BACKGROUND: Evidence-based medicine practice requires practitioners to obtain the best available medical evidence, and appraise the quality of the evidence when making clinical decisions. Primarily due to the plethora of electronically available data...
BACKGROUND: Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) and their associated mappings play a central role in several decision support systems. However, by virtue of knowledge evolution, KOS entities are modified over time, impacting mappings and potentially...
One of the most important benefits of health information technology is to assist the cognitive process of the human mind in the face of vast amounts of health data, limited time for decision making, and the complexity of the patient with cancer. Clin...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Feb 22, 2015
BACKGROUND: Every year, hundreds of thousands of patients experience treatment failure or adverse drug reactions (ADRs), many of which could be prevented by pharmacogenomic testing. However, the primary knowledge needed for clinical pharmacogenomics ...
With the rapid development of information technologies, tremendous amount of data became readily available in various application domains. This big data era presents challenges to many conventional data analytics research directions including data ca...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Dec 4, 2014
Brace treatment is the most commonly used nonsurgical treatment for adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis. However, brace treatment is not always successful and the factors influencing its success are not completely clear. This makes treatment outcom...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Oct 28, 2014
BACKGROUND: Radiology reports are usually narrative, unstructured text, a format which hinders the ability to input report contents into decision support systems. In addition, reports often describe multiple lesions, and it is challenging to automati...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Jul 11, 2014
The patient population benefitting from cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) is increasing. This study introduces a device annotation method that supports the consistent description of the functional attributes of cardiac devices and evalua...
Computerized medical imaging and graphics : the official journal of the Computerized Medical Imaging Society
Jun 7, 2014
Tissue texture is known to exhibit a heterogeneous or non-stationary nature; therefore using a single resolution approach for optimum classification might not suffice. A clinical decision support system that exploits the subbands' textural fractal ch...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Apr 2, 2014
This paper evaluates the classification of multisample problems, such as electromyographic (EMG) data, by making aggregate features available to a per-sample classifier. It is found that the accuracy of this approach is superior to that of traditiona...