Mathematical biosciences and engineering : MBE
Sep 30, 2019
Recently, Yang et al. (2019) proposed a fuzzy model-based Gaussian (F-MB-Gauss) clustering that combines a model-based Gaussian with fuzzy membership functions for clustering. In this paper, we further consider the F-MB-Gauss clustering with the leas...
Modeling discrete phenotypic traits for either ancestral character state reconstruction or morphology-based phylogenetic inference suffers from ambiguities of character coding, homology assessment, dependencies, and selection of adequate models. Thes...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Aug 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: Geriatric syndromes such as functional disability and lack of social support are often not encoded in electronic health records (EHRs), thus obscuring the identification of vulnerable older adults in need of additional medical and social s...
BACKGROUND: Biobanks increasingly collect, process and store omics with more conventional epidemiologic information necessitating considerable effort in data cleaning. An efficient outlier detection method that reduces manual labour is highly desirab...
Mathematical biosciences and engineering : MBE
Jul 29, 2019
Honey has been one previous natural food in human history. However, as the supply cannot satisfy the market demand, many incidents of adulterated and fraudulent honey have been reported. In Taiwan, some common adulterated honey and fraudulent honey i...
MOTIVATION: Searching for precise terms and terminological definitions in the biomedical data space is problematic, as researchers find overlapping, closely related and even equivalent concepts in a single or multiple ontologies. Search engines that ...
Prioritization of cancer-related genes from gene expression profiles and proteomic data is vital to improve the targeted therapies research. Although computational approaches have been complementing high-throughput biological experiments on the under...
Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research
Jul 1, 2019
Wastewater flow forecasting is key for proper management of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). However, to predict the amount of incoming wastewater in WWTPs, wastewater engineers face challenges arising from numerous complexities and uncertainties...
BACKGROUND: Earlier research indicated that nearly 20% of patients diagnosed with either bipolar disorder (BD) or borderline personality disorder (BPD) also met criteria for the other diagnosis. Yet limited data are available concerning the potential...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Jul 1, 2019
The discovery of disease-causing genes is a critical step towards understanding the nature of a disease and determining a possible cure for it. In recent years, many computational methods to identify disease genes have been proposed. However, making ...