Journal of Biomedical And Health Informatics
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±-Satellite: An AI-driven System and Benchmark Datasets for Dynamic COVID-19 Risk Assessment in the United States
Ye Yanfang, Hou Shifu, Fan Yujie, Zhang Yiming, Qian Yiyue, Sun Shiyu, Peng Qian, Ju Mingxuan, Song Wei, Loparo Kenneth
The fast evolving and deadly outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has posed grand challenges to human society...
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Posted on 30 SEP 2020
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Special Issue on AI-driven Informatics, Sensing, Imaging and Big Data Analytics for Fighting the COVID-19 Pandemic
In this issue, vol. 24, issue 10, October 2020, 8 papers are published related to the topic Special Issue on AI-driven Informatics, Sensing, Imaging and Big Data Analytics for Fighting the COVID-19 Pandemic. Please click here to view them, with links in IEEE XPLORE...
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Posted on 30 SEP 2020
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Sensor Informatics
In this issue, vol. 24, issue 10, October 2020, 5 papers are published related to the topic Sensor Informatics. Please click here to view them, with links in IEEE XPLORE...
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Posted on 30 SEP 2020
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Imaging Informatics
In this issue vol. 24, issue 10, October 2020, 6 papers are published related to the topic Imaging Informatics. Please click here to view them, with links in IEEE XPLORE...
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Posted on 30 SEP 2020
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Medical Informatics
In this issue, vol. 24, issue 10, October 2020, 7 papers are published related to the topic Medical Informatics. Please click here to view them, with links in IEEE XPLORE...
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Posted on 30 SEP 2020
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Bioinformatics
In this issue, vol. 24, issue 10, October 2020, 4 papers are published related to the topic Bioinformatics. Please click here to view them, with links in IEEE XPLORE...
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Posted on 30 SEP 2020
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Public Health Informatics
In this issue, vol. 24, issue 10, October 2020, 1 paper is published related to the topic Public Health Informatics. Please click here to view it, with link in IEEE XPLORE...
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Posted on 30 SEP 2020
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Medical Informatics
In this issue, vol. 24, issue 9, September 2020, 10 papers are published related to the topic Medical Informatics. Please click here to view them, with links in IEEE XPLORE...
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Posted on 28 AUG 2020
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Imaging Informatics
In this issue vol. 24, issue 9, September 2020, 3 papers are published related to the topic Imaging Informatics. Please click here to view them, with links in IEEE XPLORE...
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Posted on 28 AUG 2020
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Sensor Informatics
In this issue, vol. 24, issue 9, September 2020, 5 papers are published related to the topic Sensor Informatics. Please click here to view them, with links in IEEE XPLORE...
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Posted on 28 AUG 2020
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Special Issue on Enabling Technologies in Health Engineering and Informatics for the New Revolution
In this issue, vol. 24, issue 9, September 2020, 11 papers are published related to the topic Special Issue on Enabling Technologies in Health Engineering and Informatics for the New Revolution. Please click here to view them, with links in IEEE XPLORE...
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Posted on 28 AUG 2020
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Homecare Robotic Systems for Healthcare 4.0: Visions and Enabling Technologies
Geng Yang, Pang Zhibo, Deen M. Jamal, Dong Mianxiong, Yuan-Ting Zhang, Nigel Lovell, Amir M. Rahmani
Powered by the technologies that have originated from manufacturing, the fourth revolution of healthcare technologies is happening (Healthcare 4.0). As an example of such revolution, new generation homecare robotic systems (HRS) based on the cyber-physical systems (CPS) with higher speed and more intelligent execution are emerging. In this article, the new visions and features of the CPS-based HRS are proposed...
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Posted on 28 AUG 2020
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Bioinformatics
In this issue, vol. 24, issue 8, August 2020, 2 papers are published related to the topic Bioinformatics. Please click here to view them, with links in IEEE XPLORE.
Predicting human lncRNA-disease associations based on geometric matrix completion
Lu, Chengqian; Yang, Mengyun;...
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Posted on 30 JUL 2020
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Medical Informatics
In this issue, vol. 24, issue 8, August 2020, 8 papers are published related to the topic Medical Informatics. Please click here to view them, with links in IEEE XPLORE.
Long Short-Term Memory Recurrent Neural Networks for Multiple Diseases Risk Prediction...
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Posted on 30 JUL 2020
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Imaging Informatics
In this issue vol. 24, issue 8, August 2020, 7 papers are published related to the topic Imaging Informatics. Please click here to view them, with links in IEEE XPLORE.
Mitochondria segmentation from EM images via hierarchical structured contextual forestPeng, Jialin;...
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Posted on 30 JUL 2020
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Special Section on Blockchain and Healthcare Computing
In this issue, vol. 24, issue 8, August 2020, 4 papers are published related to the topic Special Issue on Blockchain and Healthcare Computing. Please click here to view them, with links in IEEE XPLORE.
Decentralized Authentication of Distributed-Healthcare Hospital Patients...
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Posted on 30 JUL 2020
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Special Issue on Integrative Sensor Networks, Informatics and Modeling for Precision and Preventative
In this issue, vol. 24, issue 7, July 2020, 11 papers are published related to the Special Issue on Integrative Sensor Networks, Informatics and Modeling for Precision and Preventative. Please click here to view them, with links in IEEE XPLORE.
Mainstreaming...
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Posted on 1 JUL 2020
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AI in Medical Imaging Informatics: Current Challenges and Future Directions
Andreas S. Panayides, Amir Amini, Nenad Filipovic, Ashish Sharma, Sotirios Tsaftaris, Alistair Young, David J. Foran, Nhan Do, Spyretta Golemati, Tahsin Kurc, Kun Huang, Konstantina S. Nikita, Ben P. Veasey, Michalis Zervakis, Joel H. Saltz, Constantinos S. Pattichis
This paper reviews state-of-the-art research solutions across the spectrum of medical imaging informatics, discusses clinical translation, and provides future directions for advancing clinical practice. More specifically, it summarizes advances in medical imaging acquisition technologies for different modalities, highlighting the necessity...
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Posted on 1 JUL 2020
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Special Issue on Internet of Medical Things for Health Engineering
In this issue, vol. 24, issue 6, June 2020, 4 papers are published related to the Special Issue on Internet of Medical Things for Health Engineering. Please click here to view them, with links in IEEE XPLORE.
IoT-enabled Dual-arm Motion Capture...
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Posted on 2 JUN 2020
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IoT-enabled Dual-arm Motion Capture and Mapping for Telerobotics in Home Care
With the paradigm shift from hospital-centric healthcare to home-centric healthcare in Healthcare 4.0, healthcare robotics has become one of the fastest growing fields of robotics. The combination of robot capabilities with human intelligence, for example, telerobotics for home care, is...
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Posted on 2 JUN 2020
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Predicting Quality of Overnight Glycaemic Control in Type 1 Diabetes using Binary Classifiers
Amparo Guemes, Giacomo Cappon, Bernard Hernandez, Monika Reddy, Nick Oliver, Pantelis Georgiou, Pau Herrero
ype 1 diabetes management, maintaining nocturnal blood glucose within target range can be challenging. Although semi-automatic systems to modulate insulin pump delivery, such as low-glucose insulin suspension and the artificial pancreas, are starting to become a reality, their elevated cost and performance below user expectations is hindering their adoption...
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Posted on 30 APR 2020
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Special Issue on Deep Learning in Ultrasound Imaging
In this issue, vol. 24, issue 4, April 2020, 13 papers are published related to the topic Sensor Informatics. Please click here to view them, with links in IEEE XPLORE.
A Generic Quality Control Framework for Fetal Ultrasound Cardiac Four-chamber Planes
Dong,...
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Posted on 3 APR 2020
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Localizing B-lines in Lung Ultrasonography by Weakly-Supervised Deep Learning, in-vivo results
Lung ultrasound (LUS) is nowadays gaining growing attention from both the clinical and technical world. Of particular interest are several imaging-artifacts, e.g., A- and B- line artifacts. While A-lines are a visual pattern which essentially represent a healthy lung surface,...
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Posted on 3 APR 2020
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Relative Afferent Pupillary Defect Screening through Transfer Learning
Abnormalities in pupillary light reflex can indicate optic nerve disorders that may lead to permanent visual loss if not diagnosed in an early stage. In this study, we focus on relative afferent pupillary defect (RAPD), which is based on the...
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Posted on 2 MAR 2020
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Thorax-Net: An Attention Regularized Deep Neural Network for Classification of Thoracic Diseases on Chest Radiography
Deep learning techniques have been increasingly used to provide more accurate and more accessible diagnosis of thorax diseases on chest radiographs. However, due to the lack of dense annotation of large-scale chest radiograph data, this computer-aided diagnosis task is intrinsically...
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Posted on 3 FEB 2020
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Special Issue on Predictive Intelligence in Biomedical and Health Informatics
In this issue, vol. 24, issue 2, February 2020, 17 papers are published related to the Special Issue on Predictive Intelligence in Biomedical and Health Informatics.
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Multimodal Sparse Classifier for Adolescent...
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Posted on 3 FEB 2020
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Sensor Informatics
In this issue, vol. 24, issue 2, February 2020, 5 papers are published related to the topic Sensor Informatics. Please click here to view them, with links in IEEE XPLORE.
MFB-CBRNN: a hybrid network for MI detection using 12-lead ECGs
Liu, Wenhan;...
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Posted on 3 FEB 2020
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Imaging Informatics
In this issue vol. 24, issue 2, February 2020, 4 papers are published related to the topic Imaging Informatics. Please click here to view them, with links in IEEE XPLORE.
A hybrid global-local representation CNN model for automatic cataract grading
Xu, Xi;...
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Posted on 3 FEB 2020
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Bioinformatics
In this issue, vol. 24, issue 2, February 2020, 1 paper is published related to the topic Bioinformatics. Please click here to view it, with link in IEEE XPLORE.
