2019
Kathryn Young-Shand; Patrice C. Roy; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi; Michael Dunbar; Janie Astephen Wilson
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).
BibTeX | Tags: Clustering, Total knee arthroplasty
@inproceedings{Young-Shand2019,
title = {Clinical and Biomechanical Cluster Classification Before TKA Impacts Functional Outcome},
author = {Kathryn Young-Shand and Patrice C. Roy and Syed Sibte Raza Abidi and Michael Dunbar and Janie Astephen Wilson},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-02-02},
booktitle = {Orthopaedic Research Society Conference (ORS), February 2-5, 2019 Austin, Texas, USA},
note = {Recipient of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) Women’s Health Advisory Board (WHAB) Award},
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Borna Jafarpour; Samina Raza Abidi; William Van Woensel; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
Execution-Time Integration of Clinical Practice Guidelines To Provide Decision Support for Comorbid Conditions Journal Article
In: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, vol. 94, pp. 117-137, 2019, ISSN: 0933-3657.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags:
@article{JAFARPOUR2019,
title = {Execution-Time Integration of Clinical Practice Guidelines To Provide Decision Support for Comorbid Conditions},
author = {Borna Jafarpour and Samina Raza Abidi and William Van Woensel and Syed Sibte Raza Abidi},
url = {https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1Yf0D3KEGa1e9B},
doi = {10.1016/j.artmed.2019.02.003},
issn = {0933-3657},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-01-01},
journal = {Artificial Intelligence in Medicine},
volume = {94},
pages = {117-137},
abstract = {Patients with multiple medical conditions (comorbidity) pose major challenges to clinical decision support systems, since the different Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) often involve adverse interactions, such as drug-drug or drug-disease interactions. Moreover, opportunities often exist for optimizing care and resources across multiple CPG. These challenges have been taken up in the state of the art, with many approaches focusing on the static integration of comorbid CIG. Nevertheless, we observe that many aspects often change dynamically over time, in ways that cannot be foreseen – such as delays in care tasks, resource availability, test outcomes, and acute comorbid conditions. To ensure the clinical safety and effectiveness of integrating multiple comorbid CIG, these execution-time difficulties must be considered. Further, when dealing with comorbid conditions, we remark that clinical practitioners typically consider multiple complex solutions, depending on the patient’s health profile. Hence, execution-time flexibility, based on dynamic health parameters, is needed to effectively and safely cope with comorbid conditions. In this work, we introduce a flexible, knowledge-driven and execution-time approach to comorbid CIG integration, based on an OWL ontology with clearly defined integration semantics.},
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Patients with multiple medical conditions (comorbidity) pose major challenges to clinical decision support systems, since the different Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) often involve adverse interactions, such as drug-drug or drug-disease interactions. Moreover, opportunities often exist for optimizing care and resources across multiple CPG. These challenges have been taken up in the state of the art, with many approaches focusing on the static integration of comorbid CIG. Nevertheless, we observe that many aspects often change dynamically over time, in ways that cannot be foreseen – such as delays in care tasks, resource availability, test outcomes, and acute comorbid conditions. To ensure the clinical safety and effectiveness of integrating multiple comorbid CIG, these execution-time difficulties must be considered. Further, when dealing with comorbid conditions, we remark that clinical practitioners typically consider multiple complex solutions, depending on the patient’s health profile. Hence, execution-time flexibility, based on dynamic health parameters, is needed to effectively and safely cope with comorbid conditions. In this work, we introduce a flexible, knowledge-driven and execution-time approach to comorbid CIG integration, based on an OWL ontology with clearly defined integration semantics.
Hani Nabeel Mufti; Gregory Marshal Hirsch; Samina Raza Abidi; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
In: JMIR Med Inform, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. e14993, 2019, ISSN: 2291-9694.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: delirium; cardiac surgery; machine learning; predictive modeling
@article{info:doi/10.2196/14993,
title = {Exploiting Machine Learning Algorithms and Methods for the Prediction of Agitated Delirium After Cardiac Surgery: Models Development and Validation Study},
author = {Hani Nabeel Mufti and Gregory Marshal Hirsch and Samina Raza Abidi and Syed Sibte Raza Abidi},
url = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31558433},
doi = {10.2196/14993},
issn = {2291-9694},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-01-01},
journal = {JMIR Med Inform},
volume = {7},
number = {4},
pages = {e14993},
abstract = {Background: Delirium is a temporary mental disorder that occasionally affects patients undergoing surgery, especially cardiac surgery. It is strongly associated with major adverse events, which in turn leads to increased cost and poor outcomes (eg, need for nursing home due to cognitive impairment, stroke, and death). The ability to foresee patients at risk of delirium will guide the timely initiation of multimodal preventive interventions, which will aid in reducing the burden and negative consequences associated with delirium. Several studies have focused on the prediction of delirium. However, the number of studies in cardiac surgical patients that have used machine learning methods is very limited. Objective: This study aimed to explore the application of several machine learning predictive models that can pre-emptively predict delirium in patients undergoing cardiac surgery and compare their performance. Methods: We investigated a number of machine learning methods to develop models that can predict delirium after cardiac surgery. A clinical dataset comprising over 5000 actual patients who underwent cardiac surgery in a single center was used to develop the models using logistic regression, artificial neural networks (ANN), support vector machines (SVM), Bayesian belief networks (BBN), na"ive Bayesian, random forest, and decision trees. Results: Only 507 out of 5584 patients (11.4%) developed delirium. We addressed the underlying class imbalance, using random undersampling, in the training dataset. The final prediction performance was validated on a separate test dataset. Owing to the target class imbalance, several measures were used to evaluate algorithm's performance for the delirium class on the test dataset. Out of the selected algorithms, the SVM algorithm had the best F1 score for positive cases, kappa, and positive predictive value (40.2%, 29.3%, and 29.7%, respectively) with a P=.01, .03, .02, respectively. The ANN had the best receiver-operator area-under the curve (78.2%; P=.03). The BBN had the best precision-recall area-under the curve for detecting positive cases (30.4%; P=.03). Conclusions: Although delirium is inherently complex, preventive measures to mitigate its negative effect can be applied proactively if patients at risk are prospectively identified. Our results highlight 2 important points: (1) addressing class imbalance on the training dataset will augment machine learning model's performance in identifying patients likely to develop postoperative delirium, and (2) as the prediction of postoperative delirium is difficult because it is multifactorial and has complex pathophysiology, applying machine learning methods (complex or simple) may improve the prediction by revealing hidden patterns, which will lead to cost reduction by prevention of complications and will optimize patients' outcomes.},
