{"title":"Automated Computer-aided Diagnosis for Brain Tumor Detection","authors":"P. Pranav, P. Samhita","doi":"10.1109/BMEiCON53485.2021.9745232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BMEiCON53485.2021.9745232","url":null,"abstract":"Brain tumors are a mass or collection of abnormal cells and tissues in the brain which can be benign or malignant. These grow to cause deleterious brain damage due to the in-crease in pressure caused inside the brain. The diagnosis of these tumors requires highly skilled clinicians and is sometimes prone to human errors. The proposal is to help facilitate the clinicians, doctors, and surgeons in effective visualization and diagnosis of these inimical brain tumors. The proposed method uses the implementation of a computer-aided diagnosis system that acts as an assistive tool to diagnose or interpret brain tumor regions in MR (Magnetic Resonance) images. It is a solution that enables the clinician to obtain a report on the MR images of the patient using a neural network-based computer-aided diagnosis system by implementing Mask-Region based Convolutional Neural Network to carry out the instance segmentation of tumors. This will lead to the detection of different major types of brain tumors like glioma, meningioma, and pituitary for easy and accurate visualization. The qualitative analysis performed to verify and evaluate the performance of the proposed system indicated an accuracy of 96.4%. Further, an Intersection Over Union value of 0.955 was observed for localization of the major brain tumors in the brain MR images procured from MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scans.","PeriodicalId":380002,"journal":{"name":"2021 13th Biomedical Engineering International Conference (BMEiCON)","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124356869","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}
Chitchaya Suwanraksa, T. Liamsuwan, Sitthichok Chaichulee
{"title":"Deep learning techniques for synthetic CT generation: a single model for multiple anatomical sites","authors":"Chitchaya Suwanraksa, T. Liamsuwan, Sitthichok Chaichulee","doi":"10.1109/BMEiCON53485.2021.9745200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BMEiCON53485.2021.9745200","url":null,"abstract":"Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) images illustrate the patient’s anatomical information during the course of radiation treatment. It could be used to assess the actual dose for the patient. However, CBCT has limitations due to poor image quality and uncertainty of Hounsfield Unit (HU) values. This study aims to compare the efficiency of two deep learning techniques, U-Net with ResNet encoder and GAN, to translate CBCT images to the level of CT images while preserving the anatomical structure as on CBCT images. The models were trained with three anatomical sites: head, head and neck, and pelvis. The similarity measures were used to evaluate in each region. The results showed that the synthesized CT generated from both models illustrated an improvement in image quality, although the U-Net model with ResNet encoder performed slightly better than the GAN models for all treatment sites.","PeriodicalId":380002,"journal":{"name":"2021 13th Biomedical Engineering International Conference (BMEiCON)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127278483","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}
Thitiyo Chantharasuriyasakun, Siriyakorn Sungwol, W. Piyawattanametha
{"title":"Fluorescence based rapid E. coli Detector","authors":"Thitiyo Chantharasuriyasakun, Siriyakorn Sungwol, W. Piyawattanametha","doi":"10.1109/BMEiCON53485.2021.9745249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BMEiCON53485.2021.9745249","url":null,"abstract":"We have developed a fluorescence based rapid detection for E. coli which is an indicator for water quality identification. This portable detector will trim down the time taken to detect E. coli in the water from a few days to just a couple of minutes. Moreover, with the use of enzyme-substrate reaction between the enzyme $beta$-D glucuronidase (GUD) in the E. coli and the substrate 4-methylumblliferyl-$beta$-D glucuronide (MUG) resulting in a byproduct of 4-methylumbellliferone (4MU), the fluorescence emitting from this byproduct is then detected by our system and be enumerated for the number of E. coli. Hence, we have tested our system with two different pH solution, distilled water and tap water with pH values at 6.68 and 7.81 consecutively. Our developed system can detect the byproduct of 4MU in the concentration range of 0.001 $mu$ M to 2 $mu$M for the distilled water and 0.001 $mu$M to 0.1 $mu$M for the tap water, which can then be used for the enumeration of E. coli.","PeriodicalId":380002,"journal":{"name":"2021 13th Biomedical Engineering International Conference (BMEiCON)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124939458","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":"Analysis of GLRLM Texture Features Derived From Computed Tomography Scans For COVID-19 Diagnosis","authors":"Sabiq Muhtadi, Hamim Hamid","doi":"10.1109/BMEiCON53485.2021.9745204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BMEiCON53485.2021.9745204","url":null,"abstract":"Since its discovery in late 2019, COVID-19 has become a major worldwide concern due to its incredibly high degree of contagion, and early diagnosis is crucial to limit this global progression. Computed Tomography (CT) scans of the chest offer a low-cost alternative diagnosis modality to the standard reverse polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test for COVID-19. In this paper, we analyze texture features extracted from chest CT scans using Gray Level Run Length Matrix (GLRLM) techniques for their ability to distinguish between COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 patients. Quantitative texture analysis of CT scans provides a measure of the biological heterogeneity in tissue microenvironment which can be useful in the diagnosis of a wide range of diseases, and we hypothesize that GLRLM texture features may hold significance for diagnosis of COVID-19. 