Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Pneumonia is a common infectious disease in the world. Its main diagnostic method is chest X-ray (CXR) examination. However, the high visual similarity between a large number of pathologies in CXR makes the interpretation and differentiation of pneum...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
3D Ultrasound imaging has become an important means of scoliosis assessment as it is a real-time, cost-effective and radiation-free imaging technique. However, the coronal images from different depths of a 3D ultrasound image have different imaging d...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
We propose an approach based on a convolutional neural network to classify skin lesions using the reflectance confocal microscopy (RCM) mosaics. Skin cancers are the most common type of cancers and a correct, early diagnosis significantly lowers both...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Recognizing mental states from physiological signal is a concern not only for medical diagnostics, but also for cognitive science, behavioral studies as well as brain machine interfaces. This study employs an unique approach of solely utilizing the r...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Vector autoregressive models (VAR models) are often used to model and to analyze multivariate time series, especially to provide short-term forecasts. A common method of estimating coefficients of these VAR models is solving the Yule- Walker equation...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
A common challenge faced by researchers associated with healthcare institutions is that data of interest are often contained in electronic medical informatics systems that are centered on optimizing clinician/clinician and patient/clinician communica...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Pollen allergies are considered as a global epidemic nowadays, as they influence more than a quarter of the worldwide population, with this percentage expected to rapidly increase because of ongoing climate change. To date, alerts on high-risk allerg...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
The optimal rotational alignment of brain Computed Tomography (CT) images to a required standard position has a crucial importance for both automatic and manual diagnostic analysis. In this contribution, we present a novel two-step iterative approach...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Automated and objective monitoring of eating behavior has received the attention of both the research community and the industry over the past few years. In this paper we present a method for automatically detecting meals in free living conditions, u...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Deep learning techniques have recently been successful in the classification of brain evoked responses for multiple applications, including brain-machine interface. Single-trial detection in the electroencephalogram (EEG) of brain evoked responses, l...