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Studies in health technology and informatics

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Development of text mining based classification of written communication within a telemedical collaborative network.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Chronic diseases like Heart Failure are widespread in the ageing population. Affected patients can be treated with the aid of a disease management program, including a telemedical collaborative network. Evaluation of a currently used system has shown...

Semantic retrieval and navigation in clinical document collections.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Patients with chronic diseases undergo numerous in- and outpatient treatment periods, and therefore many documents accumulate in their electronic records. We report on an on-going project focussing on the semantic enrichment of medical texts, in orde...

Applying machine learning to gait analysis data for disease identification.

Studies in health technology and informatics
A machine-learning framework to identify the specific disease afflicting certain patients diagnosed with Neurological and Neuromuscular Diseases (NND) or Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) using only gait analysis data is presented. Classifying such...

Detecting Learning and Reasoning Patterns in a CDSS for Dementia Investigation.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Reasoning conducted in clinical practice is manifested through different and often combined reasoning and learning strategies, adjusted to the characteristics of the available information, the medical professional's experience and skills, and the ava...

Sharing models and tools for processing German clinical texts.

Studies in health technology and informatics
The automatic processing of non-English clinical documents is massively hampered by the lack of publicly available medical language resources for training, testing and evaluating NLP components. We suggest sharing statistical models derived from acce...

GA-ANFIS Expert System Prototype for Prediction of Dermatological Diseases.

Studies in health technology and informatics
This paper presents novel GA-ANFIS expert system prototype for dermatological disease detection by using dermatological features and diagnoses collected in real conditions. Nine dermatological features are used as inputs to classifiers that are based...

Acquisition of Character Translation Rules for Supporting SNOMED CT Localizations.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Translating huge medical terminologies like SNOMED CT is costly and time consuming. We present a methodology that acquires substring substitution rules for single words, based on the known similarity between medical words and their translations, due ...

Assisting e-patients in an Ask the Doctor Service.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Ask the doctor services are personalized forums allowing patients to ask questions directly to doctors. Usually, patients must choose the most appropriate category for their question among lots of categories to be redirected to the most relevant phys...

Development of Knowledge Profiles for International eHealth eLearning Courses.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Professionals working in the multidisciplinary field of eHealth vary in their educational background. However, knowledge in the areas of medicine, engineering and management is required to fulfil the tasks associated with eHealth sufficiently. Based ...