EAI Endorsed Transactions on Pervasive Health and Technology

EAI Endorsed Transactions on Pervasive Health and Technology is an open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal focused on personal electronic health assistants, health crowdsourcing, data mining and knowledge management, IT applications to needs of patients, disease prevention and awareness, electronic and mobile health platforms including design and more. The journal publishes research articles, review articles, commentaries, editorials, technical articles, and short communications with a quarterly frequency. Authors are not charged for article submission and processing.

Editor(s)-in-Chief: Manik Sharma

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EAI Endorsed Transactions on Pervasive Health and Technology is an open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal focused on personal electronic health assistants, health crowdsourcing, data mining and knowledge management, IT applications to needs of patients, disease prevention and awareness, electronic and mobile health platforms including design and more. The journal publishes research articles, review articles, commentaries, editorials, technical articles, and short communications with a quarterly frequency. Authors are not charged for article submission and processing.

Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

Physiological models for interpreting medical sensor data
Sensing/Actuating Technologies and Pervasive Computing
Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health Professions
Human-Computer Interaction and Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Hardware and Software Infrastructures
Activity recognition and fall detection
User modelling and personalization
Modelling of Pervasive Healthcare environments
Sensor-based decision support systems
Design and evaluation of patient and ambient-related sensors
Wearable and implantable sensor integration
Data fusion in pervasive healthcare environments
Data mining of medical patient records
Software architectures
Electronic Health Records

Understanding Users

Identifying and addressing stakeholder needs
Usability and acceptability
Barriers and enablers to adoption
Social implications of pervasive health technology, and social inclusion
Coverage and delivery of pervasive healthcare services
Patient and caregiver empowerment
Diversity: population and condition-specific requirements
Inclusive research and design: engaging underrepresented populations
Digital interventions and health behavior change

Applications

Autonomous systems to support independent living
Clinical applications, validation and evaluation studies
Telemedicine and mHealth solutions
Chronic disease and health risk management applications
Health/Wellbeing promotion and disease prevention
Home based health and wellness measurement and monitoring
Continuous vs event-driven monitoring of patients
Smart homes and hospitals
Using mobile devices in the storage, update, and transmission of patient data
Wellbeing and lifestyle support
Systems to support individuals with auditory, cognitive, or vision impairments
Systems to support caregivers

Pervasive Healthcare Management

Challenges surrounding data quality
Standards and interoperability in pervasive healthcare
Business cases and cost issues
Security and privacy issues
Training of healthcare professional for pervasive healthcare
Legal and regulatory issues
Staffing and resource management

Anind Dey (University of Washington)
Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar (Hasselt University, Belgium)
Alejandro Dominguez Rodriguez (Autonomous University of Baja California)
Alexandros Tzallas (Technological Educational Institute of Epirus)
Asimina Kiourti (The Ohio State University)
AtaUllah Ghafoor (National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan.)
Arijit Ukil (Tata Consultancy Services)
Bert Arnrich (Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey)
Daojing He (South China University of Technology, China)
Emilija Stojmenova (Duh University of Ljubljana)
Frank Wallhoff (Jade University of Applied Sciences)
Honggang Wang (UMASS. USA)
Kashif Saleem (King Saud University)
Laszlo Bokor (BME, Hungary)
Marcela Deyanira Rodriguez Urrea (Autonomous University of Baja California)
Mauro Femminella (University of Perugia, Italy)
Melina Frenken (Jade University of Applied Sciences)
Mohammad Upal Mahfuz (University of Wisconsin-Green Bay)
Mosabber Uddin Ahmed (University of Dhaka)
Mojtaba Taherisadr (University of Michigan)
Nadeem Javaid (COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan)
Pietro Cipresso (Istituto Auxologico, Milan, Italy)
Razan Hamed (New York Institute of Technology, NY, USA)
Silvia Serino (Catholic University of Milan, Italy)
Stefan Rahr Wagner (Aarhus University)
Tanvir Zia (School of Computing & Mathematics, Charles Sturt University, Australia)
Venet Osmani (CREATE-NET, Trento, Italy)
Wilko Heuten (OFFIS, Germany)
Tessa Dekkers (Delft University, The Netherlands)
Saikishor Jangiti (SASTRA Deemed University, India)
Zhihan Lv (Qingdao University, China)
Antonella Carbonaro (Universita' di Bologna, Italy)
Giorgos Giannakakis (Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece)
Alessandro Ruggiero (University of Salerno, Italy)
Eduard Babulak (National Science Foundation, USA)
Emilio Serrano (Technical University of Madrid, Spain)
Riccardo Martoglia (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)
Alberto Antonietti (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
Gonçalo Marques (Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal)
Netzahualcoyotl Hernandez-Cruz (Ulster University, UK)

Manik Sharma¹

Dr. Manik Sharma is an MCA, UGC-NET qualified and has received his Ph.D. degree in “Distributed Query Optimization”. He has more than 12 years of teaching experience. He is working in the area of Data Mining, Machine Learning and Soft Computing with specialization in the diagnosis of diseases and modeling of DSS query optimizer. The thrust area is to improve the predictive accuracy in early diagnosis of several fatal human disorders. He has published 3 books related to Computer Network, Internet Applications, Management Information System and Database Theory. In addition, he has also published more than 25 research papers in various journals of International repute including Scopus and Thomson Reuters. He has also presented more than ten research articles in various national and international UGC and IEEE conferences. Moreover, he is an active member of International Program Committees, Technical Program Committees, and Advisory Committees of several academics conferences (United Kingdom, Singapore, Mauritius, Thailand, Vietnam, USA, Hong Kong, Canada, UAE, and India).

