{"title":"An appendix to embedded designs of QRS detectors","authors":"R. Stojanovic, S. Knezevic, D. Karadaglic","doi":"10.1109/BIBE.2012.6399717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBE.2012.6399717","url":null,"abstract":"The Wavelet Transform in its discrete form has been widely applied in the field of biomedical signals. Typically, its calculation is performed off-line and calculation systems usually suffer from limited autonomy, bulkiness and obtrusiveness. A noticeable surge in industrial, research and academic interest into telemedicine and medical embedded systems, has been happening recently, where miniature, low-cost, autonomous and ultra-low-power devices play a major role. Such devices are usually based on Microcontrollers (MCs) or Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), and in addition to other tasks they need to perform signal processing, very often in real-time. This paper presents a methodology to perform on-line QRS detector on MC's and FPGA's platforms. After the theoretical considerations on wavelets and their optimization in term of integer arithmetic, the computation architectures for both technologies are described. At the end, the presentation of obtained results during intensive tests on real signals is given. Similar approach can be applied to other signals, where the embedded implementation of wavelets can be of a benefit.","PeriodicalId":330164,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 12th International Conference on Bioinformatics & Bioengineering (BIBE)","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132873649","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. Constantinou, M. Pattichis, V. Tanos, M. Neofytou, C. Pattichis
{"title":"An adaptive multiscale AM-FM texture analysis system with application to hysteroscopy imaging","authors":"I. Constantinou, M. Pattichis, V. Tanos, M. Neofytou, C. Pattichis","doi":"10.1109/BIBE.2012.6399760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBE.2012.6399760","url":null,"abstract":"The use of multiscale AM-FM analysis systems has been recently demonstrated in a variety of applications in medical image analysis. In all of these applications, a fixed filter-bank is used as a preprocessing step for estimating different AM-FM components from different scales. In this paper, for the first time, we introduce the use of an adaptive, multiscale AM-FM approach that searches for the optimal filter-bank specification for use in image classification. We demonstrate an example application in hysteroscopy imaging, for identification of gynaecological cancer, where the optimal filter-bank turns out to be circularly symmetric.","PeriodicalId":330164,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 12th International Conference on Bioinformatics & Bioengineering (BIBE)","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124900936","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":"Mathematical modeling of the interactions between cellular programs in response to oncogene inactivation: Incorporation of both cell intrinsic and cell extrinsic (Immune mediated) effects","authors":"Chinyere Nwabugwu, K. Rakhra, D. Felsher, D. Paik","doi":"10.1109/BIBE.2012.6399720","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBE.2012.6399720","url":null,"abstract":"Some tumors' addiction to the over-expression of a single oncogene provides a weakness for a molecularly targeted therapy to exploit. A number of targeted therapy drugs (e.g., imatinib, erlotinib, etc.) produce dramatic tumor regression but are often eventually followed by tumor relapse. Understanding the complex interaction of mechanisms behind the tumor's overall response to oncogene inactivation is key to preventing tumor relapse. It is becoming clear that there is a general sequence of cellular responses and that the latter immune-mediated steps are key to eliminating residual disease. What is still unclear is exactly how these mechanisms work together to produce the overall tumor regression response. We have built a novel integrative computational model that includes the various cellular response mechanisms of tumors to oncogene inactivation. This consists of cell intrinsic programs (e.g., apoptosis, proliferation, differentiation, dormancy) and immune-mediated cell extrinsic programs (e.g., senescence, inhibition of angiogenesis). Our model unifies these different response programs in order to allow for predictions of the time-course of events following oncogene inactivation and their impact on tumor burden. Eventually, we will use this model to make and validate predictions of the effect of various therapeutic strategies and interventions (e.g., adjunct chemotherapy, immune system modulation). These predictions will be validated in vivo using conditional expression transgenic mouse models of MYC-induced lymphoma, osteosarcoma, and hepatocellular carcinoma.","PeriodicalId":330164,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 12th International Conference on Bioinformatics & Bioengineering (BIBE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129104367","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}
T. Qureshi, Hassan Amin, M. Hussain, R. Qureshi, B. Al-Diri
