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Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is a genetically inherited hemoglobin disorder, which can be fatal if left undiagnosed and untreated. Geographically, the most SCD-prevalent regions have the lowest gross domestic product (GDP) and are therefore unable to implement costly, centralized SCD screening programs. In these regions, the early mortality is 50%–90% among children born with sickle cell anemia [1]....
We propose a multimedia-based interactive game that incites elementary school children in Qatar to take regularly the daily breakfast before going to school. It also promotes physical activities and healthy food and shows the strong connection between them. Before playing the game, the children learn about the importance of breakfast within a family setting through multimedia tutorials developed with...
Expert system refers to a system that is trying to adopt human knowledge into a computer. Expert system contains certain knowledge so that everyone can use it to solve specific problems. The expert system by utilizing the forward chaining method starts from selecting the initial symptoms to find information in accordance with the rules of the rule. This study aimed to build an expert system application...
At present, the classification of brain diseases through neuroimaging data is a hot topic. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is usually diagnosed by the standard scale. However, the traditional diagnostic methods have high misdiagnosis rate and time consuming. In this paper, we discussed the classification of ADHD by using the feature subset obtained by preprocessing and feature selection...
This article proposes an Intelligent Tracking System for Acute Respiratory Tract Infection (TrackARTI) via a smart mobile for monitoring disease term of 0-6 age group child patients remotely (e.g. home, clinics). It is possible to maximize the quality of life of the child patients and decrease parental anxiety by keeping the child under control during monitoring stage and achieve a proper distant...
Respiratory tract infections are one of the major complaints in preschool children. The aim of this study was to highlight the particularities of recurrent respiratory tract infections manifested by ETN and pulmonary infections in children. Materials and methods: The authors performed a retrospective study of 148 patients aged between 2 months and 5 years old, hospitalized with the recurrent respiratory...
There is a diversity of risk situations for pregnant women resulting in premature birth endangering the newborn's life. The pregnant women are monitored by physicians benefiting their experience in last months of pregnancy to predict certain risks in premature birth. The paper presents a solution to prevent high risk situations, using ontology as support in profiling pregnant women with possible pregnancy...
Ischemic stroke in children are rare diseases, but severe. Ischemic stroke represent the leading cause of child mortality and morbidity. The authors presents a case of a girl diagnosed with ischemic stroke in the right posterior central artery territory. The onset was sudden with seizures and motor deficit in the left body. The case presented has two risk factors for ischemic stroke: severe iron deficiency...
Every year, hundreds of thousands of children worldwide are born with sickle cell disease, a genetic disorder that impacts the hemoglobin molecules in blood. If left undiagnosed and untreated, most affected children will die before reaching the age of five. However, highly accurate diagnostic methods and effective treatment regimens for sickle cell disease have been known for many years, and children...
When I started graduate school, I had no idea that it would take me halfway around the world to a small clinic in Cabinda, Angola, but I'm glad that it did. Since 2011, I have been a part of the team of engineers and clinicians, led by Dr. Sergey Shevkoplyas, working to develop a simple, low-cost, paper-based test for sickle cell disease-a common inherited blood disorder that is most prevalent in...
According to the Centers for Disease Control, in the United States there are 6.8 million children living with asthma. Despite the importance of the disease, the available prognostic tools are not sufficient for biomedical researchers to thoroughly investigate the potential risks of the disease at scale. To overcome these challenges we present a big data integration and analysis infrastructure developed...
Varicella-zoster virus causes chickenpox, a very contagious disease manifested by rash, itching, tiredness, and fever. The affected individual gets stomach, back and face covered with blister-like rash that often spreads over the entire body resulting in 250 or even 500 itchy blisters. Babies, adults, and people with weakened immune systems can be seriously affected by chickenpox. As a part of this...
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) provides access to sources of knowledge or health information through technologies like Internet, wireless network, mobile phones etc. Primary healthcare delivery based on mobile devices can achieve the goal of “health for all” and meet the requirements for people's basic health through a comprehensive approach. This paper proposes a framework for ICT...
In this paper the method of bronchial asthma diagnostics based on analysis of microwave band electromagnetic radiation propagation through the patient chest is described. The suggested method allows to realize innocuous non-invasive diagnostics of respirator system diseases among patients of all ages. It also allows to monitor the patient's condition and the disease progression during the whole period...
Asthma is one of the most prevalent non-communicable diseases worldwide. It creates substantial health and economic burden to patients, and affects their families. This paper presents an online to offline (O2O) system to support the treatment and management of asthma, based on individualized strategies for the overall asthma control. It uses Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to create...
We propose to use a new approach to model the polio spread and prevention. The propose approach is inspired from P2P network. The approach is based on the graph transformations, which is a visual rule based formalism. The graph transformation has properties for stochastic modelling and simulation. In order to develop a stochastic model using graph transformation, we consider polio spread and prevention...
Advanced prediction of asthma exacerbations may significantly improve patient quality of life and reduce costs of urgent care delivery. Majority of current algorithms predict who is likely to experience asthma exacerbation rather than when it is about to occur. We used data from asthma home-based telemonitoring for advanced prediction of asthma exacerbation. The goal of this project was to develop...
This work introduces the engineering design of a device capable to detect serum turbidity. We hypothesized that an electronic, portable, and low cost device that can provide objective, quantitative measurements of serum turbidity might have the potential to improve the early detection of neonatal sepsis. The design features, testing methodologies, and the obtained results are described. The final...
General expert system is a system that tried to adopt human knowledge to computer, so that the computer can solve the problem as was done by experts. Or in other words the expert system is a system designed and implemented with assisted of a particular programming language to be able to solve problems like that done by experts. Hopefully this system, common people can solve a particular problem either...
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