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A data mining approach to classify serum creatinine values in patients undergoi...
Brito, Claúdia; Esteves, Marisa; Peixoto, Hugo; Abelha, António; Machado, José ManuelContinuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) is a treatment used by patients in the end-stage of chronic kidney diseases. Those patients need to be monitored using blood tests and those tests can present some patterns or correlations. It could be meaningful to apply data mining (DM) to the data collected from those tests. To discover patterns from meaningless data, it becomes crucial to use DM techniques. D...
The development of a business intelligence web application to support the decis...
Oliveira, Sérgio Manuel Costa; Esteves, Marisa; Cernadas, Rui; Abelha, António; Machado, José ManuelNowadays, one of the biggest concerns of industries all over the world is situations regarding absenteeism, since it has a great impact on the productivity and economy of companies, as well as on the health of their employees. The major causes of absenteeism appear to be work accidents and sickness leaves, which lead to the attempt by companies of understanding how the workload is related to the health of their...
A proof of concept of a mobile health application to support professionals in a...
Esteves, Márcia; Esteves, Marisa; Abelha, António; Machado, José ManuelOver the past few years, the rapidly aging population has been posing several challenges to healthcare systems worldwide. Consequently, in Portugal, nursing homes have been getting a higher demand, and health professionals working in these facilities are overloaded with work. Moreover, the lack of health information and communication technology (HICT) and the use of unsophisticated methods, such as paper, in nu...
Waiting Time Screening in Healthcare
Neves, José; Vicente, Henrique; Esteves, Marisa; Ferraz, Filipa; Abelha, António; Machado, José; Machado, Joana; Neves, JoãoIn Medical Imaging (MI), various technologies can be used to monitor the human body for diagnosing, monitoring or treating disease. Each type of technology provides different information about the body area that is being investigated or treated for a possible illness, injury or effectiveness of a medical treatment. Routine screening has identified malfunction detection in many otherwise asymptomatic patient ima...
Application of data mining for the prediction of prophylactic measures in patie...
Cruz, Manuela; Esteves, Marisa; Peixoto, Hugo; Abelha, António; Machado, José ManuelIn the last decades, with the increase in the amount of data stored in the healthcare industry, it is also extended the possibility of obtaining important information to support the decision-making process of health professionals. This article has as evidence to apply Data Mining (DM) techniques to health databases of patients with medical Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) risk, with the objective of classifying, base...
A Deep-Big Data approach to health care in the AI age
Neves, José; Vicente, Henrique; Esteves, Marisa; Ferraz, Filipa; Abelha, António; Machado, José Manuel; Machado, Joana; Neves, João; Ribeiro, JorgeThe intersection of these two trends is what we call The Issue and it is helping businesses in every industry to become more efficient and productive. One’s aim is to have an insight into the development and maintenance of comprehensive and integrated health information systems that enable sound policy and effective health system management in order to improve health and health care. Undeniably, different sorts...
A Deep-Big Data Approach to Health Care in the AI Age
Neves, José; Vicente, Henrique; Esteves, Marisa; Ferraz, Filipa; Abelha, António; Machado, José; Machado, Joana; Neves, João; Ribeiro, JorgeThe intersection of these two trends is what we call The Issue and it is helping businesses in every industry to become more efficient and productive. One’s aim is to have an insight into the development and maintenance of comprehensive and integrated health information systems that enable sound policy and effective health system management in order to improve health and health care. Undeniably, different sorts...
Waiting time screening in healthcare
Neves, José; Vicente, Henrique; Esteves, Marisa; Ferraz, Filipa Tinoco; Abelha, António; Machado, José Manuel; Machado, Joana; Neves, JoãoIn Medical Imaging (MI), various technologies can be used to monitor the human body for diagnosing, monitoring or treating disease. Each type of technology provides different information about the body area that is being investigated or treated for a possible illness, injury or effectiveness of a medical treatment. Routine screening has identified malfunction detection in many otherwise asymptomatic patient ima...
Waiting Time Screening in Diagnostic Medical Imaging - A Case-Based View
Esteves, Marisa; Vicente, Henrique; Gomes, Sabino; Abelha, António; Santos, M. Filipe; Machado, José; Neves, João; Neves, JoséDue to the high standards expected from diagnostic medical imaging, the analysis of information regarding waiting lists via different information systems is of utmost importance. Such analysis, on the one hand, may improve the diagnostic quality and, on the other hand, may lead to the reduction of waiting times, with the concomitant increase of the quality of services and the reduction of the inherent financial...
A Case Based Methodology for Problem Solving aiming at Knee Osteoarthritis Dete...
Esteves, Marisa; Vicente, Henrique; Machado, José; Alves, Victor; Neves, JoséKnee osteoarthritis is the most common type of arthritis and a major cause of impaired mobility and disability for the ageing populations. Therefore, due to the increasing prevalence of the malady, it is expected that clinical and scientific practices had to be set in order to detect the problem in its early stages. Thus, this work will be focused on the improvement of methodologies for problem solving aiming a...