Omnia Hamdy, Doaa Youssef, J. El-Azab, Nahed H. Soluma
{"title":"Detection of Breast Diseases using Numerical Study of Light Propagation","authors":"Omnia Hamdy, Doaa Youssef, J. El-Azab, Nahed H. Soluma","doi":"10.1109/CIBEC.2018.8641819","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIBEC.2018.8641819","url":null,"abstract":"Breast cancer is the most women killing disease worldwide which is easily treated in its early stages before symptoms appear. Therefore, early detection of breast tumor is very significant to reduce the breast cancer death rate. Since the limitations of breast diagnosis techniques, such as X-ray mammography, magnetic resonance imaging, breast ultrasonography and breast biopsies, in early assessment of the breast tissue, optical breast imaging methods have been appeared. In this article, an optical imaging method based on numerical study of light propagation in breast tissue, to measure spatially resolved steady state diffuse reflectance, transmittance and absorbed fraction features, by means of Monte-Carlo simulation was applied for early detection of the breast cancer. The features were measured for 5 mm thick samples of healthy breast tissue and breast tissues with benign and malignant tumors. The obtained results revealed that the features can be used for early detection of breast cancer in addition to the discrimination of benign and malignant tumors which can be very helpful in medical diagnosis of many breast diseases.","PeriodicalId":407809,"journal":{"name":"2018 9th Cairo International Biomedical Engineering Conference (CIBEC)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127034643","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. Kassahun, Henok Tadesse Moges, Amanuel Shigut Dinsa, W. Negussie, Okebiorun Michael Oluwaseyi, M. Rushdi
{"title":"Estimation of Blood Perfusion and Metabolic Heat Generation of Lung Tumor During Cryosurgery","authors":"H. Kassahun, Henok Tadesse Moges, Amanuel Shigut Dinsa, W. Negussie, Okebiorun Michael Oluwaseyi, M. Rushdi","doi":"10.1109/CIBEC.2018.8641829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIBEC.2018.8641829","url":null,"abstract":"Cryosurgery applies very cold temperature to freeze tumor cells. For accurate treatment, monitoring the temperature field during this process is a must. In this work, we estimated parameters such as metabolic heat generation and blood perfusion rate which are vital to determine the temperature field during cryosurgery. We applied the Quasi-Newton and the Gauss-Newton inverse algorithms to estimate these parameters. Temperature measurements were taken from sensor output. To estimate the parameters, the one-dimensional Pennes’ bioheat equation was utilized. The parameters were predicted using least square minimization of the difference between sensor output and estimated temperature values. Once the parameters are obtained, the temperature distribution around the lung tumor at any time can easily be determined. Random initial values were given for both algorithms. The result showed that the Gauss-Newton method has faster convergence rate as compared to the Quasi Newton method in estimating the target parameters. The output of the research will help cryosurgeons to monitor the temperature of the cryoprobe during cryosurgery procedures.","PeriodicalId":407809,"journal":{"name":"2018 9th Cairo International Biomedical Engineering Conference (CIBEC)","volume":"240 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114146767","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 novel Approach for Improving Patient Flow in Emergency Department","authors":"Hend Adel, M. Wahed, N. Saleh","doi":"10.1109/CIBEC.2018.8641832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIBEC.2018.8641832","url":null,"abstract":"Emergency department (ED) is one of the most significant departments in healthcare facilities. Organizing patient flow in this department is a critical issue. However, large number of patients suffering from overcrowding as a result of a series of causes such as long waiting time, overburdened working staff, and delayed treatment. The purpose of this study is to develop a novel approach that improves patient flow within ED. Quality function deployment (QFD) has been employed by a set of factors to resolve the overcrowding problem in ED. The improvement of patient flow can be indicated by patient’s waiting time reduction. The results demonstrate the consistency of the proposed framework. The waiting time of different patients’ categories is adequately reduced which reflects the improvement of patient flow and consequently quality of the service in ED.","PeriodicalId":407809,"journal":{"name":"2018 9th Cairo International Biomedical Engineering Conference (CIBEC)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114787499","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":"Selection of Appropriate Maintenance Strategy for Medical Equipment","authors":"Ahmed Z. Elseddawy, A. Kandil","doi":"10.1109/CIBEC.2018.8641811","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIBEC.2018.8641811","url":null,"abstract":"Clinical engineering departments in hospitals are responsible for establishing and regulating a Medical Equipment Management Program to ensure that medical equipment are safe and reliable. This paper describes an application of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for selecting the appropriate maintenance strategy for radiology medical equipment as maintenance plays a key role in reliability, availability, increasing efficiency, and equipment safety. Three most common strategies are considered: corrective, time-based and condition-based maintenance.","PeriodicalId":407809,"journal":{"name":"2018 9th Cairo International Biomedical Engineering Conference (CIBEC)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123076624","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. H. Mohammed, Essam M. Shafei, A. El-Garhy, M. El-dosoky
