic, A. Milosavljevic, L. Velicki","doi":"10.1109/BIBE.2017.00013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBE.2017.00013","url":null,"abstract":"The main purpose of this study was to examine and compare the biomechanical characteristics of a healthy tricuspid aortic valve (TAV) and diseased bicuspid aortic valve (BAV). The patient-specific geometrical model of TAV was created based on computed tomography (CT) scan images. On the same model, two leaflets (left and right) were manually fused in order to create the BAV model (type 1). The finite element analysis was performed using the algorithms and numerical methods for structural analysis on computational meshes. Also, equivalent material characteristics and boundary conditions were applied. As the result, displacements and Von Mises stress distribution were computed concerning anatomical differences between TAV and BAV structures. In the case of TAV, leaflets were symmetrically and centrally open, while BAV analysis resulted with regions of increased stresses on the leaflets with elliptically open valve. The performed comparative computational analysis gave better insight into the biomechanics of healthy and malformed aortic root. It may contribute to monitoring of structural characteristics due to the difficulty of obtaining such characteristics in vitro or in vivo.","PeriodicalId":262603,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 17th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128427397","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}
H. Rajaei, M. Cabrerizo, Panuwat Janwattanapong, Alberto Pinzon-Ardila, S. Gonzalez-Arias, A. Barreto, M. Adjouadi
{"title":"Connectivity Dynamics of Interictal Epileptiform Activity","authors":"H. Rajaei, M. Cabrerizo, Panuwat Janwattanapong, Alberto Pinzon-Ardila, S. Gonzalez-Arias, A. Barreto, M. Adjouadi","doi":"10.1109/BIBE.2017.00-17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBE.2017.00-17","url":null,"abstract":"Patterns of interictal epileptiform activities, such as sharp waves, spikes, spike-wave complexes and polyspike-wave complexes are explored in the recorded electroencephalograms (EEG) to gauge the different functional connectivity dynamics and to assess how they could be affected by the type of a seizure. Connectivity measures were represented by the phase synchronization among scalp electrodes that were obtained by adopting a nonlinear data-driven method. These interictal epileptic activities were investigated using a graph theory analysis. The connectivity maps were compared by considering the number of connections in four main brain regions (anterior region, posterior region, left hemisphere and right hemisphere). Results revealed interesting and different network topology for the connectivity maps. Besides, a relationship between the connectivity patterns of the recorded epileptic activities and the types of seizures was observed. This relationship was statistically confirmed by analysis of variance (ANOVA) that denoted a significant difference among connectivity patterns of sharp waves and spike activities, which were seen in focal epilepsy, in contrast to the spike-wave and polyspike-wave complexes that were associated with generalized epilepsy (P-value = 0). These results augment the prospects for diagnosis and enhance the recognition of the disease type via EEG-based connectivity maps.","PeriodicalId":262603,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 17th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114491310","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":"Latent Dirichlet Allocation for Classification using Gene Expression Data","authors":"H. Yalamanchili, S. Kho, M. Raymer","doi":"10.1109/BIBE.2017.00-81","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBE.2017.00-81","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding the role of differential gene expression in the development of, and molecular response to, cancer is a complex problem that remains challenging, in part due to the sheer number of genes, gene products, and metabolites involved. In this paper, we employ an unsupervised topic model, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) to explore patterns of gene expression in healthy and cancer tissues. An important advantage of LDA compared to alternative statistical and machine learning methods is its proven ability to handle sparse inputs over an extremely large numbers of features in an unsupervised manner. LDA has been recently applied for clustering and exploring genomic data but not for classification and prediction. In this paper, we try to optimize the protocol and parameters for efficient implementation of LDA. Here, messenger RNA (mRNA) sequence data from breast cancer and healthy tissue is used to determine an effective approach for the application of LDA to classification of cancer versus healthy tissue. We describe our study in two phases: First, various parameters like the number of topics, bins and passes were optimized for LDA. Next we developed a novel LDA-based classification approach to classify unknown samples based on similarity of co-expression patterns. Evaluation to assess the effectiveness of this approach shows that LDA can achieve high accuracy compared to alternative approaches. Overall, our results project LDA as a promising approach for classification of tissue types based on gene expression data in cancer studies.","PeriodicalId":262603,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 17th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE)","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125387548","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}
