Pub Date : 2016-12-01DOI: 10.1109/MEDITEC.2016.7835364
Syed Tauhid Ahmed, M. Akhand
Sign language is the only means of communication for deaf and dump people which uses manual communication and body language to convey meaning. For any sign language, an interpreter is essential to communicate with deaf and dump people. To enhance interaction with community, Sign Language Recognition (SLR) is a growing field of research now a days. The task of SLR is language specific and a number of prominent works are available for few major languages. On the hand, the works are very few for Bangladeshi Sign Language (BSL) although Bangla is a major language and Bangladesh has a large community of deaf and dump people. In this study a BSL recognition scheme has been investigated based on fingertip position. The method considered relative tip positions of five fingers in two dimension space and position vectors are used to train artificial neural network (ANN) for recognition purpose. The method seems efficient with respect to ANN training with pixel values of image as of previous studies. The proposed method has been tested on a prepared data set of 518 images of 37 signs and achieved 99% recognition rate. The proposed method is found better than exiting BSL recognition methods.
{"title":"Bangladeshi Sign Language Recognition using fingertip position","authors":"Syed Tauhid Ahmed, M. Akhand","doi":"10.1109/MEDITEC.2016.7835364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEDITEC.2016.7835364","url":null,"abstract":"Sign language is the only means of communication for deaf and dump people which uses manual communication and body language to convey meaning. For any sign language, an interpreter is essential to communicate with deaf and dump people. To enhance interaction with community, Sign Language Recognition (SLR) is a growing field of research now a days. The task of SLR is language specific and a number of prominent works are available for few major languages. On the hand, the works are very few for Bangladeshi Sign Language (BSL) although Bangla is a major language and Bangladesh has a large community of deaf and dump people. In this study a BSL recognition scheme has been investigated based on fingertip position. The method considered relative tip positions of five fingers in two dimension space and position vectors are used to train artificial neural network (ANN) for recognition purpose. The method seems efficient with respect to ANN training with pixel values of image as of previous studies. The proposed method has been tested on a prepared data set of 518 images of 37 signs and achieved 99% recognition rate. The proposed method is found better than exiting BSL recognition methods.","PeriodicalId":325916,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference on Medical Engineering, Health Informatics and Technology (MediTec)","volume":"211 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115224198","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 : 2016-12-01DOI: 10.1109/MEDITEC.2016.7835369
Md Sanaul Haque, Wali Mohammad Abdullah, S. Rahaman, M. Kangas, T. Jämsä
People spend a lot of time at their workplace, for example in office environment. After consuming breakfast or lunch during the recess periods, one may feel lazy both physically and mentally. Thus, gaining extra calories may lower the working progress. To motivate individuals for healthier behavior, we designed, executed and tested an application for improving physical activity behavior at workplace. Our health and wellbeing application delivers a physical activity promotion intervention that motivates user performing activities, for example by walking after breakfast or lunch. Our physical activity promotion is based on recent research showing that one can be motivated extrinsically through satisfaction of three basic psychological needs (autonomy, competence and relatedness) that are influenced by autonomy support. We conducted a one week long usability evaluation on users for the health and wellbeing application. We found that the application works well for physical activity promotion.
{"title":"Persuasive health and wellbeing application: A theory-driven design in promoting physical activity","authors":"Md Sanaul Haque, Wali Mohammad Abdullah, S. Rahaman, M. Kangas, T. Jämsä","doi":"10.1109/MEDITEC.2016.7835369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEDITEC.2016.7835369","url":null,"abstract":"People spend a lot of time at their workplace, for example in office environment. After consuming breakfast or lunch during the recess periods, one may feel lazy both physically and mentally. Thus, gaining extra calories may lower the working progress. To motivate individuals for healthier behavior, we designed, executed and tested an application for improving physical activity behavior at workplace. Our health and wellbeing application delivers a physical activity promotion intervention that motivates user performing activities, for example by walking after breakfast or lunch. Our physical activity promotion is based on recent research showing that one can be motivated extrinsically through satisfaction of three basic psychological needs (autonomy, competence and relatedness) that are influenced by autonomy support. We conducted a one week long usability evaluation on users for the health and wellbeing application. We found that the application works well for physical activity promotion.","PeriodicalId":325916,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference on Medical Engineering, Health Informatics and Technology (MediTec)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115658251","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 : 2016-12-01DOI: 10.1109/MEDITEC.2016.7835384
S. Kabir, K. Wahid, M. Hasan
The circuit components of a Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) system are designed considering a fixed separation distance and fixed alignment between the transmitting and receiving sides of the WPT system. But, in practice, the separation distance and the alignment do not remain constant. This is especially true for a biomedical application where a moving instrumental part requires electric power. This change causes a variation in mutual coupling and consequently in the efficiency of the system. This paper describes how to maintain the efficiency more or less constant even if the separation distance and the alignment vary. First of all, the circuit elements for maximum efficiency are worked out, then simulation for various separation distances and misalignment are calculated. A means of controlling a particular parameter is worked out in order to maintain efficiency of the system more or less constant.