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Background: Delirium is a temporary mental disorder that occasionally affects patients undergoing surgery, especially cardiac surgery. It is strongly associated with major adverse events, which in turn leads to increased cost and poor outcomes (eg, need for nursing home due to cognitive impairment, stroke, and death). The ability to foresee patients at risk of delirium will guide the timely initiation of multimodal preventive interventions, which will aid in reducing the burden and negative consequences associated with delirium. Several studies have focused on the prediction of delirium. However, the number of studies in cardiac surgical patients that have used machine learning methods is very limited. Objective: This study aimed to explore the application of several machine learning predictive models that can pre-emptively predict delirium in patients undergoing cardiac surgery and compare their performance. Methods: We investigated a number of machine learning methods to develop models that can predict delirium after cardiac surgery. A clinical dataset comprising over 5000 actual patients who underwent cardiac surgery in a single center was used to develop the models using logistic regression, artificial neural networks (ANN), support vector machines (SVM), Bayesian belief networks (BBN), na"ive Bayesian, random forest, and decision trees. Results: Only 507 out of 5584 patients (11.4%) developed delirium. We addressed the underlying class imbalance, using random undersampling, in the training dataset. The final prediction performance was validated on a separate test dataset. Owing to the target class imbalance, several measures were used to evaluate algorithm's performance for the delirium class on the test dataset. Out of the selected algorithms, the SVM algorithm had the best F1 score for positive cases, kappa, and positive predictive value (40.2%, 29.3%, and 29.7%, respectively) with a P=.01, .03, .02, respectively. The ANN had the best receiver-operator area-under the curve (78.2%; P=.03). The BBN had the best precision-recall area-under the curve for detecting positive cases (30.4%; P=.03). Conclusions: Although delirium is inherently complex, preventive measures to mitigate its negative effect can be applied proactively if patients at risk are prospectively identified. Our results highlight 2 important points: (1) addressing class imbalance on the training dataset will augment machine learning model's performance in identifying patients likely to develop postoperative delirium, and (2) as the prediction of postoperative delirium is difficult because it is multifactorial and has complex pathophysiology, applying machine learning methods (complex or simple) may improve the prediction by revealing hidden patterns, which will lead to cost reduction by prevention of complications and will optimize patients' outcomes.
2018
Syed S.R. Abidi; Patrice C. Roy; Muhammad S. Shah; Jin Yu; Sanjun Yan
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.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: Classification, Clustering, Data Mining, Decision Support Systems, Optic Nerve
@article{Abidi2018,
title = {A data mining framework for glaucoma decision support based on optic nerve image analysis using machine learning methods},
author = {Syed S.R. Abidi and Patrice C. Roy and Muhammad S. Shah and Jin Yu and Sanjun Yan},
doi = {10.1007/s41666-018-0028-7},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-12-01},
journal = {Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research},
volume = {2},
number = {4},
pages = {370-401},
keywords = {Classification, Clustering, Data Mining, Decision Support Systems, Optic Nerve},
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William Van Woensel; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
Benchmarking Semantic Reasoning on Mobile Platforms: Towards Optimization Using OWL2 RL Journal Article
In: Semantic Web Journal, 2018.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Mobile Computing, OWL2 RL, Semantic Web reasoning
@article{SWJ-WVW-2018,
title = {Benchmarking Semantic Reasoning on Mobile Platforms: Towards Optimization Using OWL2 RL},
author = {William Van Woensel and Syed Sibte Raza Abidi},
url = {http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/system/files/swj1881.pdf},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-08-06},
journal = {Semantic Web Journal},
abstract = {Mobile hardware has advanced to a point where apps may consume the Semantic Web of Data, as exemplified in domains such as mobile context-awareness, m-Health, m-Tourism and augmented reality. However, recent work shows that the performance of ontology-based reasoning, an essential Semantic Web building block, still leaves much to be desired on mobile platforms. This presents a clear need to provide developers with the ability to benchmark mobile reasoning performance, based on their particular application scenarios, i.e., including reasoning tasks, process flows and datasets, to establish the feasibility of mobile deployment. In this regard, we present a mobile benchmark framework called MobiBench to help developers to benchmark semantic reasoners on mobile platforms. To realize efficient mobile, ontology-based reasoning, OWL2 RL is a promising solution since it (a) trades expressivity for scalability, which is important on resource-constrained platforms; and (b) provides unique opportunities for optimization due to its rule-based axiomatization. In this vein, we propose selections of OWL2 RL rule subsets for optimization purposes, based on several orthogonal dimensions. We extended MobiBench to support OWL2 RL and the proposed ruleset selections, and benchmarked multiple OWL2 RL-enabled rule engines and OWL reasoners on a mobile platform. Our results show significant performance improvements by applying OWL2 RL rule subsets, allowing performant reasoning for small datasets on mobile systems.},
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Mobile hardware has advanced to a point where apps may consume the Semantic Web of Data, as exemplified in domains such as mobile context-awareness, m-Health, m-Tourism and augmented reality. However, recent work shows that the performance of ontology-based reasoning, an essential Semantic Web building block, still leaves much to be desired on mobile platforms. This presents a clear need to provide developers with the ability to benchmark mobile reasoning performance, based on their particular application scenarios, i.e., including reasoning tasks, process flows and datasets, to establish the feasibility of mobile deployment. In this regard, we present a mobile benchmark framework called MobiBench to help developers to benchmark semantic reasoners on mobile platforms. To realize efficient mobile, ontology-based reasoning, OWL2 RL is a promising solution since it (a) trades expressivity for scalability, which is important on resource-constrained platforms; and (b) provides unique opportunities for optimization due to its rule-based axiomatization. In this vein, we propose selections of OWL2 RL rule subsets for optimization purposes, based on several orthogonal dimensions. We extended MobiBench to support OWL2 RL and the proposed ruleset selections, and benchmarked multiple OWL2 RL-enabled rule engines and OWL reasoners on a mobile platform. Our results show significant performance improvements by applying OWL2 RL rule subsets, allowing performant reasoning for small datasets on mobile systems.