1: DAV University, India

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m-health services for COVID-19 afflicted and infected victims
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phat 18: e8

Author:
Manik Sharma

Published:
11th Jun 2021

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An Empirical Study on Challenges Faced by the Elderly in Care Centres
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phat 18: e7

Authors:
Jie Li, Wei Wei Goh, NZ Jhanjhi, Filzah Binti Md Isa, Sumathi Balakrishnan

Published:
11th Jun 2021

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INTRODUCTION: The fact of our lives is that we will be reaching to elderly life stage sooner or later. Our elderly community has been left far behind of new technology updates. Technology advances just as age is catching up on us. To many who are in their twilight years, …INTRODUCTION: The fact of our lives is that we will be reaching to elderly life stage sooner or later. Our elderly community has been left far behind of new technology updates. Technology advances just as age is catching up on us. To many who are in their twilight years, using cutting edge technologies may be a hurdle in their activities of daily living (ADLs).

OBJECTIVES: Therefore, this study aims to identify and measure the ADL challenges that the elderly encounter and improve their quality of life (QoL).

METHODS: This research embarked on semi-structured interviews at 9 geriatric care centres in Malaysia to investigate the ADL challenges by the elderly residents. The thematic analysis approach was employed for data analysis and further discussion.

RESULTS: The research findings suggested that the QoL of the elderly is limited by the challenges of geriatric issues, poor living conditions, and technology acceptance barriers.

CONCLUSION: In conclusion, the current research provides an overview of the ADL challenges faced by the elderly with recommendations of user-centred Internet of Things (IoT) devices for elderly to use in an ambient assisted living (AAL) environment in Society 5.0.
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Early and Precise Detection of Pancreatic Tumor by Hybrid Approach with Edge Detection and Artificial Intelligence Techniques
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phat 18: e6

Authors:
Bhawna Dhruv, Neetu Mittal, Megha Modi

Published:
31st May 2021

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INTRODUCTION: Pancreatic cancer is highly lethal as it grows, spreads rapidly and difficult to diagnose at its early stages. It can be identified through scan images. The tumorous images obtained from imaging techniques suffer from the drawback of cryptic data due to presence of unwanted noise and …INTRODUCTION: Pancreatic cancer is highly lethal as it grows, spreads rapidly and difficult to diagnose at its early stages. It can be identified through scan images. The tumorous images obtained from imaging techniques suffer from the drawback of cryptic data due to presence of unwanted noise and poor contrast.

OBJECTIVE: To reduce the risk of pancreatic cancer, its detection and diagnosis at an early stage becomes crucial.

METHODS: The proposed work encompasses the processing of CT scans of pancreatic tumor using classical and artificial intelligence based optimized edge detection techniques for optimization and detection of tumor.

RESULTS: The simulation results are highly encouraging as evident from the far improved visibility of resultant images with Particle Swarm Optimization.

CONCLUSION: The output image with PSO shows the quality enhanced CT images which helps in accurate detection and diagnosis of the pancreatic tumor at an early stage providing an aid in medical imaging.
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A Review of Medical Image Segmentation Algorithms
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phat 18: e5

Authors:
K.K.D. Ramesh, G. Kiran Kumar, K. Swapna, Debabrata Datta, S. Suman Rajest

Published:
12th Apr 2021

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INTRODUCTION: Image segmentation in medical physics plays a vital role in image analysis to identify the affected tumour. The process of subdividing an image into its constituent parts that are homogeneous in feature is called Image segmentation, and this proces…INTRODUCTION: Image segmentation in medical physics plays a vital role in image analysis to identify the affected tumour. The process of subdividing an image into its constituent parts that are homogeneous in feature is called Image segmentation, and this process concedes to extract some useful information. Numerous image segmentation techniques have been developed, and these techniques conquer different restrictions on conventional medical segmentation techniques. This paper presents a review of medical image segmentation techniques and statistical mechanics based on the novel method named as Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM). The beauty of LBM is to augment the computational speed in the process of medical image segmentation with an accuracy and specificity of more than 95% compared to traditional methods. As there is not much information on LBM in medical physics, it is intended to present a review of the research progress of LBM.

OBJECTIVE: As there is no review paper on the research progress of the LB method, this paper presents a review with an objective to give some thought regarding the different segmentation for medical image and novel LB method to advance interest for future investigation and exploration in medical image segmentation.

METHODS: This paper in attendance a short review of medical image segmentation techniques based on Thresholding, Region-based, Clustering, Edge detection, Model-based and the novel method Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM).

