Pub Date : 2013-04-23DOI: 10.1109/ICCMA.2013.6506170
G. Andreoni, M. Mazzola, D. Zambarbieri, L. Forzoni, S. D'Onofrio, S. Viotti, G. Santambrogio, G. Baselli
The present work describes the ergonomics and usability preliminary tests regarding the human upper limb kinematics and cognitive evaluation of two diagnostic portable ultrasound scanners. The tests were performed by two sonographers (an expert one and a novice one) on one subject in abdominal and vascular clinical applications. The two portable systems had different user interfaces: one system had a classic Software keys interactive Menu, placed in the lower part of the screen, with toggles and buttons for the activation and adjustment of the functions, then physical qwerty keyboard and control panel. The other system had a touch screen integrated in the control panel with an interactive user interface and reduced number of physical buttons. Comparisons between the two systems considering the two sonographer's use are provided. Motion control and eye tracking scan path results will be presented and discussed for both users on both systems.
{"title":"Motion analysis and eye tracking technologies applied to portable ultrasound systems user interfaces evaluation","authors":"G. Andreoni, M. Mazzola, D. Zambarbieri, L. Forzoni, S. D'Onofrio, S. Viotti, G. Santambrogio, G. Baselli","doi":"10.1109/ICCMA.2013.6506170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCMA.2013.6506170","url":null,"abstract":"The present work describes the ergonomics and usability preliminary tests regarding the human upper limb kinematics and cognitive evaluation of two diagnostic portable ultrasound scanners. The tests were performed by two sonographers (an expert one and a novice one) on one subject in abdominal and vascular clinical applications. The two portable systems had different user interfaces: one system had a classic Software keys interactive Menu, placed in the lower part of the screen, with toggles and buttons for the activation and adjustment of the functions, then physical qwerty keyboard and control panel. The other system had a touch screen integrated in the control panel with an interactive user interface and reduced number of physical buttons. Comparisons between the two systems considering the two sonographer's use are provided. Motion control and eye tracking scan path results will be presented and discussed for both users on both systems.","PeriodicalId":187834,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Computer Medical Applications (ICCMA)","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124418964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-04-23DOI: 10.1109/ICCMA.2013.6506166
M. M. Laganá, G. Preti, P. Cecconi, L. Forzoni, S. D'Onofrio, G. Baselli, P. Tortoli
The study of the Internal Jugular Vein (IJV) hemodynamics has gained particular attention after the definition of Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency syndrome (CCSVI), and the discovery of highly debated possible links between the venous system and some neurological pathologies (Multiple Sclerosis, Cough Headache, Transient Global Amnesia). One of the most studied hemodynamic signs of the IJV blood flow is the presence and extent of the reflux during normal respiratory conditions or forced breathing maneuvers (Valsalva, Müller;s deep inspiration). The present work is related to the analysis of IJV reflux performed using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Phase Contrast (PC) and Ultrasound (US) Doppler techniques. Regarding the US modality, the classic Color Doppler, Pulsed Wave Doppler and the innovative Multigate Quality Doppler Profiles technology will be considered. Comparisons between the results obtained with MRI and US will be discussed to highlight advantages of the proposed MRI and US technologies for IJV reflux presence detection and analysis.
{"title":"Internal jugular vein blood flow reflux analysis using ultrasound Doppler technologies and phase contrast magnetic resonance imaging","authors":"M. M. Laganá, G. Preti, P. Cecconi, L. Forzoni, S. D'Onofrio, G. Baselli, P. Tortoli","doi":"10.1109/ICCMA.2013.6506166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCMA.2013.6506166","url":null,"abstract":"The study of the Internal Jugular Vein (IJV) hemodynamics has gained particular attention after the definition of Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency syndrome (CCSVI), and the discovery of highly debated possible links between the venous system and some neurological pathologies (Multiple Sclerosis, Cough Headache, Transient Global Amnesia). One of the most studied hemodynamic signs of the IJV blood flow is the presence and extent of the reflux during normal respiratory conditions or forced breathing maneuvers (Valsalva, Müller;s deep inspiration). The present work is related to the analysis of IJV reflux performed using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Phase Contrast (PC) and Ultrasound (US) Doppler techniques. Regarding the US modality, the classic Color Doppler, Pulsed Wave Doppler and the innovative Multigate Quality Doppler Profiles technology will be considered. Comparisons between the results obtained with MRI and US will be discussed to highlight advantages of the proposed MRI and US technologies for IJV reflux presence detection and analysis.","PeriodicalId":187834,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Computer Medical Applications (ICCMA)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130629843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-04-23DOI: 10.1109/ICCMA.2013.6506164
Muhammad Sheraz Arshad Malik, S. Sulaiman
Electronic Health Records (EHR) presented through visual analytic systems could be easily interpreted by physicians for better understanding of a patient's medical details. However, there are still a lot of issues with the existing visual analytical applications in terms of the physicians to correctly infer those medical data. The existing applications were found to be more focusing on the colour schemes and differential data representation in the same space but lesser emphasis was given on defragmentation of information to discrete level and, no provision of detailed overview of patient history in the past time frames. These limitations motivate us to formulate a conceptual interface model that could assist designers in better understanding the physicians' needs. As multiple EHR data is usually obtained from various resources, the best approach for such a formulation would be a combination of events based patient history to a sequence based time line in a similar group. This will help in generating the visual information on different data sets in a time frame of particular length from various data resources onto multiple interfaces. The proposed model, having multiple interfaces features within the same interface, is envisaged to be detailed enough in terms of the data presented yet easy to be understood by the physicians.
