Knowledge acquisition for medical diagnosis using collective intelligence.

abstract：:We constructed a question and answer system for direct delivery of E-mail queries from the general public to the proper hospital representative and with which the system administrator can monitor E-mail replies. The system consists of two sub-systems; one is an E-mail questionnaire sub-system that automatically delive...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Kato T,Hanada E,Takano K,Antoku Y,Nose Y

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnosis of metabolic syndrome (MetS) has a leading role in the early prevention of chronic disease, such as cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, cancers and chronic kidney disease. It would be very greatful that MetS diagnosis can be predicted in everyday clinical practice. This paper presents artificial neu...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Ivanović D,Kupusinac A,Stokić E,Doroslovački R,Ivetić D

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome sequencing projects generate vast amounts of data of a wide variety of types and complexities, and at a growing pace. Traditionally, the annotation of such sequences was difficult to share with other researchers. Despite the fact that this has improved with the development and application of biological ontologi...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Legaz-García Mdel C,Miñarro-Giménez JA,Madrid M,Menárguez-Tortosa M,Torres Martínez S,Fernández-Breis JT

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new simulation system of diagnostic and therapeutic processes is developed. The aim is to train medical students for the practical use of their knowledge, utilizing patient data in a total hospital information system. The knowledge in the system is presented by the specialists for every case. In medical school there...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Kurihara Y,Kitazoe Y,Okuhara Y,Narita Y,Ozawa T

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Last few decades have witnessed boom in the development of information and communication technologies. Health-sector has also been benefitted with this advancement. To ensure secure access to healthcare services some user authentication mechanisms have been proposed. In 2012, Wei et al. proposed a user authentication ...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Khan MK,Kumari S

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the view to set up the oriental pulse database as well as objective diagnosis standards, this study has designed and manufactured a digital pulse diagnosis system that uses a high-performance microprocessor on the basis of systematic pulse diagnosis methodology. The algorithm for extracting significant points has...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Lee J

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was conducted on the use of radiographic studies by 138 medical residents. They ordered an initial chest film on 88% of their patients and averaged a 34% yield. Though the range of other radiographic studies ordered per patient varied by a factor of 15, more than half the resident physicians ordered an average...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Goldstein J,Miller LV

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stakeholders' needs and expectations are identified by means of software quality requirements, which have an impact on software product quality. In this paper, we present a set of requirements for mobile personal health records (mPHRs) for pregnancy monitoring, which have been extracted from literature and existing mo...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Idri A,Bachiri M,Fernández-Alemán JL

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The idea for softcopy viewing of medical image outside the radiology reading room spread among the scientists in various fields for several years. An image could be read on workstation of all types, from desktop across movable to handheld. Benefits are numerous and continue to grow as physicians use them discovering n...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Ivetic D,Dragan D

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes a high-speed digital lightbox. The current status of film in the medical imaging department sets the stage for this next generation of image display/management systems. Digital imaging devices are proliferating because of their diagnostic speed and accuracy, and their ease of use. However, the res...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Gray M,Rutherford H

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognizing that the suboptimal allocation of plant assets contribute to the inflationary pressures in the health industry, this paper employs the principles of goal programming to develop a model for distributing diagnostic-specific technology among potential recipients in a given geographic region. The model allocat...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Ozatalay S,Broyles RW

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computer simulation has been employed to evaluate proposed changes in the delivery of health care. However, little is known about the utility of simulation approaches for analysis of changes in the delivery of surgical care. We searched eight bibliographic databases for this comprehensive review of the literature publ...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Sobolev BG,Sanchez V,Vasilakis C

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In healthcare organizations, clinical workflows are executed by interdisciplinary healthcare teams (IHTs) that operate in ways that are difficult to manage. Responding to a need to support such teams, we designed and developed the MET4 multi-agent system that allows IHTs to manage patients according to presentation-sp...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Wilk S,Kezadri-Hamiaz M,Rosu D,Kuziemsky C,Michalowski W,Amyot D,Carrier M

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From the summer of 1999 to the spring of 2000, we undertook an on-site investigation of the management and operational status of telehealth in the Pacific. The writers also gathered additional materials upon returning to Japan to provide as detailed a report as possible on the current status and analysis of telemedici...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Nakajima I,Chida S

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiology tests, such as MRI, CT-scan, X-ray and ultrasound, are cost intensive and insurance pre-approvals are necessary to get reimbursement. In some cases, tests may be denied for payments by insurance companies due to lack of pre-approvals, inaccurate or missing necessary information. This can lead to substantial ...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Lu L,Li J,Gisler P

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Department of Defense has been engaged in the Defense Modeling and Simulation Initiative (DMSI) to provide advanced distributed simulation warfighters in geographically distributed localities. Lessons learned from the Defense Simulation Internet (DSI) concerning architecture, standards, protocols, interoperability...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Lilienthal MG

