C. Patsakis, Michael Clear, Paul Laird, Athanasios Zigomitros, Mélanie Bouroche
{"title":"Privacy-Aware Large-Scale Virological and Epidemiological Data Monitoring","authors":"C. Patsakis, Michael Clear, Paul Laird, Athanasios Zigomitros, Mélanie Bouroche","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2014.89","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2014.89","url":null,"abstract":"Modern mobile and wearable devices are enabling the realization of so-called ubiquitous computing. This provides citizens the technological means to contribute to urban management by becoming sensors within a smart city. Notwithstanding, the health sector is a very crucial factor for city management, imposing restrictions to the decisions directly or indirectly. The question that arises is given the current technological advances, could we collect health related data from citizens without violating their privacy? In this work we propose a methodology that can be used to allow citizens to send their data without disclosing their identity, while simultaneously enabling almost real-time urban-scale virological and epidemiological data monitoring.","PeriodicalId":398710,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 27th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems","volume":"32 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":"124804301","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}
E. Moncisvalles, D. Lorias, A. Minor, J. Villalobos
{"title":"Design and Development of a Gastrointestinal Simulator System with Software That Allows to Find the Anatomical Location and a Flexible Endoscope Emulator","authors":"E. Moncisvalles, D. Lorias, A. Minor, J. Villalobos","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2014.117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2014.117","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to design a simulator system for veterinary gastroscopy. A non-virtual system which consists of a canine gastrointestinal model is proposed. This prototype system design includes a mechanism that emulates a gastroscope and software which allows determining the anatomical location in which the endoscope is located and help to improve the skills in spatial location.","PeriodicalId":398710,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 27th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems","volume":"3 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":"126789614","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}
Tommy Hielscher, M. Spiliopoulou, H. Völzke, J. Kühn
{"title":"Using Participant Similarity for the Classification of Epidemiological Data on Hepatic Steatosis","authors":"Tommy Hielscher, M. Spiliopoulou, H. Völzke, J. Kühn","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2014.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2014.28","url":null,"abstract":"Clinical decision support relies on the findings of epidemiological (longitudinal and cross-sectional) studies on predictive features and risk factors for diseases. Such features flow into the diagnostic procedures. Personalized medicine, which aims to optimize clinical decision making by taking individual characteristics of the patients into account, relies on the findings of epidemiology on groups of cohort participants that have common risk factors and exhibit the outcome under study. The identification of such groups requires modeling and exploiting similarity among individuals described through medical tests. In this work, we study how similarity measures for complex objects contribute to class separation for a multifactorial disorder. We present a data preparation, partitioning and classification workflow on cohort participants for the disorder \"hepatic steatosis\", and report on our findings on classifier performance and identified important features.","PeriodicalId":398710,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 27th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems","volume":"1 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":"114577308","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":"Segmentation of Small Bowel Tumors in Wireless Capsule Endoscopy Using Level Set Method","authors":"M. Alizadeh, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, O. H. Maghsoudi","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2014.140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2014.140","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we proposed an algorithm to segment small bowel tumors. In order to increase effectiveness of Level Set Method (LSM) we applied adaptive gamma correction method (AGCM) that is based on prior information of illumination of images. We applied this method on 10 small bowel tumor images captured by Wireless Capsule Endoscopy (WCE). The performance measurements (i.e. sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy) by using hand ground method are computed for different parameters of a (0.05, 0.07, 0.09, 0.11, and 0.13) in AGCM, and then compared with traditional LSM and Snake method. The proposed method shows increased sensitivity up to 0.87 in a=0.13 while other performance measurements decrease by increasing value of a. the sensitivity of the other methods are 0.2 and 0.22, respectively. The optimal value of these measurements is 0.73 that takes place in a=0.1.","PeriodicalId":398710,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 27th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems","volume":"15 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":"117204793","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}
H. Alemzadeh, Raymond Hoagland, Z. Kalbarczyk, R. Iyer
{"title":"Automated Classification of Computer-Based Medical Device Recalls: An Application of Natural Language Processing and Statistical Learning","authors":"H. Alemzadeh, Raymond Hoagland, Z. Kalbarczyk, R. Iyer","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2014.134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2014.134","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents MedSafe, a framework for automated classification of computer-based medical device recalls. The data is collected from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recalls database. We combined techniques in natural language processing and statistical learning to automatically identify the computer-related recalls, by interpreting the natural language semantics of recall descriptions. We evaluated MedSafe on over 16K recall records submitted to the FDA between years 2007-2013.","PeriodicalId":398710,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 27th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems","volume":"84 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":"123054834","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}
J. Solomon, D. Douglas, Reed F. Johnson, D. Hammoud
