About Me
I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at the NICHE Research Group at Dalhousie University. Previously, I was a postdoctoral fellow (2011-2013) at the BFO team, ICube Laboratory at University of Strasbourg. My PhD dissertation, defended in 2011, was on an activity recognition approach based the possibility theory and description logic. The PhD was carried out at the DOMUS Laboratory at Université de Sherbrooke.
Research Interests
My main research interests include:
- Ambient intelligence and Context awareness
- Knowledge representation and Semantic Web
- Health informatics and Cognitive assistance
Currently, I am doing research on knowledge-driven activity recognition and health informatics.
Publications
2022
Assessing Knee Osteoarthritis Severity and Biomechanical Changes After Total Knee Arthroplasty Using Self-Organizing Maps Proceedings Article
In: 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 2022), June 14-17, 2022, Halifax, Springer, 2022.
Gait biomechanics phenotypes among total knee arthroplasty candidates by machine learning cluster analysis Journal Article
In: Journal of Orthopaedic Research, 2022.
2021
Predicting Kidney Graft Survival Using Machine Learning Methods: Prediction Model Development and Feature Significance Analysis Study Journal Article
In: Journal of Medical Internet Research, vol. 23, no. 8, pp. e26843, 2021, ISSN: 1438-8871.
2020
Indoor location identification of patients for directing virtual care: An AI approach using machine learning and knowledge-based methods Journal Article
In: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, vol. 108, pp. 101931, 2020, ISSN: 0933-3657.
2019
AI-Driven Pathology Laboratory Utilization Management via Data- and Knowledge-Based Analytics Proceedings Article
In: 17th Conf. on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME2019), June 26-29, pp. 241–251, Springer International Publishing, Poznan, Poland, 2019, ISBN: 978-3-030-21642-9.
Mobile Indoor Localization with Bluetooth Beacons in a Pediatric Emergency Department Using Clustering, Rule-based Classification and High-level Heuristics Proceedings Article
In: 17th Conf. on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME2019), June 26-29, pp. 216–226, Springer International Publishing, Poznan, Poland, 2019, ISBN: 978-3-030-21642-9.
Clinical and Biomechanical Cluster Classification Before TKA Impacts Functional Outcome Proceedings Article
In: 2nd International Combined Meeting of Orthopaedic Research Societies, June 19-22, 2019, Montreal, Canada, 2019.
Clinical and Biomechanical Cluster Classification Before TKA Impacts Functional Outcome Proceedings Article
In: Orthopaedic Research Society Conference (ORS), February 2-5, 2019 Austin, Texas, USA, 2019, (Recipient of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) Women’s Health Advisory Board (WHAB) Award).
2018
A data mining framework for glaucoma decision support based on optic nerve image analysis using machine learning methods Journal Article
In: Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 370-401, 2018.
2017
Achieving Pro-Active Guidance of Patients through ADL via Knowledge-Driven Activity Recognition and Complex Semantic Workflows Proceedings Article
In: 10th International Conference on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences, CEUR, Rome, Italy, 2017.
Possibilistic Activity Recognition with Uncertain Observations to Support Medication Adherence in an Assisted Ambient Living Setting Journal Article
In: Knowledge-Based Systems, vol. 133, pp. 156-173, 2017, ISSN: 09507051.
Monitoring Activities Related to Medication Adherence in Ambient Assisted Living Environments Proceedings Article
In: Randell, Rebecca; Cornet, Ronald; McCowan, Colin; Peek, Niels; Scott, Philip J. (Ed.): Informatics for Health: Connected Citizen-Led Wellness and Population Health (MIE 2017), Manchester, UK, April 24th-26th 2017, pp. 28-32, European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) and IOS Press, 2017, ISSN: 1879-8365.
2016
Monitoring Medication Adherence in Smart Environments in the Context of Patient Self-Management: A Knowledge-Driven Approach Book Chapter
In: Bouchard, Bruno; Bouzouane, Abdenour; Guillet, Sébastien (Ed.): Assistive Technologies in Smart Environments for People with Disabilities, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, FL, 2016, ISBN: 9781498722001.
SmartRL: A Context-Sensitive, Ontology-Based Rule Language for Assisted Living in Smart Environments Proceedings Article
In: Rule Technologies. Research, Tools, and Applications - 10th International Symposium, RuleML 2016, Stony Brook, NY, USA, July 6-9, 2016. Proceedings, pp. 341–349, 2016.
2015
A Mobile and Intelligent Patient Diary for Chronic Disease Self-Management Proceedings Article
In: MEDINFO 2015: eHealth-enabled Health - Proceedings of the 15th World Congress on Health and Biomedical Informatics, Sao Paulo, Brazil, pp. 118–122, IOS Press, 2015, ISBN: 978-1-61499-563-0.
