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Article
Ideating Mobile Health Behavioral Support for Compliance to Therapy for Patients with Chronic Disease: A Case Study of Atrial Fibrillation Management
Poor patient compliance to therapy results in a worsening condition that often increases healthcare costs. In the MobiGuide project, we developed an evidence-based clinical decision-support system that deliver...
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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
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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Article
Using Semantic Components to Represent Dynamics of an Interdisciplinary Healthcare Team in a Multi-Agent Decision Support System
In healthcare organizations, clinical workflows are executed by interdisciplinary healthcare teams (IHTs) that operate in ways that are difficult to manage. Responding to a need to support such teams, we desig...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
MET4: Supporting Workflow Execution for Interdisciplinary Healthcare Teams
This paper describes MET4, a multi-agent system that supports interdisciplinary healthcare teams (IHTs) in executing patient care workflows. Using the concept of capability, the system facilitates the maintena...
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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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Article
Implementing an Integrative Multi-agent Clinical Decision Support System with Open Source Software
Clinical decision making is a complex multi-stage process. Decision support can play an important role at each stage of this process. At present, the majority of clinical decision support systems have been foc...
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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...
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Article
A Tree-Based Decision Model to Support Prediction of the Severity of Asthma Exacerbations in Children
This paper describes the development of a tree-based decision model to predict the severity of pediatric asthma exacerbations in the emergency department (ED) at 2 h following triage. The model was constructed...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Concept-Based Framework for Retrieving Evidence to Support Emergency Physician Decision Making at the Point of Care
The goal of evidence-based medicine is to uniformly apply evidence gained from scientific research to aspects of clinical practice. In order to achieve this goal, new applications that integrate increasingly d...
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Article
Using a Bayesian belief network model to categorize length of stay for radical prostatectomy patients
A clinical pathway implements best medical practices and represents sequencing and timing of interventions by clinicians for a particular clinical presentation. We used a Bayesian belief network (BBN) to model...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Mining Clinical Data: Selecting Decision Support Algorithm for the MET-AP System
We have developed an algorithm for triaging acute pediatric abdominal pain in the Emergency Department using the discovery-driven approach. This algorithm is embedded into the MET-AP (Mobile Emergency Triage –...