{"title":"New Image Analysis Technique for Quantitative Longitudinal Assessment of Lung Pathology on CT in Infected Rhesus Macaques","authors":"J. Solomon, D. Douglas, Reed F. Johnson, D. Hammoud","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2014.59","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2014.59","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a novel method of quantitative assessment of lung pathology derived from chest computed tomography (CT) scans in infected animal models, namely rhesus macaques. Tracking the extent of lung pathology is essential in the understanding of the natural history of infectious diseases and can be eventually used to predict prognosis and monitor response to preventative (vaccines) or therapeutic interventions. Our technique utilizes the histogram of voxel Hounsfield units (HU) within the segmented lung to track the percent change in \"hyper dense volume\" as a marker of disease over time. This method is not as susceptible to variability in lung inflation from breath hold techniques during the scanning process as are other techniques. Our quantitative lung pathology estimates using this technique correlated well with qualitative interpretation of lung pathology performed by a radiologist.","PeriodicalId":398710,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 27th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems","volume":"177 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":"133632786","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":"Decoding Movements from Human Deep Brain Local Field Potentials Using Radial Basis Function Neural Network","authors":"M. S. Islam, Muhammad S. Khan, Hai Deng, K. Mamun","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2014.77","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2014.77","url":null,"abstract":"Research on neural process is fundamental to understand neurodegenerative disorders and develop its interventions. This also enhances the development of brain machine interfaces to assist neurologically impaired human and rehabilitation. This study aimed to decode deep brain local field potentials (LFPs) related to voluntary movement activities and its forthcoming laterality, left or right sided visually cued movements. The frequency related components of local field potentials from the sub thalamic nucleus (STN) were decomposed by time scale domain using wavelet packet transform (WPT). In each frequency component, event related instantaneous power was considered as features for decoding. Decoding of movement (Event vs. Rest) and its sequential laterality (Left vs. Right) were performed using radial basis function neural network (RBFNN). The average classification accuracy achieved 85.93% for distinguishing movement from the rest, while laterality discrimination, the accuracy achieved 70.81% with 10 fold cross validation. The RBFNN classifier successfully managed to achieve decoding accuracy better than the chance level during movement and its laterality for all subjects.","PeriodicalId":398710,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 27th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems","volume":"36 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":"130248099","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 Domain Specific Ontology Authoring Environment for a Clinical Documentation System","authors":"M. Horridge, S. Brandt, B. Parsia, A. Rector","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2014.84","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2014.84","url":null,"abstract":"We present a domain specific ontology editor for viewing, updating and managing a clinical documentation knowledge base. The editor is designed to allow clinical content specialists, who do not have a working knowledge of OWL, Semantic Web technologies or knowledge engineering, to quickly generate ontologies that describe clinical documentation templates along with rich bi-directional mappings between these documentation template ontologies and biomedical domain ontologies. While the editor has been designed and implemented for a specific use-case, many of the novel design choices are applicable to more traditional ontology editing environments. Furthermore, we believe that the workflow that is promoted by the editing environment and the partitioning and arrangement of the ontologies that are compiled by the editor are applicable to more general scenarios where two sets of ontologies corresponding to different application sub-domains need to be edited side-by-side and mapped between using a set of binding ontologies.","PeriodicalId":398710,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 27th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems","volume":"7 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":"131175198","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":"Social Network Analysis to Delineate Interaction Patterns That Predict Weight Loss Performance","authors":"T. Chomutare, A. Xu, M. Sriram Iyengar","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2014.67","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2014.67","url":null,"abstract":"Social media is an interesting, relatively new topic in health and self-management, which is generating enormous amounts of data, but little is yet known about its effect on the health of participants. The goal of this study is to determine online interaction behaviours that predict weight loss performance. The problem is modelled as a binomial classification task for predicting whether a patient would lose significant weight, based on analysis of two obesity online communities. An expansion-reduction method was developed for the patient feature vector, where the expansion is based on concatenating network structure features and the reduction is based on feature subset selection. Further, empirical evaluation of classifiers was done on the datasets, before and after the expansion. Based on feature subset selection, centrality measures such as degree and betweenness were more predictive than basic demographic features. Top performers, compared with bottom performers, were significantly more active online and connected to more than one sub-community (at 95% CI and p<;.05). In terms of classification, we found naive Bayes and decision tree methods had superior performance on the datasets, drastically reducing the false positive (FP) rate in some instances, and reaching a maximum F-score of 0.977, precision of 0.978 and AUC of 0.996. Current findings are consistent with previous reports that amount of online engagement correlates with weight loss, but our findings speak further to the types of engagement that yield best results.","PeriodicalId":398710,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 27th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems","volume":"45 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":"114276841","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 Information Theoretic Approach via IJM to Segmenting MR Images with MS Lesions","authors":"J. Hill, B. Nutter, S. Mitra","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2014.130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2014.130","url":null,"abstract":"Automated detection of brain pathologies from Magnetic Resonance (MR) images remains an outstanding problem. An information theoretic approach for automated segmentation of medical images called the Improved \"Jump\" Method (IJM) has been recently developed and validated. Here we extend this work by utilizing IJM to segment human brain MR images with multiple-sclerosis (MS) lesions in order to probe IJM's limitations and versatility.","PeriodicalId":398710,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 27th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems","volume":"138 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":"125062803","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}