13 GLRLM features were extracted from CT scans of 349 positive COVID-19 cases and 397 negative COVID-19 cases. Holdout validation was used to randomly split 70% of the images for training, and the remaining 30% for testing. A GentleBoost classifier was used to evaluate performance. A significant AUROC of 0.92 along with a high classification accuracy of 85.7% was obtained on the independent test set, indicating that GLRLM texture features extracted from chest CT scans have the potential to be a significant tool in the rapid and accurate diagnosis of COVID-19.","PeriodicalId":380002,"journal":{"name":"2021 13th Biomedical Engineering International Conference (BMEiCON)","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128598358","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 Automated ICD-10 Code Assigning System using A Classification Method","authors":"Chanida Singto, O. Wongwirat","doi":"10.1109/BMEiCON53485.2021.9745217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BMEiCON53485.2021.9745217","url":null,"abstract":"At present, some hospitals in Thailand have to manually analyze patient treatment data for assigning the disease diagnostic code, or ICD-10 (International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problem 10th Revision) code. The ICD-10 codes are collected and submitted to the Ministry of Public Health to collect Thailand’s disease incidence statistics and allocate a budget for the development of the country’s health system. These hospitals have difficulty recruiting personnel with expertise in analyzed and assigned ICD-10 codes, causing a long working time and a problem with the accuracy of the analyzed and assigned ICD-10 codes, due to many patients daily. This paper presents the automated ICD-10 code assigning system developed for solving the problem of analyzing and assigning the ICD-10 code manually by a human expert in the hospitals. The system uses a classification method with a decision tree diagram as the model to classify the ICD-10 codes from patient treatment data, i.e., medicine and laboratory results. The system can be used as a tool to support a medical staff who is the expertise that analyzes and assigns the ICD-10 code in a more accurate and rapid manner. The evaluation of the classification result with the decision tree model is found to be 91.67 percent accurate in performance for the ICD-10 codes assigned.","PeriodicalId":380002,"journal":{"name":"2021 13th Biomedical Engineering International Conference (BMEiCON)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123990763","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}
Manao Bunkum, Nutthanan Wanluk, S. Visitsattapongse
{"title":"Prototype of Wearable Device for Blood Pressure using Pulse Transit Time","authors":"Manao Bunkum, Nutthanan Wanluk, S. Visitsattapongse","doi":"10.1109/BMEiCON53485.2021.9745229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BMEiCON53485.2021.9745229","url":null,"abstract":"At present, there is a continuous increase in the number of patients suffering from hypertension in Thailand. and resulted in higher mortality rates as well. with an increasing trend every year Some people with high blood pressure need medication and regular monitoring of their blood pressure to prevent further complications. Most of these are pressure gauges that require a cuff that is wrapped around a patient’s upper arm, wrist, or thigh. which is not convenient to carry for patients who need to measure blood pressure regularly This research proposes a prototype of a wearable device for measuring blood pressure using Pulse Transit Time (PTT) by measuring the pulse between the wrist and the index finger of the other hand. and take the pulse movement time to calculate the blood pressure Based on the results of testing prototypes of wearable devices for measuring pressure compared to commercially available pressure gauges. Of the five participants, the prototype of a wearable device for measuring pressure was approximately 94% accurate compared to commercially available pressure gauges. The prototype device can measure blood pressure in real time and is always portable.","PeriodicalId":380002,"journal":{"name":"2021 13th Biomedical Engineering International Conference (BMEiCON)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131298740","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}
Shoichi Kanno, Zugui Peng, K. Shimba, Y. Miyamoto, T. Yagi
{"title":"Effect of the amount of carbon nanotubes introduced into liposomes on membrane permeability","authors":"Shoichi Kanno, Zugui Peng, K. Shimba, Y. Miyamoto, T. Yagi","doi":"10.1109/BMEiCON53485.2021.9745234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BMEiCON53485.2021.9745234","url":null,"abstract":"Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) have a diameter of several nanometers and can spontaneously insert themselves into lipid membranes, which are the basic component of cell membranes, and allow ions to pass through. Therefore, SWNTs are expected to be incorporated into spherical artificial lipid membranes (liposomes) and used in sensors and drug delivery systems. Currently, ion transport through SWNTs is measured optically using fluorescent probes in nanosized liposomes. However, inserting SWNTs into membranes changes the morphology and mechanical properties of the membranes, and ion influx