Wenlong Tang, G. Fulk, S. Zeigler, Ting Zhang, E. Sazonov
{"title":"Estimating Berg Balance Scale and Mini Balance Evaluation System Test Scores by Using Wearable Shoe Sensors","authors":"Wenlong Tang, G. Fulk, S. Zeigler, Ting Zhang, E. Sazonov","doi":"10.1109/BHI.2019.8834631","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BHI.2019.8834631","url":null,"abstract":"Measuring humans' functional balance is important for clinical estimation of fall risk. Although many clinical assessments, such as Berg Balance Scale and Mini Balance Evaluation System Test, are available to test the functional balance, the results are affected by the skills of different operators. This paper proposes an objective approach to access the functional balance by a wearable sensor system embedded in the shoe and a hip accelerometer. Support Vector Machine regression models are built with numerical features selected by mRMR algorithm to estimate the scores of the clinical assessments. Leave one out cross validation is employed to evaluate the regression models. The approach is validated on a group of 30 seniors ($76pm 10.5$ years old), containing fallers and non-fallers. The results show that the wearable sensor system has a capability to estimate the Berg Balance Scale and Mini Balance Evaluation System Test scores with absolute mean errors and standard deviations $6.07pm 3.76$ and $5.45pm 3.65$, respectively, and demonstrates high agreement with falls history based risk assessment.","PeriodicalId":281971,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122820688","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}
Yurika Upadhyaya, Linhui Xie, P. Salama, K. Nho, A. Saykin, Jingwen Yan
{"title":"Disruption of gene co-expression network along the progression of Alzheimer's disease","authors":"Yurika Upadhyaya, Linhui Xie, P. Salama, K. Nho, A. Saykin, Jingwen Yan","doi":"10.1109/BHI.2019.8834551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BHI.2019.8834551","url":null,"abstract":"Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the most common brain dementia characterized by gradual deterioration of cognitive function. While it has been affecting an increasing number of aging population and become a nation-wide public health crisis, the underlying mechanism remains largely unknown. To address this problem, we propose to investigate the gene co-expression network changes along AD progression. Unlike extant work that focus on cognitive normals (CNs) and AD patients, we aim to capture the network changes during the full range of disease progression, from CN, early mild cognitive impairment (EMCI) to late MCI (LMCI) and AD. In addition, many existing differential co-expression network analyses estimate the network of each group independently, which may possibly lead to suboptimal results. Assuming that the gene co-expression patterns should be largely similar in consecutive disease stages, we propose to apply a modified joint graphical lasso model to estimate the networks of multiple diagnostic groups simultaneously. The permutation results shows that JGL model is much less likely to generate false positives with the similarity constraint. By comparing the estimated gene co-expression networks of all disease stages, we identified 8 clusters showing gradual changes during the progression of AD.","PeriodicalId":281971,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116860460","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}
Said Pertuz, German F. Torres, R. Tamimi, Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen
{"title":"Open Framework for Mammography-based Breast Cancer Risk Assessment","authors":"Said Pertuz, German F. Torres, R. Tamimi, Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen","doi":"10.1109/BHI.2019.8834599","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BHI.2019.8834599","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, several studies have established a relationship between mammographic parenchymal patterns and breast cancer risk. However, there is a lack of publicly available data and software for objective comparison and clinical validation. This paper presents an open and adaptable implementation (OpenBreast v1.0) of a fully-automatic computerized framework for mammographic image analysis for breast cancer risk assessment. OpenBreast implements mammographic image analysis in four stages: breast segmentation, detection of region-of-interests, feature extraction and risk scoring. For each stage, we provide implementations of several state-of-the-art methods. The pipeline is tested on a set of 305 full-field digital mammography images corresponding to 84 patients (51 cases and 49 controls) from the breast cancer digital repository (BCDR). OpenBreast achieves a competitive AUC of 0.846 in breast cancer risk assessment. In addition, used jointly with widely accepted risk factors such as patient age and breast density, mammographic image analysis using OpenBreast shows a statistically significant improvement in performance with an AUC of 0.876 ($mathrm{p}<0.001$). Our framework will be made publicly available and it is easy to incorporate new methods.","PeriodicalId":281971,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129430826","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. Hasan, D. Rivera, Xiao-Cheng Wu, J. B. Christian, G. Tourassi
