The large number of genes in microarray data makes feature selection techniques more crucial than ever. From various ranking-based filter procedures to classifier-based wrapper tec...
New biomedical technologies need to be integrated for research on complex diseases. It is necessary to combine and analyze information coming from different sources: genetic-molecu...
Abstract. Ontology is the talk of the day in the medical informatics comm.unity. Its relevant role in the design and implementation of information systems in health care is now wid...
Domenico M. Pisanelli, Francesco Pinciroli, Marco ...
In a pilot effort to improve health communication we created a method for measuring the familiarity of various medical terms. To obtain term familiarity data, we recruited 21 volun...
Qing T. Zeng, Eunjung Kim, Jonathan Crowell, Tony ...
The use of sequence alignments for establishing protein homology relationships has an extensive tradition in the field of bioinformatics, and there is an increasing desire for more...
Abstract. One of the first motivations of using grids comes from applications managing large data sets like for example in High Energy Physic or Life Sciences. To improve the glob...
Frederic Desprez, Antoine Vernois, Christophe Blan...
Abstract. The increasing availability of automated data collection tools, database technologies and Information and Communication Technologies in biomedicine and health care have l...
Stefano Bonacina, Marco Masseroli, Francesco Pinci...
Over recent years the field of phylogenetics has witnessed significant algorithmic and technical progress. A new class of efficient phylogeny programs allows for computation of l...
Adam Arvelakis, Martin Reczko, Alexandros Stamatak...
Myocardial Contrast Echocardiography (MCE) is a recent technique that allows to measure regional perfusion in the cardiac wall. Segmentation of MCE sequences would allow simultaneo...
Norberto Malpica, Juan Francisco Garamendi, Manuel...