Falls in the home environment are a serious cause of injury in older people leading to loss of independence and increased health related financial costs. In this study we investig...
Roberto Luis Shinmoto Torres, Asanga Wickramasingh...
Abstract. We investigate general sentiments and information dissemination concerning electronic cigarettes or e-cigs using Twitter. E-cigs are relatively new products, and hence, n...
In recent years the number of ICT-based solutions for the Ambient/Active Assisted Living (AAL) has grown continuously. Such technologies need to be validated before being used on a...
Paolo Calvaresi, Aldo Franco Dragoni, Matteo Pierd...
Abstract. Decline in daily functioning usually involves the reduction and discontinuity in daily routines; entailing a considerable decrease of the quality of life (QoL). This is e...
Xavier Rafael Palou, Eloisa Vargiu, Felip Miralles
Causal discovery is an increasingly popular method for data analysis in the field of medical research. In this paper we consider two challenges in causal discovery that occur very...
Elena Sokolova, Perry Groot, Tom Claassen, Daniel ...
Considerable amounts of data are continuously generated by pathologists in the form of pathology reports. To date, there has been relatively little work exploring how to apply mach...
Length of stay (LoS) prediction is considered an important research field in Healthcare Informatics as it can help to improve hospital bed and resource management. The health cost ...
Luigi Lella, Antonio Di Giorgio, Aldo Franco Drago...
Abstract. Evidence-based medical guidelines contain a collection of recommendations which have been created using the best clinical research findings (a.k.a. evidences) of the hig...
Zhisheng Huang, Qing Hu, Annette ten Teije, Frank ...
Intelligent health monitoring systems of elderly have been around for several years now. Evaluation of sensor measurements and intelligent processing algorithms has been performed ...
Abstract. Visualizing the human brain using diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DT-MRI) data has been a key technique to study the structure of the human brain and its con...