IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Sep 3, 2021
Heart-related anomalies are among the most common causes of death worldwide. Patients are often asymptomatic until a fatal event happens, and even when they are under observation, trained personnel is needed in order to identify a heart anomaly. In t...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Sep 3, 2021
People with diabetes require lifelong access to healthcare services to delay the onset of complications. Their disease management processes generate great volumes of data across several domains, from clinical to administrative. Difficulties in access...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Sep 3, 2021
Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) and BERT-based approaches are the current state-of-the-art in many natural language processing (NLP) tasks; however, their application to document classification on long clinical texts is...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Sep 3, 2021
Computer-aided skin cancer classification systems built with deep neural networks usually yield predictions based only on images of skin lesions. Despite presenting promising results, it is possible to achieve higher performance by taking into accoun...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Sep 3, 2021
Dose reduction in computed tomography (CT) has gained considerable attention in clinical applications because it decreases radiation risks. However, a lower dose generates noise in low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) images. Previous deep learning (D...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Sep 3, 2021
In this article, we propose an attention based convolutional neural network long short-term memory (CNN-LSTM) approach for sleep-wake detection with heterogeneous sensor data, i.e., acceleration and heart rate variability (HRV). Since the three-dimen...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Aug 5, 2021
Survival analysis is a commonly used method in the medical field to analyze and predict the time of events. In medicine, this approach plays a key role in determining the course of treatment, developing new drugs, and improving hospital procedures. M...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Aug 5, 2021
This paper presents and explores a robust deep learning framework for auscultation analysis. This aims to classify anomalies in respiratory cycles and detect diseases, from respiratory sound recordings. The framework begins with front-end feature ext...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Aug 5, 2021
Human computer interaction (HCI) involves a multidisciplinary fusion of technologies, through which the control of external devices could be achieved by monitoring physiological status of users. However, physiological biosignals often vary across use...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Aug 5, 2021
Measurement of total-plaque-area (TPA) is important for determining long term risk for stroke and monitoring carotid plaque progression. Since delineation of carotid plaques is required, a deep learning method can provide automatic plaque segmentatio...