Yuan-Hsiang Chang, H. Yokota, K. Abe, Chih-Cheng Li, Ming-Dar Tsai
{"title":"Fluorescence Microscopy Image Processing and Visualization for Analyzing Cell Kinematics, Proliferation and Attachment in Mouse Embryonic Stem Cell Culture","authors":"Yuan-Hsiang Chang, H. Yokota, K. Abe, Chih-Cheng Li, Ming-Dar Tsai","doi":"10.1109/BIBE.2016.44","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBE.2016.44","url":null,"abstract":"We present an automatic image processing and visualization method to quantitatively analyze kinematics, proliferation and attachment of mouse embryonic stem (mES) cells using time-series confocal time-lapse fluorescence microscopy images. An automatic method is presented to determine the 3D boundary of each cell nucleus in each cell colony. The cells and colonies are then tracked among the time-series images to determine the kinematics, proliferation and attachment of the cells and colonies. The cells and colonies are visualized through a 3D interface, and the kinematics, proliferation and attachment are illustrated in tree structures. The information of cell kinematics, proliferation and attachment indicates how the culturing conditions and cell positions affect the kinematics, proliferation and attachment. The implementation results show that the automatic method can successfully analyze the cell kinematics, proliferation and attachment, thereby yield a potential tool for helping mES cell culture.","PeriodicalId":377504,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129074631","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}
Nung Kion Lee, Allen Chieng Hoon Choong, Norshafrina Omar
{"title":"ENSPART: An Ensemble Framework Based on Data Partitioning for DNA Motif Analysis","authors":"Nung Kion Lee, Allen Chieng Hoon Choong, Norshafrina Omar","doi":"10.1109/BIBE.2016.68","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBE.2016.68","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes an ensemble approach based on data partitioning for large-scale DNA motif analysis. Motif prediction using genome-scale dataset is challenging due to high time and space complexity. Existing ensemble approaches, while demonstrated improve performances, are only applicable to small datasets. Our approach called ENSPART first partitions the input dataset into non-overlapping subsets which serve as input to multiple distinct motif prediction tools. It is assumed that the core motifs of a transcription factor protein exists in all data subsets. We employed seven motif prediction tools to obtain initial candidate motifs and they are merged according to their sequence content similarity. An alignment-free method is used to establish motif similarity. A novel motifs merging method is proposed to merge similar motifs obtained by tools in different data partitions. Ten genome-wide ChIP datasets are collected for evaluation. We compare our approach with MEME-ChIP and obtained improved results for nine out of ten of the datasets in terms of Area Under Curve (AUC). Most datasets obtained improved AUC value between 5 to 10%. Our approach shows the promising of data partitioning based ensemble approach for large-scale motif prediction.","PeriodicalId":377504,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132043899","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":"Influence of Induced Altitude Acclimatization on Development of Acute Mountain Sickness Associated with a Subsequent Rapid Ascent to High Altitude","authors":"Xiaomin Luo, Lei Wang, Lei Yang","doi":"10.1109/BIBE.2016.41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBE.2016.41","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: Ascent to high altitudes requires adaptation to a hypoxic and hypobaric environment. Induced altitude acclimatization may decrease susceptibility to acute mountain sickness (AMS). We aimed to exam the effects of acclimatization at 1520m on susceptibility to AMS during a subsequent rapid ascent to 3658m. Methods: Rate pressure product (RPP), oxygen saturation (SpO2) and vascular tone, quantified by the reflection index (RI) obtained using photoplethysmography (PPG) technique, were studied in fifty-five participants ascending to 3658m from 300 and 1520m defined as Group A and B respectively. AMS occurrence was evaluated by the Lake Louise Score (LLS) system. Results: Seventeen of the fifty-five participants were diagnosed with AMS. The incidence and severity were lower in Group B than Group A. On initial exposure, we observed a significant increase of RPP and a significant decrease of SpO2. Inside each group, either A or B, RI exhibited a quick and dramatic fall followed by an early recovery back to normal in subjects without AMS but a blunted and slow fall followed by a delayed recovery in subjects with AMS. A moderate level of inverse correlation was found between degree of fall (Δ) in SpO2 and RI within 24 hours. Conclusions: The induced altitude acclimatization provided low-altitude residents in certain degree benefit in prevention of AMS during a subsequent rapid ascent to high altitude. The comparison of data between participants with and without an induced altitude acclimatization exhibited physiological significance during acute phase response after a rapid ascend to altitude.","PeriodicalId":377504,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115730935","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":"Deep Learning for Risk Analysis of Specific Cardiovascular Diseases Using Environmental Data and Outpatient Records","authors":"H. Hsiao, Sean H. F. Chen, J. Tsai","doi":"10.1109/BIBE.2016.75","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBE.2016.75","url":null,"abstract":"Cardiovascular diseases are