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Knowledge-based clinical pathway for medical quality improvement
Clinical pathways have been adopted for various diseases in clinical departments for quality improvement as a result of standardization of medical activities in treatment process. Using knowledge-based decision support on the basis
of clinical pathways is a promising strategy to improve
medical quality effectively. However, the clinical pathway
knowledge has not been fully integrated into treatment process and thus cannot provide comprehensive support to the actual work practice. Therefore this paper proposes a knowledgebased clinical pathway management method which contributes to make use of clinical knowledge to support and
optimize medical practice. We have developed a knowledgebased clinical pathway management system to demonstrate how the clinical pathway knowledge comprehensively supports the treatment process. The experiences from the use of this system show that the treatment quality can be effectively improved by the extracted and classified clinical pathway knowledge, seamless integration of patient-specific clinical
pathway recommendations with medical tasks and the
evaluating pathway deviations for optimization
Corporate Smart Content Evaluation
Nowadays, a wide range of information sources are available due to the
evolution of web and collection of data. Plenty of these information are
consumable and usable by humans but not understandable and processable by
machines. Some data may be directly accessible in web pages or via data feeds,
but most of the meaningful existing data is hidden within deep web databases
and enterprise information systems. Besides the inability to access a wide
range of data, manual processing by humans is effortful, error-prone and not
contemporary any more. Semantic web technologies deliver capabilities for
machine-readable, exchangeable content and metadata for automatic processing
of content. The enrichment of heterogeneous data with background knowledge
described in ontologies induces re-usability and supports automatic processing
of data. The establishment of “Corporate Smart Content” (CSC) - semantically
enriched data with high information content with sufficient benefits in
economic areas - is the main focus of this study. We describe three actual
research areas in the field of CSC concerning scenarios and datasets
applicable for corporate applications, algorithms and research. Aspect-
oriented Ontology Development advances modular ontology development and
partial reuse of existing ontological knowledge. Complex Entity Recognition
enhances traditional entity recognition techniques to recognize clusters of
related textual information about entities. Semantic Pattern Mining combines
semantic web technologies with pattern learning to mine for complex models by
attaching background knowledge. This study introduces the afore-mentioned
topics by analyzing applicable scenarios with economic and industrial focus,
as well as research emphasis. Furthermore, a collection of existing datasets
for the given areas of interest is presented and evaluated. The target
audience includes researchers and developers of CSC technologies - people
interested in semantic web features, ontology development, automation,
extracting and mining valuable information in corporate environments. The aim
of this study is to provide a comprehensive and broad overview over the three
topics, give assistance for decision making in interesting scenarios and
choosing practical datasets for evaluating custom problem statements. Detailed
descriptions about attributes and metadata of the datasets should serve as
starting point for individual ideas and approaches
HABITAT: An IoT Solution for Independent Elderly
In this work, a flexible and extensive digital platform for Smart Homes is presented, exploiting the most advanced technologies of the Internet of Things, such as Radio Frequency Identification, wearable electronics, Wireless Sensor Networks, and Artificial Intelligence. Thus, the main novelty of the paper is the system-level description of the platform flexibility allowing the interoperability of different smart devices. This research was developed within the framework of the operative project HABITAT (Home Assistance Based on the Internet of Things for the Autonomy of Everybody), aiming at developing smart devices to support elderly people both in their own houses and in retirement homes, and embedding them in everyday life objects, thus reducing the expenses for healthcare due to the lower need for personal assistance, and providing a better life quality to the elderly users
HABITAT: An IoT solution for independent elderly
In this work, a flexible and extensive digital platform for Smart Homes is presented, exploiting the most advanced technologies of the Internet of Things, such as Radio Frequency Identification, wearable electronics, Wireless Sensor Networks, and Artificial Intelligence. Thus, the main novelty of the paper is the system-level description of the platform flexibility allowing the interoperability of different smart devices. This research was developed within the framework of the operative project HABITAT (Home Assistance Based on the Internet of Things for the Autonomy of Everybody), aiming at developing smart devices to support elderly people both in their own houses and in retirement homes, and embedding them in everyday life objects, thus reducing the expenses for healthcare due to the lower need for personal assistance, and providing a better life quality to the elderly users.In this work, a flexible and extensive digital platform for Smart Homes is presented, exploiting the most advanced technologies of the Internet of Things, such as Radio Frequency Identification, wearable electronics, Wireless Sensor Networks, and Artificial Intelligence. Thus, the main novelty of the paper is the system-level description of the platform flexibility allowing the interoperability of different smart devices. This research was developed within the framework of the operative project HABITAT (Home Assistance Based on the Internet of Things for the Autonomy of Everybody), aiming at developing smart devices to support elderly people both in their own houses and in retirement homes, and embedding them in everyday life objects, thus reducing the expenses for healthcare due to the lower need for personal assistance, and providing a better life quality to the elderly users
DATA CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM WITH FUZZY NEURAL BASED APPROACH
Knowledge Discovery in Database and Data Mining use techniques derived from
machine learning, visualization and statistics to investigate real world data. Their aim is
to discover patterns within the data which are new, statistically valid, interesting and
understandable.
In recent years, there has been an explosion in computation and information technology.
With it have come vast amounts of data. Lying hidden in all this data is potentially useful
information that is rarely made explicit or taken advantage. New tools based both on
clever applications of established algorithms and on new methodologies, empower us to
do entirely new things. In this context, data mining has arisen as an important research
area that helps to reveal the hidden interesting information from the rawdatacollected.
The project demonstrates how data mining can address the need of business intelligence
in the process of decision making. An analysis on the field of data mining is done to show
how data mining can help in business such as marketing, credit card approval. The
project's objective is identifying the available data mining algorithms in data
classification and applying new data mining algorithm to perform classification tasks.
The proposed algorithm is a hybrid system which applied fuzzy logic and artificial neural
network, which applies fuzzy logic inference to generate a set of fuzzy weighted
production rules and applies artificial neural network to train the weights of fuzzy
weighted rules for better classification results.
Theresult of this system using the iris dataset and credit card approval dataset to evaluate
the proposed algorithm's accuracy, interpretability. The project has achieved the target
objectives; it can gain high accuracy for data classification task, generate rules which can
help to interpret the output results, reduce the training processing. But the proposed
algorithm still require high computation, the processing time will be long if the dataset is
huge. However the proposed algorithm offers a promising approach to building
intelligent systems
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