Hossein Mohammadhassanzadeh; Samina Abidi; William Van Woensel; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
Investigating Plausible Reasoning over Knowledge Graphs for Semantics-based Health Data Analytics Proceedings Article
In: Data Exploration in the Web 3.0 Age (DEW) conference track at 27th IEEE International Conference on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE’18), IEEE, Paris, France, 2018.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: Plausible reasoning, Query Rewriting, Semantic Analytics, Semantic Web reasoning
@inproceedings{Mohammadhassanzadeh;2018,
title = {Investigating Plausible Reasoning over Knowledge Graphs for Semantics-based Health Data Analytics},
author = {Hossein Mohammadhassanzadeh and Samina Abidi and William Van Woensel and Syed Sibte Raza Abidi},
url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8495925},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-06-27},
booktitle = {Data Exploration in the Web 3.0 Age (DEW) conference track at 27th IEEE International Conference on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE’18)},
publisher = {IEEE},
address = {Paris, France},
keywords = {Plausible reasoning, Query Rewriting, Semantic Analytics, Semantic Web reasoning},
pubstate = {published},
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William Van Woensel; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
Optimizing Semantic Reasoning on Memory-Constrained Platforms using the RETE Algorithm Proceedings Article
In: 15th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2018), pp. 682-696, Springer LNCS, Heraklion, Greece, 2018.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Mobile Computing, OWL2 RL, RETE, Semantic Web reasoning
@inproceedings{ESWC-WVW-2018,
title = {Optimizing Semantic Reasoning on Memory-Constrained Platforms using the RETE Algorithm},
author = {William Van Woensel and Syed Sibte Raza Abidi},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-93417-4_44},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-06-07},
booktitle = {15th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2018)},
pages = {682-696},
publisher = {Springer LNCS},
address = {Heraklion, Greece},
abstract = {Mobile hardware improvements have opened the door for deploying rule systems on ubiquitous, mobile platforms. By executing rule-based tasks locally, less re-mote (cloud) resources are needed, bandwidth usage is reduced, and local, time-sensitive tasks are no longer influenced by network conditions. Further, with data being increasingly published in semantic format, an opportunity arises for rule systems to leverage the embedded semantics of semantic, ontology-based data. To support this kind of ontology-based reasoning in rule systems, rule-based axiomatizations of ontology semantics can be utilized (e.g., OWL 2 RL). Nonetheless, recent benchmarks have found that any kind of ontology-based reasoning on mobile platforms still lacks scalability, at least when directly re-using existing (PC- or server-based) technologies. To create a tailored solution for resource-constrained platforms, we propose changes to RETE, the mainstay algorithm for production rule systems. In particular, we present an adapted algorithm that, by selectively pooling RETE memories, aims to better balance memory usage with performance. Further, we show that this algorithm is well-suited towards many typical Semantic Web scenarios. Using our custom algorithm, we perform an extensive evaluation of semantic reasoning both on the PC and mobile platform.},
keywords = {Mobile Computing, OWL2 RL, RETE, Semantic Web reasoning},
pubstate = {published},
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Mobile hardware improvements have opened the door for deploying rule systems on ubiquitous, mobile platforms. By executing rule-based tasks locally, less re-mote (cloud) resources are needed, bandwidth usage is reduced, and local, time-sensitive tasks are no longer influenced by network conditions. Further, with data being increasingly published in semantic format, an opportunity arises for rule systems to leverage the embedded semantics of semantic, ontology-based data. To support this kind of ontology-based reasoning in rule systems, rule-based axiomatizations of ontology semantics can be utilized (e.g., OWL 2 RL). Nonetheless, recent benchmarks have found that any kind of ontology-based reasoning on mobile platforms still lacks scalability, at least when directly re-using existing (PC- or server-based) technologies. To create a tailored solution for resource-constrained platforms, we propose changes to RETE, the mainstay algorithm for production rule systems. In particular, we present an adapted algorithm that, by selectively pooling RETE memories, aims to better balance memory usage with performance. Further, we show that this algorithm is well-suited towards many typical Semantic Web scenarios. Using our custom algorithm, we perform an extensive evaluation of semantic reasoning both on the PC and mobile platform.
