{"title":"Using Sub-dictionaries for Image Representation Based on the Bag-of-Visual-Words Approach","authors":"G. V. Pedrosa, A. Traina, C. Traina","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2014.60","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2014.60","url":null,"abstract":"Bag-of-Visual-Words (BoVW) is a well known approach to represent images for visual recognition and retrieval tasks. This approach represents an image as a histogram of visual words and the dissimilarity between two images is measured by comparing those histograms. When performing comparisons involving a specific type of images, some visual words can be more informative and discriminative than others. To take advantage of this fact, assigning appropriate weights can improve the performance of image retrieval. In this paper, we developed a novel modeling approach based on sub dictionaries. We extracted a sub-dictionary as a subset of visual words that best represents a specific image class. To measure the dissimilarity distance between images, we take into account the distance of the histogram obtained using the visual dictionary and the distances of the sub histograms obtained by each sub-dictionary. The proposed approach was evaluated by classifying a standard biomedical image dataset into categories defined by image modality and body part and also natural image scenes. The experimental results demonstrate the gain obtained of the proposed weighting approach when compared to the traditional weighting approach based on TF-IDF (Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency). Our proposed approach has shown promising results to boost the classification accuracy as well as the retrieval precision. Moreover, it does that without increasing the feature vector dimensionality.","PeriodicalId":398710,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 27th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems","volume":"9 20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125846160","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}
Andrew Goldberg, Jesse Hochkeppel, A. Levine, S. DeMaria
{"title":"Death in High-Fidelity Simulation: A Bioethical Analysis","authors":"Andrew Goldberg, Jesse Hochkeppel, A. Levine, S. DeMaria","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2014.70","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2014.70","url":null,"abstract":"With the growing popularity and increasing use of high fidelity simulation (HFS) in medical education, the appropriate role of simulated patient death in the curriculum has been debated from both an educational and ethical perspective. Given that HFS is a relatively new medical teaching modality, the prevailing uncertainty regarding the use of patient death to reinforce medical knowledge and decision-making likely stems from a lack of literature and open discussion on the topic. It is the goal of this paper to further explore the ethical implications of exposing learners in HFS to simulated patient death, with the hope of aiding in the development of effective curriculum for HFS programs.","PeriodicalId":398710,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 27th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125908858","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}
Riccardo Conti, I. Matteucci, P. Mori, M. Petrocchi
{"title":"An Expertise-Driven Authoring Tool for E-Health Data Policies","authors":"Riccardo Conti, I. Matteucci, P. Mori, M. Petrocchi","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2014.86","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2014.86","url":null,"abstract":"Data sharing is crucial in many aspects of nowadays life, from economy to leisure, from public administration to healthcare. However, it implies several privacy issues that have to be managed. Definition of appropriate policies helps to safeguard the data privacy. This paper describes an expertise-driven authoring tool for privacy policies to be applied to the healthcare scenario. The tool exhibits two different interfaces, designed according to specific expertise of the policy authors. It is part of a general framework for editing, analysis, and enforcement of privacy policies. Furthermore, this serves as a first brick for a usability study on such tools.","PeriodicalId":398710,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 27th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129867002","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}
António Gonçalves, I. Ong, Jeffrey A. Lewis, V. S. Costa
{"title":"Towards Using Probabilities and Logic to Model Regulatory Networks","authors":"António Gonçalves, I. Ong, Jeffrey A. Lewis, V. S. Costa","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2014.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2014.9","url":null,"abstract":"Transcriptional regulation plays an important role in every cellular decision. Unfortunately, understanding the dynamics that govern how a cell will respond to diverse environmental cues is difficult using intuition alone. We introduce logic based regulation models based on state-of-the-art work on statistical relational learning, and validate our approach by using it to analyze time-series gene expression data of the Hog1 pathway. Our results show that plausible regulatory networks can be learned from time series gene expression data using a probabilistic logical model. Hence, network hypotheses can be generated from existing gene expression data for use by experimental biologists.","PeriodicalId":398710,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 27th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127221259","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}
Jianxu Chen, O. Kim, R. Litvinov, J. Weisel, M. Alber, D. Chen
{"title":"An Automated Approach for Fibrin Network Segmentation and Structure Identification in 3D Confocal Microscopy Images","authors":"Jianxu Chen, O. Kim, R. Litvinov, J. Weisel, M. Alber, D. Chen","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2014.62","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2014.62","url":null,"abstract":"Fibrin networks, formed during blood clotting, have a large and complicated structure and play a crucial role in regulating blood clot growth. Identifying and analyzing the 3D topological structure of fibrin networks using fluorescence confocal microscopy images is challenging due to their complex anatomy, and known automated methods do not seem to work well. In this paper, we present a two-stage approach for identifying the topological structure of fibrin networks in 3D confocal microscopy images. The first stage segments fibrin networks using a new Indicator-Guided Adaptive Thresholding (IGAT) algorithm. The second stage extracts, prunes, and analyzes the skeleton of fibrin networks in order to identify their topological structure. A new approach based on orientation analysis is applied to refine the extracted topological structure. Evaluation on 3D confocal microscopy images demonstrates that our approach is not sensitive to parameter selection and outperforms the known method, reducing the false positive rate for detecting branch points by 24% and reducing the false negative rate for detecting fiber segments by 15%.","PeriodicalId":398710,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 27th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130609136","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":"Performance Evaluation of