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An Ontology-Based Method to Link Database Integration and Data Mining within a Biomedical Distributed KDD
Over the last years, collaborative research has been continuously growing in many scientific areas such as biomedicine. However, traditional Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) processes generally adopt cen...
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Online Prediction of Ovarian Cancer
In this paper we apply computer learning methods to the diagnosis of ovarian cancer using the level of the standard biomarker CA125 in conjunction with information provided by mass spectrometry. Our algorithm ...
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Modeling Clinical Guidelines through Petri Nets
Clinical guidelines (GLs) play an important role to standardize and organize clinical processes according to evidence-based medicine. Several computer-based GL representation languages have been defined, usual...
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Feasibility of Case-Based Beam Generation for Robotic Radiosurgery
Robotic radiosurgery uses the kinematic flexibility of a robotic arm to target tumors and lesions from many different directions. This approach allows to focus the dose to the target region while sparing healt...
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Learning Approach to Analyze Tumour Heterogeneity in DCE-MRI Data During Anti-cancer Treatment
The paper proposes a learning approach to support medical researchers in the context of in-vivo cancer imaging, and specifically in the analysis of Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) data. Tumour heteroge...
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Histopathology Image Classification Using Bag of Features and Kernel Functions
Image representation is an important issue for medical image analysis, classification and retrieval. Recently, the bag of features approach has been proposed to classify natural scenes, using an analogy in whi...
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Implementing a Clinical Decision Support System for Glucose Control for the Intensive Cardiac Care
Adherence to guidelines and protocols in clinical practice can be difficult to achieve. We describe the implementation of a Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) for glucose control on the Intensive Cardiac ...
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Causal Probabilistic Modelling for Two-View Mammographic Analysis
Mammographic analysis is a difficult task due to the complexity of image interpretation. This results in diagnostic uncertainty, thus provoking the need for assistance by computer decision-making tools. Probab...
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On Quality of Different Annotation Sources for Gene Expression Analysis
Mining of biomedical data increasingly relies on utility of knowledge repositories. In gene expression analysis, these are often used for gene labeling with an assumption that similarly annotated genes have si...
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Segmentation of Lung Tumours in Positron Emission Tomography Scans: A Machine Learning Approach
Lung cancer represents the most deadly type of malignancy. In this work we propose a machine learning approach to segmenting lung tumours in Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans in order to provide a radia...
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Integrating Healthcare Knowledge Artifacts for Clinical Decision Support: Towards Semantic Web Based Healthcare Knowledge Morphing
Healthcare decision making demands the systematic integration of knowledge from multiple sources, such as clinical guidelines, clinical pathways, knowledge of practitioners and so on. We present a semantic web...
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Data-Efficient Information-Theoretic Test Selection
We use the concept of conditional mutual information (MI) to approach problems involving the selection of variables in the area of medical diagnosis. Computing MI requires estimates of joint distributions over...
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A Mutual Information Approach to Data Integration for Alzheimer’s Disease Patients
Clinical data alignment plays a critical role in identifying important features for significant experiments. A central problem is data fusion i.e., how to correctly integrate data provided by different labs. T...
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A Mobile Clinical Decision Support System for Clubfoot Treatment
In current congenital clubfoot treatment, clinicians use paper forms to register and monitor the treatment process. Routines for registration and archiving are scarce, and the guideline for treating clubfoot i...
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An Advanced Platform for Managing Complications of Chronic Diseases
This paper describes a generic platform for telemedicine services aimed at supporting chronic outpatients. The framework comprises a server agent and several cell phones as mobile agents through which patients...
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Detecting Intuitive Mentions of Diseases in Narrative Clinical Text
A significant portion of the clinical information content of narrative text documents in the medical record is only mentioned intuitively, but automated information extraction systems typically focus on explic...
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A Novel Multilingual Report Generation System for Medical Applications
There has been an increasing demand for high quality medical data that are in a standard electronic format and easily shared. Although a great amount of effort has been invested to ease the process, an effecti...
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An Ontology for the Care of the Elder at Home
The health-care of the elder at home is highly demanded in modern societies. It is based on the difficult task of coordinating multiple professionals and procedures acting on the same patient. K4CARE is a proj...
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HomeNL: Homecare Assistance in Natural Language. An Intelligent Conversational Agent for Hypertensive Patients Management
The prospective home-care management will probably offer intelligent conversational assistants for supporting patients at home through natural language interfaces. Homecare assistance in natural language, Home...
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Multiple Terminologies in a Health Portal: Automatic Indexing and Information Retrieval
Background: In the specific context of develo** quality-controlled health gateways, several standards must be respected (e.g. Dublin Core for metadata element set; thesaurus MeSH as the controlled vocabulary...