Raquel Dias; K. Guimarães; M. Lima; JG. Alves; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
A Mobile Early Stimulation Program to Support Children With Developmental Delays in Brazil Proceedings Article
In: 28th European Medical Informatics Conference (MIE2018), April 24-26, 2018, IOSPress, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2018.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Clinical Decision Support Systems, Health Informatics, Patient Education
@inproceedings{dias-04-18,
title = {A Mobile Early Stimulation Program to Support Children With Developmental Delays in Brazil},
author = {Raquel Dias and K. Guimarães and M. Lima and JG. Alves and Syed Sibte Raza Abidi},
url = {https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29678068},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-04-24},
booktitle = {28th European Medical Informatics Conference (MIE2018), April 24-26, 2018},
publisher = {IOSPress},
address = {Gothenburg, Sweden},
abstract = {Developmental delay is a deviation development from the normative milestones during the childhood and it may be caused by neurological disorders. Early stimulation is a standardized and simple technique to treat developmental delays in children (aged 0-3 years), allowing them to reach the best development possible and to mitigate neuropsychomotor sequelae. However, the outcomes of the treatment depending on the involvement of the family, to continue the activities at home on a daily basis. To empower and educate parents of children with neurodevelopmental delays to administer standardized early stimulation programs at home, we developed a mobile early stimulation program that provides timely and evidence-based clinical decision support to health professionals and a personalized guidance to parents about how to administer early stimulation to their child at home.},
keywords = {Clinical Decision Support Systems, Health Informatics, Patient Education},
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Developmental delay is a deviation development from the normative milestones during the childhood and it may be caused by neurological disorders. Early stimulation is a standardized and simple technique to treat developmental delays in children (aged 0-3 years), allowing them to reach the best development possible and to mitigate neuropsychomotor sequelae. However, the outcomes of the treatment depending on the involvement of the family, to continue the activities at home on a daily basis. To empower and educate parents of children with neurodevelopmental delays to administer standardized early stimulation programs at home, we developed a mobile early stimulation program that provides timely and evidence-based clinical decision support to health professionals and a personalized guidance to parents about how to administer early stimulation to their child at home.
Ben Rose Davis; E. Stringer; Samina Abidi; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
Interactive Dialogue-Based Patient Education for Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Using Argument Theory Proceedings Article
In: 28th European Medical Informatics Conference (MIE2018), April 24 - 26, IOSPress, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2018.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Clinical Decision Support Systems, Health Informatics, Patient Education, Personalized Medicine
@inproceedings{davis-mie-2018,
title = {Interactive Dialogue-Based Patient Education for Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Using Argument Theory},
author = {Ben Rose Davis and E. Stringer and Samina Abidi and Syed Sibte Raza Abidi},
url = {https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29678020},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-04-24},
booktitle = {28th European Medical Informatics Conference (MIE2018), April 24 - 26},
publisher = {IOSPress},
address = {Gothenburg, Sweden},
abstract = {Families of children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis need a way to interact with Patient Education Materials (PEM) so that learning occurs at their own pace, on topics that are relevant to them. This paper proposes a novel, dialogue-based approach to address these needs. Using an extended version of Toulmin's model of argument as a theory-based classification method, we digitized paper-based PEM to render an interactive dialogue. The dialogue allows the user to explore a topic with respect to their interests and apprehensions as opposed to providing a static, generic document.},
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Families of children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis need a way to interact with Patient Education Materials (PEM) so that learning occurs at their own pace, on topics that are relevant to them. This paper proposes a novel, dialogue-based approach to address these needs. Using an extended version of Toulmin's model of argument as a theory-based classification method, we digitized paper-based PEM to render an interactive dialogue. The dialogue allows the user to explore a topic with respect to their interests and apprehensions as opposed to providing a static, generic document.
Ali Daowd; Samina Abidi; Ashraf Abusharekh; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
A Personalized Risk Stratification Platform for Population Lifetime Healthcare Proceedings Article
In: 28th European Medical Informatics Conference (MIE2018), April 24 - 26, IOSPress, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2018.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Clinical Decision Support Systems, Health Informatics, Personalized Medicine
@inproceedings{daowd-mie-2018,
title = {A Personalized Risk Stratification Platform for Population Lifetime Healthcare},
author = {Ali Daowd and Samina Abidi and Ashraf Abusharekh and Syed Sibte Raza Abidi},
url = {https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29678095},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-04-24},
booktitle = {28th European Medical Informatics Conference (MIE2018), April 24 - 26},
publisher = {IOSPress},
address = {Gothenburg, Sweden},
abstract = {Chronic diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide. It is well understood that if modifiable risk factors are targeted, most chronic diseases can be prevented. Lifetime health is an emerging health paradigm that aims to assist individuals to achieve desired health targets, and avoid harmful lifecycle choices to mitigate the risk of chronic diseases. Early risk identification is central to lifetime health. In this paper, we present a digital health-based platform (PRISM) that leverages artificial intelligence, data visualization and mobile health technologies to empower citizens to self-assess, self-monitor and self-manage their overall risk of major chronic diseases and pursue personalized chronic disease prevention programs. PRISM offers risk assessment tools for 5 chronic conditions, 2 psychiatric disorders and 8 different cancers.},
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Chronic diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide. It is well understood that if modifiable risk factors are targeted, most chronic diseases can be prevented. Lifetime health is an emerging health paradigm that aims to assist individuals to achieve desired health targets, and avoid harmful lifecycle choices to mitigate the risk of chronic diseases. Early risk identification is central to lifetime health. In this paper, we present a digital health-based platform (PRISM) that leverages artificial intelligence, data visualization and mobile health technologies to empower citizens to self-assess, self-monitor and self-manage their overall risk of major chronic diseases and pursue personalized chronic disease prevention programs. PRISM offers risk assessment tools for 5 chronic conditions, 2 psychiatric disorders and 8 different cancers.