Medical Image Similarity Analysis in a Heterogeneous Architecture","authors":"J. Ferreira, M. C. Oliveira, Andre Lage Freitas","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2014.65","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2014.65","url":null,"abstract":"The volume of data has increased fast, particularly medical images, in big hospitals over the last years. This increase imposes a big challenge to medical specialists: the maintenance of high interpretation accuracy of image-based diagnosis. Computer-Aided Diagnosis software allied to the Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) can provide decision support to specialists by allowing them to find images from a database that are similar to a reference image. However, a well known challenge of CBIR is the processing time that it takes to process all comparisons between the reference image and the image database. This paper proposes a performance evaluation of medical Image Similarity Analysis (ISA) in a heterogeneous single-, multi- and many-core architecture using the high performance parallel OpenCL framework. A CBIR algorithm was implemented to validate the proposal. The algorithm used a Lung Cancer image database with 131, 072 Computed Tomography scans, Texture Attributes for image features and Euclidean Distance for image comparison metrics. The results showed that the OpenCL parallelism can increase the performance of ISA, especially using the GPU, with speedups of 3x, 36x and 64x. The results also showed that it is not worth the use of GPU local memory for the Euclidean Distance metrics due to its low performance improvement and high implementation complexity in comparison to the GPU global memory. That being said, GPU is a safer medical CBIR approach than further distributed environments as clusters, cloud and grid computing because GPU usage does not require the patient data to be transfered to other machines.","PeriodicalId":398710,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 27th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems","volume":"294 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132868440","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}
Ibrahim Dawha, Saihou Bi Gorreh, Andrew Olowude, C. Park
{"title":"Haptic System for Force-Profile Acquisition and Display for a Realistic Surgical Simulator","authors":"Ibrahim Dawha, Saihou Bi Gorreh, Andrew Olowude, C. Park","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2014.133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2014.133","url":null,"abstract":"We present a hap tic force-profile acquisition and display system for a surgical device that will aid medical students in developing and learning surgical skills for future procedures. The goal of this study is to extend the benefits of using a low-cost surgical simulator by capturing subtle hand movements and providing realistic force feedback, enabling more realistic interaction during virtual reality based simulation.","PeriodicalId":398710,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 27th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127977160","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. Gambino, F. Lima, R. Pirrone, E. Ardizzone, G. Campisi, O. D. Fede
{"title":"Second Opinion System for Intraoral Lesions","authors":"O. Gambino, F. Lima, R. Pirrone, E. Ardizzone, G. Campisi, O. D. Fede","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2014.107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2014.107","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present the prototype of a teledentistry system to perform the remote diagnosis of oral diseases. It makes use of a particular device called intra-oral (or dental) camera properly designed to shoot video and take pictures of the inner part of the mouth. The intra-oral cameras can be connected via USB to a common PC and they are very cheap, unlike the intra-oral photography kit for DSLR cameras. Usually this kind of devices are used in dentistry studies for local visualization by means of specialized software. The novelty of our system is that the real-time video produced by this device is canalized into a video streming by means of Video LAN client server (VLC) and pictures can be sent by a current File Transfer Protocol (FTP) service to realize a Second Opinion System.","PeriodicalId":398710,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 27th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122979023","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":"Estimating and Analysing Coordination in Medical Terminologies","authors":"Cornelia Hedeler, B. Parsia, S. Brandt","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2014.81","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2014.81","url":null,"abstract":"Medical vocabulary is complex, and convoluted not least because of large numbers of compound terms. Formalized medical terminologies such as SNOMED-CT and ICD-10 take one of two strategies when representing medical language: so-called pre-coordination where valid compound terms are included explicitly and post-coordination where the terminology consists of a basis and a generative function from which the compound terms may be derived. However, these notions are not used with particular precision. Here we provide a formalization of the notion of coordination, a technique for estimating the degree of coordination in a given system, and an examination, based on our technique, of the coordination level of a number of terminologies.","PeriodicalId":398710,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 27th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124967049","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. R. González, M. M. Romero, Mikel Egaña Aranguren, Mark D. Wilkinson
{"title":"Nanopublishing Clinical Diagnoses: Tracking Diagnostic Knowledge Base Content and Utilization","authors":"A. R. González, M. M. Romero, Mikel Egaña Aranguren, Mark D. Wilkinson","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2014.82","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2014.82","url":null,"abstract":"Accurate and evidence-based diagnosis is a key step in clinical practice. High-quality diagnoses depend on several factors, including physician's training and experience. To assist physicians, medical diagnosis systems can be used, as part of clinical decision support systems (CDSS), to improve the accuracy of diagnoses, as well as inform the clinician regarding the bases of the diagnostic decisions in the context of prior knowledge. To support such CDSS systems, it is important to have accurate and well-formed knowledge bases with thoroughly annotated diagnostic criteria, as well as models for representing clinical observations that allow them to more easily be analyzed by expert-systems. We propose the use of Nan publications as a way to store provenance data related to the content of diagnostic knowledge bases, as well as the clinical diagnoses themselves. The primary goal is to be able to rigorously track the complete diagnostic process: from the knowledge base construction and its supporting evidence, to the clinical observations and the context within which they were made, through to the diagnosis itself, and the rationale behind it.","PeriodicalId":398710,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 27th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114295027","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}