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
Epileptic seizures are caused by a disturbance in the electrical activity of the brain and classified as many different types of epileptic seizures based on the characteristics of EEG and other parameters. Till now research has been conducted to clas...
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
Automatic recognition of electroencephalogram (EEG) signals plays a major role in epilepsy diagnosis and assessment. However, the recognition accuracy of conventional methods is usually not satisfactory because of the inconsistent distribution of tra...
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
Physical activity (PA) is widely recognized as one of the important elements of personal healthy life. To date, as the development of wearable sensing technologies, it is possible to utilize wearable devices and machine learning algorithms to efficie...
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
Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is a growing field of research in biomedical engineering and it has many potential applications in the treatment and prevention of several diseases. Due to the recent advancement in technology, devices that collect po...
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
In this contribution, we present a fully automatic approach, that is based on two convolution neural networks (CNN) together with a spine tracing algorithm utilizing a population optimization algorithm. Based on the evaluation of 130 CT scans includi...
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
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
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...
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
Semantic segmentation is an important step for hand and object tracking as subsequent tracking algorithms depend heavily on the accuracy of the segmented hand and object. However, current methods for hand and object segmentation are limited in the nu...
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
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is one kind of eye disease that is caused by overtime diabetes. Lots of patients around the world suffered from DR which may bring about blindness. Early detection of DR is a rigid quest which can remind the DR patients to s...