Samina Abidi; Michael Vallis; Helena Piccinini-Vallis; Ali Syed Imran; Raza Syed Sibte Abidi
In: JMIR Med Inform, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. e25, 2018.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: clinical decision support system
@article{info:doi/10.2196/medinform.9629c,
title = {Diabetes-Related Behavior Change Knowledge Transfer to Primary Care Practitioners and Patients: Implementation and Evaluation of a Digital Health Platform},
author = {Samina Abidi and Michael Vallis and Helena Piccinini-Vallis and Ali Syed Imran and Raza Syed Sibte Abidi},
url = {http://medinform.jmir.org/2018/2/e25/},
doi = {10.2196/medinform.9629},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-04-18},
journal = {JMIR Med Inform},
volume = {6},
number = {2},
pages = {e25},
abstract = {Background: Behavioral science is now being integrated into diabetes self-management interventions. However, the challenge that presents itself is how to translate these knowledge resources during care so that primary care practitioners can use them to offer evidence-informed behavior change support and diabetes management recommendations to patients with diabetes. Objective: The aim of this study was to develop and evaluate a computerized decision support platform called ``Diabetes Web-Centric Information and Support Environment'' (DWISE) that assists primary care practitioners in applying standardized behavior change strategies and clinical practice guidelines--based recommendations to an individual patient and empower the patient with the skills and knowledge required to self-manage their diabetes through planned, personalized, and pervasive behavior change strategies. Methods: A health care knowledge management approach is used to implement DWISE so that it features the following functionalities: (1) assessment of primary care practitioners' readiness to administer validated behavior change interventions to patients with diabetes; (2) educational support for primary care practitioners to help them offer behavior change interventions to patients; (3) access to evidence-based material, such as the Canadian Diabetes Association's (CDA) clinical practice guidelines, to primary care practitioners; (4) development of personalized patient self-management programs to help patients with diabetes achieve healthy behaviors to meet CDA targets for managing type 2 diabetes; (5) educational support for patients to help them achieve behavior change; and (6) monitoring of the patients' progress to assess their adherence to the behavior change program and motivating them to ensure compliance with their program. DWISE offers these functionalities through an interactive Web-based interface to primary care practitioners, whereas the patient's self-management program and associated behavior interventions are delivered through a mobile patient diary via mobile phones and tablets. DWISE has been tested for its usability, functionality, usefulness, and acceptance through a series of qualitative studies. Results: For the primary care practitioner tool, most usability problems were associated with the navigation of the tool and the presentation, formatting, understandability, and suitability of the content. For the patient tool, most issues were related to the tool's screen layout, design features, understandability of the content, clarity of the labels used, and navigation across the tool. Facilitators and barriers to DWISE use in a shared decision-making environment have also been identified. Conclusions: This work has provided a unique electronic health solution to translate complex health care knowledge in terms of easy-to-use, evidence-informed, point-of-care decision aids for primary care practitioners. Patients' feedback is now being used to make necessary modification to DWISE.},
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Background: Behavioral science is now being integrated into diabetes self-management interventions. However, the challenge that presents itself is how to translate these knowledge resources during care so that primary care practitioners can use them to offer evidence-informed behavior change support and diabetes management recommendations to patients with diabetes. Objective: The aim of this study was to develop and evaluate a computerized decision support platform called ``Diabetes Web-Centric Information and Support Environment'' (DWISE) that assists primary care practitioners in applying standardized behavior change strategies and clinical practice guidelines--based recommendations to an individual patient and empower the patient with the skills and knowledge required to self-manage their diabetes through planned, personalized, and pervasive behavior change strategies. Methods: A health care knowledge management approach is used to implement DWISE so that it features the following functionalities: (1) assessment of primary care practitioners' readiness to administer validated behavior change interventions to patients with diabetes; (2) educational support for primary care practitioners to help them offer behavior change interventions to patients; (3) access to evidence-based material, such as the Canadian Diabetes Association's (CDA) clinical practice guidelines, to primary care practitioners; (4) development of personalized patient self-management programs to help patients with diabetes achieve healthy behaviors to meet CDA targets for managing type 2 diabetes; (5) educational support for patients to help them achieve behavior change; and (6) monitoring of the patients' progress to assess their adherence to the behavior change program and motivating them to ensure compliance with their program. DWISE offers these functionalities through an interactive Web-based interface to primary care practitioners, whereas the patient's self-management program and associated behavior interventions are delivered through a mobile patient diary via mobile phones and tablets. DWISE has been tested for its usability, functionality, usefulness, and acceptance through a series of qualitative studies. Results: For the primary care practitioner tool, most usability problems were associated with the navigation of the tool and the presentation, formatting, understandability, and suitability of the content. For the patient tool, most issues were related to the tool's screen layout, design features, understandability of the content, clarity of the labels used, and navigation across the tool. Facilitators and barriers to DWISE use in a shared decision-making environment have also been identified. Conclusions: This work has provided a unique electronic health solution to translate complex health care knowledge in terms of easy-to-use, evidence-informed, point-of-care decision aids for primary care practitioners. Patients' feedback is now being used to make necessary modification to DWISE.
Jafna L Cox; Ratika Parkash; Syed SR Abidi; Lehana Thabane; Feng Xie; James MacKillop; Samina R Abidi; Antonio Ciaccia; Shurjeel H Choudhri; A Abusharekh; Joanna Nemis-White
In: vol. 201, pp. 149 - 157, 2018, ISSN: 0002-8703.
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title = {Optimizing Primary Care Management of Atrial Fibrillation: The Rationale and Methods of the Integrated Management Program Advancing Community Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation (IMPACT-AF) Study},
author = {Jafna L Cox and Ratika Parkash and Syed SR Abidi and Lehana Thabane and Feng Xie and James MacKillop and Samina R Abidi and Antonio Ciaccia and Shurjeel H Choudhri and A Abusharekh and Joanna Nemis-White},
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Ali Naserian Mojadam; Najaf Nadeem; Hussein Beydoun; Samina Abidi; Ali Rizvi; Syed Abidi
Preoperative Education System to Assist Patients Undergoing TAVI Surgery: A Digital Health Solution Journal Article
In: Journal of Health & Medical Informatics, vol. 09, 2018.
