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Article
On the joint-effect of class imbalance and overlap: a critical review
Current research on imbalanced data recognises that class imbalance is aggravated by other data intrinsic characteristics, among which class overlap stands out as one of the most harmful. The combination of th...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Towards an AI Planning-Based Pipeline for the Management of Multimorbid Patients
Treatment of patients with multimorbidity is one of the greatest challenges for clinical decision support. While evidence-based management of specific diseases is supported by clinical practice guidelines, con...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Comparision of Models Built Using AutoML and Data Fusion
Automated machine learning (AutoML) has made life easier for data analysts or scientists by providing quick insights into data by building machine learning (ML) models. AutoML techniques are applied to vast ar...
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Chapter
An Approach to Combining Adherence-to-Therapy and Patient Preference Models for Evaluation of Therapies in Patient-Centered Care
Adherence to therapy is one of the major determinants of therapy success, while non-adherence leads to worsening of patient condition and increased healthcare costs. The aim of our work is to evaluate therapie...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
MitPlan 2.0: Enhanced Support for Multi-morbid Patient Management Using Planning
The complexity of patient care is growing due to an ageing population. As chronic illnesses become more common, the incidence of multi-morbidity increases. Generating disease management plans for multi-morbid...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Catching Patient’s Attention at the Right Time to Help Them Undergo Behavioural Change: Stress Classification Experiment from Blood Volume Pulse
The CAPABLE project aims to improve the wellbeing of cancer patients managed at home via a coaching system recommending personalized evidence-based health behavioral change interventions and supporting patient...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
CAncer PAtients Better Life Experience (CAPABLE) First Proof-of-Concept Demonstration
The CAncer PAtient Better Life Experience (CAPABLE) project combines the most advanced technologies for data and knowledge management with a socio-psychological approach, to develop a coaching system for impro...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Assessing the Impact of Distance Functions on K-Nearest Neighbours Imputation of Biomedical Datasets
In healthcare domains, dealing with missing data is crucial since absent observations compromise the reliability of decision support models. K-nearest neighbours imputation has proven beneficial since it takes...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
MitPlan: A Planning Approach to Mitigating Concurrently Applied Clinical Practice Guidelines
As the overall population ages, patient complexity and the scope of their care is increasing. Over 60% of the population over 65 years of age suffers from multi-morbidity, which is associated with over two tim...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Algorithm for Selective Preprocessing of Multi-class Imbalanced Data
In this paper we propose a new algorithm called SPIDER3 for selective preprocessing of multi-class imbalanced data sets. While it borrows selected ideas (i.e., combination of relabeling and local resampling) f...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Detection of Wet Age-related Macular Degeneration in OCT Images: A Case Study
Progress in medical imaging and computer vision has enabled us to rely on machines for the detection or diagnosis of many diseases, including eye-related problems. One of them is wet age-related macular degene...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Fusion of Clinical Data: A Case Study to Predict the Type of Treatment of Bone Fractures
Clinical data is characterized not only by its constantly increasing volume but also by its diversity. Information collected in clinical information systems such as electronic health records is highly heteroge...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Using Constraint Logic Programming for the Verification of Customized Decision Models for Clinical Guidelines
Computer-interpretable implementations of clinical guidelines (CIGs) add knowledge that is outside the scope of the original guideline. This knowledge can customize CIGs to patients’ psycho-social context or a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Application of Preprocessing Methods to Imbalanced Clinical Data: An Experimental Study
In this paper we describe an experimental study where we analyzed data difficulty factors encountered in imbalanced clinical data sets and examined how selected data preprocessing methods were able to address ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Hypothesis-Driven Interactive Classification Based on AVO
We consider a classification process, that the representation precision of new examples is interactively increased. We use an attribute value ontology (AVO) to represent examples at different levels of abstrac...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Using First-Order Logic to Represent Clinical Practice Guidelines and to Mitigate Adverse Interactions
Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) were originally designed to help with evidence-based management of a single disease and such single disease focus has impacted research on CPG computerization. This computer...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Using Constraint Logic Programming to Implement Iterative Actions and Numerical Measures during Mitigation of Concurrently Applied Clinical Practice Guidelines
There is a pressing need in clinical practice to mitigate (identify and address) adverse interactions that occur when a comorbid patient is managed according to multiple concurrently applied disease-specific c...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Discovering the Preferences of Physicians with Regards to Rank-Ordered Medical Documents
The practice of evidence-based medicine involves consulting documents from repositories such as Scopus, PubMed, or the Cochrane Library. The most common approach for presenting retrieved documents is in the fo...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Indexing and Retrieval of Medical Resources for a Telemedical Platform
In this paper we present an indexing and retrieval service for a telemedical platform. While the service has been deployed in the Wielkopolska Center of Telemedicine (WCT) – a platform to facilitate teleconsul...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Constraint Logic Programming Approach to Identifying Inconsistencies in Clinical Practice Guidelines for Patients with Comorbidity
This paper describes a novel methodological approach to identifying inconsistencies when concurrently using multiple clinical practice guidelines. We discuss how to construct a formal guideline model using Con...