Computational identification of RNA-Seq based miRNA-mediated prognostic modules in cancer
Pan, Chu; Luo,...
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Posted on 3 FEB 2020
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Credibility of In Silico Trial Technologies – A Theoretical Framing
Marco Viceconti, Miguel A. Juárez, Cristina Curreli, Marzio Pennisi, Giulia Russo, Francesco Pappalardo
Different research communities have developed various approaches to assess the credibility of predictive models. Each approach usually works well for a specific type of model, and under some epistemic conditions that are normally satisfied within that specific research domain. Recently,...
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Posted on 30 DEC 2019
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Special Session on Information Fusion for Medical Data: Early, Late and Deep Fusion Methods for Multimodal Data
In this issue, vol. 24, issue 1, January 2020, 5 papers were published as part of the Special Session on Information Fusion for Medical Data: Early, Late and Deep Fusion Methods for Multimodal Data. Please click below to view them...
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Posted on 30 DEC 2019
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Sensor Informatics
In this issue, vol. 24, issue 1, January 2020, 8 papers were published related to the topic Sensor Informatics. Please click below to view them on IEEE XPLORE.
Mitigation of Instrument-Dependent Variability in Ballistocardiogram Morphology: Case Study on Force Plate and...
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Posted on 30 DEC 2019
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Imaging Informatics
In this issue, vol. 24, issue 1, January 2020, 7 papers were published related to the topic Imaging Informatics. Please click below to view them on IEEE XPLORE.
An Early Disc Herniation Identification System for Advancement in the Standard Medical Screening...
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Posted on 30 DEC 2019
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Medical Informatics
In this issue, vol. 24, issue 1, January 2020, 8 papers were published related to the topic Medical Informatics. Please click below to view them on IEEE XPLORE.
Pattern-Reversal Visual Evoked Potential on Smart Glasses
Terracciano, Rossana; Sanginario, Alessandro; Barbero, Simona; Putignano,...
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Posted on 30 DEC 2019
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Bioinformatics
In this issue, vol. 24, issue 1, January 2020, 1 paper was published related to the topic Bioinformatics. Please click below to view them on IEEE XPLORE.
GESgnExt: Gene Expression Signature Extraction and Meta-analysis on Gene Expression Omnibus
Yan, Shankai; Wong, Ka-Chun...
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Posted on 30 DEC 2019
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Public Health Informatics
In this issue, vol. 24, issue 1, January 2020, 1 paper was published related to the topic Public Health Informatics. Please click below to view them on IEEE XPLORE.
Team collaboration networks and multidisciplinarity in diabetes care: Implications for patient outcomes
Saint-Pierre,...
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Posted on 30 DEC 2019
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Moving-tolerant Augmented Reality Surgical Navigation System using Autostereoscopic 3D Image Overlay
Augmented reality (AR) surgical navigation systems based on image overlay have been used in minimally invasive surgery (MIS). However, conventional systems still suffer from a limited viewing zone, a shortage of intuitive three-dimensional (3D) image guidance and can’t be moved...
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Posted on 30 OCT 2019
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Special Session on Small Things and Big Data: Controversies and Challenges in Digital Healthcare
In this issue, vol. 23, issue 6, November 2019,4 papers were published as part of the Special Session on Small Things and Big Data: Controversies and Challenges in Digital Healthcare. Please click below to view them on IEEE XPLORE.
Deep Endoscopic...
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Posted on 30 OCT 2019
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Special Session on Pervasive Sensing and Machine Learning for Mental Health
In this issue, vol. 23, issue 6, November 2019, 7 papers were published as part of the Special Session on Pervasive Sensing and Machine Learning for Mental Health. Please click below to view them on IEEE XPLORE.
Assessment of e-Social Activity...
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Posted on 30 OCT 2019
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Sensor Informatics
In this issue, vol. 23, issue 6, November 2019, 17 papers were published related to the topic Sensor Informatics. Please click below to view them on IEEE XPLORE.
Postoperative Pain Assessment Model Based on Pulse Contour Characteristics Analysis
Seok, Hyeon Seok; Choi,...
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Posted on 30 OCT 2019
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Imaging Informatics
In this issue, vol. 23, issue 6, November 2019, 11 papers were published related to the topic Imaging Informatics. Please click below to view them on IEEE XPLORE.
Moving-tolerant Augmented Reality Surgical Navigation System using Autostereoscopic 3D Image Overlay
Ma, Cong; Chen,...
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Posted on 30 OCT 2019
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Medical Informatics
In this issue, vol. 23, issue 6, November 2019, 6 papers were published related to the topic Medical Informatics. Please click below to view them on IEEE XPLORE.
Measuring Oxygen Saturation with Smartphone Cameras using Convolutional Neural Networks
Ding, Xinyi; Nassehi, Damoun...
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Posted on 30 OCT 2019
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Bioinformatics
In this issue, vol. 23, issue 6, November 2019, 2 papers were published related to the topic Bioinformatics. Please click below to view them on IEEE XPLORE.
Computational Prediction of Human Disease-associated circRNAs based on Manifold Regularization Learning Framework
Xiao, Qiu; Luo,...
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Posted on 30 OCT 2019
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Regression Convolutional Neural Network for Automated Pediatric Bone Age Assessment from Hand Radiograph
Xuhua Ren, Tingting Li, Xiujun Yang, Shuai Wang, Sahar Ahmad, Lei Xiang, Shaun Richard Stone, Lihong Li, Yiqiang Zhan, Dinggang Shen, Qian Wang
Skeletal bone age assessment is a common clinical practice to investigate endocrinology, genetic and growth disorders of children. However, clinical interpretation and bone age analyses are time-consuming, labor intensive and often subject to inter-observer variability. This advocates the need of...
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Posted on 29 AUG 2019
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Special Session on Biomedical Informatics across the Cancer Continuum
In this issue, vol. 23, issue 5, September 2019, 4 papers are published related to the Special Session on Biomedical Informatics across the Cancer Continuum.
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Neural networks for deep radiotherapy dose...
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Posted on 29 AUG 2019
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Special Session on Interactive Virtual Environments for Neuroscience
In this issue, vol. 23, issue 5, September 2019, 5 papers are published related to the Special Session on Interactive Virtual Environments for Neuroscience Editorial.
A smartphone application for automated decision support in cognitive task based evaluation of central nervous system...
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Posted on 29 AUG 2019
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Sensor Informatics
In this issue, vol. 23, issue 5, September 2019, 11 papers are published related to the topic Sensor Informatics. Please click here to view them, with links in IEEE XPLORE.
Wearable Motion-based Heart-rate at Rest: A Workplace Evaluation
Javier Hernandez; Daniel McDuff;...
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Posted on 29 AUG 2019
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Imaging Informatics
In this issue, vol. 23, issue 5, September 2019, 8 papers are published related to the topic Imaging Informatics. Please click here to view them, with links in IEEE XPLORE.
Regression Convolutional Neural Network for Automated Pediatric Bone Age Assessment from...
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Posted on 29 AUG 2019
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Medical Informatics
In this issue, vol. 23, issue 5, September 2019, 7 papers are published related to the topic Medical Informatics. Please click here to view them, with links in IEEE XPLORE.
Adversarial MACE Prediction after Acute Coronary Syndrome using Electronic Health Records
Zhengxing...
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Posted on 29 AUG 2019
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Bioinformatics
In this issue, vol. 23, issue 5, September 2019, 1 paper is published related to the topic Bioinformatics. Please click here to view it, with link in IEEE XPLORE.
A Projection Neural Network for Identifying Copy Number Variants
Majid Mohammadi; Amin Mansoori...
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Posted on 29 AUG 2019
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Public Health Informatics
In this issue, vol. 23, issue 5, September 2019, 2 papers are published related to the topic Public Health Informatics. Please click here to view them, with links in IEEE XPLORE.
Microsimulation Model Using Christiana Care Early Warning System (CEWS) to...
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Posted on 29 AUG 2019
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Respiratory Waveform Estimation from Multiple Accelerometers: An Optimal Sensor Number and Placement Analysis
Respiratory rate and phase are important information to assist the assessment of patients’ health in different clinical scenarios. Facial masks are usually employed to record respiratory waveforms, but they cause discomfort and obstruct the breathing of debilitated patients. Accelerometers have...
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Posted on 1 JUL 2019
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Special Issue on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
In this issue, vol. 23, issue 4, July 2019, 11 papers are published as part of the Special Session on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging. Please click below to view them on IEEE XPLORE.
Automated Layer Segmentation of Retinal Optical Coherence...
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Posted on 1 JUL 2019
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Special Issue on Advances on Neuro-Informatics
In this issue, vol. 23, issue 4, July 2019, 3 papers are published as a part of the Special Session on Advances on Neuroinformatics. Please click below to view them on IEEE XPLORE.
Aberrant Brain Connectivity in Schizophrenia Detected via a...
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Posted on 1 JUL 2019
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Sensor Informatics
In this issue, vol. 23, issue 4, July 2019, 13 papers are published related to the topic Sensor Informatics. Please click below to view them on IEEE XPLORE.
Multiday Evaluation of Techniques for EMG Based Classification of Hand Motions
Waris, Asim; Niazi,...
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Posted on 1 JUL 2019
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Imaging Informatics
In this issue, vol. 23, issue 4, July 2019, 9 papers are published related to the topic Imaging Informatics. Please click below to view them on IEEE XPLORE.
Towards Zero Re-training for Long-term Hand Gesture Recognition via Ultrasound Sensing
Yang, Xingchen; Zhou,...
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Posted on 1 JUL 2019
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Medical Informatics
In this issue, vol. 23, issue 4, July 2019, 6 papers are published related to the topic Medical Informatics. Please click below to view them on IEEE XPLORE.
Anonymity preserving and Lightweight Multi-Medical Server Authentication Protocol for Telecare Medical Information System
Amin,...