{"title":"Automatic localization of the optic disc in retinal fundus images using multiple features","authors":"T. Qureshi, Hassan Amin, M. Hussain, R. Qureshi, B. Al-Diri","doi":"10.1109/BIBE.2012.6399726","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBE.2012.6399726","url":null,"abstract":"Accurate optic disc localization is an essential step for a reliable retinal screening system. Existing methods for the optic disc localization may fail when encountering distractors such as imprecise boundaries, deceptive edge features and inconsistent contrast in retinal images. This paper presents an algorithm (Multi-Scheme method) for localization of the optic disc. The algorithm involves prior domain knowledge such as the optic disc size, cup-to-disc ratio (CDR) and vessel convergence feature to evaluate the confidence level for the candidate region(s) at each thresholding level. Based on the confidence level, the algorithm heuristically decides whether or not to opt for multi-scheme policy for a given image. For optimization, the Computed Response (CR) from variant versions of the same image is calculated in parallel and fits a contour to the optic disc through an iterative process of updating the location of the centre of the contour. The proposed approach has been validated using dataset ONHSD [3] and diaretdb0 [16]; and the results show the robustness and reliability of the proposed method even in the presence of distractors.","PeriodicalId":330164,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 12th International Conference on Bioinformatics & Bioengineering (BIBE)","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127948090","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. Muntean, Bogdan Rotaru, Ramona Suharoschi, C. Iuga
{"title":"Experiences in designing a distributed service-oriented platform for in-silico biomarker discovery and validation","authors":"I. Muntean, Bogdan Rotaru, Ramona Suharoschi, C. Iuga","doi":"10.1109/BIBE.2012.6399710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBE.2012.6399710","url":null,"abstract":"In order to design efficient biomarkers for personalized medicine, one needs correlated insights from different multi-omics perspectives, such as proteomics, genomics, transcriptomics etc. In this paper, we address the challenge of integrating multi-omics data repositories for in-silico biomarker discovery and validation. For that, we have designed a software platform based on the genomic and proteomic data overlay. Currently, this platform provides an integrated way of querying bioinformatics major data sources such as GenBank, UniProt, and ArrayExpress. Our approach integrates the client-side API of these resources with the support of web services and cloud (Google App Engine), as enabling technologies. As such, the extension of the platform with further omics data sources becomes straightforward. The platform was evaluated on the Google Cloud. The first results are promising, showing that the queries can easily be formulated and executed against these public community resources, the overhead introduced by our services being rather small.","PeriodicalId":330164,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 12th International Conference on Bioinformatics & Bioengineering (BIBE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129717812","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":"Security issues in research projects with patient's medical data","authors":"N. Forgó, M. Góralczyk, C. Rex","doi":"10.1109/BIBE.2012.6399771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBE.2012.6399771","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents the possible security issues in a European research project concerning medical data with reference to the specific project Linked2Safety. A distinction is made between legal and ethical requirements for such a research project.","PeriodicalId":330164,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 12th International Conference on Bioinformatics & Bioengineering (BIBE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129736394","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}
T. Stylianopoulos, Konstantinos Soteriou, D. Fukumura, R. Jain
{"title":"Design rules for cancer nanomedicines","authors":"T. Stylianopoulos, Konstantinos Soteriou, D. Fukumura, R. Jain","doi":"10.1109/BIBE.2012.6399769","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBE.2012.6399769","url":null,"abstract":"The use of nanotechnology has offered new hope for cancer detection, prevention and treatment. Nanoparticle formulations are advantageous over conventional chemotherapy because they can incorporate multiple diagnostic and therapeutic agents and are associated with significantly less adverse effects due to selective accumulation to tumor tissue. Despite their great promise, however, only a few nanoparticle formulations have been approved for clinical use in oncology. The failure of nano-scale drugs to enhance cancer therapy is in large part due to inefficient delivery. Indeed, physiological barriers posed by the tumor micro-environment inhibit homogeneous distribution of drugs to the interstitial space of tumors and compromise the efficacy of the treatment. To overcome this outstanding problem, a better understanding of how the physical properties (i.e., size, and surface charge) of nanoparticles affect their transport in tumors is required. Here we use a mathematical model to provide basic design guidelines for the optimal delivery of nanoparticle formulations.","PeriodicalId":330164,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 12th International Conference on Bioinformatics & Bioengineering (BIBE)","volume":"270 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124370614","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}
