Jennifer C. Dela Cruz, Ramon G. Garcia, Mikko Ivan D. Avilledo, John Christopher M. Buera, Rom Vincent S. Chan, Paul Gian T. Espana
{"title":"Automated Urine Microscopy Using Scale Invariant Feature Transform","authors":"Jennifer C. Dela Cruz, Ramon G. Garcia, Mikko Ivan D. Avilledo, John Christopher M. Buera, Rom Vincent S. Chan, Paul Gian T. Espana","doi":"10.1145/3326172.3326186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3326172.3326186","url":null,"abstract":"Urine microscopy is a tedious task that requires utmost care from the technician doing the job. In order to provide clearer images for accurate interpretation of urine samples, microscopic images must be properly focused. Likewise, it is essential for the technician to avoid contamination with the urine sample when doing the task, especially in the course of the disease. Less human handling to prevent the spread of infectious diseases must also be exercised. This study emphasizes the use of autofocus on a compound microscope and implementation of automated microscope slide adjuster with image stitching through use of Variance of Laplacian method and Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT), respectively.","PeriodicalId":293245,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2019 9th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Technology - ICBET' 19","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130985284","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":"Expression and Purification of Soluble Bacterially-Expressed Human Hexokinase II in E.coli System","authors":"S. Tanbin, F. A. A. Fuad","doi":"10.1145/3326172.3326219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3326172.3326219","url":null,"abstract":"Human hexokinase II (HKII) is one of the key enzymes in the glycolytic pathway. It has been postulated that HKII is a potential target for anti-dengue (DENV) drug development, as well as involved in cancer and tumor cell growth. In this work, the human hexokinase II (HKII) gene was cloned into pETite N-His SUMO vector and transformed into the E.coli strain HI-control 10G for the propagation of clones. Two different expression hosts, E.coli HI-controlTM BL21 (DE3) and BL21 (DE3) pLysS were used to optimize HKII expression. In order to obtain the soluble recombinant HKII in a functional form, we optimized protein expression at three different temperatures; 17°C, 25°C and 37°C, at 24 hours incubation time. The soluble protein was expressed in the presence of 0.5 mM isopropyl-2-D-thiogalactopyranoside (IPTG) in TB media at 17°C for 24 hrs. The expressed protein was then purified to homogeneity by a combination of Immobilized Metal Ion Affinity Chromatography (IMAC), size exclusion chromatography (SEC) and ion-exchange chromatography (IEX), resulting in pure bacterially-expressed HK2. Taken together, this study has successfully produced soluble bacterially-expressed human HKII that can be utilized for further therapeutic studies.","PeriodicalId":293245,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2019 9th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Technology - ICBET' 19","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132890768","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}
Jennifer C. Dela Cruz, Ramon G. Garcia, Mikko Ivan D. Avilledo, John Christopher M. Buera, Rom Vincent S. Chan, Paul Gian T. Espana
{"title":"Microscopic Image Analysis and Counting of Red Blood Cells and White Blood Cells in a Urine Sample","authors":"Jennifer C. Dela Cruz, Ramon G. Garcia, Mikko Ivan D. Avilledo, John Christopher M. Buera, Rom Vincent S. Chan, Paul Gian T. Espana","doi":"10.1145/3326172.3326185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3326172.3326185","url":null,"abstract":"Traditional counting of red blood cells (RBC) and white blood cells (WBC) in a urine sample is done manually by a medical technologist. However, this makes the blood cell count subjective to the skill of the laboratory technician and will take much longer time in doing the task. This paper proposes the use of image processing in counting the WBCs and RBCs in a urine sample through use of Canny Edge Detection and Circular Hough Transform algorithm. The process consists of two (2) main parts. First is the Canny Edge Detection and the final part is Circular Hough Transform algorithms. It shows that the proposed system has a percentage accuracy of at least 93.229% in reference to the actual RBC and WBC count result.","PeriodicalId":293245,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2019 9th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Technology - ICBET' 19","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123917906","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":"Automatic Detection of Circulating Tumor Cells with Very Deep Residual Networks","authors":"Bin Li, Yunhao Ge, Yanzheng Zhao, W. Yan","doi":"10.1145/3326172.3326224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3326172.3326224","url":null,"abstract":"Automatic detection of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in microscopic images is a very challenging task due to the variable artificial and environmental factors, such as inconsistency of light intensity and staining, cell adhesion, multiple impurities and so on. In order to meet these challenges, we propose a novel deep multiscale residual network (DMRN) for CTCs detection. Compared with existing methods either low-level hand-crafted features or CNNs with shallower architectures, our deep networks can acquire more discriminative features for more accurate detection. To train very deep networks more efficiently, we propose a set of schemes to ensure effective training and learning under limited training data. First, we apply the residual learning to generate more discriminative features and overcome the overfitting problem when a network goes to deeper. Then, a fully residual convolutional network (FRCN) is proposed to produce the prediction maps of CTCs. Finally, we