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CBMS
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Auto-Extraction, Representation and Integration of a Diabetes Ontology Using Bayesian Networks
This paper describes how high level biological knowledge obtained from ontologies such as the Gene Ontology (GO) can be integrated with low level information extracted from a Baye...
Kenneth McGarry, Sheila Garfield, Stefan Wermter
CBMS
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Ontology Engineering to Model Clinical Pathways: Towards the Computerization and Execution of Clinical Pathways
Clinical pathways translate evidence-based recommendations into locally practicable, process-specific algorithms that reduce practice variations and optimize quality of care. Our ...
Katrina F. Hurley, Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
CBMS
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Region Based Segmentation and Classification of Multispectral Chromosome Images
Multiplex Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization (M-FISH) is a newly chromosome imaging technique where each chromosome class appears to have a distinct color. This technique although ...
Petros S. Karvelis, Dimitrios I. Fotiadis, Alexand...
CBMS
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Switched Lightpaths for e-Health Applications: Issues and Challenges
The Exploitation of Switched Lightpaths for e-Science Applications (ESLEA) project is evaluating the feasibility of using switched lightpath networks to support various e-Science ...
Lee Momtahan, Sharon Lloyd, Andrew Simpson
CBMS
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Problem Solving Environment for Medical Image Analysis
The development of Medical Image Analysis (MIA) applications that can successfully be applied in clinical practice is difficult for several reasons, one of them being the large am...
Ketan C. Maheshwari, Sílvia Delgado Olabarr...
CBMS
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Computational Characterization of Thyroid Tissue in the Radon Domain
This paper investigates a novel computational approach to thyroid tissue characterization in ultrasound images. It is based on the hypothesis that tissues in thyroid ultrasound im...
Michalis A. Savelonas, Dimitrios K. Iakovidis, Nik...
CBMS
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Merging Healthcare Ontologies: Inconsistency Tolerance and Implementation Issues
A major challenge for ontology integration is to deal with inconsistencies. Existing merging tools are based on classical logic and are forced to avoid inconsistencies (to prevent...
Fahim T. Imam, Wendy MacCaull, Margaret Ann Kenned...
CBMS
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Conceptual Graphs Based Information Retrieval in HealthAgents
This paper focuses on the problem of representing, in a meaningful way, the knowledge involved in the HealthAgents project. Our work is motivated by the complexity of representing...
Madalina Croitoru, Bo Hu, Srinandan Dasmahapatra, ...
CBMS
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Segmentation and Tracking of the Left Ventricle in 3D MRI Sequences Using an Active Surface Model
We describe a 3D+T active surface model for segmentation and tracking of the left ventricular endocardium within 3D MRI sequences of the cardiac cycle. In order to perform segment...
Julien Mille, Romuald Boné, Pascal Makris, ...