A. Tzallas, G. Rigas, E. Karvounis, M. Tsipouras, Y. Goletsis, K. Zieliński, L. Fresiello, D. Fotiadis, M. Trivella
{"title":"A Gaussian Mixture Model to detect suction events in rotary blood pumps","authors":"A. Tzallas, G. Rigas, E. Karvounis, M. Tsipouras, Y. Goletsis, K. Zieliński, L. Fresiello, D. Fotiadis, M. Trivella","doi":"10.1109/BIBE.2012.6399661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBE.2012.6399661","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we introduce a new suction detection approach based on online learning of a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) with constrained parameters to model the reduction in pump flow signals baseline during suction events. A novel three-step methodology is employed: i) signal windowing, ii) GMM based classification and iii) GMM parameter adaptation. More specifically, the first 5 second segment is used for the parameter initialization and the consequent 1 second windows are classified and used for model adaptation. The proposed approach has been tested in simulation (pump flow) signals and satisfactory results have been obtained.","PeriodicalId":330164,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 12th International Conference on Bioinformatics & Bioengineering (BIBE)","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126242204","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":"Lung capacity estimation through acoustic signal of breath","authors":"Ahmad Abushakra, M. Faezipour","doi":"10.1109/BIBE.2012.6399655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBE.2012.6399655","url":null,"abstract":"Breathing disorders are generally associated with the lung cancer disease. Through daily treatment, lung cancer patients often use a traditional spirometer to measure their lung capacity. However, the use of a spirometer device for accurate measurement requires some sort of training and adjustment, which may be inconvenient for certain groups of patients, especially the elderly. In addition, the spirometer readings can become unreliable if the measurements are not taken as instructed. On the other hand, a microphone, say the microphone on a hand-held device such as a smart-phone, can easily capture the acoustic signal of breath without certain instructions. This signal can then be processed to estimate the lung capacity. In this paper, we propose a methodology through the simply recorded acoustic signal of breath, splitting the breathing cycle to inhale, pause, exhale and pause phases to measure the depth of the breath along with the time duration and signal energy of the breathing phases. We show how these computed parameters are used to estimate the lung size with a high degree of accuracy. This work is part of a virtual reality platform embedded within a smart-phone to assist lung cancer patients regulate their breath. Furthermore, the lung capacity estimation methodology proposed in this paper can also be used to aid patients with other breathing disorders.","PeriodicalId":330164,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 12th International Conference on Bioinformatics & Bioengineering (BIBE)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115455509","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}
T. Zaman, P. Kyriacou, A. Belhaj, R. Langford, H. D. L. Patel
{"title":"Development of a reflectance photoplethysmographic sensor used for the assessment of perfusion of free jejunum flaps: A case report","authors":"T. Zaman, P. Kyriacou, A. Belhaj, R. Langford, H. D. L. Patel","doi":"10.1109/BIBE.2012.6399642","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBE.2012.6399642","url":null,"abstract":"Free jejunum flaps have been widely used as a reconstruction option after total laryngopharyngectomy. Monitoring of flap perfusion assists in early detection of flap failure, increasing the possibility of flap salvage. Considering the free jejunum flap is a hidden flap there is still no single reliable, non invasive perfusion monitoring technique to assist in recognizing flap failure. We have developed a dual-wavelength photoplethysmographic (PPG) sensor and processing system to investigate the ability of the system in detecting flap perfusion. This is a case report of evaluation of the new prototype reflectance PPG sensor on one patient undergoing total laryngopharyngectomy and reconstruction with a free jejunum flap. PPG signals were successfully obtained intra-operatively which suggest that photoplethysmography may be a suitable method for assessing free jejunum flap perfusion.","PeriodicalId":330164,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 12th International Conference on Bioinformatics & Bioengineering (BIBE)","volume":"18 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129455566","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}