{"title":"QRS detection based on matching pursuit algorithm","authors":"S. Shamekhi, M. Sedaaghi","doi":"10.1109/ICBME.2010.5704914","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBME.2010.5704914","url":null,"abstract":"The QRS complex is the most significant feature of the electrocardiogram (ECG). This paper introduces a novel algorithm for detection of QRS complexes in ECG based on matching pursuit algorithm (MPA). To recognize QRS Complex regions, time-frequency map of the ECG signal is plotted. Then the correct QRS regions are detected using the map. The performance of the algorithm is evaluated on ECG signals recorded in Bioinstruments Lab at Sahand University of Technology. The results indicate that the proposed method achieves 99.92% of sensitivity and 99.85% of specificity. The percentage of detected error rate is 0.223%. The efficiency of the algorithm in the presence of noise and corruption in ECG is also investigated.","PeriodicalId":377764,"journal":{"name":"2010 17th Iranian Conference of Biomedical Engineering (ICBME)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122011630","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.Mohammad Seyyed Ebrahimi, H. Pourghassem, M. Ashourian
{"title":"Lesion detection in dermoscopy images using Sarsa Reinforcement algorithm","authors":"S.Mohammad Seyyed Ebrahimi, H. Pourghassem, M. Ashourian","doi":"10.1109/ICBME.2010.5704964","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBME.2010.5704964","url":null,"abstract":"Dermoscopy is one of the major imaging techniques used in diagnoses of Melanoma and other skin diseases. Because of difficulties and subjectivity of human interpretation, automatic and computerized analysis of dermoscopic images has opened an important research area. Skin lesion detection is as the first step in this analysis. Finding an optimal threshold for segmenting the lesion is a severe task in image processing. Different methods for thresholding already exist. In this work, we use a combination of well-known thresholding methods and fuse them by Sarsa Reinforcement algorithm which leads to a reinforced threshold. The reinforced agent learns optimal weights for different thresholding methods and finally segments the dermoscopic image with optimal threshold. A reward function is designed for achieving the similarity ratio between the binary output image and original gray level image and calculating reward/punish signal which should be exerted to reinforced agent. We use three thresholding methods for combination in the reinforced agent and the detected lesions are compared with the ground-truth which is determined by three different dermatologists.","PeriodicalId":377764,"journal":{"name":"2010 17th Iranian Conference of Biomedical Engineering (ICBME)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129514540","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}
N. Jafarian, K. Kazemi, R. Grebe, M. Helfroush, M. Dehghani, H. Abrishami-Moghaddam, Catherine Gondary-Jouet, F. Wallois
{"title":"Automatic fontanel extraction from newborns' CT-images using a model based level set method","authors":"N. Jafarian, K. Kazemi, R. Grebe, M. Helfroush, M. Dehghani, H. Abrishami-Moghaddam, Catherine Gondary-Jouet, F. Wallois","doi":"10.1109/ICBME.2010.5704949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBME.2010.5704949","url":null,"abstract":"The newborn's skull is composed of already ossified parts of the flat bone connected by areas of fibrous membrane not yet ossified, which are called fontanels. At birth, an infant has six of such fontanels. These two different tissue types forming the outer part of the neuro-cranium have different electrical conductivities. Thus, it is important to determine the exact geometry of the fontanels if one aims to solve the inverse problem as e.g. for source localization. Computer Tomography (CT) imaging provides an excellent tool for the non-invasive study of bone which here can easily be identified due to its high contrast as compared to other tissue. Fontanels correspond to not yet ossified cartilage and give less contrast, thus they can be indirectly reconstructed by extrapolation for closing of the gaps between the flat bones forming the skull. In this paper, we propose an automatic model based method using level set to extract the fontanels from CT images. The automatically determined fontanels show good agreement with the manually extracted ones.","PeriodicalId":377764,"journal":{"name":"2010 17th Iranian Conference of Biomedical Engineering (ICBME)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129625671","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":"Chaotic features analysis of EEG signals during standard tasks of Waterloo-Stanford","authors":"Elahé Yargholi, A. Nasrabadi","doi":"10.1109/ICBME.2010.5704924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBME.2010.5704924","url":null,"abstract":"The present study looks carefully