known to be a category of diseases related to heart or blood vessels and ranked the top two and three among ten leading causes of death in Taiwan in 2011, respectively. In this study, environmental and outpatient records within Taichung Area are utilized for risk analysis of four specific categories of cardiovascular diseases using deep learning approach. Autoencoder and Softmax are employed for feature extraction and classification. The output of Softmax for each sample is interpreted as the risk of these four specific categories of cardiovascular diseases. Further analysis is done to unveil the trends with respect to the factors of gender, age, region, and month.","PeriodicalId":377504,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE)","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127351216","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}
Fan Liu, Xingshe Zhou, Zhu Wang, Tianben Wang, Hongbo Ni, Jun Yang
{"title":"Identifying Obstructive Sleep Apnea by Exploiting Fine-Grained BCG Features Based on Event Phase Segmentation","authors":"Fan Liu, Xingshe Zhou, Zhu Wang, Tianben Wang, Hongbo Ni, Jun Yang","doi":"10.1109/BIBE.2016.45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBE.2016.45","url":null,"abstract":"Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is regarded as one of the most common sleep-related breathing disorders, which causes various diseases and affects people's daily life severely. Up to now, massive efforts have been devoted to identifying OSA events during sleep based on different signals (e.g., PSG, ECG, nasal airflow and EMG, etc.). However, there still are more or less shortcomings in current studies. In this paper, we propose a novel framework to improve the performance of identifying OSA events. Particularly, the key idea of our framework is to divide each potential event segment (i.e., a data segment that may or may not contain an OSA event) into different phases, from which we further extract fine-grained features to characterize respiratory pattern comprehensively. Concretely, we first automatically locate potential event segments from raw ballistocardiography (BCG) data by identifying arousals. Afterwards, each potential event segment is divided into three phases (i.e., Apnea Phase, Respiratory Effort Phase and Arousal Phase) by an adaptive threshold-based division algorithm. Based on these phases, we further extract and select efficient features that can characterize respiratory pattern from different aspects. Finally, these potential event segments are classified into OSA events or non-OSA events using BP neural network. Experimental results based on a real BCG dataset that contains 3,790 OSA events and 2,556 non-OSA events show that our framework outperforms the baselines and the precision, recall and AUC reach 94.6%, 93.1%, and 0.951, respectively.","PeriodicalId":377504,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115051135","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":"Framework for Rapid Development of Embedded Human-in-the-Loop Cyber-Physical Systems","authors":"Shen Feng, F. Quivira, G. Schirner","doi":"10.1109/BIBE.2016.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBE.2016.24","url":null,"abstract":"Human-in-the-Loop Cyber-Physical Systems (HiLCPS) offers assistive technology that augments human interaction with the physical world, such as self-feeding, communication and mobility for functionally locked-in individuals. HiLCPS applications are typically implemented as networked embedded systems interfacing both human and the physical environment. Developing HiLCPS applications is challenging due to interfacing with hardware with different specifications and physical location (local/remote). Also, while algorithm designers prototype applications in MATLAB benefiting from an algorithm design environment, the gap from prototyping MATLAB application to embedded solution traditionally requires significant manual implementation. In this paper, we propose a HiLCPS Framework for the rapid development of embedded HiLCPS applications. The framework groups similar hardware types to classes, unifying their access and with this offering both hardware and location transparent access. The framework furthermore incorporates a domain-specific synthesis tool, called Hsyn. Hsyn empowers algorithm designers to prototype a portable, hardware-agnostic application in MATLAB while offering an automatic path to embedded deployment without requiring embedded knowledge. We demonstrate the benefit of the framework with a brain-controlled wheelchair application prototyped in MATLAB that transparently accesses a variety of EEG acquisition systems with local or remote connections. Then, by using Hsyn, the application is automatically deployed to a BeagleBone Black equipped with a custom-designed electrophysiological acquisition cape. Hsyn shows six orders of magnitude of productivity gain compared to manual embedded deployment. The wheelchair performs stepwise navigated based on human intent inference with 91% accuracy at 0.9 confidence threshold every 4 seconds on average over 9 users.","PeriodicalId":377504,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134125505","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":"An Ensemble Based in Silico Prediction of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Proteins under Mitochondrion Organization","authors":"D. Sumanaweera, Amal Perera","doi":"10.1109/BIBE.2016.61","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBE.2016.61","url":null,"abstract":"Protein function annotation is vital for identifying disease causative factors and for solving mysteries behind biological system complexities. As manual annotation requires