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2017
William Van Woensel; Wasif Baig; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi; Samina Abidi
A Semantic Web Framework for Behavioral User Modeling and Action Planning for Personalized Behavior Modification Proceedings Article
In: 10th International Conference on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences, CEUR, Rome, Italy, 2017.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: Behaviour Modelling, Behavioural Change Theory, Personalized Medicine
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title = {A Semantic Web Framework for Behavioral User Modeling and Action Planning for Personalized Behavior Modification},
author = {William Van Woensel and Wasif Baig and Syed Sibte Raza Abidi and Samina Abidi},
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year = {2017},
date = {2017-12-06},
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William Van Woensel; Patrice C. Roy; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
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.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: Activity Recognition, Ambient Intelligence, Semantic Web reasoning
@inproceedings{ADL201,
title = {Achieving Pro-Active Guidance of Patients through ADL via Knowledge-Driven Activity Recognition and Complex Semantic Workflows},
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Hossein Mohammadhassanzadeh; Samina Raza Abidi; Mohammad Salman Shah; Mehdi Karamollahi; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
SeDAn: A Plausible Reasoning Approach for Semantics-based Data Analytics in Healthcare Proceedings Article
In: Workshop on Artificial Intelligence with Application in Health, 16th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, Bari, Italy, 2017.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: Health Data Analytics, Knowledge Management, Plausible reasoning, Semantic Web
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title = {SeDAn: A Plausible Reasoning Approach for Semantics-based Data Analytics in Healthcare},
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url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1982/paper7.pdf},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-11-14},
booktitle = {Workshop on Artificial Intelligence with Application in Health, 16th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence},
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Ehsan Maghsoud-Lou; Sean Christie; Samina Raza Abidi; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
In: Journal of Medical Systems, vol. 41, no. 9, pp. 139, 2017, ISSN: 1573-689X.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags:
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title = {Protocol-Driven Decision Support within e-Referral Systems to Streamline Patient Consultation, Triaging and Referrals from Primary Care to Specialist Clinics},
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Patient referral is a protocol where the referring primary care physician refers the patient to a specialist for further treatment. The paper-based current referral process at times lead to communication and operational issues, resulting in either an unfulfilled referral request or an unnecessary referral request. Despite the availability of standardized referral protocols they are not readily applied because they are tedious and time-consuming, thus resulting in suboptimal referral requests. We present a semantic-web based Referral Knowledge Modeling and Execution Framework to computerize referral protocols, clinical guidelines and assessment tools in order to develop a computerized e-Referral system that offers protocol-based decision support to streamline and standardize the referral process. We have developed a Spinal Problem E-Referral (SPER) system that computerizes the Spinal Condition Consultation Protocol (SCCP) mandated by the Halifax Infirmary Division of Neurosurgery (Halifax, Canada) for referrals for spine related conditions (such as back pain). The SPER system executes the ontologically modeled SCCP to determine (i) patient's triaging option as per severity assessments stipulated by SCCP; and (b) clinical recommendations as per the clinical guidelines incorporated within SCCP. In operation, the SPER system identifies the critical cases and triages them for specialist referral, whereas for non-critical cases SPER system provides clinical guideline based recommendations to help the primary care physician effectively manage the patient. The SPER system has undergone a pilot usability study and was deemed to be easy to use by physicians with potential to improve the referral process within the Division of Neurosurgery at QEII Health Science Center, Halifax, Canada.
Patrice C. Roy; Samina R. Abidi; Syed S.R. Abidi
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.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Activity Recognition, Ambient Intelligence, medication adherence
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A recent trend in healthcare is to motivate patients to self-manage their health conditions in home-based settings. Self-management programs guide and motivate patients to achieve self-efficacy in the self-management of their disease through a regime of educational and behavioural modification strategies. To improve self-management programs effectiveness and efficacy, we must consider Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) technologies (smart environments, activity recognition, aid acts planning), since they alleviate issues related to unreliable self-reported data by monitoring self-management activities. To improve self-management programs in smart environments, it is necessary to recognize the occupant behaviour from observed data. Observed data/attributes generated from various sources (sensors, questionnaires, low-level activity recognition) are certain to uncertain (imprecise, incomplete, missing), where several values are plausible instead of only one. Thus, activity recognition must consider heterogeneous observations (sources' types) and uncertainty in the activity recognition inputs (observations). To address this challenge, we propose an activity recognition approach based on possibilistic network classifiers with uncertain observations. We believe that this is the first work to consider possibilistic network classifiers for the recognition of activities in smart environments using uncertain observations. We have validated the approach on 780 synthetic scenarios illustrating behaviours related to medication adherence. The activity classifiers, based on knowledge and beliefs about the activities related to medication adherence, can correctly recognize 79% of an activity current state, which is comparable with approaches based on data-driven naïve Bayesian classifiers. Furthermore, the classification performance only decreases when we have highly partial to complete ignorance about the observations values. Hence, the validations results show the interest of activity recognition based on possibilistic network classifiers for handling uncertain observations.
Samina Abidi; Michael Vallis; Helena Piccinini-Vallis; Syed Ali Imran; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
A Digital Framework to Support Providers and Patients in Diabetes Related Behavior Modification Proceedings Article
In: Informatics for Health (MIE2017), Manchester, April 24 - April 26, 2017, IOS Press, 2017.
BibTeX | Tags: Behaviour Modelling, Behavioural Change Theory, Diabetes Management
@inproceedings{Abidi2017,
title = {A Digital Framework to Support Providers and Patients in Diabetes Related Behavior Modification},
author = {Samina Abidi and Michael Vallis and Helena Piccinini-Vallis and Syed Ali Imran and Syed Sibte Raza Abidi},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-04-26},
booktitle = {Informatics for Health (MIE2017), Manchester, April 24 - April 26, 2017},
publisher = {IOS Press},
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Samuel Alan Stewart; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
Leveraging Medical Taxonomies to Improve Knowledge Management within Online Communities of Practice: The Knowledge Maps System Journal Article
In: Journal of Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, vol. 143, pp. 121-127, 2017.