at EEG(Electroencephalograph) signals of people after the hypnosis inductions. Subjects were in three different categories of hypnotizability based on Waterloo-Stanford criteria; low, medium and high. Signals recorded during standard tasks of Waterloo-Stanford were applied to study the underlying dynamics of tasks and investigate the influence of hypnosis depth and concentration on recorded signals. To fulfill this objective, chaotic methods were employed; Higuchi dimension and correlation dimension. The results of the study indicate channels whose chaotic features are significantly different among people with various levels of hypnotizability and a great consistency exists among channels involved in each task with brain lobes' functions.","PeriodicalId":377764,"journal":{"name":"2010 17th Iranian Conference of Biomedical Engineering (ICBME)","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129750616","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":"Landmark detection on cephalometric radiology images through combining classifiers","authors":"M. Farshbaf, A. Pouyan","doi":"10.1109/ICBME.2010.5704950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBME.2010.5704950","url":null,"abstract":"This paper, presents a new cephalometric landmark localization method based on combining two classifier results. Initially, a classifier based on histograms of oriented gradients makes a first estimation of the potential windows, and then a second classifier, based on histograms of gray profile, classifies the detected windows. By combining the results of these two classifiers, final decision is made about the landmark window location. HOG features gather edge profiles in the image and making decision for the most proper window in some detection windows needs more information than just edge profiles. By adding the gray profile features to the system and combining the results in a proper manner, detection performance increases significantly for a range of hard to easy landmarks.","PeriodicalId":377764,"journal":{"name":"2010 17th Iranian Conference of Biomedical Engineering (ICBME)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123620725","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 comparative study of feature extraction methods in P300 detection","authors":"Zahra Amini, V. Abootalebi, M. Sadeghi","doi":"10.1109/ICBME.2010.5704928","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBME.2010.5704928","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper some different feature extraction methods are compared and their performances in a pattern recognition based P300 detection system are studied. By studying the features in different domains it was concluded that time domain features are more powerful in discriminating P300 signals from non-P300 signals. Therefore, three different sets of features were considered in the time domain and the performance of each was assessed by Fisher's linear discriminant (FLD) classifier, the best set being identified based on this assessment. The experiment was also performed in two phases each with a different number of channels to analyze the effect of the number of channels on performance.","PeriodicalId":377764,"journal":{"name":"2010 17th Iranian Conference of Biomedical Engineering (ICBME)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116270223","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":"Content based mammogram image retrieval based on the multiclass visual problem","authors":"F. Siyahjani, E. Fatemizadeh","doi":"10.1109/ICBME.2010.5704958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBME.2010.5704958","url":null,"abstract":"Since expertise elicited from past resolved cases plays an important role in medical application and images acquired from various cases have a great contribution to diagnosis of the abnormalities, Content based medical image retrieval has become an active research area for many scientists, In this article we proposed a new framework to retrieve visually similar images from a large database, in which visual relevance is regarded as much as the semantic category similarity, we used optimized wavelet transform as the multi-resolution analysis of the images and extracted various statistical SGLDM features from different resolutions then after reducing feature space we used error correcting codes in order to untwist the existing multiclass visual problem introduced in preceding parts of the article, we implemented proposed algorithm on the 1000 mammograms provided by the DDSM database which consist of 2500 studies and their annotations provided by specialists.","PeriodicalId":377764,"journal":{"name":"2010 17th Iranian Conference of Biomedical Engineering (ICBME)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130033582","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. Ziaei, I. Nahvi, M. Mobini-Dehkordi, M. Tavassoli