G. SusanaMedina, A. V. Fassio, S. Silveira, C. H. Silveira, R. Minardi
{"title":"CALI: A Novel Visual Model for Frequent Pattern Mining in Protein-Ligand Graphs","authors":"G. SusanaMedina, A. V. Fassio, S. Silveira, C. H. Silveira, R. Minardi","doi":"10.1109/BIBE.2017.00-29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBE.2017.00-29","url":null,"abstract":"Protein-ligand interaction (PLI) networks show how proteins interact with small non-protein ligands through noncovalent bonding. Understanding such interactions is a crucial step towards ligand prediction, target identification and drug design. We propose CALI (Complex network-based Analysis of protein-Ligand Interactions), a graph-based, visual strategy coupled with complex network topological properties to summarize and detect frequent patterns in PLIs. Patterns obtained with CALI were compared to experimentally determined protein-ligand interactions from the CDK2 and Ricin dataset. For the CDK2, CALI found 90% of interacting residues, and all residues of the Ricin that interact with ligands. We devised a powerful visual and interactive strategy to analyze the data, providing a general view of the interaction dataset, showing the most common PLIs from a global perspective.","PeriodicalId":262603,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 17th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127641822","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. Fujimoto, P. Bodily, Cole A. Lyman, Andrew J. Jacobsen, Q. Snell, M. Clement
{"title":"Modeling Global and local Codon Bias with Deep Language Models","authors":"M. Fujimoto, P. Bodily, Cole A. Lyman, Andrew J. Jacobsen, Q. Snell, M. Clement","doi":"10.1109/BIBE.2017.00-63","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBE.2017.00-63","url":null,"abstract":"Codon bias, the usage patterns of synonymous codons for encoding a protein sequence as nucleotides, is a biological phenomenon that is not fully understood. Several methods exist to represent the codon bias of an organism: codon adaptation index (CAI) [1], individual codon usage (ICU), hidden stop codons (HSC) [2] and codon context (CC) [3]. These methods are often employed in the optimization of heterologous gene expression to increase the accuracy and rate of translation. They, however, have many shortcomings as they dont take into account the local and global context of a gene. We present a method for modeling global and local codon bias through deep language models that is more robust than current methods by providing more contextual information and long-range dependencies.","PeriodicalId":262603,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 17th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124287322","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}
C. M. M. Mojica, N. Navkar, N. Tsekos, Dimitrios Tsagkaris, A. Webb, T. Birbilis, I. Seimenis
{"title":"Holographic Interface for three-dimensional Visualization of MRI on HoloLens: A Prototype Platform for MRI Guided Neurosurgeries","authors":"C. M. M. Mojica, N. Navkar, N. Tsekos, Dimitrios Tsagkaris, A. Webb, T. Birbilis, I. Seimenis","doi":"10.1109/BIBE.2017.00-84","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBE.2017.00-84","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents a prototype holographic interface (HI) for the 3D visualization of MRI data for the purpose of planning neurosurgical procedures. The presented HI (i) immerses the operator to a mixed reality (MiR) scene, which includes MRI data and virtual renderings, (ii) facilitates interactive manipulation of the objects of the MiR scene for planning and (iii) is the front-end of a pipeline that links the operator to the MRI scanner for on-the-fly control of the scanner. Preliminary qualitative evaluation revealed that holographic visualization of high-resolution 3D MRI data offers an intuitive and interactive perspective of the complex brain vasculature and anatomical structures. These early work further suggests that immersive experience may be an unparalleled tool in better planning neurosurgical procedures. Further development is required to speed up the pipeline from the MRI scanner to the HI and incorporating means of manipulations other than gestures.","PeriodicalId":262603,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 17th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124505430","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}