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Posted on 1 JUL 2019
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Bioinformatics
In this issue, vol. 23, issue 4, July 2019, 1 paper was published related to the topic Bioinformatics. Please click below to view it at IEEE XPLORE.
HerGePred: Heterogeneous Network Embedding Representation for Disease Gene Prediction
Yang, Kuo; Wang, Ruyu; Liu, Guangming...
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Posted on 1 JUL 2019
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Public Health Informatics
In this issue, vol. 23, issue 4, July 2019, 1 paper was published related to the topic Public Health Informatics. Please click below to view it at IEEE XPLORE.
Feasibility of Automated Mobility Assessment of Older Adults via an Instrumented Cane
Wade,...
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Posted on 1 JUL 2019
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Remote Assessment of Cognitive Impairment Level based on Serious Mobile Game Performance: An Initial Proof of Concept
Hee-Tae Jung, Jean-Francois Daneault, Hyunsuk Lee, Kwangwook Kim, Byeongil Kim, Sungji Park, Taekyeong Ryu, Yangsoo Kim, Sunghoon Ivan Lee
The number of individuals with permanent cognitive disabilities is increasing worldwide due to aging societies. It is important to longitudinally monitor changes in the cognitive functional and impairment levels of these individuals in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the...
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Posted on 6 MAY 2019
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Position Paper Deep Learning: Current and Emerging Applications in Medicine and Technology
Machine learning is enabling researchers to analyze and understand increasingly complex physical and biological phenomena in traditional fields such as biology, medicine, and engineering and emerging fields like synthetic biology, automated chemical synthesis, and bio-manufacturing. These fields require new paradigms...
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Posted on 6 MAY 2019
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Special Issue on AI Enabled Connected Health Informatics (IEEE BHI 2018)
In this issue, vol. 23, issue 3, May 2019, 9 papers were published related to the Special Session on AI Enabled Connected Health Informatics (IEEE BHI 2018). Please click below to view them at IEEE XPLORE.
Extending 2D Convolutional Neural Networks...
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Posted on 6 MAY 2019
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Sensor Informatics
In this issue, vol. 23, issue 3, May 2019, 9 papers were published related to the topic Sensor Informatics. Please click below to view them at IEEE XPLORE.
Automatic Detection of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Using Wavelet Transform and Entropy based Features...
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Posted on 6 MAY 2019
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Imaging Informatics
In this issue, vol. 23, issue 3, May 2019, 14 papers were published related to the topic Imaging Informatics. Please click below to view them at IEEE XPLORE.
A Survey of Feature Extraction in Dermoscopy Image Analysis of Skin Cancer
Fidalgo Barata,...
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Posted on 6 MAY 2019
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Medical Informatics
In this issue, vol. 23, issue 3, May 2019, 5 paper were published related to the topic Medical Informatics. Please click below to view them at IEEE XPLORE.
Novel Data Imputation for Multiple Types of Missing Data in Intensive Care Units
Venugopalan,...
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Posted on 6 MAY 2019
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Bioinformatics
In this issue, vol. 23, issue 3, May 2019, 5 papers were published related to the topic Bioinformatics. Please click below to view them at IEEE XPLORE.
Protein-protein Interactions Prediction via Multimodal Deep Polynomial Network and Regularized Extreme Learning Machine
Lei, Haijun;...
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Posted on 6 MAY 2019
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Public Health Informatics
In this issue, vol. 23, issue 3, May 2019, 1 paper was published related to the topic Public Health Informatics. Please click below to view it at IEEE XPLORE.
Proposal for an eHealth Based Ecosystem Serving National Healthcare
Schiza, Eirini; Kyprianou, Theodoros;...
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Posted on 6 MAY 2019
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DermaKNet: Incorporating the knowledge of dermatologists to Convolutional Neural Networks for skin lesion diagnosis
Traditional approaches to automatic diagnosis of skin lesions consisted of classifiers working on sets of hand-crafted features, some of which modeled lesion aspects of special importance for dermatologists. Recently, the broad adoption of Convolutional Neural Networks(CNNs)in most computer vision tasks...
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Posted on 4 MAR 2019
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Position Paper Into the Wild: The Challenges of Physiological Stress Detection in Laboratory and Ambulatory Settings
Stress and mental health have become major concerns worldwide. Research has already extensively investigated physiological signals as quantitative and continuous markers of stress. In recent years the focus of the field has shifted from the laboratory to the ambulatory environment....
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Posted on 27 FEB 2019
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Review Paper on Dermoscopy Image Analysis: Overview and Future Directions
Dermoscopy is a non-invasive skin imaging technique that permits visualization of features of pigmented melanocytic neoplasms that are not discernable by examination with the naked eye. While studies on the automated analysis of dermoscopy images date back to the late...
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Posted on 27 FEB 2019
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Special Issue on Skin Lesion Image Analysis for Melanoma Detection
In this issue, vol. 23, issue 2, March 2019, 12 papers were published as part of the Special Session on Skin Lesion Image Analysis for Melanoma Detection. Please click below to view them at IEEE XPLORE.
SDI+: a Novel Algorithm for...
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Posted on 27 FEB 2019
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Sensor Informatics
In this issue, vol. 23, issue 2, March 2019, 11 papers were published related to the topic Sensor Informatics. Please click below to view them at IEEE XPLORE.
The Use of A Finger-Worn Accelerometer for Monitoring of Hand Use in Ambulatory...
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Posted on 27 FEB 2019
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Imaging Informatics
In this issue, vol. 23, issue 2, March 2019, 11 papers were published related to the topic Imaging Informatics. Please click below to view them at IEEE XPLORE.
Semantic Segmentation of Pathological Lung Tissue with Dilated Fully Convolutional Networks
Anthimopoulos, Marios; Christodoulidis,...
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Posted on 27 FEB 2019
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Medical Informatics
In this issue, vol. 23, issue 2, March 2019, 8 papers were published related to the topic Medical Informatics. Please click below to view them at IEEE XPLORE.
A Review of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Detection Approaches
Mendonηa, Fabio; Mostafa, Sheikh Shanawaz; Ravelo-Garcνa,...
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Posted on 27 FEB 2019
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Position Paper on Computational Cardiology
Computational cardiology is the scientific field devoted to the development of methodologies that enhance our mechanistic understanding, diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease. In this regard, the field embraces the extraordinary pace of discovery in imaging, computational modeling and cardiovascular...
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Posted on 28 DEC 2018
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Special Section on Integrating Informatics and Technology for Precision Medicine
In this issue, vol. 23, issue 1, January 2019, 7 papers are published related to the Special Section on Integrating Informatics and Technology for Precision Medicine.
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A Network-Based Perspective in...
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Posted on 28 DEC 2018
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Special Section on Biomedical Data Learning, Reasoning, and Representation
In this issue, vol. 23, issue 1, January 2019, 3 papers are published related to the Special Section on Biomedical Data Learning, Reasoning, and Representation. Please click here to view them, with links in IEEE XPLORE.
A Multi-view Deep Learning...
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Posted on 28 DEC 2018
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Sensor Informatics
In this issue, vol. 23, issue 1, January 2019, 11 papers are published related to the topic Sensor Informatics. Please click here to view them, with links in IEEE XPLORE.
A Multi Rate Marginalized Particle Extended Kalman Filter for P...
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Posted on 28 DEC 2018
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Imaging Informatics
In this issue, vol. 23, issue 1, January 2019, 14 papers are published related to the topic Imaging Informatics. Please click here to view them, with links in IEEE XPLORE.
Kidney Detection in 3D Ultrasound Imagery Via Shape to Volume...
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Posted on 28 DEC 2018
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Medical Informatics
In this issue, vol. 23, issue 1, January 2019, 4 papers are published related to the topic Medical Informatics. Please click here to view them, with links in IEEE XPLORE.
An enhanced device-transparent real-time teleconsultation environment for radiologists
Andrikos, Christos; Rassias,...
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Posted on 28 DEC 2018
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Bioinformatics
In this issue, vol. 23, issue 1, January 2019, 4 papers are published related to the topic Bioinformatics. Please click here to view them, with links in IEEE XPLORE.
Multiple-criteria decision analysis-based multifactor dimensionality reduction for detecting gene-gene interactions
Yang, Cheng-Hong;...
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Posted on 28 DEC 2018
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IoT-Based Remote Pain Monitoring System: From Device to Cloud Platform
Geng Yang, Mingzhe Jiang, Wei Ouyang, Guangchao Ji, Haibo Xie, Amir M. Rahmani, Pasi Liljeberg, Hannu Tenhunen
Pain prompts the body to react and prevent further tissue damage. It should be controlled timely and adequately to promote the tissue damage healing process as well as well-being. Valid and reliable assessment of pain is a crucial prerequisite to...
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Posted on 30 OCT 2018
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Special Issue on Health Engineering and Informatics Driven by the Industry4.0 for Aging Society
In this issue, vol. 22, issue 6, November 2018, 12 papers are published related to the Special Issue on Health Engineering and Informatics Driven by the Industry4.0 for Aging Society. Please click below to view them in IEEE XPLORE.
IoT-based Remote...
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Posted on 30 OCT 2018
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Sensor Informatics
In this issue, vol. 22, issue 6, November 2018, 7 papers are published related to the topic Sensor Informatics. Please click below to view them in IEEE XPLORE.
Particle Filtering and Sensor Fusion for Robust Heart Rate Monitoring using Wearable Sensors
Nathan,...
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Posted on 30 OCT 2018
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Imaging Informatics
In this issue, vol. 22, issue 6, November 2018, 2 papers are published related to the topic Imaging Informatics. Please click below to view them in IEEE XPLORE.
Left Atrial Appendage Segmentation Using Fully Convolutional Neural Networks and Modified Three-dimensional Conditional...
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Posted on 30 OCT 2018
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Medical Informatics
In this issue, vol. 22, issue 6, November 2018, 3 papers are published related to the topic Bioinformatics. Please click below to view them in IEEE XPLORE.