{"title":"Range adaptation of Wireless Power Transfer systems for biomedical applications","authors":"S. Kabir, K. Wahid, M. Hasan","doi":"10.1109/MEDITEC.2016.7835384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEDITEC.2016.7835384","url":null,"abstract":"The circuit components of a Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) system are designed considering a fixed separation distance and fixed alignment between the transmitting and receiving sides of the WPT system. But, in practice, the separation distance and the alignment do not remain constant. This is especially true for a biomedical application where a moving instrumental part requires electric power. This change causes a variation in mutual coupling and consequently in the efficiency of the system. This paper describes how to maintain the efficiency more or less constant even if the separation distance and the alignment vary. First of all, the circuit elements for maximum efficiency are worked out, then simulation for various separation distances and misalignment are calculated. A means of controlling a particular parameter is worked out in order to maintain efficiency of the system more or less constant.","PeriodicalId":325916,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference on Medical Engineering, Health Informatics and Technology (MediTec)","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122935002","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 : 2016-12-01DOI: 10.1109/MEDITEC.2016.7835382
Md. Asadur Rahman, Mohiudding Ahmad
In this paper, we investigated the hemodynamic response of human brain activity during answering lie with respect to true. For laboratory investigation, several mock lying protocols are used those are verbal lying test and that's so why time consuming. In this research, a new method of mock lying protocol is proposed. With the help of this protocol, some subjects performed mock lying protocol (A written lying protocol) and during that time their hemodynamic responses are collected from prefrontal cortex by fNIR device. It is noteworthy that lying by written is more deceivable than verbal test. Therefore, the main challenge is to discriminate the very little change of hemodynamic response with respect to true answering condition. By this method, we have focused some such characteristics of brain function during lying make the proposed method convenient to detect lie. Furthermore, channel wise significant features are presented to differentiate the brain activities between answering lie and truth. In addition, the specific positions of prefrontal cortex with activation intensity (activation range) are identified while participants lie. This method can be applied for lie detection by observing some more studies.
{"title":"Lie detection from fNIR signal and NeuroImage","authors":"Md. Asadur Rahman, Mohiudding Ahmad","doi":"10.1109/MEDITEC.2016.7835382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEDITEC.2016.7835382","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we investigated the hemodynamic response of human brain activity during answering lie with respect to true. For laboratory investigation, several mock lying protocols are used those are verbal lying test and that's so why time consuming. In this research, a new method of mock lying protocol is proposed. With the help of this protocol, some subjects performed mock lying protocol (A written lying protocol) and during that time their hemodynamic responses are collected from prefrontal cortex by fNIR device. It is noteworthy that lying by written is more deceivable than verbal test. Therefore, the main challenge is to discriminate the very little change of hemodynamic response with respect to true answering condition. By this method, we have focused some such characteristics of brain function during lying make the proposed method convenient to detect lie. Furthermore, channel wise significant features are presented to differentiate the brain activities between answering lie and truth. In addition, the specific positions of prefrontal cortex with activation intensity (activation range) are identified while participants lie. This method can be applied for lie detection by observing some more studies.","PeriodicalId":325916,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference on Medical Engineering, Health Informatics and Technology (MediTec)","volume":"08 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129600304","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 : 2016-12-01DOI: 10.1109/MEDITEC.2016.7835359
Umma Hany, L. Akter, Md. Farhad Hossain
In this paper, we propose an efficient method of distance estimation for the localization of wireless capsule endoscope (WCE) using received signal strength indicator (RSSI). As RSSI is attenuated with change of distance, we can use RSSI measurements to estimate the distance. The main challenge in wireless capsule localization in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract is the random deviation in RSSI measurements due to the shadowing and multi-path propagation effects of non-homogeneous medium. In this paper, we propose a method of distance estimation which can improve the accuracy of wireless capsule localization. To address the randomness issue of RSSI measurements, we propose moving averaging method of path loss to estimate the distance of the swallowed capsule. We simulate our proposed method using MATLAB and observe significant improvement in distance estimation of the capsule considering non-homogeneous environment of human body.
