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Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics

7th International Conference, ITBAM 2016, Porto, Portugal, September 5-8, 2016, Proceedings

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Table of contents (20 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
  2. Biomedical Data Analysis and Warehousing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. What Do the Data Say in 10 Years of Pneumonia Victims? A Geo-Spatial Data Analytics Perspective

      • Maribel Yasmina Santos, António Carvalheira Santos, Artur Teles de Araújo
      Pages 3-21
    3. Ontology-Guided Principal Component Analysis: Reaching the Limits of the Doctor-in-the-Loop

      • Sandra Wartner, Dominic Girardi, Manuela Wiesinger-Widi, Johannes Trenkler, Raimund Kleiser, Andreas Holzinger
      Pages 22-33
    4. Enhancing EHR Systems Interoperability by Big Data Techniques

      • Nunziato Cassavia, Mario Ciampi, Giuseppe De Pietro, Elio Masciari
      Pages 34-48
    5. Integrating Open Data on Cancer in Support to Tumor Growth Analysis

      • Fleur Jeanquartier, Claire Jean-Quartier, Tobias Schreck, David Cemernek, Andreas Holzinger
      Pages 49-66
  3. Information Technologies in Brain Science

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
    2. Adaptive Segmentation Optimization for Sleep Spindle Detector

      • Elizaveta Saifutdinova, Martin Macaš, Václav Gerla, Lenka Lhotská
      Pages 85-96
    3. Probabilistic Model of Neuronal Background Activity in Deep Brain Stimulation Trajectories

      • Eduard Bakstein, Tomas Sieger, Daniel Novak, Robert Jech
      Pages 97-111
  4. Social Networks and Process Analysis in Biomedicine

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
    2. Multidisciplinary Team Meetings - A Literature Based Process Analysis

      • Oliver Krauss, Martina Angermaier, Emmanuel Helm
      Pages 115-129
    3. A Model for Semantic Medical Image Retrieval Applied in a Medical Social Network

      • Riadh Bouslimi, Mouhamed Gaith Ayadi, Jalel Akaichi
      Pages 130-138
  5. Poster Session

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139
    2. A Clinical Case Simulation Tool for Medical Education

      • Juliano S. Gaspar, Marcelo R. Santos Jr., Zilma S. N. Reis
      Pages 141-150
    3. Covariate-Related Structure Extraction from Paired Data

      • Linfei Zhou, Elisabeth Georgii, Claudia Plant, Christian Böhm
      Pages 151-162
    4. Semantic Annotation of Medical Documents in CDA Context

      • Diego Monti, Maurizio Morisio
      Pages 163-172
    5. Importance and Quality of Eating Related Photos in Diabetics

      • Kyriaki Saiti, Martin Macaš, Lenka Lhotská
      Pages 173-185
    6. Univariate Analysis of Prenatal Risk Factors for Low Umbilical Cord Artery pH at Birth

      • Ibrahim Abou Khashabh, Václav Chudáček, Michal Huptych
      Pages 186-191
    7. Applying Ant-Inspired Methods in Childbirth Asphyxia Prediction

      • Miroslav Bursa, Lenka Lhotska
      Pages 192-207

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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics, ITBAM 2016, held in Porto, Portugal, in September 2016, in conjunction with DEXA 2016.


The 9 revised long papers presented together with 11 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. The papers address the following topics: biomedical data analysis and warehousing; information technologies in brain science; and social networks and process analysis in biomedicine.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Informatics and Telematics , Pisa, Italy

    M. Elena Renda

  • Czech Technical University in Prague , Prague 6, Czech Republic

    Miroslav Bursa

  • Medical University Graz , Graz, Austria

    Andreas Holzinger

  • San José State University , San Jose, USA

    Sami Khuri

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eBook USD 39.99
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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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