Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Accurately forecasting well-being may enable people to make desirable behavioral changes that could improve their future well-being. In this paper, we evaluate how well an automated model can forecast the next-day's well-being (specifically focusing ...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Recurrence is a significant prognostic factor in patients with triple negative breast cancer, and the ability to accurately predict it is essential for treatment optimization. Machine learning is a preferred strategy for recurrence prediction. Most c...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
The objective of this study was to design and develop a 30-day risk of hospital readmission predictive model using machine learning techniques. The proposed risk of readmission predictive model was then validated with the two most commonly used risk ...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
MODELHealth is a platform that aims to facilitate the implementation of Machine Learning (ML) techniques on medical data in order to upgrade the delivery of healthcare services. MODELHealth platform is a "holistic" approach to the implementation of p...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
We propose a Deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture for computing a Compensatory Reserve Metric (CRM) for trauma victims suffering from hypovolemia (decreased circulating blood volume). The CRM is a single health indicator value that ra...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Primary Sjogren's Syndrome (pSS) is a chronic autoimmune disease followed by exocrine gland dysfunction, where it has been long stated that 5% of pSS patients are prone to lymphoma development. In this work, we use clinical data from 449 pSS patients...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
The objective of this study was to investigate the use of classification methods by a machine-learning approach for discriminating the uterine activity during the four phases of the menstrual cycle. Four different classifiers, including support vecto...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have become the gold standard in many visual recognition tasks including medical applications. Due to their high variance, however, these models are prone to over-fit the data they are trained on. To mitigate this ...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
The lethal nature of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) calls for early differential diagnosis of pancreatic cysts, which are identified in up to 16% of normal subjects, and some of them may develop into PDAC. Pancreatic cysts have a large varia...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Various ophthalmic procedures critically depend on high-quality images. For instance, efficiency of teleophthalmology, a framework to bring advanced eye care to remote regions, is determined by the capability of assessing diagnostic quality of ocular...