Technology and health care : official journal of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine
Jan 1, 2015
BACKGROUND: The intrinsic mechanism of multimorbidity is difficult to recognize and prediction and diagnosis are difficult to carry out accordingly. Bayesian networks can help to diagnose multimorbidity in health care, but it is difficult to obtain t...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
The present impact of ambient intelligence concepts in eInclusion is first briefly reviewed. Suggestions and examples of how ambient intelligent environments should be specified, designed and used to favour independent living of people with activity ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
Patients today have ample opportunities to inform themselves about their disease and possible treatments using the Internet. While this type of patient empowerment is widely regarded as having a positive influence on the treatment, there exists the p...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
The objective of the SYNODOS collaborative project was to develop a generic IT solution, combining a medical terminology server, a semantic analyser and a knowledge base. The goal of the project was to generate meaningful epidemiological data for var...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
Advanced techniques in machine learning combined with scalable "cloud" computing infrastructure are driving the creation of new and innovative health diagnostic applications. We describe a service and application for performing image training and rec...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
Treatment recommendation is a nontrivial task--it requires not only domain knowledge from evidence-based medicine, but also data insights from descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analysis. A single treatment recommendation system is usually trai...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
Reasoning conducted in clinical practice is manifested through different and often combined reasoning and learning strategies, adjusted to the characteristics of the available information, the medical professional's experience and skills, and the ava...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
This paper presents novel GA-ANFIS expert system prototype for dermatological disease detection by using dermatological features and diagnoses collected in real conditions. Nine dermatological features are used as inputs to classifiers that are based...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
The large volume of data captured daily in healthcare institutions is opening new and great perspectives about the best ways to use it towards improving clinical practice. In this paper we present a context-based recommender system to support medical...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
Health-related Web sites have become a primary resource to search for information on diseases, diagnoses or treatment options. Various Web sites offer a great variety of such information. However, lay people might have difficulties to assess whether ...