{"title":"Towards the development of an interface model for information visualization in multiple electronic health records","authors":"Muhammad Sheraz Arshad Malik, S. Sulaiman","doi":"10.1109/ICCMA.2013.6506164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCMA.2013.6506164","url":null,"abstract":"Electronic Health Records (EHR) presented through visual analytic systems could be easily interpreted by physicians for better understanding of a patient's medical details. However, there are still a lot of issues with the existing visual analytical applications in terms of the physicians to correctly infer those medical data. The existing applications were found to be more focusing on the colour schemes and differential data representation in the same space but lesser emphasis was given on defragmentation of information to discrete level and, no provision of detailed overview of patient history in the past time frames. These limitations motivate us to formulate a conceptual interface model that could assist designers in better understanding the physicians' needs. As multiple EHR data is usually obtained from various resources, the best approach for such a formulation would be a combination of events based patient history to a sequence based time line in a similar group. This will help in generating the visual information on different data sets in a time frame of particular length from various data resources onto multiple interfaces. The proposed model, having multiple interfaces features within the same interface, is envisaged to be detailed enough in terms of the data presented yet easy to be understood by the physicians.","PeriodicalId":187834,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Computer Medical Applications (ICCMA)","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116814799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-04-23DOI: 10.1109/ICCMA.2013.6506156
Y. Bazi, N. Alajlan, H. Alhichri, S. Malek
The detection and classification of heart arrhythmias using Electrocardiogram signals (ECG) has been an active area of research in the literature. Usually, to assess the effectiveness of a proposed classification method, training and test data are extracted from the same ECG record. However, in real scenarios test data may come from different records. In this case, the classification results may be less accurate due to the statistical shift between these samples. In order to solve this issue, we investigate, in this paper, the capabilities of two domain adaption methods proposed recently in the literature of machine learning. The first is known as domain transfer SVM, whereas the second is the importance weighted kernel logistic regression method. To assess the effectiveness of both methods, the MIT-BIH arrhythmia database is used in the experiments.
{"title":"Domain adaptation methods for ECG classification","authors":"Y. Bazi, N. Alajlan, H. Alhichri, S. Malek","doi":"10.1109/ICCMA.2013.6506156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCMA.2013.6506156","url":null,"abstract":"The detection and classification of heart arrhythmias using Electrocardiogram signals (ECG) has been an active area of research in the literature. Usually, to assess the effectiveness of a proposed classification method, training and test data are extracted from the same ECG record. However, in real scenarios test data may come from different records. In this case, the classification results may be less accurate due to the statistical shift between these samples. In order to solve this issue, we investigate, in this paper, the capabilities of two domain adaption methods proposed recently in the literature of machine learning. The first is known as domain transfer SVM, whereas the second is the importance weighted kernel logistic regression method. To assess the effectiveness of both methods, the MIT-BIH arrhythmia database is used in the experiments.","PeriodicalId":187834,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Computer Medical Applications (ICCMA)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128815302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-04-23DOI: 10.1109/ICCMA.2013.6506171
Asma Ben Hassouna, H. Koubaa, F. Kamoun
The broadcast nature of the wireless medium makes multicast communication subject to various challenges, especially the unreliability due to the interference [2] and the impact of the transmission data rate choice on the conflicts between communicating users. In fact, a fundamental trade-off exists between communication speed (transmission data rate) and communication range. Actually, the effect of interference is more important when the communication speed decreases, i.e. when communication range increases. In this paper, we propose a multiple rate multicast scheme that is applied to capture the effect of transmission conflicts on the wireless multicast throughput. This work exploits the diversity between users to provide an accurate and efficient method that enables each multicast transmitter, i.e. forwarder or sender, to select the data rates to use to serve its interested neighbours. The choice of the set of data rates, i.e. the choice of multi-rate multicast scheme, should be conflict sensitive in order to guarantee high multicast throughput in multi-rate multi-hop MANET's. We start by introducing two new concepts: The Transmission data Rate based Interference graph (TRIGraph) and Concurrent Multi-rate Multicast Transmitter set (CMMS). Then, we describe the use of these concepts to characterize the interference conflicts caused by multi-rate multicast transmissions. Unlike all the existing conflict graphs, TRIGraph and CMMS are not only used to model interference conflicts, but they are also used to choose the multicast data rates that reduce the effect of such network inconsistency on the system performance.