{"title":"A Knowledge Graph Approach for the Secondary Use of Cancer Registry Data","authors":"S. Hasan, D. Rivera, Xiao-Cheng Wu, J. B. Christian, G. Tourassi","doi":"10.1109/BHI.2019.8834538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BHI.2019.8834538","url":null,"abstract":"Population-based central cancer registries collect valuable structured and unstructured cancer data primarily for surveillance and reporting. The collected data includes (1) categorization of each cancer case (tumor) at the time of diagnosis, (2) demographic information about the patient such as age, gender, and location at time of diagnosis, (3) first course of treatment information, and (4) survival outcomes when available. While advanced analytical approaches such as SEER*Stat and SAS exist, we provide a knowledge graph approach to organizing cancer registry data for advanced analytics which offers unique advantages over existing approaches. This knowledge graph approach semantically enriches the data and enables straightforward linking capability with third-party data to help understand variation in cancer outcomes. A knowledge graph was developed using Louisiana Tumor Registry data. We present the advantages of the knowledge graph approach by examining: i) scenario-specific queries and ii) linkages with publicly available external datasets. Our results demonstrate this graph based solution can perform complex queries, improve query run-time performance by 81%, and more easily conduct iterative analyses to enhance researchers understanding of cancer registry data.","PeriodicalId":281971,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122193716","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":"Identifying Appropriate Probabilistic Models for Sparse Discrete Omics Data","authors":"Hani Aldirawi, Jie Yang, Ahmed A. Metwally","doi":"10.1109/BHI.2019.8834661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BHI.2019.8834661","url":null,"abstract":"Modeling sparse and discrete omics data such as microbiome and transcriptomics is challenging due to the exceeding number of zeros. Many probabilistic models have been used, including Poisson, negative binomial, zero-inflated Poisson, and zero-inflated negative binomial models. In this paper, we propose a statistical procedure for identifying the most appropriate discrete probabilistic models for zero-inflated or Hurdle models based on the p-value of the discrete Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) test. We develop a general procedure for estimating the parameters for a large class of zero-inflated models and Hurdle models. We also develop a general likelihood ratio test based on Neyman-Pearson lemma for choosing the best model when appropriate ones are more than one.","PeriodicalId":281971,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127905526","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":"Centroid of Age Neighborhoods: A Generalized Approach to Estimate Biological Age","authors":"Syed A. Rahman, D. Adjeroh","doi":"10.1109/BHI.2019.8834608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BHI.2019.8834608","url":null,"abstract":"Estimation of human biological age is an important and difficult challenge. In this work, we generalize a biological age estimation method and investigate the performance of the method against popular approaches. We introduce a centroid based approach, using the notion of age neighborhoods. We develop a model, based on which we compute biological age using blood biomarkers, body measurements, and a combination of both, by considering the centroid of specially selected age neighborhoods. Experiments were performed on the NHANES dataset (21451 individuals). Our experiments show that the proposed age neighborhood model results in an improved performance in biological age prediction.","PeriodicalId":281971,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131512965","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}
Oscar Araque, María P. Mejía-Sandoval, Antti Sassi, K. Holli-Helenius, A. Lääperi, I. Rinta-Kiikka, O. Arponen, Said Pertuz
{"title":"Selecting the Mammographic-View for the Parenchymal Analysis-Based Breast Cancer Risk Assessment","authors":"Oscar Araque, María P. Mejía-Sandoval, Antti Sassi, K. Holli-Helenius, A. Lääperi, I. Rinta-Kiikka, O. Arponen, Said Pertuz","doi":"10.1109/BHI.2019.8834461","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BHI.2019.8834461","url":null,"abstract":"Mammography is one of the main diagnostic tools for the breast and is increasingly utilized for breast cancer risk assessment. Recently, parenchymal analysis has emerged as a computational tool that works by extracting imaging features from mammograms in order to infer the level of risk of a patient. In standard screening mammography, two views for each breast are obtained: the cranio-caudal (CC) and the medio-lateral oblique (MLO) views. However, to the best of our knowledge, the question of whether the choice of a given view can influence the performance of parenchymal analysis has not been researched in the literature. The aim of this work is to evaluate the utilization of different views for risk estimation based on the computerized analysis of parenchymal patterns in mammography images. We implemented a parenchymal analysis method and tested it on a sample of 228 women in a retrospective case/control study. Based on the obtained results we support the use of the CC view for parenchymal analysis since this reduces computational cost without affecting performance.","PeriodicalId":281971,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131806877","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. Malmsten, N. Zaninovic, Q. Zhan, Z. Rosenwaks, Juan Shan