propose to integrate multi-scale contextual information in proposed FRCN and fuse these prediction maps both global and local features of CTCs, making the prediction more accurate and robust. We built three DMRN models to study the impact of network depth on model performance. Each model was tested on our own dataset containing complex jamming information. The DRMN-50 model which has a depth of 50 layers performs best among three models with Jaccard-index of 0.810 (with a pixel accuracy of 99.8% as a reference index) and its performance outperform other existing state-of-art methods such as U-Net in other domain. The result also depicts the accurate and robust performance of proposed method in complex environment.","PeriodicalId":293245,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2019 9th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Technology - ICBET' 19","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123990527","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. Sampedro, M. Soriano, A. Yumang, Ericson D. Dimaunahan
{"title":"Rapid Microscopic Analysis Using Natural Neighbor Interpolation","authors":"G. Sampedro, M. Soriano, A. Yumang, Ericson D. Dimaunahan","doi":"10.1145/3326172.3326218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3326172.3326218","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on the use of a method of spatial interpolation to analyze microscopic slides of an Olympus CX21. The method used natural neighbor interpolation (NNI), that entails the analysis of random pre-determined points to interpolate and analyze the slide as a whole [1], [2]. The flood-fill algorithm was used to perform a differential count in conjunction with NNI to analyze samples of cells infected with Malaria. After analyzing selected random points, a summary of the whole slide may be produced. The results of the various tests yielded a percent difference of no more than 20% for the application of NNI.","PeriodicalId":293245,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2019 9th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Technology - ICBET' 19","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117068203","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":"Experimental Study on Bone Health in Drilling","authors":"K. Alam, A. Al-Ghaithi, Mushtaq Khan","doi":"10.1145/3326172.3326181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3326172.3326181","url":null,"abstract":"Drilling in bone is a common surgical procedure routinely performed in orthopedics and dental surgeries for repair and fixation purposes. Measurement and control of bone temperature and drilling thrust force are critical to the outcome of the procedure. Excessive heat and large drilling force and torque produce in bone drilling process may cause physiological changes in the bone cells. The aim of this study was to evaluate the extent of biological damage in the immediate vicinity of the drilling region. Temperature in bone drilling process was measured by varying drill speed. The effect of bone temperature on the extent of cells damage surrounding the drilling area was evaluated. Necrotic depth was measured for the range of temperatures obtained from drilling experiments. Elevated temperature in bone was found to have negative impact on the health of the bone. Result showed that minimum cell damage can be achieved by using lower drill speed in bone drilling operation.","PeriodicalId":293245,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2019 9th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Technology - ICBET' 19","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121802367","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 Novel Assessment Technique for the Degree of Facial Symmetry Before and After Orthognathic Surgery Based on Three-Dimensional Contour Features Using Deep Learning Algorithms","authors":"Hsiu-Hsia Lin, L. Lo, Wen-Chung Chiang","doi":"10.1145/3326172.3326222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3326172.3326222","url":null,"abstract":"Improvement of the facial asymmetry has become as important as correction of the malocclusion in the evaluation and planning for orthognathic surgery. In this study, we proposed an automatic machine learning system (DLS) to extract three-dimensional (3D) contour features and assess the degree of facial symmetry in patients treated with orthognathic surgery. A total of 500 normal populations were included to construct the DLS. The ground truth was based on an average of the survey of 50 of diverse referees offering their facial symmetry ratings over a 10-point scale for 500 3D facial images via an auto-play and separate slide show. The facial region of interest (ROI) was extracted by removing the disturbed region, such as the ears, the neck and all points above the hairline. A contour map was extracted from the ROI image, and used as an input pattern for automatic DLS, which included a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) for feature extraction, and a regression network provided for prediction. The experimental results showed that our model achieved 78.85% accuracies on held-out test patterns. The facial symmetry degree assessment within 1 degree was 98.63%. In addition, our method was compared with conventional 2D approaches, which obtained better results than 2D-only features which resulted accuracy is 65% using the same sample size, and the CNN system. For clinical application, 100 patients with facial asymmetry were enrolled in evaluating facial symmetry improvement after orthognathic surgery. A paired t-test was used to compare the significance of the differences between the pre-surgery and post- surgery assessing result of facial symmetry using DLS, with p <0.05 considered significant. The mean of preoperative facial symmetry degree (0.92 ± 0.17) was higher than of postoperative (0.65 ± 0.13) with a significant improvement (p = 0.021).","PeriodicalId":293245,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2019 