{"title":"Multi-rate interference-sensitive and conflict-aware multicast in wireless ad hoc networks","authors":"Asma Ben Hassouna, H. Koubaa, F. Kamoun","doi":"10.1109/ICCMA.2013.6506171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCMA.2013.6506171","url":null,"abstract":"The broadcast nature of the wireless medium makes multicast communication subject to various challenges, especially the unreliability due to the interference [2] and the impact of the transmission data rate choice on the conflicts between communicating users. In fact, a fundamental trade-off exists between communication speed (transmission data rate) and communication range. Actually, the effect of interference is more important when the communication speed decreases, i.e. when communication range increases. In this paper, we propose a multiple rate multicast scheme that is applied to capture the effect of transmission conflicts on the wireless multicast throughput. This work exploits the diversity between users to provide an accurate and efficient method that enables each multicast transmitter, i.e. forwarder or sender, to select the data rates to use to serve its interested neighbours. The choice of the set of data rates, i.e. the choice of multi-rate multicast scheme, should be conflict sensitive in order to guarantee high multicast throughput in multi-rate multi-hop MANET's. We start by introducing two new concepts: The Transmission data Rate based Interference graph (TRIGraph) and Concurrent Multi-rate Multicast Transmitter set (CMMS). Then, we describe the use of these concepts to characterize the interference conflicts caused by multi-rate multicast transmissions. Unlike all the existing conflict graphs, TRIGraph and CMMS are not only used to model interference conflicts, but they are also used to choose the multicast data rates that reduce the effect of such network inconsistency on the system performance.","PeriodicalId":187834,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Computer Medical Applications (ICCMA)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125759148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-04-23DOI: 10.1109/ICCMA.2013.6506172
J. Chiang, Sheng-Yin Huang
Data Mining is one of the most significant tools for discovering association patterns that are useful in for health services, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) etc. Yet, there are some drawbacks in conventional mining techniques. Since most of them perform the plain mining based on predefined schemata through the data warehouse as a whole, a re-scan must be done whenever new attributes are added. Secondly, an association rule may be true on a certain granularity but fail on a smaller one and vise verse. Last but not least, they are usually designed specifically to find either frequent or infrequent rules. With regard to healthcare service management, this research aims at providing a novel data schema and an algorithm to solve the aforementioned problems. A forest of concept taxonomies is used as the data structure for representing healthcare associations patterns that consist of concepts picked up from various taxonomies. Then, the mining process is formulated as a combination of finding the large itemsets, generating, updating and output the association patterns. Crucial mechanisms in each step will be clarified. At last, this paper presents experimental results regarding efficiency, scalability, information loss, etc. of the proposed approach to prove the advents of the approach.