{"title":"Automated cell stage predictions in early mouse and human embryos using convolutional neural networks","authors":"J. Malmsten, N. Zaninovic, Q. Zhan, Z. Rosenwaks, Juan Shan","doi":"10.1109/BHI.2019.8834541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BHI.2019.8834541","url":null,"abstract":"During in-vitro fertilization, the timings of cell divisions in early human embryos are important predictors of embryo viability. Recent developments in time-lapse microscopy (TLM) allows for observing cell divisions in much greater detail than before. However, it is a time-consuming process relying on highly trained staff and subjective observations. We present an automated method based on a convolutional neural network to predict cell divisions from original (unprocessed) TLM images. Our method was evaluated on two embryo TLM image datasets: a public dataset with mouse embryos and a private dataset with human embryos up to 4-cell stage. Compared to embryologists' annotations, our results were almost 100% accurate for mouse embryos and accurate within five frames in 93% of cell stage transitions for human embryos. Our approach can be used to improve consistency and quality of existing annotations or as part of a platform for fully automatic embryo assessment.","PeriodicalId":281971,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132066051","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":"Efficient Skin Spectrum Coding Method","authors":"Soyoung Lee, Karam Choi, Sung-Hyun Nam","doi":"10.1109/BHI.2019.8834679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BHI.2019.8834679","url":null,"abstract":"We present an efficient lossless coding method for skin spectral data. In contrast to the conventional prefix-based coding methods, the proposed algorithm utilizes the unique property of the spectral data which changes monotonically with wavelength. The compression ratio of the proposed method alone is similar to those of the previous ones in average. However, when our method is hybridized with a conventional one, the compression ratio increases two times. This study provides a highly efficient way of data storing especially for continuous big bio-signal data measured from wearable devices.","PeriodicalId":281971,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI)","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132321369","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":"Concept for a Permanent, Non-Invasive Blood Pressure Measurement in the Ear","authors":"J. Zeilfelder, M. Diehl, C. Pylatiuk, W. Stork","doi":"10.1109/BHI.2019.8834671","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BHI.2019.8834671","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper a concept for a new method for a permanent, non-invasive blood pressure measurement in the ear is presented. Currently, blood pressure is measured about once a day and used as the basis for therapy. In order to enable an individual and as mild as possible therapy, a permanent, noninvasive measuring method is required. With every heartbeat, the arteries in the body expand and contract. Blood pressure is the pressure acting on an artery, the higher the pressure the greater the enlargement. If the external auditory canal is closed airtight, the increase and decrease in size of the arteries during the heartbeat causes a change in volume of the closed air chamber and thus a pressure fluctuation within it. The theory is, that these fluctuations represent the blood pressure. In order to prove the theory a prototype was set up, containing a pressure sensor (integrated into an Alpine InEar for airtight sealing), a micro controller and a reference ECG. The sensor was placed airtight in the ear. One test person showed perfect results, in which after each heartbeat in the reference system a corresponding signal was also visible in the ear system. The recorded curve resembles a blood pressure curve, which proves that it is in principle possible to measure blood pressure with such a system. For absolute blood pressure values, the system must be supplemented with further components, this is being researched in the project MikroBO11https://www.elektronikforschung.de/projekte/mikrobo funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany.","PeriodicalId":281971,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128321716","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}