Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare 2015

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Prediction of Clinical Practices by Clinical Data of the Previous Day Using Linear Support Vector Machine....Pages 3-14
Method for Detecting Drug-Induced Interstitial Pneumonia from Accumulated Medical Record Data at a Hospital....Pages 15-24
Visualization and Quantitative Analysis of Nursing Staff Trajectories Based on a Location System....Pages 25-35
A Web-Based Stroke Education Application for Older Elementary Schoolchildren Focusing on the FAST Message....Pages 37-48
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A Review of Mobile Apps for Improving Quality of Life of Asthmatic and People with Allergies ....Pages 51-64
Physical Implementation of a Customisable System to Assist a User with Mobility Problems....Pages 65-74
Mobile Applications in Health, Competitive Advantage in the State of Baja California Mexico....Pages 75-84
Mental Activation of Seniors Incorporating ICT in Their Daily Lives....Pages 85-92
Quality of Life and Active Aging Through Educational Gerontology in Information Technology and Communication....Pages 93-101
Simulation of Cervical Cord Compression Using Finite Element Method (FEM)....Pages 103-112
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A Study of Older People’s Socializing Form with Others: Comparative Analysis of “Living Alone” and “Living with a Spouse” Using Quantification Theory Type II....Pages 115-126
Analysis of Japanese Health using Fuzzy Principal Component Analysis....Pages 127-138
Analysis of Time-Series Data Using the Rough Set....Pages 139-148
Study on Multi-Period Transportation Problem Considering Opportunity Loss and Inventory....Pages 149-159
Diagnosis of ECG Data for Detecting Cardiac Disorder Using DP-Matching and Artificial Neural Network....Pages 161-171
Smart Technology for a Smarter Patient: Sketching the Patient 2.0 Profile....Pages 173-182
Construction and Evaluation of Bayesian Networks Related to the Specific Health Checkup and Guidance on Metabolic Syndrome....Pages 183-193
Medical Care Delivery at the XXVII World Summer Universiade Kazan 2013....Pages 195-201
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Coccurrence Statistics of Local Ternary Patterns for HEp-2 Cell Classification....Pages 205-213
Combined Density, Texture and Shape Features of Multi-phase Contrast-Enhanced CT Images for CBIR of Focal Liver Lesions: A Preliminary Study....Pages 215-224
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Supporting Nurses’ Work and Improving Medical Safety Using a Sensor Network System in Hospitals....Pages 225-236
Eye-Hand Coordination Analysis According to Surgical Process in Laparoscopic Surgery Training....Pages 237-247
An Improvement of Surgical Phase Detection Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation and Hidden Markov Model....Pages 249-261
Implementing a Human-Behavior-Process Archive and Search Database System Using Simulated Surgery Processes....Pages 263-273
Unobtrusive Sensing of Human Vital Functions by a Sensory Unit in the Refrigerator Door Handle....Pages 275-286
Measurement of 3-D Workspace of Thumb Tip with RGB-D Sensor for Quantitative Rehabilitation....Pages 287-297
Automatic Segmentation Method for Kidney Using Dual Direction Adaptive Diffusion Flow....Pages 299-307
Automatic Registration of Deformable Organs in Medical Volume Data by Exhaustive Search....Pages 309-320
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GPU Acceleration of Monte Carlo Simulation at the Cellular and DNA Levels....Pages 323-332
A Study on Corotated Nonlinear Deformation Model for Simulating Soft Tissue Under Large Deformation....Pages 333-343
Remote Transparent Visualization of Surface-Volume Fused Data to Support Network-Based Laparoscopic Surgery Simulation....Pages 345-352
Study of Surgical Simulation of Flatfoot Using a Finite Element Model....Pages 353-363
A Study of Meditation Effectiveness for Virtual Reality Based Stress Therapy Using EEG Measurement and Questionnaire Approaches....Pages 365-373
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Late Onset Bipolar Disorder Versus Alzheimer Disease....Pages 377-384
Short-term Prediction of MCI to AD Conversion Based on Longitudinal MRI Analysis and Neuropsychological Tests....Pages 385-394
Ensemble Tree Learning Techniques for Magnetic Resonance Image Analysis....Pages 395-404
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Integrating Electronic Health Records in Clinical Decision Support Systems....Pages 407-416
An Ad-Hoc Image Segmentation of Subcutaneous and Visceral Adipose Tissue from Abdomino-Pelvic Magnetic Resonance Images....Pages 417-425
Automated Segmentation of Subcutaneous and Visceral Adipose Tissues from MRI....Pages 427-433
Enabling a Smart and Distributed Communication Infrastructure in Healthcare....Pages 435-446
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Ultrasound Image Dataset for Image Analysis Algorithms Evaluation....Pages 447-457
Approaches of Phase Lag Index to EEG Signals in Alzheimer’s Disease from Complex Network Analysis....Pages 459-468
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A Benchmark on Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Automatic Chronic Respiratory Diseases Risk Classification....Pages 471-481
Toward Non-invasive Polysomnograms Through the Study of Electroencephalographic Signal Correlation for Remotely Monitored Cloud-Based Systems....Pages 483-492
Work with Iodine-125: 8 Years Experience in Brachy-Therapy Sources Production Lab....Pages 493-501
Comprehensible Video Acquisition for Caregiving Scenes—How Multimedia Can Support Caregiver Training....Pages 503-515
Care at the End of Life: Design Priorities for People with Dementia....Pages 517-526
A Wireless and Autonomous Sensing System for Monitoring of Chronic Wounds in Healthcare....Pages 527-540
Maturity Models for Hospital Information Systems Management: Are They Mature?....Pages 541-552
Why Cannot Control Your Smartphones by Thinking? Hands-Free Information Control System Based on EEG....Pages 553-564
Comparative Analysis of Retinal Fundus Images with the Distant Past Images Using a Vessel Extraction Technique....Pages 565-574
Interactive Segmentation of Pancreases from Abdominal CT Images by Use of the Graph Cut Technique with Probabilistic Atlases....Pages 575-584
Validation of Knot-Tying Motion by Temporal-Spatial Matching with RGB-D Sensor for Surgical Training....Pages 585-589
Back Matter....Pages 591-593