BibTeX | Tags: Knowledge Management, Online Practice Communities
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title = {Leveraging Medical Taxonomies to Improve Knowledge Management within Online Communities of Practice: The Knowledge Maps System},
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year = {2017},
date = {2017-04-26},
journal = {Journal of Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine},
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Enayat Rajabi; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
Discovering Central Practitioners in a Medical Discussion Forum Using Semantic Web Analytics Proceedings Article
In: Informatics for Health (MIE2017), Manchester, UK, pp. 486-490, European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) and IOS Press, 2017, ISSN: 1879-8365.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Semantic Web, Semantic Web Analytics, Social Network Analysis
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title = {Discovering Central Practitioners in a Medical Discussion Forum Using Semantic Web Analytics },
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social network analysis. We use the centrality measures as well as semantic
similarity metrics to identify the most influential practitioners within a discussion
forum. The centrality results of our approach are in line with centrality measures
produced by traditional SNA methods, thus validating the applicability of semantic
web based methods for SNA, particularly for analyzing social networks for
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The aim of this paper is to investigate semantic web based methods to
enrich and transform a medical discussion forum in order to perform semanticsdriven
social network analysis. We use the centrality measures as well as semantic
similarity metrics to identify the most influential practitioners within a discussion
forum. The centrality results of our approach are in line with centrality measures
produced by traditional SNA methods, thus validating the applicability of semantic
web based methods for SNA, particularly for analyzing social networks for
specialized discussion forums.
enrich and transform a medical discussion forum in order to perform semanticsdriven
social network analysis. We use the centrality measures as well as semantic
similarity metrics to identify the most influential practitioners within a discussion
forum. The centrality results of our approach are in line with centrality measures
produced by traditional SNA methods, thus validating the applicability of semantic
web based methods for SNA, particularly for analyzing social networks for
specialized discussion forums.
Patrice C. Roy; Samina Raza Abidi; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
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.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Activity Recognition, Ambient Intelligence, medication adherence
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title = {Monitoring Activities Related to Medication Adherence in Ambient Assisted Living Environments},
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A recent trend in healthcare is to motivate patients to self-manage their health conditions in home-based settings. Medication adherence is an important aspect in disease self-management since sub-optimal medication adherence by the patient can lead to serious healthcare costs and discomfort for the patient. In order to alleviate the limitations of self-reported medication adherence, we can use ambient assistive living (AAL) technologies in smart environments. Activity recognition services allow to retrieve self-management information related to medication adherence in a less intrusive way. By remotely monitor compliance with medication adherence, self-management program’s interventions can be tailored and adapted based on the observed patient’s behaviour. To address this challenge, we present an AAL framework that monitor activities related to medication adherence.
Hossein Mohammadhassanzadeh; William Van Woensel; Samina Raza Abidi; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
Semantics-based Plausible Reasoning to Extend the Knowledge Coverage of Medical Knowledge Bases for Improved Clinical Decision Support Journal Article
In: Journal of BioData Mining, vol. 10, no. 7, 2017.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Analogical reasoning, Inductive generalization, Medical knowledge bases, Plausible reasoning, Semantic Web reasoning
@article{Mohammadhassanzadeh2017,
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abstract = {Background
Capturing complete medical knowledge is challenging-often due to incomplete patient Electronic Health Records (EHR), but also because of valuable, tacit medical knowledge hidden away in physicians’ experiences. To extend the coverage of incomplete medical knowledge-based systems beyond their deductive closure, and thus enhance their decision-support capabilities, we argue that innovative, multi-strategy reasoning approaches should be applied. In particular, plausible reasoning mechanisms apply patterns from human thought processes, such as generalization, similarity and interpolation, based on attributional, hierarchical, and relational knowledge. Plausible reasoning mechanisms include inductive reasoning, which generalizes the commonalities among the data to induce new rules, and analogical reasoning, which is guided by data similarities to infer new facts. By further leveraging rich, biomedical Semantic Web ontologies to represent medical knowledge, both known and tentative, we increase the accuracy and expressivity of plausible reasoning, and cope with issues such as data heterogeneity, inconsistency and interoperability. In this paper, we present a Semantic Web-based, multi-strategy reasoning approach, which integrates deductive and plausible reasoning and exploits Semantic Web technology to solve complex clinical decision support queries.
Results
We evaluated our system using a real-world medical dataset of patients with hepatitis, from which we randomly removed different percentages of data (5%, 10%, 15%, and 20%) to reflect scenarios with increasing amounts of incomplete medical knowledge. To increase the reliability of the results, we generated 5 independent datasets for each percentage of missing values, which resulted in 20 experimental datasets (in addition to the original dataset). The results show that plausibly inferred knowledge extends the coverage of the knowledge base by, on average, 2%, 7%, 12%, and 16% for datasets with, respectively, 5%, 10%, 15%, and 20% of missing values. This expansion in the KB coverage allowed solving complex disease diagnostic queries that were previously unresolvable, without losing the correctness of the answers. However, compared to deductive reasoning, data-intensive plausible reasoning mechanisms yield a significant performance overhead.