CONCLUSION: In this paper, we outlined various segmentation techniques applied to medical images, emphasize that none of these problem areas has been acceptably settled, and all of the algorithms depicted are available for broad improvement. Since LBM has the benefits of speed and adaptability of modelling to guarantee excellent image processing quality with a reasonable amount of computer resources, we predict that this method will become a new research hotspot in image processing.
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Cervix Image Classification for Prognosis of Cervical Cancer using Deep Neural Network with Transfer Learning
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phat 18: e4

Authors:
Sanjeev Dhawan, Kulvinder Singh, Mamta Arora

Published:
12th Apr 2021

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INTRODUCTION: Cervical cancer is the leading cancer among the other female cancers. It develops in the cervix of women. It takes decades in development thus can be preventable if diagnosed at an early stage. The cervix is classified into three types Type I/II/III. The efficacy of the treatment depe…INTRODUCTION: Cervical cancer is the leading cancer among the other female cancers. It develops in the cervix of women. It takes decades in development thus can be preventable if diagnosed at an early stage. The cervix is classified into three types Type I/II/III. The efficacy of the treatment depends on the diagnosis of the right type of cervix. There is a thin line difference between the three types. Thus, identification of the right type of cervix becomes a difficult task for the health care providers too. To aid this problem, we proposed an algorithm based on the standard transfer learning approach used for building a model that classifies cervix images.

OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study is to develop a cervical cancer predictive model based on deep learning and transfer learning techniques that will recognize and classify the cervix images into one of the classes (Type 1/Type2/Type3).

METHODS: Techniques used for carrying out the experimental work includes deep learning and Transfer Learning. The three pertained models namely InceptionV3, ResNet50, and VGG19 are used for creating ConvNet that will classify the cervix images.

RESULTS: The result of the experiment reveals that the Inception v3 model is performing better than Vgg19 and ResNet50 with an accuracy of 96.1% on the cervical cancer dataset.

CONCLUSION: In the future, augmentation techniques can be employed to achieve better accuracy.
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Do information and communication technologies influence skills, competencies, health and well-being of teenagers? Current evidence
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phat 18: e3

Authors:
Willone Lim, Bee Theng Lau, Caslon Chua, Fakir M Amirul Islam

Published:
6th Apr 2021

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INTRODUCTION: Information and Communication Technologies are deemed to be a significant influence on teenagers’ development. It is important for studies to be conducted to assess the underlying influence of ICT on the teenager age group. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this paper is to …INTRODUCTION: Information and Communication Technologies are deemed to be a significant influence on teenagers’ development. It is important for studies to be conducted to assess the underlying influence of ICT on the teenager age group.

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this paper is to review whether ICT influences teenagers’ skills, competencies, health and well-being based on previous studies.

METHODS: Articles from 2015 to 2020 were selected for analysis to identify the influences on teenagers.

RESULTS: Computer and mobile devices offer opportunities to improve literacy in digital skills and competencies. It is also evident that teenagers are prone to risks of getting musculoskeletal symptoms as a result of excessive use of such devices, and it also leads to unforeseen illnesses such as depression in the case of teenager’s well-being.

CONCLUSION: Adopting ICT may have beneficial implications for teenagers, but it can pose more adverse effects on their development when used excessively.
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Review on the Role of Macular Edema in Retinopathy, Blindness and Automated Diagnosis Methods
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phat 18: e2

Authors:
M. J. Barman, D. Deb, M. K. Hassan, B. Choudhury

Published:
17th Mar 2021

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INTRODUCTION: Macular edema is not a disease itself, but, a very common condition in most of the retinal diseases, such as diabetic retinopathy, retinal vein occlusion, hypertensive retinopathy, age-related macular edema, etc. and post-ocular surgery. OBJECTIVES: We have discussed how macular e…INTRODUCTION: Macular edema is not a disease itself, but, a very common condition in most of the retinal diseases, such as diabetic retinopathy, retinal vein occlusion, hypertensive retinopathy, age-related macular edema, etc. and post-ocular surgery.

OBJECTIVES: We have discussed how macular edema plays an important role in blindness in case of various retinal blood vascular diseases and post-ophthalmic surgery. We have analyzed vast state-of-the-art methods for retinal abnormality detection.

METHODS: The proposed method uses a semi-automated macula segmentation approach and Local Binary Pattern features to train k-Nearest Neighbor classifier and performs binary classification.

RESULTS: We have achieved 80% accuracy and 90% sensitivity in classifying normal and abnormal retina.

CONCLUSION: We justified the notion that it will be beneficial to have a method that can analyse the macula region and alert if there is any abnormality near that region to prevent vision loss.
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Fusion of Attentional and Traditional Convolutional Networks for Facial Expression Recognition
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phat 18: e1

Authors:
Tin Trung Nguyen, Thai Hoang Le

Published:
17th Mar 2021

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INTRODUCTION: The facial expression classification problem has been performed by many researchers. However, it is still a difficult problem to effectively classify facial expressions in highly challenging datasets. In recent years, the self-weighted Squeeze-and-Excitation block …INTRODUCTION: The facial expression classification problem has been performed by many researchers. However, it is still a difficult problem to effectively classify facial expressions in highly challenging datasets. In recent years, the self-weighted Squeeze-and-Excitation block (SE-block) technique has evaluated the importance of each feature map in the Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) model, corresponding to the output of the Convolution layer, that has shown high efficiency in many practical applications.

OBJECTIVES: In this paper, with the aim of balancing speed and accuracy for the problem of facial expression classification, we proposed two novel model architectures to solve these problems.

METHODS: Two models proposed in this paper is: (1) a SqueezeNet model combined with a Squeeze-and- Excitation block, (2) SqueezeNet with Complex Bypass combined with a Squeeze-and-Excitation block. These models will have experimented with complex facial expression datasets. Furthermore, the ensemble learning method has also been evidenced to be effective in combining models. Therefore, in order to improve the efficiency of facial expression classification, and aim to compare with the state-of-the-art methods, we use more of the Inception-Resnet V1 model (3). Next, we combine three models (1),(2), and (3) for the classification of facial expressions.

