H. Kassahun, Amanuel Shigut Dinsa, Henok Tadesse Moges, W. Negussie, Okebiorun Michael Oluwaseyi, M. Rushdi
{"title":"Prediction of Heat Generation and Tissue Thermal Diffusivity During Laser Hair Removal","authors":"H. Kassahun, Amanuel Shigut Dinsa, Henok Tadesse Moges, W. Negussie, Okebiorun Michael Oluwaseyi, M. Rushdi","doi":"10.1109/CIBEC.2018.8641802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIBEC.2018.8641802","url":null,"abstract":"During laser hair removal, monitoring the temperature field of hair follicles is needed to ensure patient safety. To determine this temperature field at any time, parameters such as heat energy and thermal diffusivity of tissue should be obtained. The aim of this paper is to apply numerical optimization schemes for the estimation of these parameters during laser hair removal. Levenberg-Marquardt and Gauss-Newton methods were applied to estimate the parameters. Once these parameters are found, the temperature field at any time can easily be determined by numerically solving the 2D heat diffusion equation. The estimation methods were tested with random initial values, larger and smaller than the target true value. Results showed that these algorithms are accurate to estimate the target unknown parameters. The temperature distribution obtained by using these predicted parameters could help dermatologists during hair removal procedures. Moreover, the prediction of required heat energy could aid clinicians to select a laser source with appropriate wavelength and pulse width.","PeriodicalId":407809,"journal":{"name":"2018 9th Cairo International Biomedical Engineering Conference (CIBEC)","volume":"52 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":"114853115","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}
Mohamed E. Ragheb, M. A. Hassan, W. Al-Atabany, A. Seddik, M. El-Wakad
{"title":"Fuzzy Logic Approach For Medical Equipment Supplier Evaluation and Selection","authors":"Mohamed E. Ragheb, M. A. Hassan, W. Al-Atabany, A. Seddik, M. El-Wakad","doi":"10.1109/CIBEC.2018.8641810","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIBEC.2018.8641810","url":null,"abstract":"One of the most critical activities in the management of purchasing process is supplier selection which is a decision making activity characterized by being a multi-criteria based activity. This paper proposes a multi-criteria fuzzy based system to create a short listing of the most suitable suppliers. Only the members of this short listing would be allowed to request for offers in a tender. The proposed system uses three main criteria and twenty sub-criteria. Dataset collected from five different companies is used to validate the system against experts’ opinions. Results show the robustness of the proposed system in creating a short listing for the most suitable medical suppliers with an average error of 4.45 ± 4.06.","PeriodicalId":407809,"journal":{"name":"2018 9th Cairo International Biomedical Engineering Conference (CIBEC)","volume":"1 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":"129899038","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}
Mai Gamal, M. Mousa, S. Eldawlatly, Sherif M. Elbasiouny
{"title":"Automated Cell-Type Classification and Death-Detection of Spinal Motoneurons","authors":"Mai Gamal, M. Mousa, S. Eldawlatly, Sherif M. Elbasiouny","doi":"10.1109/CIBEC.2018.8641824","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIBEC.2018.8641824","url":null,"abstract":"Spinal motoneurons (MNs) play a crucial role in movement control. Decoding the firing activity of spinal MNs could help in real-life challenges, such as enhancing the control of myoelectric prostheses and diagnosing neurodegenerative diseases. In this paper, we propose a machine learning approach to automatically classify MNs based on their firing activity. Applying the proposed approach to data from a MN computational model, the classification accuracy of all examined datasets exceeded 95%. We extended the approach to detecting the death of a given MN type using clustering validity index. Results indicated that 86% of the examined death-detection cases were detected accurately. These results demonstrate that the proposed approach is a successful step in automating neuronal cell-type classification.","PeriodicalId":407809,"journal":{"name":"2018 9th Cairo International Biomedical Engineering Conference (CIBEC)","volume":"207 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":"124661113","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 Segmentation of the Left Ventricle Cavity from Cine MRI Images","authors":"Marwa M. A. Hadhoud","doi":"10.1109/CIBEC.2018.8641836","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIBEC.2018.8641836","url":null,"abstract":"The early diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases plays an important role in the recovery. Diagnosis can be done by evaluating cardiac function. Automatic left ventricle (LV) segmentation is an essential step in the evaluation of cardiac function. In this paper, a new method for segmenting the left ventricle cavity based on pixel classification is proposed. In the proposed method, a set of features (i.e. the gradient magnitude, the Laplacian of Gaussian (LOG) filter, and the pixel intensity value) are used. To show the local properties of neighbored pixels, a set of non-overlapped patches are used, followed by the principal component analysis (PCA) for feature reduction. Then the reduced feature vector with the ground truth labels are used with the K-nearest neighbor (KNN) classifier in the segmentation of the LV cavity. Experimental results illustrate the reliability of the proposed method which achieves sensitivity and specificity of 96.89 % and 98.7%.","PeriodicalId":407809,"journal":{"name":"2018 9th Cairo International Biomedical Engineering Conference (CIBEC)","volume":"22 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":"126153898","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}
Sheeba J. Sujit, R. Gabr, Ivan Coronado, M. Robinson, S. Datta, P. Narayana
{"title":"Automated Image Quality Evaluation of Structural Brain Magnetic Resonance Images using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks","authors":"Sheeba J. Sujit, R. Gabr, Ivan Coronado, M. Robinson, S. Datta, P. Narayana","doi":"10.29007/J68T","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29007/J68T","url":null,"abstract":"Automated evaluation of image quality is essential to assure accurate diagnosis and effective patient management. This is particularly important for multi-center studies, typically employed in clinical trials, in which the data are acquired on different machines with different protocols. Visual quality assessment of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data is subjective and impractical for large datasets. Data-intensive deep learning methods such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are promising tools for processing large-scale imaging datasets for automated quality assessment. In this study, we evaluate a CNN-based method for quality assessment of the Autism Brain Imaging Data Exchange (ABIDE) structural brain MRI dataset acquired from 17 sites on more than a thousand subjects. The CNN architecture consisted of an input layer, four convolution layers, two fully connected layers, and an output layer. A balanced set of 348 image volumes was used in the study. 60% of the data was used for training, 15% for validation, and 25% for testing. The results of the automated approach were compared with the evaluation by the radiologist. Performance of the CNN was assessed using the confusion matrix. The concordance in image quality labels between the expert and CNN was 86% (sensitivity = 81%, specificity = 92%). The present study shows that the proposed model can evaluate the image quality of brain MRI with higher classification accuracy compared to previous state-of-the-art classical machine learning algorithms.","PeriodicalId":407809,"journal":{"name":"2018 9th Cairo International Biomedical Engineering Conference (CIBEC)","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117092959","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}