could occur through defects in the membranes caused by these changes. In this study, we used fluorescence microscopy and giant unilamellar vesicles, which are micrometer-sized liposomes, to observe the state of the liposome membrane and ion transport through the membrane in parallel. To observe ion transport, Ca2+-sensitive fluorescent probes were encapsulated in liposomes, and Ca2+ was added externally. In addition, the amount of SWNTs introduced into the liposome was changed, and the effect of the SWNT concentration on the ion transport was observed. The ion transport through SWNTs was confirmed by the increase in fluorescence intensity. In addition, the ion permeability increased with decreasing SWNT concentration, suggesting that a high SWNT concentration affected the insertion of SWNTs into the membrane.","PeriodicalId":380002,"journal":{"name":"2021 13th Biomedical Engineering International Conference (BMEiCON)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123568315","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}
Salila Ongtrakul, Anyarin Thitiratannapong, C. Pintavirooj, T. Treebupachatsakul
{"title":"Pressure Swing Absorption Oxygen Concentrator equipped with Remote Monitoring Pulse Oximeter","authors":"Salila Ongtrakul, Anyarin Thitiratannapong, C. Pintavirooj, T. Treebupachatsakul","doi":"10.1109/BMEiCON53485.2021.9745242","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BMEiCON53485.2021.9745242","url":null,"abstract":"The new COVID-19 disease was first identified in China at the end of 2019 and has spread rapidly all over the world. It has been projected that, by March 2021, the number of infections could reach 300 million cases and over two million deaths. One of the main implications for COVID-19 patients is pneumonia where the lung is infected, hence patients suffering from insufficient oxygen in the blood. As the number of COVID-19 cases have significantly increased, the demand for oxygen generators have also skyrocketed. This research concerns the design and construction of emergency low-cost oxygen concentrators used for mild COVID-19 symptoms, of which are forced to be treated at home. Our absorption-based oxygen concentrator uses zeolite packed in a sieve canister. An Oil-free compressor is then used to pump air in. Zeolite will absorb nitrogen from the air leaving oxygen free to travel towards the outlet. To evaluate the treatment, we have equipped the system with a pulse oximeter to measure the percent saturation oxygen, pulse rate and temperature. To prevent COVID-19 infections between patients and caretakers, we have designed an android application to remotely control the oxygen concentrator. Experiment has shown that our emergency low-cost oxygen concentrator can supply oxygen with an 85% purity rate.","PeriodicalId":380002,"journal":{"name":"2021 13th Biomedical Engineering International Conference (BMEiCON)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122088653","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}
O. Heriana, A. B. Suksmono, H. Zakaria, A. Prahasta
{"title":"3D Image Reconstruction of Sclera Using A Light Field Camera","authors":"O. Heriana, A. B. Suksmono, H. Zakaria, A. Prahasta","doi":"10.1109/BMEiCON53485.2021.9745231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BMEiCON53485.2021.9745231","url":null,"abstract":"The development of digital image analysis with various devices used is very useful in various fields. One of them is in the medical field. Analysis of the sclera’s surface is critical to determine whether there are lumps or bleb due to disease or after the trabeculectomy procedure. This study proposes a different method for constructing a 3D model of the sclera’s surface through light field image processing. First, the sclera’s surface light field image device was developed using a Lytro Illum camera equipped with illumination. Second, the depth map generated from the light field information is equalized and filtered to improve the gradation. Thirdly, edge detection information is added to obtain texture. Finally, a 3D image reconstruction is performed. Based on the measurement results, the average resolution of the Lytro Illum camera to reconstruct 3D images of objects taken at a focal distance of l7cm and a focal length of 80mm is 0.14mm. The error of image reconstruction in the proposed method is smaller than the other methods compared.","PeriodicalId":380002,"journal":{"name":"2021 13th Biomedical Engineering International Conference (BMEiCON)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129068274","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. Thitirattanapong, Salila Ongtrakul, C. Pintavirooj
{"title":"Low-Cost Blower-Based Ventilator","authors":"A. Thitirattanapong, Salila Ongtrakul, C. Pintavirooj","doi":"10.1109/BMEiCON53485.2021.9745235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BMEiCON53485.2021.9745235","url":null,"abstract":"Ventilator has become an intensively important part of medicalhealthcare, especially in this widespread pandemic of COVID-19. The most popular one is an Ambu Bag with a bag valve mask (BVM). This ventilator, however, requires a manual resuscitator to operate its function with a limited air volume inside the bag. During the operation, moreover, it causes the noisy sound due to its mechanism as well. The alternative is using Non-Ambu Bag ventilator. This optional ventilator can regulate using user’s smartphone to command the operation of ventilator with configurable quantity and rate of volume and flow.","PeriodicalId":380002,"journal":{"name":"2021 13th Biomedical Engineering International Conference (BMEiCON)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122741740","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}