RESULTS: The proposed model gives out high accuracy for datasets: namely, with The Extended Cohn-Kanade (CK+) dataset, there are seven basic types of emotions, reaching 99.10 % (using the last 3 frames), 94.20% for the Oulu-CASIA dataset (from 7th frame) with six basic types of emotions, 74.89% for FER2013.

CONCLUSION: Experimental results on highly challenging data sets (The Extended Cohn-Kanade, FER2013, Oulu-CASIA) show the effectiveness of the technique of combining three models and two proposed models.
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Prognostic Analysis of Hyponatremia for Diseased Patients Using Multilayer Perceptron Classification Technique
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phat 21(26): e5

Authors:
Prasannavenkatesan Theerthagiri, Gopala Krishnan C, Nishan A H

Published:
17th Mar 2021

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INTRODUCTION: The sodium electrolyte deficiency in the human serum is known as Hyponatremia. The deficiency of sodium in the blood indulges many problems for the patients. If the sodium range in human serum not managed and treated it creates difficulties such as longer hospital stays and mortality.…INTRODUCTION: The sodium electrolyte deficiency in the human serum is known as Hyponatremia. The deficiency of sodium in the blood indulges many problems for the patients. If the sodium range in human serum not managed and treated it creates difficulties such as longer hospital stays and mortality.

OBJECTIVES: This paper focuses on forecasting the sodium ranges of patient using the machine learning algorithm supported by the past health records of the patients.

METHODS: The vital patient information including the disease history, age, gender, and serum sodium level before and after hospital admission are analysed using the logistic regression, k-nearest neighbour, multilayer perceptron, and extra-trees ensemble classification algorithm.The results of the classification algorithm show that the proposed MLP algorithm produces higher prediction results as compared to other machine learning algorithms. Also, the confusion matrix, Kappa score, R square value and error metrics.

CONCLUSION: The results show that the MLP classification is more suitable prognostic analysis of the hyponatremia for diseased patients.
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Non-obtrusive 3d body tracking for automated mobility assessment in independently living older persons. Results of a pilot trial
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phat 21(26): e4

Authors:
J. Lumetzberger, T. Münzer, M. Kampel

Published:
4th Mar 2021

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INTRODUCTION: With rising age, functional deficit and frequent falls may lead to long-term care admission. Mobility assessment tests can detect fall risk and may induce interventions that prevent a fall. OBJECTIVES: To assess mobility of older persons using real time data …INTRODUCTION: With rising age, functional deficit and frequent falls may lead to long-term care admission. Mobility assessment tests can detect fall risk and may induce interventions that prevent a fall.

OBJECTIVES: To assess mobility of older persons using real time data and to compare these data with the mobility assessment of physiotherapists.

METHODS: 20 older people aged 74±5 (mean ± SD) were monitored over 10 months to investigate the performance of an automated mobility tracker. Physiotherapists performed periodic mobility assessments. Annotated 3d recordings served as ground truth data.

RESULTS: High correlation (r=0.684) of annotated and tracked gait speed was found. The mean absolute error is 0.16 m/s.

CONCLUSION: 3D mobility trackers can be used to collect long-term mobility data. Since changes in mobility might indicate functional decline, long-term tracking allows to react to changes in mobility. Such a technology may have essential medical and social value.
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Probable Forecasting of Epidemic COVID-19 in Using COCUDE Model
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phat 21(26): e3

Author:
Prasannavenkatesan Theerthagiri

Published:
3rd Feb 2021

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INTRODUCTION: The world has been struck due to the dangerous human threat called Corona Virus Disease 2019. This research work proposes a methodology to encounter the future infection rate, curing rate, and decease rate. OBJECTIVES: This uses the artificial intelligence algorithm to design and …INTRODUCTION: The world has been struck due to the dangerous human threat called Corona Virus Disease 2019. This research work proposes a methodology to encounter the future infection rate, curing rate, and decease rate.

OBJECTIVES: This uses the artificial intelligence algorithm to design and develop the proposed confirmed, cured, deceased (COCUDE) model.

METHODS: A nonlinear auto-regressive model has been developed with several iterations to design the proposed COCUDE model. The Akaike Information Criterion (AIC), Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC), and Correlated Akaike Information criterion (AICc) metrics are analyzed to check the stationary and quality for the proposed COCUDE model.

RESULTS: The prediction results are evaluated by the performance error metrics such as mean square error (MSE) and root mean square error (RMSE), in which the errors are lower for the proposed model. Thus, the prediction results indicate the proposed COCUDE model might accurately predict future COVID-19 infection rates with reduced errors.

CONCLUSION: It might support the corresponding authorities to take precautious action on the required necessities for the medical and clinical infrastructures and equipment.
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Enhanced Brain Tumour MRI Segmentation using K-means with machine learning based PSO and Firefly Algorithm
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phat 21(26): e2

Authors:
Anjali Kapoor, Rekha Agarwal

Published:
3rd Feb 2021

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INTRODUCTION: Medical image segmentation is usually integrated as a critical step in medical image analysis, often associated with numerous clinical applications. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) provides detailed visualization of the various anatomical structures decisive for interv…INTRODUCTION: Medical image segmentation is usually integrated as a critical step in medical image analysis, often associated with numerous clinical applications. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) provides detailed visualization of the various anatomical structures decisive for interventions and surgical plans.