A Low-Power Fall Detector Balancing Sensitivity and False Alarm Rate
Wang, Changhong; Lu, Wei; Redmond,...
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Posted on 30 OCT 2018
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Bioinformatics
In this issue, vol. 22, issue 6, November 2018, 1 paper was published related to the topic Bioinformatics. Please click below to view it in IEEE XPLORE.
Joint Detection of Associations between DNA Methylation and Gene Expression from Multiple Cancers
Fang, Jian;...
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Posted on 30 OCT 2018
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Public Health Informatics
In this issue, vol. 22, issue 6, November 2018, 1 papers was published related to the topic Public Health Informatics. Please click below to view it in IEEE XPLORE.
Predicting High Cost Patients at Point of Admission using Network Science
Srinivasan, Karthik;...
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Posted on 30 OCT 2018
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Combined Seismo- and Gyro-cardiography: A More Comprehensive Evaluation of Heart-Induced Chest Vibrations.
Seismo-cardiography (SCG) is the measurement of the linear components of heart-induced chest wall vibrations, generally recorded using miniature accelerometers. Recent studies have shown promising results regarding the potential of this modality for monitoring hemodynamic parameters. Complementary to seismo-cardiography, a modality...
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Posted on 31 AUG 2018
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Sensor Informatics
In this issue, vol. 22, issue 5, September 2018, 14 papers are published related to the topic Sensor Informatics. Please click below to view them in IEEE XPLORE.
Nocturnal Heart Rate Variability Spectrum Characterization in Preschool Children with Asthmatic Symptoms
Milagro, Javier;...
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Posted on 31 AUG 2018
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Imaging Informatics
In this issue, vol. 22, issue 5, September 2018, 10 papers are published related to the topic Imaging Informatics. Please click below to view them in IEEE XPLORE.
Anatomical Landmark based Deep Feature Representation for MR Images in Brain Disease...
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Posted on 31 AUG 2018
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Medical Informatics
In this issue, vol. 22, issue 5, September 2018, 9 papers are published related to the topic Medical Informatics. Please click below to view them in IEEE XPLORE.
Intelligent Mortality Reporting with FHIR
Hoffman, Ryan; Wu, Hang; Venugopalan, Janani; Braun, Paula; Wang,...
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Posted on 31 AUG 2018
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Public Health Informatics
In this issue, vol. 22, issue 5, September 2018, 2 papers are published related to the topic Public Health Informatics. Please click below to view it in IEEE XPLORE.
Home Monitoring of Blood Pressure: Short-Term Changes during Serial Measurements for...
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Posted on 31 AUG 2018
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Optimized Automated Segmentation and 3D Reconstruction Using Intracoronary Optical Coherence Tomography
Lambros Athanasiou, Farhad Rikhtegar Nezami, Micheli Zanotti Galon, Augusto Celso Lopes, Pedro Alves Lemos, José M de la Torre Hernandez, Eyal Ben-Assa, Elazer R. Edelman
Real time segmentation and three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of the coronary arteries is challenging and limited by the increased computational time of the developed computer-aided methods. We present a novel and time-efficient method for intracoronary lumen detection which produces 3D coronary...
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Posted on 29 JUN 2018
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Sensor Informatics
In this issue, vol. 22, issue 4, July 2018, 21 papers are published related to the topic Sensor Informatics. Please click below to view them in IEEE XPLORE.
Validation of a Commercial Android Smartwatch as an Activity Monitoring Platform
Perez-Macias, Jose Maria;...
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Posted on 29 JUN 2018
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Imaging Informatics
In this issue, vol. 22, issue 4, July 2018, 12 papers are published related to the topic Imaging Informatics. Please click below to view them in IEEE XPLORE.
Optimized computer-aided segmentation and 3D reconstruction using intracoronary optical coherence tomography
Athanasiou, Lambros; Rikhtegar...
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Posted on 29 JUN 2018
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Medical Informatics
In this issue, vol. 22, issue 4, July 2018, 4 papers are published related to the topic Medical Informatics. Please click below to view them in IEEE XPLORE.
A Trust Model for Ubiquitous Healthcare Environment on the Basis of Adaptable Fuzzy-Probabilistic...
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Posted on 29 JUN 2018
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Reliability of Lagged Poincare Plot Parameters in Ultra-Short Heart Rate Variability Series: Application on Affective Sounds
The number of studies about ultra-short cardiovascular time series is increasing because of the demand for mobile applications in telemedicine and e-health monitoring. However, the current literature still needs a proper validation of heartbeat nonlinear dynamics assessment from ultra-short time...
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Posted on 30 APR 2018
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Sensor Informatics
In this issue, vol. 22, issue 3, May 2018, 18 papers are published related to the topic Sensor Informatics. Please click below to view them in IEEE XPLORE.
Deep belief networks for electroencephalography: A review of recent contributions and future outlooks
Movahedi,...
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Posted on 30 APR 2018
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Imaging Informatics
In this issue, vol. 22, issue 3, May 2018, 10 papers are published related to the topic Imaging Informatics. Please click below to view them in IEEE XPLORE.
Three-Dimensional Intravascular Reconstruction Techniques Based on Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS): A Technical Review
Shi, Chaoyang;...
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Posted on 30 APR 2018
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Medical Informatics
In this issue, vol. 22, issue 3, May 2018, 4 papers are published related to the topic Medical Informatics. Please click below to view them in IEEE XPLORE.
A Knowledge-Constrained Access Control Model for Protecting Patient Privacy in Hospital
Zhang, Runtong; Chen,...
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Posted on 30 APR 2018
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Bioinformatics
In this issue, vol. 22, issue 3, May 2018, 2 papers are published related to the topic Bioinformatics. Please click below to view them in IEEE XPLORE.
Simulation of Healing Threshold in Strain-Induced Inflammation through a Discrete Informatics Model
Ibrahim, Israr; Oruganti,...
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Posted on 30 APR 2018
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Public Health Informatics
In this issue, vol. 22, issue 3, May 2018, 1 paper is published related to the topic Public Health Informatics. Please click below to view it in IEEE XPLORE.
Modeling the Length of Stay of Respiratory Patients in Emergency Department Using...
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Posted on 30 APR 2018
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Mobile Stride Length Estimation with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
Julius Hannink, Thomas Kautz, Cristian F. Pasluosta, Jens Barth, Samuel Schülein, Karl-Günter Gaßmann, Jochen Klucken, Bjoern M. Eskofier
Accurate estimation of spatial gait characteristics is critical to assess motor impairments resulting from neurological or musculoskeletal disease. Currently, however, methodological constraints limit clinical applicability of state-of-the-art double integration approaches to gait patterns with a clear zero-velocity phase. We describe...
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Posted on 28 FEB 2018
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Special Issue on Informatics for Personalized, Precision and Preventive Healthcare (3P Healthcare), IEEE BHI 2017
In this issue, vol. 22, issue 2, March 2018, 6 papers are published as part of the Special Issue on Informatics for Personalized, Precision and Preventive Healthcare (3P Healthcare), IEEE BHI 2017. Please click below to view them in IEEE...
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Posted on 27 FEB 2018
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Sensor Informatics
In this issue, vol. 22, issue 2, March 2018, 14 papers are published related to the topic Sensor Informatics. Please click below to view them in IEEE XPLORE.
Mobile Stride Length Estimation with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
Hannink, Julius; Kautz, Thomas; Pasluosta,...
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Posted on 27 FEB 2018
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Imaging Informatics
In this issue, vol. 22, issue 2, March 2018, 8 papers are published related to the topic Imaging Informatics. Please click below to view them in IEEE XPLORE.
Statistical shape modeling of the left ventricle: myocardial infarct classification challenge
Suinesiaputra, Avan; Ablin,...
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Posted on 27 FEB 2018
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Medical Informatics
In this issue, vol. 22, issue 2, March 2018, 6 papers are published related to the topic Medical Informatics. Please click below to view them in IEEE XPLORE.
Tackling missing data in community health studies using additive LS-SVM classifier
Wang, Guanjin; Deng,...
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Posted on 27 FEB 2018
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Bioinformatics
In this issue, vol. 22, issue 2, March 2018, 1 paper is published related to the topic Bioinformatics. Please click below to view it in IEEE XPLORE.
In-silico Modeling of the Functional Role of Reduced Sialylation in Sodium and Potassium
Du, Dongping;...
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Posted on 27 FEB 2018
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DREAMER: A Database for Emotion Recognition Through EEG and ECG Signals From Wireless Low-Cost Off-the-Shelf Devices
DREAMER is a multi-modal database consisting of electroencephalogram (EEG) and electrocardiogram (ECG) signals recorded during affect elicitation by means of audio-visual stimuli in the form of film clips. The database contains the recorded signals from 23 participants, as well as...
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Posted on 18 DEC 2017
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Special Section: 13th Body Sensor Networks Symposium
Wearable and implantable sensor systems have been a unifying theme for the annual Body Sensors Network (BSN) symposium since its conception by Guang-Zhong Yang at Imperial College in 2004. However, each year the meeting takes on the unique character and...
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Posted on 18 DEC 2017
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Sensor Informatics
In this issue, vol. 22, issue 1, January 2018, 12 papers have been published related to the topic Sensor informatics. Please click below to view them in IEEE XPLORE.
BioPad: Leveraging Off-the-Shelf Video Games for Stress Self-Regulation
Wang, Zelun; Parnandi, Avinash; Gutierrez-Osuna,...
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Posted on 18 DEC 2017
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Imaging Informatics
In this issue, vol. 22, issue 1, January 2018, 8 papers have been published related to the topic Imaging informatics. Please click below to view them in IEEE XPLORE.
Three Dimensional Visual Patient Based on Electronic Medical Diagnostic Records
Shi, Liehang; Sun,...