{"title":"Moving averaging method of RSSI based distance estimation for wireless capsule localization","authors":"Umma Hany, L. Akter, Md. Farhad Hossain","doi":"10.1109/MEDITEC.2016.7835359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEDITEC.2016.7835359","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose an efficient method of distance estimation for the localization of wireless capsule endoscope (WCE) using received signal strength indicator (RSSI). As RSSI is attenuated with change of distance, we can use RSSI measurements to estimate the distance. The main challenge in wireless capsule localization in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract is the random deviation in RSSI measurements due to the shadowing and multi-path propagation effects of non-homogeneous medium. In this paper, we propose a method of distance estimation which can improve the accuracy of wireless capsule localization. To address the randomness issue of RSSI measurements, we propose moving averaging method of path loss to estimate the distance of the swallowed capsule. We simulate our proposed method using MATLAB and observe significant improvement in distance estimation of the capsule considering non-homogeneous environment of human body.","PeriodicalId":325916,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference on Medical Engineering, Health Informatics and Technology (MediTec)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129282074","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 : 2016-12-01DOI: 10.1109/MEDITEC.2016.7835376
Farzana Hossain, A. Rubayet-Ul-Alam
Nipah virus (NiV) is classified as a biosafety level 4(BSL-4) agent for being a deadly pathogen, having a broad host range including human and showing the high mortality rate associated with severe encephalitis along with other clinical manifestations. Recently, it was reported that monocytes, natural killer cells and CD4+/CD8+ T cells support Nipah virus replication, which may facilitate dissemination of the virus during pathogenesis. Both B and T cell epitopes were designed against and mapped on the three-dimensional structure of the fusion(F) glycoproteins of Nipah virus that were circulating in South and Southeast Asia since 1999. To support the potentiality of the epitopes chosen for peptide vaccine, other chemical attributes were checked for finding the suitability of epitopes. Phylogenetic relationship and selection pressure were also analyzed to find out the diversity and evolutionary effects on amino acid level. After sifting through various methods, the epitopes with the highest probability were chosen for the putative peptide vaccine against Nipah virus.
{"title":"Evolutionary analysis and prediction of peptide vaccine candidates for Nipah virus fusion protein","authors":"Farzana Hossain, A. Rubayet-Ul-Alam","doi":"10.1109/MEDITEC.2016.7835376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEDITEC.2016.7835376","url":null,"abstract":"Nipah virus (NiV) is classified as a biosafety level 4(BSL-4) agent for being a deadly pathogen, having a broad host range including human and showing the high mortality rate associated with severe encephalitis along with other clinical manifestations. Recently, it was reported that monocytes, natural killer cells and CD4+/CD8+ T cells support Nipah virus replication, which may facilitate dissemination of the virus during pathogenesis. Both B and T cell epitopes were designed against and mapped on the three-dimensional structure of the fusion(F) glycoproteins of Nipah virus that were circulating in South and Southeast Asia since 1999. To support the potentiality of the epitopes chosen for peptide vaccine, other chemical attributes were checked for finding the suitability of epitopes. Phylogenetic relationship and selection pressure were also analyzed to find out the diversity and evolutionary effects on amino acid level. After sifting through various methods, the epitopes with the highest probability were chosen for the putative peptide vaccine against Nipah virus.","PeriodicalId":325916,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference on Medical Engineering, Health Informatics and Technology (MediTec)","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121170338","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 : 2016-12-01DOI: 10.1109/MEDITEC.2016.7835368
F. Khan, Maitraye Das, Ahiya Ahammed
Present world is witnessing unprecedented use of mobile technologies in all sectors of everyday life including healthcare and clinical therapies. However, the healthcare of women still lacks sufficient attention from mobile health perspective. Although a number of smartphone applications are available for healthcare of women, all of them focus mainly towards reproductive health like pregnancy and menstruation. In this paper, we present PurpleAid, a complete health support system for women which takes into account possible reproductive and non-reproductive health conditions i.e., conditions unique for women only (e.g., uterine fibroid etc.), affecting men and women differently (e.g., urinary tract infection etc.) and common in both men and women (e.g., heart disease etc.). Our proposed system diagnoses diseases depending on input symptoms given by the users with accurate severity level, provides suggestions for treatment and prevention of the diseases as well as for regular maintenance of fitness. Performance evaluation and usability test results of a prototype implementation show that PurpleAid has emerging potential as a compact user-friendly health support system for women.