costly and laborious in vitro methods, in silico protein function prediction is preferred nowadays. According to literature, one in five yeast mitochondrial proteins are known to be human disease related. This paper presents a genetic algorithmically weighted heterogeneous data ensemble to classify Saccharomyces cerevisiae proteins under 'mitochondrion organization'(GO:0007005) function defined in Gene Ontology. It consists of five euclidean-distance based nearest neighbour models and three affinity-based neighbourhood models, utilizing protein properties data, four gene expression datasets and protein interactions. The overall prediction is the weighted average of the posterior probability outputs given by the base models. Weights are determined by the standard Genetic Algorithm. The constituted base models show a fair agreement and improve the best performing base classifier by ~ 14.3%.","PeriodicalId":377504,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132486530","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":"Computation of Pharmacologic Therapy Effects on Cognitive Abilities of Alzheimer’s Disease Patients","authors":"Aydin Saribudak, Adarsha A. Subick, M. U. Uyar","doi":"10.1109/BIBE.2016.49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBE.2016.49","url":null,"abstract":"To explore the impact of pharmacologic therapies on cognitive changes of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients, we develop an artificial intelligence (AI) based personalized relevance parameterization method, called PReP-AD-PH. Expressions of genes, which are effective in AD related protein biomarkers, and mini mental state examination (MMSE) scores of AD patients in mild cognitive impairment (MCI) stage are inputs for PReP-AD-PH. In this study, AD patients in MCI stage are split into two groups, such that the first group has 81 patients given monotherapy with cholinesterase inhibitor (ChEI) donepezil and the second with 70 patients received combinational therapy with donepezil and memantine. PReP-AD-PH computes parameters characterizing the cognitive changes in AD patients with MCI. Using a leave-one-out-cross-validation (LOOCV) based algorithm, we measure an average LOOCV error rate of 6.53% for patients received donepezil monotherapy, and 8.05% for those under combinational therapy. Cumulative distribution of LOOCV error rates of PReP-AD-PH results points out that AI based computation methods can be useful in assisting clinicians with pharmacologic therapy decisions for AD patients with MCI.","PeriodicalId":377504,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114218329","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}
B. Jiang, Wanyi Wu, Ching-Hsuan Chien, J. Tsai, Wen-Ling Chan
{"title":"piRNAtarget: The Integrated Database for Mining Functionality of piRNA and Its Targets","authors":"B. Jiang, Wanyi Wu, Ching-Hsuan Chien, J. Tsai, Wen-Ling Chan","doi":"10.1109/BIBE.2016.64","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBE.2016.64","url":null,"abstract":"PIWI-interacting RNAs are a class of small RNA (sRNA) distinct from microRNA (miRNA) in sequence length and conservation structure. The recently report indicated that human piRNAs not only expressed in germline but also detected in somatic tissues. They interact with piwi-clade Argonauts (Ago), as well as sequences complement with transposons and target genes to effect epigenetic and post-transcriptional regulation. Additionally, piRNAs are involved in DNA methylation and cancer development. Investigation into the mechanism of piRNAs is an important and rapidly growing issue of research. In this study, we constructed an integrated database, piRNAtarget, for studying the functionality of piRNA and its targets. This database includes a variety of information, such as annotations, sequences, parental genes, targets, expression, mutation and methylation profiles in human piRNAs. We believe that piRNAtarget will contribute to a better understanding of the human piRNA functions. piRNAtarget is freely accessible and available at: http://120.108.102.11/~sophia/piRNAtarget.","PeriodicalId":377504,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129188144","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":"Psycho-Physiological Response in 3D Multiple Object Tracking","authors":"Shuichi Satake, H. Hagiwara","doi":"10.1109/BIBE.2016.50","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBE.2016.50","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, advances in stereoscopic imaging technology have provided new opportunities to view three-dimensional (3D) images. 3D imaging technology will likely be further utilized in medical facilities. In our study, we measured oxygenated hemoglobin (oxyHb) and the high-frequency component (HF) as objective parameters and the Roken Arousal Scale (RAS) and the Simulator Sickness Questionnaire (SSQ) as subjective parameters in experimental participants during the Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) task in 3D stereoscopic image conditions. The highest mean value of oxyHb change was recorded for the 3D-MOT task. In the 3D condition, HF values were significantly different between MOT and no MOT. Subjective evaluation of the RAS and SSQ results showed that general activation increased and disorientation decreased when experimental participants performed 3D-MOT. In summary, we found that the psycho-physiological responses of test subjects were affected by presentation conditions, and 3D-MOT decreased problems with 3D comprehension and led to brain activation.","PeriodicalId":377504,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128925171","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}