{"title":"Multidimensional data mining for healthcare service portfolio management","authors":"J. Chiang, Sheng-Yin Huang","doi":"10.1109/ICCMA.2013.6506172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCMA.2013.6506172","url":null,"abstract":"Data Mining is one of the most significant tools for discovering association patterns that are useful in for health services, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) etc. Yet, there are some drawbacks in conventional mining techniques. Since most of them perform the plain mining based on predefined schemata through the data warehouse as a whole, a re-scan must be done whenever new attributes are added. Secondly, an association rule may be true on a certain granularity but fail on a smaller one and vise verse. Last but not least, they are usually designed specifically to find either frequent or infrequent rules. With regard to healthcare service management, this research aims at providing a novel data schema and an algorithm to solve the aforementioned problems. A forest of concept taxonomies is used as the data structure for representing healthcare associations patterns that consist of concepts picked up from various taxonomies. Then, the mining process is formulated as a combination of finding the large itemsets, generating, updating and output the association patterns. Crucial mechanisms in each step will be clarified. At last, this paper presents experimental results regarding efficiency, scalability, information loss, etc. of the proposed approach to prove the advents of the approach.","PeriodicalId":187834,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Computer Medical Applications (ICCMA)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132474531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-04-23DOI: 10.1109/ICCMA.2013.6506147
David Williams, V. Codreanu, J. Roerdink, Po-Kai Yang, Baoquan Liu, Feng Dong, A. Chiarini
We present a parallel implementation of an algorithm for the detection of colonic polyps from CT data sets. This implementation is designed specifically to take advantage of the computational power available on modern Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), which significantly reduces the execution time to streamline the workflow of clinicians examining the data. We provide details about the changes which were made to the existing algorithm to suit the new target hardware, and perform tests which demonstrate that the results are a very close match to the reference implementation while being computed in a fraction of the time.
{"title":"Accelerating colonic polyp detection using commodity graphics hardware","authors":"David Williams, V. Codreanu, J. Roerdink, Po-Kai Yang, Baoquan Liu, Feng Dong, A. Chiarini","doi":"10.1109/ICCMA.2013.6506147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCMA.2013.6506147","url":null,"abstract":"We present a parallel implementation of an algorithm for the detection of colonic polyps from CT data sets. This implementation is designed specifically to take advantage of the computational power available on modern Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), which significantly reduces the execution time to streamline the workflow of clinicians examining the data. We provide details about the changes which were made to the existing algorithm to suit the new target hardware, and perform tests which demonstrate that the results are a very close match to the reference implementation while being computed in a fraction of the time.","PeriodicalId":187834,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Computer Medical Applications (ICCMA)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122546081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-04-23DOI: 10.1109/ICCMA.2013.6506157
Dongwei Chen, Wu Fang, Wang Zhen, Haifang Li, Junjie Chen
With the continuous development of brain imaging technology, it has become a hot area of neuroscience and information technology to research the human emotion changes, cognitive status and psychiatric disorders. In recent years, any smart device can be used as a terminal sensor in the Internet of Things for information interaction. It will be the new research aspect for Brain-Computer Interface(BCI) to regard the human brain (the most intelligent “device”) as a terminal sensor in the Internet of Things and to construct the network based on the human brains (we name it as Internet of Brains). In this paper, a model of wearable affective computing was proposed for discriminating different emotional states and constructing the Internet of Brains, by means of effective connectivity of EEG-based brain network. Firstly, we proposed a rational emotion-induced psychological experiment to collect the EEG data under different emotional states. Then, Independent Component Analysis (ICA) was used to decompose different independent components based on different emotional states; Granger Causality Analysis (GCA) was utilized to detect the interactive dependencies between each independent component in order to construct the causal connectivity brain network (CCBN); Dynamic characteristics, including causal density and causal flow of the CCBN, were extracted based on Graph Theory. Finally, the corresponding law between characteristics of EEG pattern and “inner” emotional state was discovered to establish affective computing model. Furthermore, the model of wearable affective computing was constructed based on above law with the portable EEG acquisition device, and prototype system of wearable affective computing based on Internet of Brains was achieved for BCI.
