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Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare 2017

Proceedings of the 5th KES International Conference on Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare (KES-InMed 2017)

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Editors:
  1. Yen-Wei Chen

    1. College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Japan

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  2. Satoshi Tanaka

    1. Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Japan

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  3. Robert J. Howlett

    1. KES International, Bournemouth University, Poole, United Kingdom

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  4. Lakhmi C. Jain

    1. University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia

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  • Discusses how recent innovations, knowledge exchange, and enterprise can be applied to medicine, surgery, healthcare, and the issues of an aging population
  • Presents the proceedings of the fifth International Conference on Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare 2017 held on June 21–23, 2017 in Vilamoura, Portugal
  • Addresses the central theme of smart medical and healthcare systems, featuring the ways in which modern intelligent systems contribute to solving problems faced by healthcare and medical practitioners today
  • Interesting for researchers, students, engineers, and professionals working in the fields of medical systems, medical technology, and intelligent systems
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies (SIST, volume 71)

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Table of contents (31 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Biomedical Engineering, Trends, Research and Technologies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. My Health Info: An Informative mHealth App for Healthcare and Weight Control

      • Carlos Hurtado Sánchez, Margarita Ramírez Ramírez, José Sergio Magdaleno Palencia, Bogart Yail Márquez Lobato, Nora del Carmen Osuna Millán
      Pages 3-11

    3. Big Data and Health “Clinical Records”

      • Margarita Ramírez Ramírez, Hilda Beatriz Ramírez Moreno, Nora del Carmen Osuna Millán, María del Consuelo Salgado Soto, Sergio Octavio Vázquez Núñez, Arnulfo Alanis Garza
      Pages 12-18

    4. Information and Communication Technologies, and the Positive Mental Health in the Seniors

      • Maricela Sevilla, Consuelo Salgado, Esperanza Manrique, Hilda Beatriz Ramírez, Arnulfo Alanís
      Pages 19-25

    5. Prediction and Prevention of Addictions Through the Implementation of a Computational Social Simulator

      • Miguel Antonio Osuna Millán, Nora Osuna Millán, Esperanza Manrique Rojas, Maricela Sevilla Caro, Margarita Ramírez Ramírez, Ricardo Rosales Cisneros
      Pages 26-34

    6. CFD Simulation of the Oral-Nasal Flow Partitioning During a Breathing Cycle Based on the Soft Palate Movement

      • Concepción Paz, Eduardo Suárez, Miguel Concheiro, Marcos Conde
      Pages 35-45

    7. Neural Network Backpropagation with Applications into Nutrition

      • A. Medina-Santiago, J. M. Villegas-M, J. Ramirez-Torres, N. R. García-Chong, A. Cisneros-Gómez, E. M. Melgar-Paniagua et al.
      Pages 46-54

  3. Machine Learning and Labelling for Biomedical Visual Data Analysis and Understanding

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55
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    2. Automatic and Robust Vessel Segmentation in CT Volumes Using Submodular Constrained Graph

      • Titinunt Kitrungrotsakul, Xian-Hua Han, Yutaro Iwamoto, Yen-Wei Chen
      Pages 57-66

    3. Automatic Segmentation of Cellular/Nuclear Boundaries Based on the Shape Index of Image Intensity Surfaces

      • Si-Hai Yang, Xian-Hua Han, Yen-Wei Chen
      Pages 67-77

    4. A Study of Nuclei Classification Methods in Histopathological Images

      • Malay Singh, Zeng Zeng, Emarene Mationg Kalaw, Danilo Medina Giron, Kian-Tai Chong, Hwee Kuan Lee
      Pages 78-88

    5. Semi-automatic Segmentation of Paranasal Sinuses from CT Images Using Active Contour with Group Similarity Constraints

      • Zhuofu Deng, Takahiko Kitamura, Naoki Matsushiro, Hiroshi Nishimura, Zhiliang Zhu, Min Xu et al.
      Pages 89-98

  4. Advanced ICT for Medicine and Healthcare

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
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    2. The Possibility of Hemorheological Parameters as Precursors of Recurrent Strokes

      • Margarita V. Kruchinina, Andrey A. Gromov, Vladimir M. Generalov, Vladimir N. Kruchinin, Gennadiy V. Shuvalov
      Pages 101-109

    3. Simulation Technologies Supporting Collaborative Training for Emergency Medical Services Personnel

      • Ilona Heldal, Lars Lundberg
      Pages 110-120

    4. An Indentation-Type Instrument for Measuring Soft Tissue Elasticity

      • Zhongkui Wang, Kousuke Kadoma, Shinichi Hirai
      Pages 121-129

    5. A Collaborative and Mobile Platform for Medical Image Analysis: A Preliminary Study

      • Zhuofu Deng, Yen-wei Chen, Zhiliang Zhu, Youyin Wang, Yi Wang, Min Xu
      Pages 130-139

    6. Detection of Liver Tumor Candidates from CT Images Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

      • Yoshihiro Todoroki, Xian-Hua Han, Yutaro Iwamoto, Lanfen Lin, Hongjie Hu, Yen-Wei Chen
      Pages 140-145

    7. Computerized Features for LI-RADS Based Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Liver Lesions

      • Mingzhong Chen, Lanfen Lin, Qingqing Chen, Hongjie Hu, Qiaowei Zhang, Yingying Xu et al.
      Pages 146-156
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About this book

This volume focuses on smart medical and healthcare systems (modern intelligent systems for medicine and healthcare) and includes 31 papers presenting recent trends and innovations in medicine and healthcare, including biomedical engineering research and technologies; machine learning and labeling for biomedical visual data analysis and understanding; advanced ICT for medicine and healthcare; and healthcare support systems.

Innovation in medicine and healthcare is an interdisciplinary research area, which combines advanced technologies and problem-solving skills with medical and biological science, and smart medical and healthcare systems can provide efficient and accurate solution to problems faced by healthcare and medical practitioners today by using advanced information communication techniques, computational intelligence, mathematics, robotics and other advanced technologies. Discussing the techniques developed in this area, which will have a significant effect on futuremedicine and healthcare, the book is a valuable resource for researchers, students, engineers, and professionals working in the fields of medical systems, medical technology, and intelligent systems.

Editors and Affiliations

  • College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Japan

    Yen-Wei Chen

  • Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Japan

    Satoshi Tanaka

  • KES International, Bournemouth University, Poole, United Kingdom

    Robert J. Howlett

  • University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare 2017

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the 5th KES International Conference on Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare (KES-InMed 2017)

  • Editors: Yen-Wei Chen, Satoshi Tanaka, Robert J. Howlett, Lakhmi C. Jain

  • Series Title: Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59397-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-59396-8Published: 21 May 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86616-1Published: 29 July 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-59397-5Published: 19 May 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2190-3018

  • Series E-ISSN: 2190-3026

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 289

  • Number of Illustrations: 148 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Computational Intelligence, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering

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