Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2020
Health indexes are useful tools for monitoring the health condition of a population and can be used to guide healthcare policy of governments. However, most health indexes are constructed by using statistical methods to summarize recent adverse event...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2020
DNA-Sequencing of tumor cells has revealed thousands of genetic mutations. However, cancer is caused by only some of them. Identifying mutations that contribute to tumor growth from neutral ones is extremely challenging and is currently carried out m...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2020
Fall detection in specialized homes for the elderly is challenging. Vision-based fall detection solutions have a significant advantage over sensor-based ones as they do not instrument the resident who can suffer from mental diseases. This work is par...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2020
Feature selection is a critical component in supervised machine learning classification analyses. Extraneous features introduce noise and inefficiencies into the system leading to a need for feature reduction techniques. Many feature reduction models...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2020
Blood infection due to different circumstances could immediately develop to an extreme body reaction that leads to a serious life-threatening condition, called Sepsis. Currently, therapeutic protocols through timely antibiotic resuscitation strategie...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2020
Feature selection provides a useful method for reducing the size of large data sets while maintaining integrity, thereby improving the accuracy of neural networks and other classifiers. However, running multiple feature selection models and their acc...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2020
Quantitative assessment of pain is vital progress in treatment choosing and distress relief for patients. However, previous approaches based on self-report fail to provide objective and accurate assessments. For impartial pain classification based 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, 2020
Wandering pattern classification is important for early recognition of cognitive deterioration and other health conditions in people with dementia (PWD). In this paper, we leverage the orientation data available on mobile devices to recognize dementi...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2020
Hypotension is common in critically ill patients. Early prediction of hypotensive events in the Intensive Care Units (ICUs) allows clinicians to pre-emptively treat the patient and avoid possible organ damage. In this study, we investigate the perfor...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2020
Neonatal endotracheal intubation (ETI) is an important, complex resuscitation skill, which requires a significant amount of practice to master. Current ETI practice is conducted on the physical manikin and relies on the expert instructors' assessment...