Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Oct 30, 2018
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Computer aided detection (CAD) offers an efficient way to assist doctors to interpret fundus images. In a CAD system, retinal vessel (RV) detection is a crucial step to identify the retinal disease regions. However, RV detec...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Oct 27, 2018
INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE: Despite the importance of machine learning methods application in traditional medicine there is a no systematic literature review and a classification for this field. This is the first comprehensive literature review of th...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Oct 16, 2018
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Yin and Yang, two concepts adapted from classical Chinese philosophy, play a diagnostic role in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). The Yin and Yang in harmonious balance indicate health, whereas imbalances to either side in...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Oct 12, 2018
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: In healthcare systems, the cost of unplanned readmission accounts for a large proportion of total hospital payment. Hospital-specific readmission rate becomes a critical issue around the world. Quantification and early ident...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Oct 5, 2018
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Cancer has become a complex health problem due to its high mortality. Over the past few decades, with the rapid development of the high-throughput sequencing technology and the application of various machine learning methods...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Oct 2, 2018
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Urinary tract infection (UTI) is a common disease affecting the vast majority of people. UTI involves a simple infection caused by urinary tract inflammation as well as a complicated infection that may be caused by an inflam...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Aug 31, 2018
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: In pulmonary nodule detection, the first stage, candidate detection, aims to detect suspicious pulmonary nodules. However, detected candidates include many false positives and thus in the following stage, false positive redu...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Aug 16, 2018
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Automatic classification of healthy tissues and organs based on histology images is an open problem, mainly due to the lack of automated tools. Solutions in this regard have potential in educational medicine and medical prac...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Aug 16, 2018
OBJECTIVE AND BACKGROUND: The exponential growth of the unstructured data available in biomedical literature, and Electronic Health Record (EHR), requires powerful novel technologies and architectures to unlock the information hidden in the unstructu...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Jul 26, 2018
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Despite numerous deep learning methods being developed for automatic sleep stage classification, almost all the models need labeled data. However, obtaining labeled data is a subjective process. Therefore, the labels will be...
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