{"title":"Eeg-based emotion recognition with brain network using independent components analysis and granger causality","authors":"Dongwei Chen, Wu Fang, Wang Zhen, Haifang Li, Junjie Chen","doi":"10.1109/ICCMA.2013.6506157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCMA.2013.6506157","url":null,"abstract":"With the continuous development of brain imaging technology, it has become a hot area of neuroscience and information technology to research the human emotion changes, cognitive status and psychiatric disorders. In recent years, any smart device can be used as a terminal sensor in the Internet of Things for information interaction. It will be the new research aspect for Brain-Computer Interface(BCI) to regard the human brain (the most intelligent “device”) as a terminal sensor in the Internet of Things and to construct the network based on the human brains (we name it as Internet of Brains). In this paper, a model of wearable affective computing was proposed for discriminating different emotional states and constructing the Internet of Brains, by means of effective connectivity of EEG-based brain network. Firstly, we proposed a rational emotion-induced psychological experiment to collect the EEG data under different emotional states. Then, Independent Component Analysis (ICA) was used to decompose different independent components based on different emotional states; Granger Causality Analysis (GCA) was utilized to detect the interactive dependencies between each independent component in order to construct the causal connectivity brain network (CCBN); Dynamic characteristics, including causal density and causal flow of the CCBN, were extracted based on Graph Theory. Finally, the corresponding law between characteristics of EEG pattern and “inner” emotional state was discovered to establish affective computing model. Furthermore, the model of wearable affective computing was constructed based on above law with the portable EEG acquisition device, and prototype system of wearable affective computing based on Internet of Brains was achieved for BCI.","PeriodicalId":187834,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Computer Medical Applications (ICCMA)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133660060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-04-23DOI: 10.1109/ICCMA.2013.6506144
L. Shinawi, A. Al-Dharrab, T. M. Nassef, Seham B. Tayel
During the past few decades, unalloyed titanium has been extensively used as a material of dental implant-supported restorations but it cause gingival discoloration and unnatural appearance of the surrounding soft tissue. Currently, yttrium oxide partially-stabilized zirconia (Y-TZP) is a ceramic of special interest because of its superior mechanical properties. This study was carried out with four one piece zirconium implants embedded on a standard acrylic resin mandibular edentulous model, the abutment of zirconium implant was classified into two designs and then laboratory test was applied with proposed biting force (sensor (BS) and a bidirectional transmit-receive module. Our study concluded that the use of one piece Zirconium implant with box or parallel shape abutment head in implant supported over-denture without a need of cement, screws or plastics or metal housing for attachment in other types of implant had a superior results and easier maintenance and repair of the prosthesis if any complications occur.
{"title":"A novel computational analysis of computer milled zirconium implant abutment head design under reinforced implant supported overdenture","authors":"L. Shinawi, A. Al-Dharrab, T. M. Nassef, Seham B. Tayel","doi":"10.1109/ICCMA.2013.6506144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCMA.2013.6506144","url":null,"abstract":"During the past few decades, unalloyed titanium has been extensively used as a material of dental implant-supported restorations but it cause gingival discoloration and unnatural appearance of the surrounding soft tissue. Currently, yttrium oxide partially-stabilized zirconia (Y-TZP) is a ceramic of special interest because of its superior mechanical properties. This study was carried out with four one piece zirconium implants embedded on a standard acrylic resin mandibular edentulous model, the abutment of zirconium implant was classified into two designs and then laboratory test was applied with proposed biting force (sensor (BS) and a bidirectional transmit-receive module. Our study concluded that the use of one piece Zirconium implant with box or parallel shape abutment head in implant supported over-denture without a need of cement, screws or plastics or metal housing for attachment in other types of implant had a superior results and easier maintenance and repair of the prosthesis if any complications occur.","PeriodicalId":187834,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Computer Medical Applications (ICCMA)","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133948824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-04-23DOI: 10.1109/ICCMA.2013.6506178
D. Xanthidis
This pilot research examines the motives, the obstacles and the expected outcomes of telemedicine from a medical practitioner's viewpoint. It is a qualitative study based on interviews of 60 practitioners, all from general hospitals of the metropolitan area of Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Northern Greece. The study shows that the vast majority of them disagree with the motives provided for the promotion of telemedicine practices in their health units, they differ from the IT experts' opinion of what the obstacles are leading to the low diffusion of telemedicine and show very low expectations of the benefits yield by its application. The main conclusion is that more work is needed to communicate the positive points of medicine especially to the people mostly related and to be involved with this practice.
{"title":"Prospects of telemedicine in developing countries. Case study: Greece","authors":"D. Xanthidis","doi":"10.1109/ICCMA.2013.6506178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCMA.2013.6506178","url":null,"abstract":"This pilot research examines the motives, the obstacles and the expected outcomes of telemedicine from a medical practitioner's viewpoint. It is a qualitative study based on interviews of 60 practitioners, all from general hospitals of the metropolitan area of Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Northern Greece. The study shows that the vast majority of them disagree with the motives provided for the promotion of telemedicine practices in their health units, they differ from the IT experts' opinion of what the obstacles are leading to the low diffusion of telemedicine and show very low expectations of the benefits yield by its application. The main conclusion is that more work is needed to communicate the positive points of medicine especially to the people mostly related and to be involved with this practice.","PeriodicalId":187834,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Computer Medical Applications (ICCMA)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132519001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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