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Posted on 18 DEC 2017
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Medical Informatics
In this issue, vol. 22, issue 1, January 2018, 4 papers have been published related to the topic Medical informatics. Please click below to view them in IEEE XPLORE.
Deep Learning for Automated Extraction of Primary Sites from Cancer Pathology Reports
Qiu,...
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Posted on 18 DEC 2017
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Public Health Informatics
In this issue, vol. 22, issue 1, January 2018, 1 paper is published related to the topic Imaging informatics. Please click below to view them in IEEE XPLORE.
Early Detection of Peak Demand Days of Chronic Respiratory Diseases Emergency Department Visits...
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Posted on 18 DEC 2017
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Sensor Informatics
In this issue, vol. 21, issue 6, November 2017, 14 papers are published related to the topic Sensor Informatics. Please click below to view them in IEEE XPLORE.
Differences between Gait on Stairs and Flat Surfaces in Relation to Fall Risk...
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Posted on 20 OCT 2017
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Medical Informatics
In this issue, vol. 21, issue 6, November 2017, 5 papers are published related to the topic Medical Informatics. Please click below to view them in IEEE XPLORE.
Hemorrhage prediction models in surgical intensive care: bedside monitoring data adds information to...
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Posted on 20 OCT 2017
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Imaging Informatics
In this issue, vol. 21, issue 6, November 2017, 10 papers are published related to the topic Imaging Informatics. Please click below to view them in IEEE XPLORE.
Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis using Landmark-based Features from Longitudinal Structural MR Images
Zhang, Jun; Liu,...
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Posted on 20 OCT 2017
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Public Health Informatics
In this issue, vol. 21, issue 6, November 2017, 1 paper is published related to the topic Public Health Informatics. Please click below to view it in IEEE XPLORE.
Automatic Prediction of Health Status using Smartphone Derived Behaviour Profiles
Kelly, Daniel; Curran...
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Posted on 20 OCT 2017
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Validation of an Adaptive Transfer Function Method to Estimate the Aortic Pressure Waveform
Yang Yao, Lisheng Xu, Yingxian Sun, Qiang Fu, Shuran Zhou, Dianning He, Yahui Zhang, Liang Guo, Dingchang Zheng
Aortic pulse wave reflects cardiovascular status, but unlike the peripheral pulse wave, is difficult to be measured reliably using non-invasive techniques. Therefore, the estimation of aortic pulse wave from peripheral ones is of great significance. Traditional methods using generalized transfer...
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Posted on 20 OCT 2017
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A Microsoft Kinect-Based Point-of-Care Gait Assessment Framework for Multiple Sclerosis Patients
Gait impairment is a prevalent and important difficulty for patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), a common neurological disorder. An easy to use tool to objectively evaluate gait in MS patients in a clinical setting can assist clinicians to perform an...
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Posted on 29 AUG 2017
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Sensor Informatics
In this issue, vol. 21, issue 5, September 2017, 8 papers are published related to the topic Sensor informatics. Please click below to view them in IEEE XPLORE.
A Chair-based Unobtrusive Cuffless Blood Pressure Monitoring System Based on Pulse Arrival Time
Tang, Zunyi;...
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Posted on 29 AUG 2017
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Imaging Informatics
In this issue, vol. 21, issue 5, September 2017, 12 papers are published related to the topic imaging informatics. Please click below to view them in IEEE XPLORE.
An Open Benchmark Challenge for Motion Correction of Myocardial Perfusion MRI
Pontri, Beau; Cowan, Brett;...
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Posted on 29 AUG 2017
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Medical Informatics
In this issue, vol. 21, issue 5, September 2017, 5 papers are published related to the topic Medical informatics. Please click below to view them in IEEE XPLORE.
Intelligent Non-invasive Diagnosis of Aneuploidy: Raw Values and Highly Imbalanced Dataset
Neocleous, Andreas; Nicolaides, Kypros;...
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Posted on 29 AUG 2017
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Bioinformatics
In this issue, vol. 21, issue 5, September 2017, 1 paper is published related to the topic Bioinformatics. Please click below to view them in IEEE XPLORE.
Private and Efficient Query Processing on Outsourced Genomic Databases
Ghasemi, Reza; Aziz, Md Momin Al; Mohammed,...
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Posted on 29 AUG 2017
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Public Health Informatics
In this issue, vol. 21, issue 5, September 2017, 3 papers are published related to the topic Public Health Informatics. Please click below to view it in IEEE XPLORE.
Analyzing and Identifying Teens Stressful Periods and Stressor Events from a Microblog
Li,...
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Posted on 29 AUG 2017
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Upcoming Special Issues
Advances on Neuro-Informatics
Neuro-Informatics is one of the most attractive research topics for many generations of Scientists, Engineers, Practitioners, Physicians, others due to its profound importance in healthcare and in our lives, as well. Significant driving forces behind of...
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Posted on 15 AUG 2017
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Parallel vs. Distributed Data Access for Giga-pixel-resolution Histology Images: Challenges and Opportunities
Recent advances in digital pathology technology have led to significant improvements in terms of both the quality and resolution of the resulting images, which now often exceed several Gigabytes each. Today, several leading institutions across the US, utilize whole-slide imaging...
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Posted on 26 JUN 2017
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Imaging Informatics
In this issue, vol. 21, issue 4, July 2017, 12 papers are published related to the topic Imaging informatics. Please click below to view them in IEEE XPLORE.
Occlusion and Slice-based Volume Rendering Augmentation for PET-CT
Jung, Youn Hyun; Kim, Jinman; Feng, Dagan; Fulham,...
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Posted on 26 JUN 2017
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Sensor Informatics
In this issue, vol. 21, issue 4, July 2017, 12 papers are published related to the topic Sensor informatics. Please click below to view them in IEEE XPLORE.
Automated Diagnosis of Epilepsy using Key-point Based Local Binary Pattern of EEG Signals
Tiwari, Ashwani ;...
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Posted on 26 JUN 2017
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Medical Informatics
In this issue, vol. 21, issue 4, July 2017, 4 papers are published related to the topic Medical informatics. Please click below to view them in IEEE XPLORE.
Discovery and Clinical Decision Support for Personalized Healthcare
Yoon, Jinsung; Davtyan, Camelia; van der Schaar,...
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Posted on 26 JUN 2017
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Bioinformatics
In this issue, vol. 21, issue 4, July 2017, 1 paper is published related to the topic Bioinformatics. Please click below to view it in IEEE XPLORE.
Clustering Single-Cell Expression Data Using Random Forest Graphs
BARAN POUYAN, MAZIYAR; Nourani, Mehrdad...
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Posted on 26 JUN 2017
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Public Health Informatics
In this issue, vol. 21, issue 4, July 2017, 1 paper is published related to the topic Public Health Informatics. Please click below to view it in IEEE XPLORE.
A Framework for Mixed-type Multi-outcome Prediction with Applications in Healthcare
Saha, Budhaditya; Gupta,...
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Posted on 26 JUN 2017
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Call for Papers: Health Engineering and Informatics Driven by the Industry4.0 for Aging Society
J-BHI Special Issue on
“Health Engineering and Informatics Driven by the Industry4.0 for Aging Society”
As a traditional research topic of biomedical engineering and health informatics, the aging of population has been globally recognized as one of the top grand challenges. The...
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Posted on 5 MAY 2017
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Towards Unobtrusive Patient Handling Activity Recognition for Reducing Injury Risk among Caregivers
Nurses regularly perform patient handling activities. These activities with awkward postures expose healthcare providers to a high risk of overexertion injury. The recognition of patient handling activities is the first step to timely detect the injury development then reduce injury...
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Posted on 27 APR 2017
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Special Issue on Nutrition Informatics: from Food Monitoring to Dietary Management
Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD), namely diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases and cancer, account for a massively increasing proportion of the global health burden. A number of behavioral and physiological factors are related to the rising onset of NCD worldwide,...
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Posted on 27 APR 2017
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Sensor Informatics
ECG Denoising Using Marginalized Particle Extended Kalman Filter with an Automatic Particle Weighting Strategy
Danandeh Hesar, Hamed; Mohebbi, Maryam
Adaptive Dictionary Reconstruction for Compressed Sensing of ECG Signals
Craven, Darren; McGinley, Brian; Kilmartin, Liam; Glavin, Martin; Jones, Edward
Multiple ECG Fiducial Points based Random...
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Posted on 26 APR 2017
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Imaging Informatics
Silhouette Orientation Volumes for Efficient Fall Detection in Depth Videos
Akagunduz, Erdem; Aslan, Muzaffer; Sengur, Abdulkadir; Wang, Haibo; Once, Melih
Tidal Volume and Instantaneous Respiration Rate Estimation using a Smartphone Camera
Reyes, Bersain; Reljin, Natasa; Kong, Young; Nam, Yunyoung; Chon, Ki
Voxel-based diagnosis of...
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Posted on 26 APR 2017
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Medical Informatics
Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Online Medical Pre-Diagnosis Framework Using Nonlinear SVM
Zhu, Hui; Liu, Xiaoxia; Lu, Rongxing; Li, Hui...
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Posted on 26 APR 2017
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Public Health Informatics
Can Cluster-Boosted Regression Improve Prediction: Death and Length of Stay in the ICU?
Rouzbahman, Mahsa; Jovicic, Aleksandra; Chignell, Mark
Moving Real Exergaming Engines on the Web: The webFitForAll case study in an active and healthy ageing living lab environment
Konstantinidis, Evdokimos; Bamparopoulos, Giorgos;...
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Posted on 26 APR 2017
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Bioinformatics
MIGS-GPU: Microarray Image Gridding and Segmentation on the GPU
Katsigiannis, Stamos; Zacharia, Eleni; Maroulis, Dimitris
Hypoxia Stress Response Pathways: Modeling and Targeted Therapy
Datta, Aniruddha; Vakulabaranam, Sriram; Varghese, Rajani; Venkatraj, Jijayanagaram...
