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Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics

6th International Conference, ITBAM 2015, Valencia, Spain, September 3-4, 2015, Proceedings

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Table of contents (10 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
  2. Medical Terminology and Clinical Processes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. From Literature to Knowledge: Exploiting PubMed to Answer Biomedical Questions in Natural Language

      • Pinaki Bhaskar, Marina Buzzi, Filippo Geraci, Marco Pellegrini
      Pages 3-15
    3. Using Twitter Data and Sentiment Analysis to Study Diseases Dynamics

      • Vincenza Carchiolo, Alessandro Longheu, Michele Malgeri
      Pages 16-24
    4. An Open Data Approach for Clinical Appropriateness

      • Mario A. Bochicchio, Lucia Vaira, Marco Zappatore, Giambattista Lobreglio, Marilena Greco
      Pages 25-33
  3. Machine Learning in Biomedicine

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35
    2. The Discovery of Prognosis Factors Using Association Rule Mining in Acute Myocardial Infarction with ST-Segment Elevation

      • Kwang Sun Ryu, Hyun Woo Park, Soo Ho Park, Ibrahim M. Ishag, Jang Hwang Bae, Keun Ho Ryu
      Pages 49-55
    3. Data Mining Techniques in Health Informatics: A Case Study from Breast Cancer Research

      • Jing Lu, Alan Hales, David Rew, Malcolm Keech, Christian Fröhlingsdorf, Alex Mills-Mullett et al.
      Pages 56-70
    4. Artificial Neural Networks in Diagnosis of Liver Diseases

      • José Neves, Adriana Cunha, Ana Almeida, André Carvalho, João Neves, António Abelha et al.
      Pages 71-80
    5. How to Increase the Effectiveness of the Hepatitis Diagnostics by Means of Appropriate Machine Learning Methods

      • Alexandra Lukáčová, František Babič, Zuzana Paraličová, Ján Paralič
      Pages 81-94
    6. Ant-Inspired Algorithms for Decision Tree Induction

      • Miroslav Bursa, Lenka Lhotska
      Pages 95-106
  4. Poster Session

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107
    2. Microsleep Classifier Using EOG Channel Recording: A Feasibility Study

      • Martin Holub, Martina Šrutová, Lenka Lhotská
      Pages 109-113
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 115-115

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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics, ITBAM 2015, held in Valencia, Spain, in September 2015, in conjunction with DEXA 2015.

The 9 revised long papers presented together with 1 poster paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 15 submissions. The papers address the following two topics: medical terminology and clinical processes and machine learning in biomedicine.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Informatics and Telematics, Pisa, Italy

    M. Elena Renda

  • Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

    Miroslav Bursa

  • Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria

    Andreas Holzinger

  • San Jose State University, San Jose, USA

    Sami Khuri

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