Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
In Russia, many patients address laboratory services directly without a doctor's referral. This causes the problem of interpretation of laboratory test results by the patients who don't have a proper medical background. We have a situation when there...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
The amount of stored data in health information systems can reach tera- and petabytes and application of specific algorithms in the field of data mining makes finding useful information suitable for making quality business decisions. A frequently use...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
The formalization of expert knowledge enables a broad spectrum of applications employing ontologies as underlying technology. These include eLearning, Semantic Web and expert systems. However, the manual construction of such ontologies is time-consum...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Decision Support Systems (DSS) is a powerful tool, for facilitates researchers to choose the correct decision based on their final results. Especially in medical cases where doctors could use these systems, to overcome the problem with the clinical m...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
This paper presents results of a study on the applicability of the intelligent phonocardiography in discriminating between Ventricular Spetal Defect (VSD) and regurgitation of the atrioventricular valves. An original machine learning method, based on...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
The aim of this work was to identify the most common approaches used in the intelligent decision support systems employed in the diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases and identify accuracy of these systems. Forty-one relevant publications were include...
In contrast to the rapid development of the horse husbandry in China, the ability of horse veterinarians to diagnose diseases has not been improved and only a few domain experts have considerable expertise. At present, many expert systems have been d...
BACKGROUND: The November 2010 Joint Commission Sentinel Event Alert on the prevention of suicides in medical/surgical units and the emergency department (ED) mandates screening every patient treated as an outpatient or admitted to the hospital for su...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2016
Events such as clinical interventions, adverse drug events are one of the basic semantic units in the clinical workflow and are the foundation of the pathway representation. Current research has mainly concentrated on event recognition through concep...