OBJECTIVES: The objective of this paper is to design and apply an enhanced brain tumor MRI segmentation using K-mean with K-means as machine learning based Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Firefly Algorithm (FA).

METHODS: A novel fitness function of Swarm Based PSO works on velocity variation is introduced, which enhances the segmented regions. The traditional k-means algorithm is enhanced by applying PSO to the segmented part. Another extension of Swarm Intelligence named Firefly is applied to compare the results of the PSO based segmentation, and Firefly based segmentation is used.

RESULTS: The simulation results are evaluated in terms of precision (98%), recall (0.95), f-measure (0.96), accuracy (97%), and segmentation time (2.63s) to measure the image segmentation the quality of main results obtained.

CONCLUSION: Comparative studies have shown that the proposed design using k-means combined with FA exhibited high accuracy and precision in detecting brain tumor RoI.
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Intelligent Internet of Things and Advanced Machine Learning Techniques for COVID-19
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phat 21(26): e1

Authors:
Chinmay Chakraborty, Arij Naser Abougreen

Published:
28th Jan 2021

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INTRODUCTION: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has recently emerged around the world. The beginning of the disease was in the Chinese city of Wuhan and then it has been spread and became a global epidemic. An early diagnosis of COVID-19 disease is absolutely necessary to control the epid…INTRODUCTION: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has recently emerged around the world. The beginning of the disease was in the Chinese city of Wuhan and then it has been spread and became a global epidemic. An early diagnosis of COVID-19 disease is absolutely necessary to control the epidemic.

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this paper is to present a review of the contribution of machine learning (ML) and IoT to confront the epidemic.

METHODS: Diagnosis using real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) is a definite diagnosis, but this method takes time, while a diagnosis using a computed tomography (CT) scan is a faster approach to diagnosis. However, a large number of patients need a CT scan, which puts a lot of pressure on the radiologist so visual fatigue may lead to diagnostic errors so there is an urgent need for additional solutions. Artificial intelligence (AI) is an efficient tool to combat COVID-19 disease. Computer scientists have been developing many systems to handle this epidemic.

RESULTS: It was found that ML is an efficient and powerful AI technology that can be used for trustworthy COVID-19 detecting and diagnosis from X-ray and CT images and it can be a potential method for diagnosis in the radiology department. In addition, ML can be used in segmentation, prediction purposes for COVID-19. Furthermore, ML can effectively support drug discovery procedure and can reduce clinical failures.

CONCLUSION: IoT has a significant role in monitoring an individual's health and COVID-19 diagnosis. This paper also highlights the challenges of employing ML and intelligent IoT for fighting COVID-19.
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Augmenting Surgery: Medical Students’ Assessment and Ergonomics of 3D Holograms vs. CT Scans for Pre-Operative Planning
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phat 21(25): e5

Authors:
Stefano Triberti, Francesco Petrella, Alessandra Gorini, Omar Pappalardo, Valeria Sebri, Lucrezia Savioni, Alberto Redaelli, Gabriella Pravettoni

Published:
8th Jan 2021

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INTRODUCTION: Mixed reality (MR) allows surgeons to pre-operatively assess patients’ anatomy (e.g., tissue to be removed). However, medical students have limited access to this technology, and express both the desire to try it and suspicious attitudes. OBJECTIV…INTRODUCTION: Mixed reality (MR) allows surgeons to pre-operatively assess patients’ anatomy (e.g., tissue to be removed). However, medical students have limited access to this technology, and express both the desire to try it and suspicious attitudes.

OBJECTIVES: To assess students’ experience with traditional vs. innovative technology for pre-operative planning.

METHODS: 11 medical students analyzed a lung cancer case using CT scans or a 3D hologram (MR) and assessed the technology in terms of mental workload, emotions and formative value.

RESULTS: MR resulted in less cognitive load and effort, shorter response time and more positive emotions. No differences emerged in formative value, but the students expressed the desire to be trained both in traditional and innovative technology for pre-operative planning.

CONCLUSION: Medical students respond positively to “hands-on” experiences of technology for pre-operative planning. The time may be ripe to include MR in medical formation.
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An Efficient Face Mask Detector with PyTorch and Deep Learning
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phat 21(25): e4

Authors:
CMAK. Zeelan Basha, B.N. Lakshmi Pravallika, E. Bharani Shankar

Published:
8th Jan 2021

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INTRODUCTION: The outbreak ofacoronavirus disease in 2019 (COVID-19) has created a global health epidemic that has had a major effect on the way we view our environment and our daily lives. The Covid-19 affected numbers are rising at a tremendous pace. Because of that, many countries face an econom…INTRODUCTION: The outbreak ofacoronavirus disease in 2019 (COVID-19) has created a global health epidemic that has had a major effect on the way we view our environment and our daily lives. The Covid-19 affected numbers are rising at a tremendous pace. Because of that, many countries face an economic catastrophe, recession, and much more. One thing we should do is to separate ourselves from society, remain at home, and detach ourselves from the outside world. But that's no longer a choice, people need to earn to survive, and nobody can remain indefinitely within their homes. As a precaution, people should wear masks while keeping social distance, but some ignore such things and walk around.

OBJECTIVES: To develop aFace Mask Detector with OpenCV, PyTorch, and Deep Learning that helps to detect whether or not a person wears a mask.