I. Paliokas, A. Tzallas, N. Katertsidis, K. Votis, D. Tzovaras
{"title":"Gamification in Social Networking: A Platform for People Living with Dementia and their Caregivers","authors":"I. Paliokas, A. Tzallas, N. Katertsidis, K. Votis, D. Tzovaras","doi":"10.1109/BIBE.2017.00015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBE.2017.00015","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a gamified social platform designed for people living with Dementia (PLWD) and their caregivers is presented. This platform constitutes a support tool that strengthens self-care and builds community capacity and engagement at the point of care. Its architecture related to gamification aspects was designed to be flexible and scalable to support personalized services such as user monitoring, social networking, cognitive skills training and improvement of the adherence to treatment guidelines for PLWD and their caregivers. Advanced visual analytics and reporting tools are available for medical professionals and social workers to support the decision-making processes. The outcomes of this approach are delivered through a set of gamification concepts running in parallel to create motivation for achieving the desired behavioural change. After projecting all user group expectations on a social game canvas, the impact evaluation will assess the intended effects of the proposed gamification approach on the welfare on PLWD and their surroundings.","PeriodicalId":262603,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 17th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131919807","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":"Multi-Task Learning for Commercial Brain Computer Interfaces","authors":"G. Panagopoulos","doi":"10.1109/BIBE.2017.00-73","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBE.2017.00-73","url":null,"abstract":"In the field of Brain Computer Interfaces, one of the most crucial hindrances towards everyday applicability is the problem of subject-to-subject generalization. This adheres to the fact that neural signals vary significantly across subjects, because of the inherent person specific variability, rendering a subject calibration process necessary for the pattern recognition mechanisms of a BCI to achieve a notable performance. In the present work, we explore this phenomenon on two open datasets from mental monitoring experiments which utilized a commercial BCI device (Neurosky). This passive BCI setting with economical hardware is one of the must promising in terms of commercial appeal and hence it has more potential to be employed by multiple subjects-users. We visualize the so-called inter subject variability problem and apply machine learning methods commonly used in BCI literature. Subsequently we employ multi-task learning algorithms, setting each subject specific classification as a separate task. The experiments reveal that multi-task approaches achieve better accuracy with increasing number of subjects in contrast to conventional models, while providing insights that are consistent among subjects and agree with the relevant literature.","PeriodicalId":262603,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 17th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132711687","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}
Yuan-Hsiang Chang, H. Yokota, K. Abe, C. Chen, Ming-Dar Tsai
{"title":"3D Segmentation,Visualization and Quantitative Analysis of Differentiation Activity for Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells using Time-Lapse Fluorescence Microscopy Images","authors":"Yuan-Hsiang Chang, H. Yokota, K. Abe, C. Chen, Ming-Dar Tsai","doi":"10.1109/BIBE.2017.00-65","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBE.2017.00-65","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the feasibility of automatic 3D segmentation, visualization and quantitative analysis for differentiation activities of mouse embryonic stem cells using time-lapse confocal fluorescence microscopy images. Technical approaches include bilateral filtering, mean-shift segmentation, adaptive thresholding, watershed segmentation, connected component labeling, and video tracking. Our method processes simultaneously two image channels, one for cytoplasm and the other for nuclei. The nucleus images are used to segment 2D and then 3D nuclei and to track each nucleus and calculate velocities of the 3D nucleus. The cytoplasm images are used to help nucleus segmentation and calculate the S/V (surface to volume) ratio of cytoplasm surrounding a nucleus. Volume rendering on the time-lapse fluorescence images generates time-series 3D images for visualizing the dynamic changes of cell velocity and S/V ratios. Using our prototype system, cells with different amount of EGFP fluorescent protein possesses different differentiation activity (velocity and S/V ratio) can be visualized and quantitatively analyzed.","PeriodicalId":262603,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 17th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132925228","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}