{"title":"PurpleAid: An mHealth platform to combat health hazards of women","authors":"F. Khan, Maitraye Das, Ahiya Ahammed","doi":"10.1109/MEDITEC.2016.7835368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEDITEC.2016.7835368","url":null,"abstract":"Present world is witnessing unprecedented use of mobile technologies in all sectors of everyday life including healthcare and clinical therapies. However, the healthcare of women still lacks sufficient attention from mobile health perspective. Although a number of smartphone applications are available for healthcare of women, all of them focus mainly towards reproductive health like pregnancy and menstruation. In this paper, we present PurpleAid, a complete health support system for women which takes into account possible reproductive and non-reproductive health conditions i.e., conditions unique for women only (e.g., uterine fibroid etc.), affecting men and women differently (e.g., urinary tract infection etc.) and common in both men and women (e.g., heart disease etc.). Our proposed system diagnoses diseases depending on input symptoms given by the users with accurate severity level, provides suggestions for treatment and prevention of the diseases as well as for regular maintenance of fitness. Performance evaluation and usability test results of a prototype implementation show that PurpleAid has emerging potential as a compact user-friendly health support system for women.","PeriodicalId":325916,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference on Medical Engineering, Health Informatics and Technology (MediTec)","volume":"400 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121257464","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 : 2016-12-01DOI: 10.1109/MEDITEC.2016.7835372
Farhad Hossain, Md Liakot Ali, Md. Zahurul Islam, H. Mustafa
The rate of fall incidence among the elderly people is ever increasing. It is at the sixth position in the list of causes of death for the people aged between 60 and 65; the second between 65 and 75; the first over 75. Treatment of a patient, experiencing complications due to a fall, within the first 12 minutes after a fall brings a survival rate of 48% –75%. So, fast and accurate detection of fall events is emerging as a big necessity for many countries, especially for the advanced world where the society adopts the culture of independent living for elderly people. It is also important to determine the direction of a fall as it can help determine the locations of joint weakness and fracture quickly. Researchers' claims of fall detection accuracy of over 90% are based on accelerometers and embedded extra sensors like gyroscopes, cardio tachometer, magnetometer, and barometric pressure sensors. However, most such fall detection algorithms have been developed based on observational analysis of the data gathered, leading to thresholds settings for fall/non-fall situations. To detect the direction of fall, some researchers uses gyroscope or more accelerometers. The proposed method, using single 3D accelerometer and machine learning algorithm particularly SVM (Support vector machine) is to detect 4 types of falls (forward, backward, right and left). When applied to experimental data from 13 male subjects, the proposed system discriminates between falls and activities of daily living (ADL) with better than previously reported accuracy level. The system is reliable, user friendly and cost effective.
{"title":"A direction-sensitive fall detection system using single 3D accelerometer and learning classifier","authors":"Farhad Hossain, Md Liakot Ali, Md. Zahurul Islam, H. Mustafa","doi":"10.1109/MEDITEC.2016.7835372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEDITEC.2016.7835372","url":null,"abstract":"The rate of fall incidence among the elderly people is ever increasing. It is at the sixth position in the list of causes of death for the people aged between 60 and 65; the second between 65 and 75; the first over 75. Treatment of a patient, experiencing complications due to a fall, within the first 12 minutes after a fall brings a survival rate of 48% –75%. So, fast and accurate detection of fall events is emerging as a big necessity for many countries, especially for the advanced world where the society adopts the culture of independent living for elderly people. It is also important to determine the direction of a fall as it can help determine the locations of joint weakness and fracture quickly. Researchers' claims of fall detection accuracy of over 90% are based on accelerometers and embedded extra sensors like gyroscopes, cardio tachometer, magnetometer, and barometric pressure sensors. However, most such fall detection algorithms have been developed based on observational analysis of the data gathered, leading to thresholds settings for fall/non-fall situations. To detect the direction of fall, some researchers uses gyroscope or more accelerometers. The proposed method, using single 3D accelerometer and machine learning algorithm particularly SVM (Support vector machine) is to detect 4 types of falls (forward, backward, right and left). When applied to experimental data from 13 male subjects, the proposed system discriminates between falls and activities of daily living (ADL) with better than previously reported accuracy level. The system is reliable, user friendly and cost effective.","PeriodicalId":325916,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference on Medical Engineering, Health Informatics and Technology (MediTec)","volume":"259 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116216407","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 : 2016-12-01DOI: 10.1109/MEDITEC.2016.7835367
M. Akhand, Sk. Imran Hossain, Md. Fosil Habib, K. Murase
The Presence of unique restriction sites (URSs) within a sequence is very important so that the sequence may be cut unambiguously in exactly one place with a restriction enzyme. Restriction site manipulation in virus genome may produce virus variants to serve as potential vaccines. Therefore, a number of applications are invented for the manipulation of viral genomes to produce attenuated viruses. Recently, automatic generation of URSs in the sequence has been investigated through different approaches (e.g., Greedy, Weighted Bipartite and Max-Min Gap) and found effective. The aim of this study is to investigate URS enhancement in a given virus genome considering it as an optimization task. URS placement (URSP) is a kind of pattern matching problem; therefore, formulation of existing optimization approach(s) to solve it efficiently is very important timely research so that working with large sized genomes becomes easy. In this study, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), the popular method of optimization, has been modified and formulated to solve URSP problem. The proposed URSP-PSO method has been tested on a set of benchmark virus genome sequences and found to increase URSs in a large number. The method is also found better than existing methods for large sized genome sequences.