{"title":"Bioinformatics analysis of schwanniomyces occidentalis alpha amylase secretion signal sequences","authors":"S. Ziaei, I. Nahvi, M. Mobini-Dehkordi, M. Tavassoli","doi":"10.1109/ICBME.2010.5705025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBME.2010.5705025","url":null,"abstract":"The amy gene from schwaniomyces occidentalis which encodes a secretory alpha amylase isolated by primers that designed from sequences derived from Gene bank. The isolated gene is then cloned into a p426gpd vector. After cloning, the recombinant vector was transformed into E.Coli DH5x strain and recombinant vector was sent for sequencing by T7, T3 and a mid primer. After sequencing, the sequence of the alpha amylase gene is then converted to amino acid sequence and the new hypothetical protein was analyzed by several signal peptide analysis programs. The cleavage sites and intracellular localization of the protein inside the cell is detected by this analysis. The results showed that schwanniomyces occidentalis alpha amylase has a 25 amino acid long secretory signal peptide that is responsible for initiation of transportation of the enzyme across endoplasmic reticulum, through the secretory pathway and finally secretion out of the cell. Our result would prove very important not only for production of these enzymes but also protein analysis and creating the recombinant organism that produce these enzymes.","PeriodicalId":377764,"journal":{"name":"2010 17th Iranian Conference of Biomedical Engineering (ICBME)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131624195","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":"Brain tissue segmentation using an unsupervised clustering technique based on PSO algorithm","authors":"M. Azarbad, A. Ebrahimzadeh, A. Babajani-Feremi","doi":"10.1109/ICBME.2010.5704938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBME.2010.5704938","url":null,"abstract":"Image thresholding is an important technique for image processing and pattern recognition. Several thresholding techniques have been proposed in the literature. In this paper for segmentation of magnetic resonance images, a novel method using a combination of the multilevel thresholding algorithm and the hierarchical evolutionary algorithm (HEA) is proposed. The HEA can be viewed as a variant of conventional genetic algorithms. The proposed technique is based on the participle swarm optimization (PSO) and, in fact, is an unsupervised clustering method based on an automatic multilevel thresholding approach. One advantage of the proposed method is that the number of clusters in the given image does not need to be known in advance. We evaluate and validate performance of the proposed method using simulation studies. The simulation results show that the accuracy of the proposed method is about 96%.","PeriodicalId":377764,"journal":{"name":"2010 17th Iranian Conference of Biomedical Engineering (ICBME)","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130792484","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. Ghassemi, M. Moradi, M. Tehrani‐Doost, V. Abootalebi
{"title":"Classification of ADHD/normal participants using frequency features of ERP's Independent Components","authors":"F. Ghassemi, M. Moradi, M. Tehrani‐Doost, V. Abootalebi","doi":"10.1109/ICBME.2010.5704916","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBME.2010.5704916","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the Event Related Potentials (ERP) obtained from Independent Components of EEG (ERPIC) while participants performed a sustained attention task. EEG signals were recorded from 50 adult participants including ADHD and normal subjects while performing Continuous Performance Test (CPT). Signals were recorded from 21 Ag/AgCl electrodes according to the international 10–20 standard. Independent Component Analysis (ICA) was used as the processing method. For ERP extraction, average of each group of signals which were time-locked to the onset of stimuli was calculated. Several frequency features were extracted from different ERPICs. High accuracy (92%) was achieved in classification of clinical and non-clinical participants using combination of two features in a K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) classifier. Nine pairs of features resulted in such accuracy, while most of the best features are related to the power in γ band which is consistent with the previous studies. Regarding the ERP groups, most of the best features are related to wrong answered targets and to time block ERPICs. The results revealed a promising relation between clinical situation of the participants and some parameters of brain independent components which can be used for further evaluations of the sustained attention level.","PeriodicalId":377764,"journal":{"name":"2010 17th Iranian Conference of Biomedical Engineering (ICBME)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131252275","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}