9th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Technology - ICBET' 19","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131899292","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":"Attempt to Visualize Cardiac Motion on Body Surface Using Active Stereoscopic Depth Camera","authors":"H. Aoki, T. Shiga, A. Suzuki, Koichi Takeuchi","doi":"10.1145/3326172.3326226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3326172.3326226","url":null,"abstract":"For the purpose of monitoring the cardiac mechanical phenomena, we propose a non-contact cardiac motion measurement method applying the active stereo depth camera. In the proposed method, the three-dimensional shape of the subject's chest is reconstructed based on the active stereo method using infrared light using RealSense F200 which is a three-dimensional image sensor manufactured by Intel Corporation. Then, by performing the active stereo measurement by projecting the green dot matrix pattern using the RealSense color camera, micro displacement of the chest surface due to the cardiac motion is acquired. In this paper, we confirm the feasibility of non-contact cardiac motion measurement by green dot matrix pattern projection, and attempt to visualize the distribution of the cardiac motion on the chest surface.","PeriodicalId":293245,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2019 9th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Technology - ICBET' 19","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130725863","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}
F. Cruz, C. Paglinawan, Celina Nadine V. Catindig, John Charles B. Lamchek, Danielle Diane C. Almiranez, Anne Flereece Sanchez
{"title":"Application of Reflectance Mode Photoplethysmography for Non-Invasive Monitoring of Blood Glucose Level with Moving Average Filter","authors":"F. Cruz, C. Paglinawan, Celina Nadine V. Catindig, John Charles B. Lamchek, Danielle Diane C. Almiranez, Anne Flereece Sanchez","doi":"10.1145/3326172.3326190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3326172.3326190","url":null,"abstract":"With the continuous increase in number of people suffering from diabetes, the demand of a device that can noninvasively monitor blood glucose level has been greater. The goal of the study is to develop a device that can monitor the blood glucose level that would not cause any discomfort to the patients by utilizing reflectance mode photoplethysmography equipped with a filtering technique, Moving Average filter. Initially, the device prompts the user to choose from two categories depending on his condition: diabetic or non-diabetic, and then would choose between the two modes: fasting or post meal mode. The parameters utilized in the study are the force in Newton (N) which corresponds to the applied pressure on the finger, the peak-to-peak voltage (V) of the photopletyhsmography signal, and lastly, the blood glucose level measured in milligram per deciliter (mg/dL). The force is acquired using a force sensitive resistor that is incorporated in the ring. The suggested device employs a photoplethysmography sensor which can diagnose variations on microvascular bed of tissue. The variations in the distribution of blood volume have a significant relation with the measurement of blood glucose level. The technique used to estimate the photoplethysmography in terms of peak-to-peak voltage is the Moving Average filter, and the result is then compared to that of the OneTouch glucometer and Fasting Plasma Glucose. From the results acquired, two equations are derived which output the blood glucose level for diabetic and non-diabetic patients in mg/dL. The equations are described to be both linear, a positive correlation for non-diabetic patients with a percentage of 70.3004% and a negative correlation for the diabetic with a percentage of 91.9226%.","PeriodicalId":293245,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2019 9th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Technology - ICBET' 19","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134406457","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":"Fundus Image Classification for Diabetic Retinopathy Using Disease Severity Grading","authors":"A. Sakaguchi, R. Wu, S. Kamata","doi":"10.1145/3326172.3326198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3326172.3326198","url":null,"abstract":"Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is ranked at the top of blindness causes. It progresses without subjective symptoms and leads to blindness in the worst case. However early detections and proper treatments can prevent visual disturbance. Because it takes time and cost for diagnoses by clinicians, research and development of diagnostic support systems has actively been conducted. This research aims to establish a fundus image classification method based on disease severity assessment for a diagnostic support by a fundus image analysis. In this paper, we propose a Graph Neural Network (GNN)-based method to improve accuracy for severity classification. Our method has two features. The first is to extract Region-Of-Interest (ROI) sub-images focusing on regions locally capturing lesions in order to minimize background noise in image preprocessing for the classification. The second is to utilize the GNN which is not yet applied for fundus image classification. In order to evaluate our proposed method, we use Indian Diabetic Retinopathy Image Dataset (IDRiD) utilized in \"Diabetic Retinopathy: Segmentation and Grading Challenge\" on Biomedical Imaging held at the IEEE International Symposium in 2018. We verified that the accuracy of our method improved 2.9% over the conventional method in this contest.","PeriodicalId":293245,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2019 9th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Technology - ICBET' 19","volume":"5 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114026855","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}