METHODS: A Neural Network model called ResNet is trained on the dataset. Furthermore, this work makes use of the inbuilt Face Detector after training. Finally, we predict whether or not a person is wearing a mask along with the percentage of the face covered or uncovered.

RESULTS: The validation results have been proposed to be 97% accurate when compared to applying different algorithms.

CONCLUSION: This Face Mask Detection System was found to be apt for detecting whether or not people wear masks in public places which contribute to their health and also to the health of their contacts in this COVID-19 pandemic.
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Design of a Novel Ensemble Model of Classification Technique for Gene-Expression Data of Lung Cancer with Modified Genetic Algorithm
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phat 21(25): e2

Authors:
Prem Kumar Chandrakar, Akhilesh Kumar Shrivas, Neelam Sahu

Published:
8th Jan 2021

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INTRODUCTION: Gene expression levels are important for identifying and diagnosing diseases like cancer. Gene expression microarray information contains a high extent feature set, which minimizes the performance and the accuracy of classifiers. OBJECTIVES: This paper proposes a Modified Genetic A…INTRODUCTION: Gene expression levels are important for identifying and diagnosing diseases like cancer. Gene expression microarray information contains a high extent feature set, which minimizes the performance and the accuracy of classifiers.

OBJECTIVES: This paper proposes a Modified Genetic Algorithm (MGA) that is based on Classifier Subset Evaluators – Genetic Search (Eval-CSE_GS) for selecting the relevant feature subsets. The MGA feature selection procedure is applied to microarray information for cancer patients that minimize a high dimension feature subset into low dimension feature subsets.

METHODS: The various data mining methods for classifying the various kinds of cancer disease patients are presented. The proposed model refers to an ensemble model (PEM) for the organization of cancer disease by reducing the feature subsets, which results show improvements in the success rate.

RESULTS: The proposed ensemble model obtains the accuracy of 94.58%, 96.56% and 97.04% for PEM-1 to PEM-3, respectively.

CONCLUSION: Our proposed MGA-PEM model gives satisfactory results for cancer identification and classification.
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Using Information and Communication Technologies in Health Teaching and Learning
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phat 21(25): e1

Authors:
Sónia Oliveira, Liliana Vale Costa

Published:
8th Jan 2021

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Detection procedures for Patients of Alzheimer’s Disease using Waveform Features of Pupil Light Reflex in response to Chromatic Stimuli
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phat 20(24): e6

Authors:
Wioletta Nowak, Minoru Nakayama, Tomasz Kręcicki, Andrzej Hachoł

Published:
16th Dec 2020

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INTRODUCTION: Various studies conducted to predict Alzheimer’s disease (AD) indicate that some pupillight reflex (PLR) features may contain symptoms of the disease. An effective procedure that can predict thedisease using PLRs is needed. OBJECTIVES: Two analytic approaches were examined in orde…INTRODUCTION: Various studies conducted to predict Alzheimer’s disease (AD) indicate that some pupillight reflex (PLR) features may contain symptoms of the disease. An effective procedure that can predict thedisease using PLRs is needed.

OBJECTIVES: Two analytic approaches were examined in order to estimate the possibility of identifying Alzheimer’s patients using features of PLR waveforms from chromatic stimuli. In particular, an index of the probability of being an AD patient is introduced, and the features which contributed to PLRs the most were extracted.

METHOD: PLRs for three colours of light pulses (red: 635nm, blue: 470nm, white: CIE x=0.28, y=0.31) at twolevels of intensity (10 and 100 cd/m2) were observed at 60Hz for 10s. Pulses consisted of pre-stimulus (2s), light pulse (1s) and restoration phases (7s). 15 features were extracted from each PLR waveform, such as pupil constriction velocity, pupil response delay, etc. Seven AD patients (age:42-84, mean=68.1) and 12 similar-aged control subjects (age:62-89, mean=72.1).

RESULTS: The first approach was based on factor scores of features of PLRs. Two factor scores were extracted from the 15 features across all measurement conditions, and logistic functions were introduced in order to calculate the probability of identifying AD patients. Function parameters were estimated using a Bayesian technique, such as the Markov chain Monte Carlo method (MCMC). In consideration of the number of participants and biased data distributions, the second approach was based on the sparse modelling technique. Least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) was applied to sets of PLR features from each light stimulus, together with the ages of subjects, and optimised result sets were obtained. Prediction performance was higher than with the previous procedure.

CONCLUSION: The use of PLRs features from chromatic stimuli for identifying AD was developed and evaluated.
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A Guide to Using Asynchronous Remote Communities (ARC) for Researching Distributed Populations
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phat 17(11): e4

Authors:
Haley MacLeod, Ben Jelen, Annu Prabhakar, Lora Oehlberg, Katie Siek, Kay Connelly

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Existing research methods are largely intended to be conducted co-located and synchronously with a study population, but this approach is not feasible with remote or distributed populations. We describe a needs assessment study we conducted on Facebook. We report on our use of adapted versions of c…Existing research methods are largely intended to be conducted co-located and synchronously with a study population, but this approach is not feasible with remote or distributed populations. We describe a needs assessment study we conducted on Facebook. We report on our use of adapted versions of commonly used HCI research methods and lessons learned from this approach.
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Future Prospective of Soft Computing Techniques in Psychiatric Disorder Diagnosis
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phat 18(15): e1