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Posted on 26 APR 2017
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Special Issue: IEEE BHI 2016
The IEEE International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI) is a special topic conference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE-EMBS). BHI2016 was co-located with the Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition in Las Vegas, NV, USA, in...
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Posted on 28 FEB 2017
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Special Issue: Deep Learning for Biomedical and Health Informatics
Deep learning is a rapidly advancing field in recent years, in terms of both methodological development and practical applications. It allows computational models of multiple processing layers to learn and represent data with multiple levels of abstraction. It is able...
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Posted on 30 DEC 2016
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Toward Pervasive Gait Analysis With Wearable Sensors: A Systematic Review
After decades of evolution, measuring instruments for quantitative gait analysis have become an important clinical tool for assessing pathologies manifested by gait abnormalities. However, such instruments tend to be expensive and require expert operation and maintenance besides their high cost,...
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Posted on 8 DEC 2016
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Special Issue: IEEE EMBC 2015
Elsa D. Angelini ; Riccardo Bellazzi ; Walter Besio ; Marius Linguraru
This special issue of the IEEE JOURNAL ON BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH INFORMATICS (JBHI) presents full articles of the work presented at the 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE...
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Posted on 9 SEP 2016
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Special Issue: IEEE BSN 2015
J. Palmer and B. Telfer
Since 2004, the annual International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN) has provided a forum for researchers and leaders from academia, government, and industry to share technical advances and new initiatives in body-worn...
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Posted on 9 SEP 2016
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Special Section: MobiHealth 2014, IEEE HealthCom 2014, and IEEE BHI 2014
Metin Akay; Gouenou Coatrieux; Yang Hao; Dimitrios I. Fotiadis; Andrew Laine; Benny Lo; Konstantina S. Nikita; Norbert Noury; Joel Rodrigues; May D. Wang
In this special section, we gathered papers from three well-known conferences organized in 2014: EAI Mobihealth, IEEE HealthCom, and...
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Posted on 10 MAY 2016
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Classification of Voluntary Cough Airflow Patterns for Prediction of Abnormal Spirometry
Jeffrey S. Reynolds, W. Travis Goldsmith, Jeremy B. Day, Ayman A. Abaza, Ahmed M. Mahmoud, Ali A. Afshari, Jacob B. Barkley, E. Lee Petsonk, Michael L. Kashon, David G. Frazer
Measurement of partial expiratory flow-volume curves has become an important technique in diagnosing lung disease, particularly in children and in the elderly. The objective of this study was to investigate the feasibility of predicting abnormal spirometry using the partial flow-volume...
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Posted on 10 MAY 2016
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DBN-Extended: A Dynamic Bayesian Network Model Extended With Temporal Abstractions for Coronary Heart Disease Prognosis
Temporal abstraction (TA) and dynamic Bayesian networks (DBNs) became two topics of much interest and research in clinical systems. TA is a knowledge-based process that abstracts raw temporal data into higher level interval-based concepts. TA techniques were utilized in various...
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Posted on 10 MAY 2016
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On the Influence of Confounding Factors in Multisite Brain Morphometry Studies of Developmental Pathologies: Application to Autism Spectrum Disorder
Brain anatomical MRI is increasingly viewed as an attractive way to measure biological properties of interest. In particular, numerous neuroimaging studies have shown that it is possible to distinguish patients from healthy control subjects using cortical thickness measurements. In this...
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Posted on 10 MAY 2016
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Modeling the Interplay Between Tumor Volume Regression and Oxygenation in Uterine Cervical Cancer During Radiotherapy Treatment
Antonella Belfatto, Marco Roboldi, Delia Ciardo, Federica Cattani, Agnese Cecconi, Roberta Lazzari, Barbara Alicja Jereczek-Fossa, Roberto Orecchia, Guido Baroni, Pietro Cerveri
A novel modeling approach of tumor growth and response to radiotherapy is presented and tested on cervical cancer patient data. A patient-specific mathematical model is developed to predict the evolution of cancer volume at a macroscopic scale, during fractionated external...
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Posted on 16 MAR 2016
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Lumen Segmentation in Intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography Using Backscattering Tracked and Initialized Random Walks
Abhijit Guha Roy, Sailesh Conjeti, Stéphane G. Carlier, Pranab K. Dutta, Adnan Kastrati, Andrew F. Laine, Nassir Navab, Amin Katouzian, Debdoot Sheet
Intravascular imaging using optical coherence tomography (OCT) is commonly used in interventional cardiology for proper diagnosis and surgical planning. OCT provides high-‐resolution images for detailed investigation of atherosclerosis induced thickening of the lumen wall resulting in arterial blockage and triggering...
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Posted on 16 MAR 2016
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Skull Segmentation and Reconstruction From Newborn CT Images Using Coupled Level Sets
The impact of cranial bones and fontanels-sutures on neuronal source localization in infants by either high-density electroencephalography or high-density functional optical imaging has been proven. However, the main issue in pre-matures and neonates is accurate identification and extraction of the...
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Posted on 16 MAR 2016
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Improvement in Neural Respiratory Drive Estimation From Diaphragm Electromyographic Signals Using Fixed Sample Entropy
Diaphragm electromyography is a valuable technique for the recording of electrical activity of the diaphragm. The analysis of diaphragm electromyographic (EMGdi) signal amplitude is an alternative approach for the indirect quantification of neural respiratory drive (NRD), which reflects the load...
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Posted on 16 MAR 2016
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Special Section: Biomedical and Health Informatics for Diabetes
Georgiou, P., Johnston, D.
It is estimated that 371 million people worldwide have diabetes and the number is increasing at an alarming rate. In addition to short-term symptoms, there are long-term macro and microvascular complications including cardiovascular disease, especially heart attacks...
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Posted on 8 JAN 2016
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Multimodality Neurological Data Visualization with Multi-VOI Based DTI Fiber Dynamic Integration
Brain lesions are usually located adjacent to critical spinal structures, so it will be a challenging task for neurosurgeons to precisely plan a surgical procedure without damaging healthy tissues and nerves. The advancement of medical imaging technologies produces a large...
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Posted on 8 JAN 2016
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Unobtrusive Monitoring of Neonatal Brain Temperature Using a Zero-Heat-Flux Sensor Matrix
The temperature of preterm neonates must be maintained within a narrow window to ensure their survival. Continuously measuring their core temperature provides an optimal means of monitoring their thermoregulation and their response to environmental changes. However, existing methods of measuring...
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Posted on 8 JAN 2016
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Detecting Subclinical Diabetic Cardiac Autonomic Neuropathy by Analysing Ventricular Repolarization Dynamics
Mohammad Hasan Imam, Chandan K. Karmakar, Herbert F. Jelinek, Marimuthu Palaniswami, Ahsan H. Khandoker
Cardiac autonomic neuropathy (CAN), a major complication of diabetes, is characterized by a gradual increase in damage to the autonomic nerve fibers that results in abnormalities in ventricular repolarization (VR) dynamics. CAN needs to be detected at the subclinical stage,...
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Posted on 8 JAN 2016
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Special Section: Enabling Technologies for Parkinson’s Disease Management
Parkinson’s disease is the most common neurological movement disorder, with a prevalence of up to 2% in the elderly. The new research published in this Special issue represents the edge between the current technical abilities of engineering solutions and clinical...
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Posted on 30 OCT 2015
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Prediction of Freezing of Gait in Parkinson’s from Physiological Wearables: An Exploratory Study
Sinziana Mazilu, Alberto Calatroni, Eran Gazit, Anat Mirelman, Jeffrey M. Hausdorff, Gerhard Tröster
Freezing of gait (FoG) is a common and severe gait impairment among patients with advanced Parkinson’s disease. FoG is associated with falls and negatively impacts the patient’s quality of life. Wearable systems that detect FoG in real time have been...
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Posted on 30 OCT 2015
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Analyzing Activity Behavior and Movement in a Naturalistic Environment Using Smart Home Techniques
One of the many services that intelligent systems can provide is the ability to analyze the impact of different medical conditions on daily behavior. This study uses smart homes and wearable sensors to collect data while (n=84) older adults perform...
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Posted on 30 OCT 2015
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An Emerging Era in the Management of Parkinson’s Disease: Wearable Technologies and the Internet of Things
This review highlights the technological aspects of an emerging healthcare platform designed to cope with the increasing global prevalence of chronic neurological disorders associated with the elderly. Wearable technologies connected through the Internet of Things (IoT) platform are revolutionizing patient...
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Posted on 30 OCT 2015
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Special Section: Sensor Informatics and Quantified Self
Wearable sensors, combined with signal processing, machine learning, and the ability to collect large sets of human data comfortably 24/7, are advancing new ways to learn about human wellbeing. Measurements that used to be confined to short-term sampling in a...
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Posted on 31 AUG 2015
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Special Section: Machine Learning and Data Mining in Medical Imaging
Medical imaging is becoming indispensable nowadays for healthcare and many other biomedical applications. With advances in medical imaging, such as cone-beam/multi-slice CT, 3D ultrasound imaging, tomosynthesis, diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron-emission tomography (PET)/CT, electrical impedance tomography, and diffuse optical...
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Posted on 31 AUG 2015
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Identifying Physical Activity Profiles in COPD Patients Using Topic Models
Gabriele Spina, Pierluigi Casale, Paul S. Albert, Jennifer Alison, Judith Garcia-Aymerich, Richard W. Costello, Nidia A. Hernandes, Arnoldus J. R. van Gestel, Jorg D. Leuppi, Rafael Mesquita, Sally J. Singh, Frank W. J. M. Smeenk, Ruth Tal-Singer, Emiel F. M. Wouters, Martijn A. Spruit, Albertus C. den Brinker
With the growing amount of physical activity (PA) measures, the need for methods and algorithms that automatically analyse and interpret unannotated data increases. In this paper PA is seen as a combination of multi-modal constructs that can co-occur in different...