2014
A Comparison of Mobile Rule Engines for Reasoning on Semantic Web Based Health Data Proceedings Article
In: Śl?zak, Dominik; Nguyen, Hung Son; Reformat, Marek; Jr., Eugene Santos (Ed.): 2014 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2014), pp. 126–133, IEEE Computer Society Press, Warsaw, Poland, 2014.
Towards Guideline Compliant Clinical Decision Support System Integration in Smart and Mobile Environments: Formalizing and Using Clinical Guidelines For Diagnosing Sleep Apnea Proceedings Article
In: AAAI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Applied to Assistive Technologies and Smart Environments (ATSE 2014), AAAI Press, Quebec, Canada, 2014.
2013
Ambient activity recognition in smart environments for cognitive assistance Journal Article
In: International Journal of Robotics Applications and Technologies, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 29-56, 2013, ISSN: 2166-7195.
2012
Generic Architecture for Ambient Intelligence based on an Organizational Centered Multi-Agent Approach Proceedings Article
In: Dey, Anind K.; Chu, Hao-Hua; Hayes, Gillian (Ed.): Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp'12). Adaptable Service Delivery in Smart Environments Workshop Session., pp. 786-789, ACM, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2012, ISBN: 978-1-4503-1224-0.
2011
Possibilistic activity recognition in smart homes for cognitively impaired people Journal Article
In: Applied Artificial Intelligence: An International Journal, vol. 25, no. 10, pp. 883-926, 2011, ISSN: 0883-9514.
2010
Possibilistic Behavior Recognition in Smart Homes for Cognitive Assistance Proceedings Article
In: AAAI Workshop on Plan, Activity, and Intent Recognition (PAIR) 2010, the Twenty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-10), pp. 53-60, AAAI Press, Atlanta, GA, USA, 2010.
Possibilistic Activity Recognition Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence 2010 (ICAART'10), pp. 1-6, Valencia, Spain INSTICC, 2010.
2009
A hybrid plan recognition model for Alzheimer's patients: interleaved-erroneous dilemma Journal Article
In: Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 375-397, 2009, ISSN: 1570-1263.
Plan Recognition based on Sensor Produced Micro-Context for Eldercare Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of The First International Workshop on Context-Awareness in Smart Environments: Background, Achievements and Challenges (CASEbac 2009). Co-located event of the 18th IEEE International Symp, pp. 39-46, Toyama, Japan, 2009.
A Possibilistic Model for Activity Recognition in Smart Homes Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of The First International Workshop on Context-Awareness in Smart Environments: Background, Achievements and Challenges (CASEbac 2009). Co-located event of the 18th IEEE International Symp, pp. 9-16, Toyama, Japan, 2009.
Ambient Activity Recognition: A Possibilistic Approach Proceedings Article
In: dos Reis, António Palma (Ed.): Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Agents (ISA'09), pp. 231-235, IADIS, Algarve, Portugal, 2009, ISBN: 978-972-8924-87-4.
2008
Towards an Extension of the COACH Task Guidance System: Activity Recognition of Alzheimer's Patients Proceedings Article
In: Augusto, Juan Carlos; Shapiro, Daniel; Aghajan, Hamid (Ed.): Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Ambient Intelligence (AITAmI'08), Patras, Greece. 21st-22nd of July 2008. Co-located event of the 18th European Conference on, pp. 16-20, Patras, Grece, 2008.
Recognition Model for Alzheimer's Patients: Extension of the COACH Task Guidance System, Proceedings Article
In: Ghallab, Malik; Spyropoulos, Constantine D.; Fakotakis, Nikos; Avouris, Nikos (Ed.): Proc. of the 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'08), pp. 811-812, IOS Press, Patras, Grece, 2008.
2007
A hybrid plan recognition model for Alzheimer's patients: interleaved-erroneous dilemma Proceedings Article
In: Lin, Tsau Young; Bradshaw, Jeffrey M.; Klusch, Matthias; Zhang, Chengqi; Broder, Andrei; Ho, Howard (Ed.): Proc. of the 7th IEEE/WCI/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'07), pp. 131-137, IEEE, Fremont, CA, USA, 2007, ISBN: 978-0-7695-3027-7.
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Assessing Knee Biomechanical Osteoarthritis Severity and Biomechanical Changes after Total Knee Arthroplasty using Self-Organizing Networks (under review) Journal Article
In: Journal of Biomechanics, 0000.
Demographic and Gait Phenotypes among Total Knee Arthroplasty Candidates by Machine Learning Cluster Analysis Impacts Gait Improvement after Surgery (under review) Journal Article
In: Journal of Orthopedic Research , 0000.
Predicting Kidney Graft Survival using Machine Learning Methods: Prediction Model Development and Feature Significance Analysis Study (under review) Journal Article
In: Journal of Medical Internet Research, 0000.