Authors:
Manik Sharma, Natalia Romero

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Ear-Lead Multiple Smart Bio Sensor System in M-health
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phat 16(6): e5

Authors:
Numan Celik, Wamadeva Balachandran, Nadarajah Manivannan

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In this paper, we present a multi-parameter wearable sensor system in conjunction with a smartphone to enable a real-time unobtrusive monitoring of core body temperature, electrocardiogram (ear-lead ECG), and blood oxygen saturation (SpO2) on ambulatory patients. Clinical research illustrating that…In this paper, we present a multi-parameter wearable sensor system in conjunction with a smartphone to enable a real-time unobtrusive monitoring of core body temperature, electrocardiogram (ear-lead ECG), and blood oxygen saturation (SpO2) on ambulatory patients. Clinical research illustrating that continuing accurate measurements of core body temperature (CBT) are crucial to investigate human thermoregulation in ambulatory environment and during activity. On the other hand, ECG remains the mainstay test for primary diagnosis and survival analysis of heart diseases. We implement a wireless multisensory system that measures both the tympanic temperature inside the ear and ECG data from an ear and an arm. The behind-the-Ear device makes desirable to measure ECG data without any chest belt and allow the patient to move around freely. The proposed Bluetooth device has similarity of a hearing aid and is wirelessly connected to a smartphone for data transmission and displaying. This device not only gives access to the core temperature and ECG data in real time, but also the device can be controlled – removed and reapplied – by the patient at any time, thus increasing the performance of personal health applications.
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Security and Privacy Issues with IoT in Healthcare
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phat 18(14): e2

Authors:
Anil Chacko, Thaier Hayajneh

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In healthcare, the Internet of Things (IoT) oﬀers many beneﬁts, including being able to monitor patients more closely and using data for analytics. When it comes to IoT for medical device integration, the focus is shifted towards the consumer end, such as glucose meters, blood pressure cuﬀs, and ot…In healthcare, the Internet of Things (IoT) oﬀers many beneﬁts, including being able to monitor patients more closely and using data for analytics. When it comes to IoT for medical device integration, the focus is shifted towards the consumer end, such as glucose meters, blood pressure cuﬀs, and other devices designed to record data on patient vital signs. This enables healthcare providers to automatically collect information and apply decision support rules to allow for earlier intervention in the treatment process. Unfortunately, medical companies often do not consider the security risks of connecting these devices to the internet. There is a possibility that a zero-day exploit in a medical device can be used to injure or even kill someone without being detected. The rise in hackable medical devices has forced the FDA to issue formal guidance on how medical device makers should handle reports about cyber vulnerabilities. This paper aims to explore the role of IoT in healthcare, vulnerabilities, attacks, and security issues and solutions.
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Low-threshold CMOS Rectifier Design for Energy Harvesting in Biomedical Sensors
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phat 16(6): e4

Authors:
Mehmet Yuce, Ali Mohammadi, Jean-Michel Redoute

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The power transfer efficiency of energy harvesting systems is strongly dependent on the power conditioning circuits, especially rectifiers. The voltage drop across rectifier and its leakage current can drastically influence the efficiency. The hybrid energy harvesters impose even more severe co…The power transfer efficiency of energy harvesting systems
is strongly dependent on the power conditioning circuits,
especially rectifiers. The voltage drop across rectifier and
its leakage current can drastically influence the efficiency.
The hybrid energy harvesters impose even more severe constraints on the rectifier. The low Vth transistors and bulk
regulation technique are used in this work to mitigated the
voltage drop and leakage current, respectively. It has been
shown that the bulk regulation stops the current leakage
through body of PMOS transistor. A near zero threshold
cross connected CMOS rectifier is presented in this work using the standard 180nm UMC technology and experimental
analysis are carried out to evaluate the circuit performance.
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Overcoming Barriers to Healthcare Access and Delivery
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phat 18(15): e2

Authors:
Foluso Ayeni, Zacchaeus Omogbadegun, Nicholas Omoregbe, Sanjay Misra, Lalit Garg

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Access to standard and economical health care delivery, availability of significant health information are viewed as some of the most functional public health interventions in present-day history. Despite that, current information obtained from the WHO regarding Nigeria’s health condition shows tha…Access to standard and economical health care delivery, availability of significant health information are viewed as some of the most functional public health interventions in present-day history. Despite that, current information obtained from the WHO regarding Nigeria’s health condition shows that the average existence expectancy is at 54 years and maternal mortality at 608 per 100,000 live births as a result of poor health care services. Several aspects of health informatics have been applied to solve these challenges such as the transformation of records from manual to electronic. Among these are the telemedicine and socialized healthcare, which have been barely adopted in developing nations. This work thus proposes an architectural framework for a cloud-supported socialized healthcare system. In order to achieve this; a webbased application software was designed and implemented through the use of cloud computing technology platforms and server side scripting tools. This study proves that socialized healthcare will really go a long way in defeating barriers of viable human access and delivery.
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Voice-Based Detection of Parkinson’s Disease through Ensemble Machine Learning Approach: A Performance Study
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phat 19(19): e2

Authors:
Iqra Nissar, Danish Raza Rizvi, Sarfaraz Masood, Aqib Nazir Mir

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INTRODUCTION: Parkinson's disease (PD) occurs due to the deficiency of dopamine that regulates various activities of the human body. Researchers have identified that voice is an underlying symptom of PD. Recently, Machine learning (ML) has helped in solving problems of computer vision, natural la…INTRODUCTION: Parkinson's disease (PD) occurs due to the deficiency of dopamine that regulates various activities of
the human body. Researchers have identified that voice is an underlying symptom of PD. Recently, Machine learning
(ML) has helped in solving problems of computer vision, natural language processing, speech recognition etc.