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Distinguishing between awake and anesthetized states is one of the important problems in surgery. Vital signals contain valuable information that can be used in prediction of different levels of anesthesia. Some monitors based on electroencephalogram (EEG) such as the Bispectral (BIS) index have been proposed in recen...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Mirsadeghi M,Behnam H,Shalbaf R,Jelveh Moghadam H

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As changes in the medical environment and policies on national health insurance coverage have triggered tremendous impacts on the business performance and financial management of medical institutions, effective management becomes increasingly crucial for hospitals to enhance competitiveness and to strive for sustainab...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Chuang CL,Chang PC,Lin RH

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The healthcare data is an important asset and rich source of healthcare intellect. Medical databases, if created properly, will be large, complex, heterogeneous and time varying. The main challenge nowadays is to store and process this data efficiently so that it can benefit humans. Heterogeneity in the healthcare sec...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Kaur H,Alam MA,Jameel R,Mourya AK,Chang V

更新日期：2018-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:This work presents a method for liver isolation in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) abdomen images. It is based on a priori statistical information about the shape of the liver obtained from a training set using the segmentation approach. Morphological watershed algorithm is used as a key technique as it is a simple a...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Rajasvaran L,Haw TW,Sarker SZ

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exertional heat illness is primarily a multi-system disorder results from the combined effect of exertional and thermoregulation stress. The severity of exertional heat illness can be classified as mild, intermediate and severe from non-specific symptoms like thirst, myalgia, poor concentration, hysteria, vomiting, we...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Aggarwal Y,Karan BM,Das BN,Aggarwal T,Sinha RK

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the new Computerized Severity Index (CSI) that is obtained from an expanded discharge abstract data set, based on a 6th-digit severity addition to the ICD-9-CM coding system. The new 6-digit code book (called ICD-9-CMSA) is used to label existence and severity of each principal and secondary diagnosis. It ...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Horn SD,Horn RA

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 1% of the people in the world suffer from epilepsy. Careful analyses of the electroencephalograph (EEG) records can provide valuable insight and improved understanding of the mechanisms causing epileptic disorders. Predicting the onset of epileptic seizure is an important and difficult biomedical problem...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Kiymik MK,Subasi A,Ozcalik HR

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Automated medical diagnosis systems based on knowledge-oriented descriptions have gained momentum with the emergence of semantic descriptions. The objective of this paper is to propose a normalized design that solves some of the problems which have been detected by authors in previous tools. The authors bring together...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Rodríguez-González A,Labra-Gayo JE,Colomo-Palacios R,Mayer MA,Gómez-Berbís JM,García-Crespo A

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A two-stage approach is used in a stochastic frontier analysis of the factors affecting hospital efficiency. In the first stage, a translog cost-function is used to estimate inefficiency scores. In the second stage, inefficiency scores are regressed against independent variables to test hypotheses that come from X-ine...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Rosko MD,Chilingerian JA

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently, patients not only want access to various medical records their health care providers keep about them, but they also are willing to become active participants in managing their own health information and the health information of the ones they care for. Personal health records were developed to help fulfill ...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Huba N,Zhang Y

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Personal Agents (PAs) have longly been explored as assistants to support users in their daily activities. Surprisingly, few works refer to the adoption of PAs in the healthcare domain, where they can assist physicians' activities reducing medical errors. Although literature proposes different approaches for modelling ...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Montagna S,Mariani S,Gamberini E,Ricci A,Zambonelli F

更新日期：2020-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Belgium is in a transition phase from paper-based prescriptions to electronic prescriptions (ePrescriptions) during which both the paper and electronic format are valid. Since patients still get a paper proof of the ePrescription, sometimes pharmacists use the ePrescription as paper-based prescription. When the govern...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Van Laere S,Cornu P,Dreesen E,Lenie J,Buyl R

更新日期：2019-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A new denoising algorithm using Fast Guided Filter and Discrete Wavelet Transform is proposed to remove Gaussian noise in an image. The Fast Guided Filter removes some part of the details in addition to noise. These details are estimated accurately and combined with the filtered image to get back the final denoised im...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Majeeth SS,Babu CNK

更新日期：2019-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Early diagnoses of esophageal cancer can greatly improve the survival rate of patients. At present, the lesion annotation of early esophageal cancers (EEC) in gastroscopic images is generally performed by medical personnel in a clinic. To reduce the effect of subjectivity and fatigue in manual annotation, computer-aid...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Liu D,Rao N,Mei X,Jiang H,Li Q,Luo C,Li Q,Zeng C,Zeng B,Gan T

更新日期：2018-10-16 00:00:00