Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
Sepsis is a life-threatening condition caused by infection and subsequent overreaction by the immune system. Physicians effectively treat sepsis with early administration of antibiotics. However, excessive use of antibiotics on false positive cases c...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
Microsleeps are brief and involuntary instances of complete loss of sleep-related consciousness. We present a novel approach of creating overlapping clusters of subjects and training of an ensemble classifier to enhance the prediction of microsleep s...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is a non-negligible eye disease among patients with Diabetes Mellitus, and automatic retinal image analysis algorithm for the DR screening is in high demand. Considering the resolution of retinal image is very high, where sm...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
Machine learning approaches for image analysis require large amounts of training imaging data. As an alternative, the use of realistic synthetic data reduces the high cost associated to medical image acquisition, as well as avoiding confidentiality a...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
Clinical Balance Assessments Often Rely On Functional Tasks As A Proxy For Balance (E.G., Timed Up And Go). In Contrast, Analyses Of Balance In Research Settings Incorporate Quantitative Biomechanical Measurements (E.G., Whole-Body Angular Momentum, ...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
Classification of neurons from extracellular recordings is mainly limited to putatively excitatory or inhibitory units based on the spike shape and firing patterns. Narrow waveforms are considered to be fast spiking inhibitory neurons and broad wavef...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
Machine learning techniques have been recently applied for discriminating between Viable and Non-Viable tissues in animal wounds, to help surgeons to identify areas that need to be excised in the process of burn debridement. However, the presence of ...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
We present a system to analyze patterns inside pulsatile signals and discover repetitions inside signals. We measure dominance of the repetitions using morphology and discrete nature of the signals by exploiting machine learning and information theor...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
Objective pain assessment is required for appropriate pain management in the clinical setting. However, clinical gold standard pain assessment is based on subjective methods. Automated pain detection from physiological data may provide important obje...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
As with other modern sciences (and their computational counterparts), neuroscience experiments can now produce data that, in terms of both quantity and complexity, challenge our interpretative abilities. It is relatively common to be faced with datas...