{"title":"Restriction site placement in virus genomes using Particle Swarm Optimization","authors":"M. Akhand, Sk. Imran Hossain, Md. Fosil Habib, K. Murase","doi":"10.1109/MEDITEC.2016.7835367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEDITEC.2016.7835367","url":null,"abstract":"The Presence of unique restriction sites (URSs) within a sequence is very important so that the sequence may be cut unambiguously in exactly one place with a restriction enzyme. Restriction site manipulation in virus genome may produce virus variants to serve as potential vaccines. Therefore, a number of applications are invented for the manipulation of viral genomes to produce attenuated viruses. Recently, automatic generation of URSs in the sequence has been investigated through different approaches (e.g., Greedy, Weighted Bipartite and Max-Min Gap) and found effective. The aim of this study is to investigate URS enhancement in a given virus genome considering it as an optimization task. URS placement (URSP) is a kind of pattern matching problem; therefore, formulation of existing optimization approach(s) to solve it efficiently is very important timely research so that working with large sized genomes becomes easy. In this study, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), the popular method of optimization, has been modified and formulated to solve URSP problem. The proposed URSP-PSO method has been tested on a set of benchmark virus genome sequences and found to increase URSs in a large number. The method is also found better than existing methods for large sized genome sequences.","PeriodicalId":325916,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference on Medical Engineering, Health Informatics and Technology (MediTec)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132380497","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 : 2016-12-01DOI: 10.1109/MEDITEC.2016.7835381
M. A. Hossain, Mohiudding Ahmad, M. R. Islam, M. Hossain, A. Rahman, S. Islam, M. A. Rashid
In the past few decades, the healthcare technology management performance comes under the clinical engineering for enhancing the healthcare delivery performance of hospital. For this reasons, most of the countries established clinical engineering department in their healthcare delivery organizations such hospitals and clinics. This study explores clinical engineering intermediation to measure the performance of present healthcare delivery and advises to introduce the CED in the healthcare delivery organization. In this paper, we propose a model of CED for 250 bedded hospital in Bangladesh. The study describes the necessity of CE to enhance the present unpleasant healthcare delivery performance in Bangladesh as well as describes the result to introduce CED model in the healthcare delivery organization in Bangladesh. Moreover, the benefit of introduced CE and CED in healthcare delivery organizations in Bangladesh is described. Expected results of this study will enrich the conceptions of the present health care management team on CE and CED for the healthcare delivery performance. We firmly believe that our study will enhance the present unfamiliarity conception of healthcare management team.
{"title":"Clincal engineering and healthcare delivery performance mesurement: A basic model of clinical engineering department for 250 bed hospital in Bangladesh","authors":"M. A. Hossain, Mohiudding Ahmad, M. R. Islam, M. Hossain, A. Rahman, S. Islam, M. A. Rashid","doi":"10.1109/MEDITEC.2016.7835381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEDITEC.2016.7835381","url":null,"abstract":"In the past few decades, the healthcare technology management performance comes under the clinical engineering for enhancing the healthcare delivery performance of hospital. For this reasons, most of the countries established clinical engineering department in their healthcare delivery organizations such hospitals and clinics. This study explores clinical engineering intermediation to measure the performance of present healthcare delivery and advises to introduce the CED in the healthcare delivery organization. In this paper, we propose a model of CED for 250 bedded hospital in Bangladesh. The study describes the necessity of CE to enhance the present unpleasant healthcare delivery performance in Bangladesh as well as describes the result to introduce CED model in the healthcare delivery organization in Bangladesh. Moreover, the benefit of introduced CE and CED in healthcare delivery organizations in Bangladesh is described. Expected results of this study will enrich the conceptions of the present health care management team on CE and CED for the healthcare delivery performance. We firmly believe that our study will enhance the present unfamiliarity conception of healthcare management team.","PeriodicalId":325916,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference on Medical Engineering, Health Informatics and Technology (MediTec)","volume":"161 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125896250","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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