Evaluation and amelioration of computer-aided diagnosis with artificial neural networks utilizing small-sized sample sets
Publication year: 2012Source:Biomedical Signal Processing and ControlK.Y. Liu, M.R. Smith, E.C. Fear, R.M. Rangayyan Concerns about the specificity and reliability of artificial neural networks (ANNs) impede further application of ANNs in medicine. This is particularly true when developing computer-...
Classification of ECG arrhythmia by a modular neural network based on Mixture of Experts and Negatively Correlated Learning
Publication year: 2012Source:Biomedical Signal Processing and ControlMehrdad Javadi, Seyed Ali Asghar Abbaszadeh Arani, Atena Sajedin, Reza Ebrahimpour In this paper, we propose a novel ECG arrhythmia classification method using the complementary features of Mixture of Experts (ME) and Negatively Co...
Atrioventricular nodal function during atrial fibrillation: Model building and robust estimation
Publication year: 2012Source:Biomedical Signal Processing and ControlValentina D.A. Corino, Frida Sandberg, Federico Lombardi, Luca T. Mainardi, Leif S?rnmo Statistical modeling of atrioventricular (AV) nodal function during atrial fibrillation (AF) is revisited for the purpose of defining model pro...
Sparse spatial filter via a novel objective function minimization with smooth ?1 regularization
Publication year: 2012Source:Biomedical Signal Processing and ControlIbrahim Onaran, N. Firat Ince, A. Enis Cetin Common spatial pattern (CSP) method is widely used in brain machine interface (BMI) applications to extract features from the multichannel neural activity through a set of spatial projec...
Resonance phenomenon during wrist pulse-taking: A stochastic simulation, model-based study of the `pressing with one finger' technique
Publication year: 2012Source:Biomedical Signal Processing and ControlArthur de S? Ferreira This study analyzed the `pressing with one finger' technique for wrist pulse-taking and explored the identification of internal organs according to the resonance theory in the circulatory system. A five-sectio...
Using swallow sound and surface electromyography to determine the severity of dysphagia in patients with myasthenia gravis
Publication year: 2012Source:Biomedical Signal Processing and ControlChien-Chang Hsu, Wei-Hao Chen, Hou-Chang Chiu One of the main symptoms of patients with myasthenia gravis is dysphagia, which will reduce the patients' nutritional absorption and influences the quality of living. The activity of sw...
A new semantic mining approach for detecting ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation
Publication year: 2012Source:Biomedical Signal Processing and ControlMohd Afzan Othman, Norlaili Mat Safri, Ismawati Abdul Ghani, Fauzan Khairi Che Harun, Ismail Ariffin Accurately differentiating between ventricular fibrillation (VF) and ventricular tachycardia (VT) episodes is crucial in preventin...
Blood glucose control algorithms for type 1 diabetic patients: A methodological review
Publication year: 2012Source:Biomedical Signal Processing and ControlKatrin Lunze, Tarunraj Singh, Marian Walter, Mathias D. Brendel, Steffen Leonhardt A method for optimal continuous insulin therapy for diabetes patients has been sought since the early 1970s. Although technical and medical advances...
Enhanced ultrasound strain imaging using chirp-coded pulse excitation
Publication year: 2012Source:Biomedical Signal Processing and ControlHui Peng, Dong C. Liu To improve the quality of ultrasound strain imaging, chirp-coded pulse excitation which can enhance echo signal-to-noise ratio (eSNR) was used. The effects of various factors on chirp-coded strain imaging were...
Insulin Glargine in the intensive care unit: A model-based clinical trial design
Publication year: 2012Source:Biomedical Signal Processing and ControlJonathan G. Willis, Liam Fisk, Normy Razak, Aaron Le Compte, Geoffrey M. Shaw, J. Geoffrey Chase Introduction Current successful AGC (Accurate Glycemic Control) protocols require extra clinical effort and are impractical in less ac...
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