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Posted on 31 AUG 2015
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Personalization of Energy Expenditure Estimation in Free Living Using Topic Models
We introduce an approach to personalize energy expenditure (EE) estimates in free living. First we use Topic Models (TM) to discover activity composites from recognized activity primitives and stay regions in daily living data. Subsequently, we determine activity composites that...
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Posted on 31 AUG 2015
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Special Issue on EMBC 2014
This special edition comprises 10 papers selected from over 2000 submissions at the 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC’14). Based on the novelty and merits of their work as well as their...
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Posted on 24 JUL 2015
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Special Issue: Big Data for Health
R. Atun, Y. Lussier, C. Poon, S. T. C. Wong, and G.-Z. Yang
Development in the fields of biomedical and health informatics are driving major expansion in big-data, not only because of the sheer volume of information generated, but also due...
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Posted on 8 JUL 2015
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Retinal Area Detector from Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope (SLO) Images for Diagnosing Retinal Diseases
Early detection and treatment of retinal eye diseases is critical to avoid preventable vision loss. Digital retinal imaging is widely used to identify patients with retinal disease in primary care. With the advent of the latest screening technology, the advantage...
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Posted on 8 JUL 2015
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Predicting Asthma‐Related Emergency Department Visits Using Big Data
Asthma is one of the most prevalent and costly chronic conditions in the United States, which cannot be cured. However, accurate and timely surveillance data could allow for timely and targeted interventions at the community or individual level. Current national...
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Posted on 8 JUL 2015
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Co-Variation of Depressive Mood and Spontaneous Physical Activity in Major Depressive Disorder: Towards Continuous Monitoring of Depressive Mood
The objective evaluation of depressive mood is considered to be useful for the diagnosis and treatment of depressive disorders. Thus, we investigated psycho-behavioral correlates, particularly the statistical associations between momentary depressive mood and behavioral dynamics measured objectively, in patients with...
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Posted on 8 JUL 2015
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Special Issue: Body Sensor Networks: Novel Sensors, Algorithms, Platforms and Applications
Amft, J. Palmer, and B. Telfer
Ubiquitous body-worn sensors and mobile devices have extensive applications in health monitoring and user guidance when combined with advanced algorithms. This special is- sue includes 13 papers, presenting novel approaches and trends in both sensor...
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Posted on 4 MAY 2015
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Special Issue: RF and Communication Technologies for Wireless Implants
R. Yuce, I. Balasingham, Y.-K. Yoon, J. Wang, and C. C. Y. Poon
This special issue includes seven interesting articles that tackle some of the existing challenges and design issues related to the use of RF and Communication Technologies for wireless...
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Posted on 4 MAY 2015
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A Novel Computerized Tool to Stratify Risk in Carotid Atherosclerosis Using Kinematic Features of the Arterial Wall
Aimilia Gastounioti, Stavros Makrodimitris, Spyretta Golemati, Nikolaos P.E. Kadoglou, Christos D. Liapis, Konstantina S. Nikita
Gastounioti, S. Makrodimitris, S. Golemati, N. P. E. Kadoglou, C. D. Liapis, and K. S. Nikita
In this paper, we address valid risk stratification for carotid atherosclerosis, which is a crucial public health challenge with major effects for both patient safety...
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Posted on 4 MAY 2015
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Advanced Insulin Bolus Advisor based on Run-To-Run Control and Case- Based Reasoning
Herrero, P. Pesl, M. Reddy, N. Oliver, P. Georgiou, and C. Toumazou
Insulin bolus calculators are simple decision support software tools incorporated in most commercially available insulin pumps to help people with Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) calculate the insulin doses...
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Posted on 4 MAY 2015
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Epsilon-Tube Filtering: Reduction of High-Amplitude Motion Artifacts from Impedance Plethysmography Signal
S. Ansari, K. Ward, K. Najarian
Impedance plethysmography (IP) has long been used to monitor respiration, although the applied use of this technology has been limited to hospitals and other medical facilities. The largest obstacle that arises when one uses the...
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Posted on 3 MAR 2015
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Vein Visualization Using a Smart Phone with Multispectral Wiener Estimation for Point-of-Care Applications
J. Song, C. Kim, Y. Yoo
Effective vein visualization is clinically important for various point-of-care applications, such as needle insertion. It can be achieved by utilizing ultrasound imaging or by applying infrared laser excitation and monitoring its absorption. While these approaches...
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Posted on 3 MAR 2015
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Integrative Clustering by Non-Negative Matrix Factorization Can Reveal Coherent Functional Groups from Gene Profile Data
S. Brdar, V. Crnojević1, B. Zupan
Recent developments in molecular biology and techniques for genome-wide data acquisition have resulted in abundance of data to profile genes and predict their function. These data sets may come from diverse sources and it is...
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Posted on 3 MAR 2015
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Two-Phase Greedy Pursuit Algorithm for Automatic Detection and Characterization of Transient Calcium Signaling
C. Kan, K-P Yip, H. Yang
Ca2+ plays an important role in the regulation of cellular functions. Local calcium events, e.g., calcium sparks, not only bring insights into Ca2+ signaling but also contribute to the understanding of various cellular processes. However,...
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Posted on 3 MAR 2015
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Wearable, Wireless EEG Solutions in Daily Life Applications: What are we missing?
V. Mihajlović, B. Grundlehner, R. Vullers, J. Penders
To take full advantage of noninvasive surface EEG recordings, EEG technology has to be advanced to a level that it can be used in daily life activities. Furthermore, users have to see it...
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Posted on 16 DEC 2014
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Smart-Phone Based Recognition of States and State Changes in Bipolar Disorder Patients
Agnes Grünerbl, Amir Muaremi, Venet Osmani, Gernot Bahle, Stefan Öhler, Gerhard Tröster, Oscar Mayora, Christian Haring, Paul Lukowicz
A. Grünerbl, A. Muaremi, V. Osmani, G. Bahle, S. Öhler, G. Tröster, O. Mayora, C. Haring and P. Lukowicz
Today’s health care is difficult to imagine without the possibility to objectively measure various physiological parameters related to patients symptoms (from temperature...
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Posted on 16 DEC 2014
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Estimating Energy Expenditure Using Body-Worn Accelerometers: a Comparison of Methods, Sensors Number and Positioning
M. Altini, J. Penders, R. Vullers and O. Amft
Several methods to estimate Energy Expenditure (EE) using body-worn sensors exist, however quantifications of the differences in estimation error are missing. In this paper, we compare three prevalent EE estimation methods and...
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Posted on 16 DEC 2014
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Carotid Intraplaque Neovascularization Quantification Software (CINQS)
Zeynettin Akkus, Gerard Van Burken, Stijn C. H. Van Den Oord, Arend F. L. Schinkel, Nico De Jong, Antonius F. W. Van Der Steen, Johan G. Bosch
Z. Akkus, G. van Burken, S. van den Oord, A. Schinkel, N. de Jong, A. van der Steen, J. Bosch
Patients with carotid plaques carry an increased risk of cerebrovascular events such as stroke. To prevent stroke, an early detection of...
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Posted on 16 DEC 2014
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Reliable and Energy Efficient Communications for Wireless Biomedical Implant Systems
Ntouni, G., Lioumpas, A., Nikita, K.
Implant devices and Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are used in many healthcare applications where the continuous monitoring of a human body biological parameter is crucial. Thus, reliability, low‐ power consumption and long‐lifetime are vital...
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Posted on 31 OCT 2014
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Experimental investigation of the influence of the aortic stiffness on hemodynamics in the ascending aorta
Gülan, U., Lüthi, B., Holzner, M., Liberzon, A., Tsinober, A., Kinzelbach W.
The compliance of the aorta, which is a function of the wall properties, e.g. material, thickness and geometry, is a hallmark of cardiovascular flows. Expansion and contraction of the...
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Posted on 31 OCT 2014
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Gait and Balance Analysis for Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease Using an Inertial-Sensor-Based Wearable Instrument
Hsu, Y., Chung, P., Wang, W., Pai, M., Wang, C., Lin, C., Wu, H., Wang, J.
Despite patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) were reported of revealing gait disorders and balance problems, there is still lack of objective quantitative measurement of gait...
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Posted on 31 OCT 2014
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Exploiting wearable goniometer technology for motion sensing gloves
Carbonaro, N., Dalle Mura, G., Lorussi, F., Paradiso, R., De Rossi, D., Tognetti, A.
Continuous daily-life monitoring of patient functional activities in terms of physical interaction with the environment is fundamental for rehabilitation therapy optimization and patient coaching. To date, it...
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Posted on 31 OCT 2014
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DREAM: Diabetic Retinopathy Analysis using Machine Learning
S. Roychowdhury, D. D. Koozekanani, and K. K. Parhi
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the leading cause of blindness among people of working age in the developed world. Early screening and detection of DR can prevent about 90% of patients with early...
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Posted on 26 AUG 2014
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Wearable Monitoring for Mood Recognition in Bipolar Disorder based on History-Dependent Long-Term Heart Rate Variability Analysis
G. Valenza, M. Nardelli, A. Lanat`a, C. Gentili, G. Bertschy, R. Paradiso, and E. P. Scilingo
Current clinical practice in diagnosing patients affected by psychiatric disorders such as bipolar disorder is based only on verbal interviews and scores from specific questionnaires,...
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Posted on 26 AUG 2014
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Brain Computer Interface Classifier for Wheelchair Commands using Neural Network with Fuzzy Particle Swarm Optimization
R. Chai, S. H. Ling, G. P. Hunter, Y. Tran, and H. T. Nguyen
This paper presents the classification of a three-class mental task-based brain computer interface (BCI) that uses the Hilbert-Huang transform (HHT) for the features extractor and fuzzy particle...