OBJECTIVES: This paper aims to analyse the effect of feature type selection i.e. MFCC and TQWT on the efficiency of
voice based PD detection system along with the use an ensemble learning based classifier for this task.

METHODS: Hence, in this work, various machine learning models, including Logistic Regression, Naive Bayes, KNN,
Random Forest, Decision Tree, SVM, MLP, and XGBoost, have been employed and explored for PD detection purpose.
The task of Feature selection was also done using minimum-Redundancy and Maximum-Relevance (mRMR) and
Recursive Feature Elimination (RFE) techniques.

RESULTS: The results of the XGBoost with mRMR feature selection, outperformed all other models with a high accuracy
of 95.39% and precision, recall and F1-score of 0.95 each, when both MFCC and TQWT features were selected.

CONCLUSION: The results obtained strongly support the use of XGBoost model for the voice sample based detection of
PD along with mRMR feature selection technique.
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Body-IMU autocalibration for inertial hip and knee joint tracking
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phat 16(5): e3

Authors:
Sarvenaz Salehi, Gabriele Bleser, Attila Reiss, Didier Stricker

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Sensor to body calibration is a key requirement for capturing accurate body movements in applications based on wearable systems. In this paper, we consider the specific problem of estimating the positions of multiple inertial measurement units (IMUs) relative to the adjacent body joints. To deriv…Sensor to body calibration is a key requirement for capturing accurate body movements in applications based on wearable systems.
In this paper, we consider the specific problem of estimating the positions of multiple inertial measurement units (IMUs) relative to
the adjacent body joints. To derive an efficient, robust and precise method based on a practical procedure is a crucial as well as
challenging task when developing a wearable system with multiple
embedded IMUs. In this work, first, we perform a theoretical analysis of an existing position calibration method, showing its limited
applicability for the hip and knee joint. Based on this, we propose a method for simultaneously estimating the positions of three IMUs
(mounted on pelvis, upper leg, lower leg) relative to these joints.
The latter are here considered as an ensemble. Finally, we perform
an experimental evaluation based on simulated and real data, showing the improvements of our calibration method as well as lines of future work.
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SysML based Design for Variability enabling the Reusability of Legacy Systems towards the support of Diverse Standard Compliant Implementations or Standard Updates: The Case of IEEE-802.15.6 Standard for e-Health Applications
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phat 16(5): e1

Authors:
Sofia Meacham, Fotios Gioulekas, Keith Phalp

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The aim of this paper is to provide a consistent development path enabling the re-usability of in house legacy systems or architectures towards their re-design, in order to ensure compliance with evolving standards, by using the new features of SysML for modelling variants. Modern standards evolve …The aim of this paper is to provide a consistent development path enabling the re-usability of in house legacy systems or architectures towards their re-design, in order to ensure compliance with evolving standards, by using the new features of SysML for modelling variants. Modern standards evolve quickly, include advanced functionalities and operations and support diverse implementations. System industries need to cope with such standards changes by modifying their current technologies. This paper shows how a novel engineering process (SysML modelling) could be employed to define consistently the specification and the migration procedure of legacy systems to their variants. Within this work SysML characteristics such as package and block diagrams, are employed, with an emphasis on variability modelling, as a basis for standard compliant architecture implementation, thus providing design flexibility and reusability at several abstraction levels. As an illustration of our proposed method we present models of two variant Physical Layer structures for IEEE-802.15.6 Standard for e-Health Applications. The advanced SysML features are used to target the re-usability of a legacy Narrow-Band (NB) physical layer subsystem for the Wireless Body Area Network standard and to implement the alternative Ultra-Wide Band (UWB). Therefore, we contend that such methods bring potential benefits to those needing to ensure compliance when producing product variants.
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Reducing alarm fatigue: exploring decision structures, risks, and design
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phat 17(10): e2

Authors:
Mustafa Hussain, James Dewey, Nadir Weibel

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Automated patient monitoring systems suer from several design problems. Among them, alarm fatigue is one of the most critical issues, as evidenced by the Sentinel Event Alert that The Joint Commission – the U.S. hospital-accrediting body – recently issued. In this study, we explore fast-and-frugal…Automated patient monitoring systems suer from several design problems. Among them, alarm fatigue is one of the most critical issues, as evidenced by the Sentinel Event Alert that The Joint Commission – the U.S. hospital-accrediting body – recently issued. In this study, we explore fast-and-frugal heuristics that may be used to prioritize patient alarms, while continuing to monitor patient physiological state. By using a combination of human factors methodologies and the theory of Distributed Cognition (DCog), we studied alarm fatigue and its relationship to the underlying hospital systems. We identified three specific factors that we envision to be helpful for clinical personnel: ventilator presence, number of intravenous drips, and number of medications. We discuss their application in daily hospital operation. We also address cost-benefit considerations and possible monitor designs.
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Publisher: EAI
ISSN: 2411-7145
Number of Volumes: 7

Last Published: 2021-04-08

EAI Endorsed Transactions on Pervasive Health and Technology

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Manik Sharma¹