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
Prostate cancer is one of the leading causes of death around the world. The manual Gleason grading of prostate cancer after histological analysis of stained tissue slides is rigorous, time-consuming and also suffers from subjectivity among experts. I...
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 aim of this paper is to combine automatically generated image keywords with radiographs, thus enabling an enriched multi-modal image representation for body part classification. The proposed method could also be used to incorporate meta data into...
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
There are multiple types of tumors occurring in the liver, each of which have a different visual appearance that changes after injection of the contrast medium. Therefore, detection of liver tumors is considered to be a challenging task.In the presen...
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
Rapid esophageal radiation treatment planning is often obstructed by manually adjusting optimization parameters. The adjustment process is commonly guided by the dose-volume histogram (DVH), which evaluates dosimetry at planning target volume (PTV) a...
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
Nurses in a hospital are responsible for the monitoring and care of a large number of patients. Regularly checking if patients are sufficiently covered by their blankets is part of a nurse's normal workload. In this paper, an algorithm based on 3D im...
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
Medical imaging seeks to unveil the internal structures hidden by the skin and bones to assist disease diagnosis and also treatment optimisation. In the past, processing medical images used to be a laborious task. However, the development of artifici...
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
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is one of the diseases with the highest mortality rate in modern society, while chronic total occlusion (CTO) is the initial factor that influences the success rate of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), which is on...
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
Non-contact and continuous heart rate measurement using Doppler radar is important for various healthcare applications. In this paper, we propose a precise heart rate measurement method assisted by machine learning based sleep posture estimation. Mac...
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
Deep learning has revolutionized computer vision utilizing the increased availability of big data and the power of parallel computational units such as graphical processing units. The vast majority of deep learning research is conducted using images ...
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
Among different methods available for estimating brain connectivity from electroencephalographic signals (EEG), those based on MVAR models have proved to be flexible and accurate. They rely on the solution of linear equations that can be pursued thro...