{"title":"Modeling of the Effect of Dilated Cardiomyopathy on the Behavior of the Heart","authors":"F. H. Mohammed, Essam M. Shafei, A. El-Garhy, M. El-dosoky","doi":"10.1109/CIBEC.2018.8641792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIBEC.2018.8641792","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, a nonlinear time-varying lumped parameter mathematical model of left sided heart failure had been proposed. One of the causes of systolic heart failure is Dilated Cardiomyopathy, was studied. Many tries were done to know the appropriate parameters in the model to express Dilated Cardiomyopathy as a case of heart failure. Ventricular elastance was found to be the most suitable parameter to present Dilated Cardiomyopathy. Mathematical equations for the change of heart rate and left ventricular pressure with time with decreasing ventricular elastance were concluded. The effects of Dilated Cardiomyopathy on heart rate, left ventricular pressure-volume loop (P-V loop), left ventricular pressure, stroke volume and ejection fraction were modeled.","PeriodicalId":407809,"journal":{"name":"2018 9th Cairo International Biomedical Engineering Conference (CIBEC)","volume":"139 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130010461","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":"Automatic Breast Cancer Detection Using Digital Thermal Images","authors":"Ola Soliman, N. H. Sweilam, D. Shawky","doi":"10.1109/CIBEC.2018.8641807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIBEC.2018.8641807","url":null,"abstract":"Breast cancer is one of the most common and main reason of death for women all over the world. About one in eight of women is subject to breast cancer over the course of her lifetime. There is no effective method to prevent or know the reasons of growing these cancerous cells, however the number of deaths can be reduced by early detection. Breast cancer detection and classification is one of the most important fields that the researchers are working on. Thermal breast images are considered as an efficient type of screening strategies. The aim of this study is to develop an efficient system to detect breast cancer by using image processing techniques. The proposed system extracts the characteristic features of the breast from the region of interest that is segmented using a novel approach from the thermal input image. Then the image is classified based on these features to normal or abnormal using a neural network classifier. The system is evaluated on a benchmark dataset and a success rate of 96.51% is obtained.","PeriodicalId":407809,"journal":{"name":"2018 9th Cairo International Biomedical Engineering Conference (CIBEC)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126154130","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}
Amira M. Osman, W. Al-Atabany, N. Saleh, Ayman M. El-Deib
{"title":"Decision Support System for Medical Equipment Failure Analysis","authors":"Amira M. Osman, W. Al-Atabany, N. Saleh, Ayman M. El-Deib","doi":"10.1109/CIBEC.2018.8641786","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIBEC.2018.8641786","url":null,"abstract":"Medical equipment management raises a range of complex problems including those associated with maintenance process. In developing countries, hospitals rarely implement a coherent management plan in medical equipment management. One of the most significant challenges is to distinguish medical equipment that requires repair from those require replacement. Thus, a Decision Support System (DSS) is required to manage this pitfall properly. In this paper, a multi-criteria decision making model, Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is presented to select an optimum maintenance strategy. With reference to literature review and experts' opinions; a set of criteria is employed to calculate a criticality score for each piece of equipment. Therefore, a list of equipment is ranked based on their scores and an optimum threshold is selected to differentiate between maintenance and replacement requirements. Fifty different types of medical equipment located in multiple public hospitals have been used in the validation of the proposed model. Results show that the proposed model can efficiently differentiate the equipment that requires repair and the others that needs to be scrapped.","PeriodicalId":407809,"journal":{"name":"2018 9th Cairo International Biomedical Engineering Conference (CIBEC)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125585655","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}
Raúl Lora-Rivera, Ángela Fernández-Ruiz, José Manuel Cuesta-Ramírez, Arturo de Guzmán-Manzano, J. Castellanos-Ramos, Ó. Oballe-Peinado, F. Vidal-Verdú
{"title":"Tactile Sensor with a Structured 3D Printed Cover and Laser-Isolated Tactels","authors":"Raúl Lora-Rivera, Ángela Fernández-Ruiz, José Manuel Cuesta-Ramírez, Arturo de Guzmán-Manzano, J. Castellanos-Ramos, Ó. Oballe-Peinado, F. Vidal-Verdú","doi":"10.1109/CIBEC.2018.8641757","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIBEC.2018.8641757","url":null,"abstract":"Tactile sensors are a sort of artificial skin. Therefore, they should be able to detect static pressure patterns but also dynamic events such as those involved in slippage detection or texture recognition. A suitable shaping of the cover of the sensor can improve the response to this stimulus. This paper addresses this goal for a raw piezo-resistive sensor with a structured cover made with a 3D printer, and laser-isolated tactels to reduce crosstalk effects. Simulations and experimental results show design aspects and performance of the so obtained sensor.","PeriodicalId":407809,"journal":{"name":"2018 9th Cairo International Biomedical Engineering Conference (CIBEC)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134235727","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":"Analysing Vascular Structure to Determine Intra Retinal MicroVascular Abnormalities (IRMA)","authors":"Rabeeah Ali, M. Akram","doi":"10.1109/CIBEC.2018.8641825","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIBEC.2018.8641825","url":null,"abstract":"Retinal fundus images are coloured images obtained through specially designed cameras through a dilated pupil of the patient. Analysis of these images is being used to detect retinal vascular abnormalities to provide insight into onset or severity of retinopathies specially hypertensive or diabetic retinopathy. One of the common yet significant change that occurs is the change in vascular shape; in that the vessel(s) becomes non-periodically twisted; more generally termed as an increase in tortuosity. This paper presents a simple and reasonably accurate algorithm to classify a vessel as abnormal or not through determining a set of features. A new set of features is proposed in this paper for reliable detection of vascular changes. The proposed method uses One Class SVM (OC-SVM), commonly used for anomaly detection. The reason of using OC-SVM is that the ratio of tortuous vessels as compared to normal ones is very low and they mostly appear as anomaly when compared with normal vessels. A local dataset of 100 fundus images is used for evaluation. The dataset has normally extracted vessels, veins and arteries as ground truth and also contains annotation with respect to vessel tortuosity. The experiments are conducted by randomly dividing data into 60 percent for training and 40 percent for testing. The experiments are repeated 10 times and average results are reported. The results show that the proposed system provides an efficient non-invasive technique to detect tortuous vessels and an important step towards detecting IRMA.","PeriodicalId":407809,"journal":{"name":"2018 9th Cairo International Biomedical Engineering Conference (CIBEC)","volume":"121 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129727342","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}