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Posted on 26 AUG 2014
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Logic-Centered Architecture for Ubiquitous Health Monitoring
J. Lewandowski, H. E. Arochena, R. N. G. Naguib, K.-M. Chao, and A. Garcia-Perez
One of the key points to maintain and boost research and development in the area of smart wearable systems (SWS) is the development of integrated architectures for...
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Posted on 26 AUG 2014
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Online Decoding of Hidden Markov Models for Gait Event Detection Using Foot-Mounted Gyroscopes
A.Mannini, V. Genovese, and A. Maria Sabatini
The evaluation of gait phases is usually restrained to clinical facilities where motion capture systems are installed. The use of wearable sensor based methods could move these studies to everyday life. To do so,...
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Posted on 29 JUL 2014
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Robustness, Specificity and Reliability of an In-ear Pulse Oximetric Sensor in Surgical Patients
B. Venema, H. Gehring, I. Michelsen, N. Blanik, V. Blazek, and S. Leonhardt
Since many years, pulse oximetry is widely used in the clinical environment for a reliable monitoring of oxygen saturation (SpO2) and heart rate. But since common sensors are...
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Posted on 29 JUL 2014
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A Multiscale Optimization Approach to Detect Exudates in the Macula
C. Agurto, V.Murray, H. Yu, J.Wigdahl, M. Pattichis, S. Nemeth, E. S. Barriga, and P. Soliz
Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is a complication of diabetes that affects up to 80% of diabetics around the world. DR is the second leading cause of...
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Posted on 29 JUL 2014
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Supervised Hierarchical Bayesian Model-Based Electomyographic Control and Analysis
H. Han and S. Jo
This work suggests a supervised hierarchical Bayesian model for surface electromyography (sEMG) signal based motion classification and its strategy analysis. The proposed model unifies the optimal feature extraction and classification through probabilistic inference and learning by...
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Posted on 29 JUL 2014
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Assessing Executive Function Using a Computer Game: Computational Modeling of Cognitive Processes
S. Hagler, H. B. Jimison, and M. Pavel
Early detection of decline in cognitive performance is important to providing proper medical care for older adults. Presently, cognitive decline is detected using clinical evaluations of cognitive performance administered by health-care professionals as...
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Posted on 1 JUL 2014
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Hierarchical Approaches to Estimate Energy Expenditure using Phone-Based Accelerometers
H. Vathsangam, E. T. Schroeder, and G. S. Sukhatme
Lack of physical activity is linked with increased risk of obesity, heart disease, diabetes and certain cancers. Effective interventions to increase physical activity require accurate, objective and personalized estimates of activity intensity...
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Posted on 1 JUL 2014
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Manual Stage Acquisition and Interactive Display of Digital Slides in Histopathology
A. Gherardi and A. Bevilacqua
In this work we present the first method known in literature for real-time whole slide acquisition and displaying conceived for conventional non-automated microscopes. This has been achieved by building a real time mosaicing using robust features...
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Posted on 1 JUL 2014
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Automated Estimation of Fetal Cardiac Timing Events From Doppler Ultrasound Signal Using Hybrid Models
F.Marzbanrad, Y. Kimura, K. Funamoto, R. Sugibayashi, M. Endo, T. Ito, M. Palaniswami, and A. H. Khandoker
Fetal cardiac monitoring is aimed to evaluate antepartum fetal risks. Although Fetal Heart Rate (FHR) monitoring is commonly used for this purpose, it is...
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Posted on 1 JUL 2014
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On the Identification of Circulating Tumor Cells in Breast Cancer
S. Sfakianakis, E. S. Bei, M. Zervakis, D. Vassou, and D. Kafetzopoulos
Breast cancer is a highly heterogeneous disease and very common amongst western women. The main cause of death is not the primary tumor but its metastases at distant sites,...
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Posted on 29 APR 2014
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A Spatio-Temporal Based Scheme for Efficient Registration-Based Segmentation of Thoracic 4D MRI
Y. Yang, E. Van Reeth, C. L. Poh, C. H. Tan, and I.W. K. Tham
This paper presents a novel automated 4D registration-based segmentation scheme that is based on spatiotemporal information for the segmentation of thoracic 4D MR lung images. Dynamic...
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Posted on 29 APR 2014
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A Bicluster-Based Bayesian Principal Component Analysis Method for Microarray Missing Value Estimation
F. Meng, C. Cai, and H. Yan
The Bayesian Principal Component Analysis (BPCA) model is integrated into the biclustering framework to estimate missing values in microarray data. The local similarity structure is fully exploited in biclusters, which overcomes the drawback of...
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Posted on 29 APR 2014
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Predictive Monitoring of Mobile Patients by Combining Clinical Observations With Data From Wearable Sensors
L. Clifton, D. A. Clifton, M. A. F. Pimentel, P. J. Watkinson, and L. Tarassenko
The majority of patients in the hospital are ambulatory, and would benefit significantly from predictive and personalised monitoring systems. Such patients are well-suited to having their...
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Posted on 28 APR 2014
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Max-AUC Feature Selection in Computer-Aided Detection of Polyps in CT Colonography
J.-W. Xu and K. Suzuki
A feature selection method based on a sequential forward floating selection procedure is proposed to improve a non-linear SVM (Support Vector Machine) classifier’s performance in detection of polyps in CTC (Colongraphy). The proposed method selected the...
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Posted on 26 FEB 2014
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Nonparametric Network Design and Analysis of Disease Genes in Oral Cancer Progression
K. Kalantzaki, E. S. Bei, K. P. Exarchos,M. Zervakis, M. Garofalakis, and D. I. Fotiadis
This paper proposed a framework for constructing and analyzing gene-networks from sparse temporal data with the aim of understanding the mechanisms which affect the progression of...
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Posted on 26 FEB 2014
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Near-Realistic Mobile Exergames With Wireless Wearable Sensors
B.Mortazavi, S. Nyamathy, S. I. Lee, T.Wilkerson, H. Ghasemzadeh, and M. Sarrafzadeh
This paper presents a framework for the development of ‘Exergaming’ (the combination of exercise and video gaming) using body-worn sensors. Instead of mapping movements to existing games, the proposed...
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Posted on 26 FEB 2014
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Blind End-Member and Abundance Extraction for Multispectral Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy Data
O. Gutierrez-Navarro, D. U. Campos-Delgado, E. R. Arce-Santana, M. O. Mendez, and J. A. Jo
This paper proposes a new blind end-member and abundance extraction (BEAE) method for multi-spectral Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (m-FLIM) data. The proposed method is based on...
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Posted on 26 FEB 2014
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Probability of Severe Adverse Events as a Function of Hospital Occupancy
Boyle, J. ; Zeitz, K. ; Hoffman, R. ; Khanna, S. ; Beltrame, J.
A unique application of regression modeling is described to compare hospital bed occupancy with reported severe adverse events amongst inpatients. The probabilities of the occurrence of adverse...
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Posted on 14 JAN 2014
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3-D Vascular Skeleton Extraction and Decomposition
Chowriappa, A. ; Seo, Y. ; Salunke, S. ; Mokin, M. ; Kan, P. ; Scott, P.
We introduce a novel vascular skeleton extraction and decomposition technique for computer-assisted diagnosis and analysis. We start by addressing the problem of vascular decomposition...
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Posted on 14 JAN 2014
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FEEL: A System for Frequent Event and Electrodermal Activity Labeling
Ayzenberg, Y. ; Picard, R.W.
The wide availability of low-cost wearable biophysiological sensors enables us to measure how the environment and our experiences impact our physiology. This creates a challenge: in order to interpret the longitudinal data, we require the matching...
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Posted on 14 JAN 2014
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In-Silico Modeling of Glycosylation Modulation Dynamics in hERG Ion Channels and Cardiac Electrical Signals
Du, D. ; Yang, H. ; Norring, S.A. ; Bennett, E.S.
Cardiac action potentials (AP) are produced by the orchestrated functions of ion channels. A slight change in ion channel activity may affect the AP waveform, thereby potentially increasing susceptibility to...
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Posted on 14 JAN 2014
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High-Resolution, Low-Delay, and Error-Resilient Medical Ultrasound Video Communication Using H.264/AVC Over Mobile WiMAX Networks
Panayides, A. ; Antoniou, Z.C. ; Mylonas, Y. ; Pattichis, M.S. ; Pitsillides, A. ; Pattichis, C.S.
In this study, we describe an effective video communication framework for the wireless transmission of H.264/AVC medical ultrasound video over mobile WiMAX networks. Medical...
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Posted on 26 AUG 2013
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Human Daily Activity Recognition With Sparse Representation Using Wearable Sensors
Mi Zhang ; Sawchuk, A.A.
Human daily activity recognition using mobile personal sensing technology plays a central role in the field of pervasive healthcare. One major challenge lies in the inherent complexity of human body movements and the variety of styles...
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Posted on 26 AUG 2013
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Secure and Lightweight Network Admission and Transmission Protocol for Body Sensor Networks
Daojing He ; Chun Chen ; Chan, S. ; Jiajun Bu ; Pingxin Zhang
A body sensor network (BSN) is a wireless network of biosensors and a local processing unit, which is commonly referred to as the personal wireless hub (PWH)....
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Posted on 26 AUG 2013
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A New Framework Architecture for Next Generation e-Health Services
Fengou, M. ; Mantas, G. ; Lymberopoulos, D. ; Komninos, N. ; Fengos, S. ; Lazarou, N.
The challenge for fast and low-cost deployment of ubiquitous personalized e-Health services has prompted us to propose a new framework architecture for such services....
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Posted on 26 AUG 2013
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A Low-Complexity ECG Feature Extraction Algorithm for Mobile Healthcare Applications
Mazomenos, E.B. ; Biswas, D. ; Acharyya, A. ; Taihai Chen ; Maharatna, K. ; Rosengarten, J. ; Morgan, J. ; Curzen, N.
This paper introduces a low-complexity algorithm for the extraction of the fiducial points from the electrocardiogram (ECG). The...
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Posted on 26 AUG 2013