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Automating chromosome classification and segmentation has been a major challenge in automated karyotyping especially due to overlapping chromosomes. The earlier reported methods for disentangling the chromosome overlaps have limited success as they are sensitive to scale variations, computationally complex, use only color information in case of multispectral imaging and most of them are limited to...
This paper describes our experience in designing a clinical trial protocol and its registration in Clinical Trials Registry- India (CTRI). The aim of our trial is to assess efficacy of a newly developed indigenous, low cost functional electrical stimulator (FES) device for correcting foot drop in stroke survivors. We started with shortlisting the existing trials from the search result of different...
Pacemaker technology has improved tremendously in the last 50 years, and is now the established global standard-of-care for patients suffering from bradycardia (slow heart beats). However, various structural, clinical and cultural barriers prevent the widespread adoption of pacemakers in emerging markets such as India. This paper analyzes these barriers and discusses the concept of leadless pacing...
The evolution of the Point-of-Care (POC) to home hospitalization brings the Mobile POC approach consisting of several portable medical devices and a mobile system with 3rd Generation (3G) connectivity. Plug-and-play is a desired feature in Mobile POC applications. This paper presents a new interoperable plug-and-play Electrocardiogram (ECG) recorder for Mobile POC applications. It is based on Bluetooth®...
Aortic elasticity and stiffness has been proven to be a strong independent predictor of cardio vascular diseases (CVD). Many features have been used to quantify arterial elasticity and stiffness. This paper describes a novel and automated technique for segmentation and boundary detection of lumen of common carotid artery (CCA) using longitudinal B-mode ultrasound images. Numerical attributes are measured...
It is a great pleasure and honor to welcome you to the First IEEE-EMBS Special Topic Conference on Point-Of-Care (POCT) Healthcare Technologies that will focus on innovation, research, technology development and best practices in deployment of health monitoring technologies in developing and developed economies for better global healthcare. The conference will feature research presentations and technology...
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The fusion of ultrasound (US) with CT plays a vital role in clinical diagnosis and image guided intervention. A registration framework between preoperative CT and tracked 2D intraoperative US is proposed here for hepatic intervention. After a landmark based registration method is carried out to get the initial registration, a simulation model of US from CT scan is developed to simulate the major US...
Early detection of breast cancer is carried out by using mammographic images. Due to low contrast nature of these images, it is difficult to detect signs such as microcalcifications and masses. This paper describes novel algorithms for early detection of breast cancer using image enhancement techniques to identify masses and microcalcifications. We implemented algorithm for 1) Image enhancement using...
Adverse drug events ADE occur frequently in both ambulatory and inpatient settings and often lead to hospitalization; these events occur more often in the elderly. ADE may result from medication errors at the medication process or from ADE. In this paper we present a new method to improve treatment of Community-acquired pneumonia. We use database of 86 patients to test and validate this approach.
The identification of malnourished children living under extreme poverty conditions in isolated areas is crucial to trigger urgent interventions like supplementary or therapeutic feeding. This work aims to strengthen the task of following-up malnourished maternal-child population in rural areas of developing countries like Nicaragua. The solution facilitates low-cost health nutritional remote monitoring...
This paper presents a real time portable apnea and hypopnea event detection system from the measurement of oronasal airflow signal only. The system uses a combined classification system for detection of events on the basis of personalized normal breathing pattern. Events are detected first, by identifying some abnormal breathing segments with the help of a binary classifier and then, the identified...
In this work a system for instant classification of motion patterns is presented. It is based on a non-contact magnetic induction monitoring device, which is textile-integrated, wearable, and able to measure pulse and respiratory activity. The proposed classificator is based on a decision tree algorithm generated by bootstrap aggregating. Its accurate classification performance is validated with the...
A Versatile image processing technique used in a system can be very instrumental for radiologist in detecting and diagnosing subtle signs with more accuracy and reliability than distinctive screening programs. In this paper, an algorithm based on morphological processing for enhancing architecture distortion alias subtle signs patterns in digital mammograms is suggested. The results demonstrate that...
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