Conclusions
We observed that plausible reasoning approaches, by generating tentative inferences and leveraging domain knowledge of experts, allow us to extend the coverage of medical knowledge bases, resulting in improved clinical decision support. Second, by leveraging OWL ontological knowledge, we are able to increase the expressivity and accuracy of plausible reasoning methods. Third, our approach is applicable to clinical decision support systems for a range of chronic diseases.},
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Background
Capturing complete medical knowledge is challenging-often due to incomplete patient Electronic Health Records (EHR), but also because of valuable, tacit medical knowledge hidden away in physicians’ experiences. To extend the coverage of incomplete medical knowledge-based systems beyond their deductive closure, and thus enhance their decision-support capabilities, we argue that innovative, multi-strategy reasoning approaches should be applied. In particular, plausible reasoning mechanisms apply patterns from human thought processes, such as generalization, similarity and interpolation, based on attributional, hierarchical, and relational knowledge. Plausible reasoning mechanisms include inductive reasoning, which generalizes the commonalities among the data to induce new rules, and analogical reasoning, which is guided by data similarities to infer new facts. By further leveraging rich, biomedical Semantic Web ontologies to represent medical knowledge, both known and tentative, we increase the accuracy and expressivity of plausible reasoning, and cope with issues such as data heterogeneity, inconsistency and interoperability. In this paper, we present a Semantic Web-based, multi-strategy reasoning approach, which integrates deductive and plausible reasoning and exploits Semantic Web technology to solve complex clinical decision support queries.
Results
We evaluated our system using a real-world medical dataset of patients with hepatitis, from which we randomly removed different percentages of data (5%, 10%, 15%, and 20%) to reflect scenarios with increasing amounts of incomplete medical knowledge. To increase the reliability of the results, we generated 5 independent datasets for each percentage of missing values, which resulted in 20 experimental datasets (in addition to the original dataset). The results show that plausibly inferred knowledge extends the coverage of the knowledge base by, on average, 2%, 7%, 12%, and 16% for datasets with, respectively, 5%, 10%, 15%, and 20% of missing values. This expansion in the KB coverage allowed solving complex disease diagnostic queries that were previously unresolvable, without losing the correctness of the answers. However, compared to deductive reasoning, data-intensive plausible reasoning mechanisms yield a significant performance overhead.
Conclusions
We observed that plausible reasoning approaches, by generating tentative inferences and leveraging domain knowledge of experts, allow us to extend the coverage of medical knowledge bases, resulting in improved clinical decision support. Second, by leveraging OWL ontological knowledge, we are able to increase the expressivity and accuracy of plausible reasoning methods. Third, our approach is applicable to clinical decision support systems for a range of chronic diseases.
Capturing complete medical knowledge is challenging-often due to incomplete patient Electronic Health Records (EHR), but also because of valuable, tacit medical knowledge hidden away in physicians’ experiences. To extend the coverage of incomplete medical knowledge-based systems beyond their deductive closure, and thus enhance their decision-support capabilities, we argue that innovative, multi-strategy reasoning approaches should be applied. In particular, plausible reasoning mechanisms apply patterns from human thought processes, such as generalization, similarity and interpolation, based on attributional, hierarchical, and relational knowledge. Plausible reasoning mechanisms include inductive reasoning, which generalizes the commonalities among the data to induce new rules, and analogical reasoning, which is guided by data similarities to infer new facts. By further leveraging rich, biomedical Semantic Web ontologies to represent medical knowledge, both known and tentative, we increase the accuracy and expressivity of plausible reasoning, and cope with issues such as data heterogeneity, inconsistency and interoperability. In this paper, we present a Semantic Web-based, multi-strategy reasoning approach, which integrates deductive and plausible reasoning and exploits Semantic Web technology to solve complex clinical decision support queries.
Results
We evaluated our system using a real-world medical dataset of patients with hepatitis, from which we randomly removed different percentages of data (5%, 10%, 15%, and 20%) to reflect scenarios with increasing amounts of incomplete medical knowledge. To increase the reliability of the results, we generated 5 independent datasets for each percentage of missing values, which resulted in 20 experimental datasets (in addition to the original dataset). The results show that plausibly inferred knowledge extends the coverage of the knowledge base by, on average, 2%, 7%, 12%, and 16% for datasets with, respectively, 5%, 10%, 15%, and 20% of missing values. This expansion in the KB coverage allowed solving complex disease diagnostic queries that were previously unresolvable, without losing the correctness of the answers. However, compared to deductive reasoning, data-intensive plausible reasoning mechanisms yield a significant performance overhead.
Conclusions
We observed that plausible reasoning approaches, by generating tentative inferences and leveraging domain knowledge of experts, allow us to extend the coverage of medical knowledge bases, resulting in improved clinical decision support. Second, by leveraging OWL ontological knowledge, we are able to increase the expressivity and accuracy of plausible reasoning methods. Third, our approach is applicable to clinical decision support systems for a range of chronic diseases.
2016
Patrice C. Roy; Samina Raza Abidi; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
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.
BibTeX | Tags: Activity Recognition, Self-Management, Smart Homes
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Wasif Hasan Baig
A Semantic Web Based Knowledge Management Framework to Model Behaviour Change Constructs for Generation of Personalized Action Plans Masters Thesis
Dalhousie University, 2016.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: Behavioural Theory, Chronic Illness, Knowledge Modelling, Ontology Engineering, Patient Empowerment, Personalized Medicine, Self-Management, Semantic Web, Social Cognition Theory
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Suria Kala Subbu
A Semantic Web Framework For Representing, Linking And Analyzing Medical Data For Optimizing Laboratory Utilization Journal Article
In: 2016.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Health Data Analytics, Health Informatics, Knowledge Based Systems, Knowledge Linkage, Knowledge Management, Ontology Engineering, Semantic Web
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Syed Sibte Raza Abidi; Abhinav Kumar Singh; Sean Christie
Transcription of Case Report Forms from Unstructured Referral Letters: A Semantic Text Analytics Approach Proceedings Article
In: Exploring Complexity in Health: An Interdisciplinary Systems Approach. 26th European Medical Informatics Conference (MIE2016), Munich, pp. 322-326, IOS Press, 2016.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Referral letters, semantic mapping, Unstructured text analysis
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title = {Transcription of Case Report Forms from Unstructured Referral Letters: A Semantic Text Analytics Approach},
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In this paper we present a framework for the semi-automatic extraction of medical entities from referral letters and use them to transcribe a case report form. Our framework offers the functionality to: (a) extract the medical entity from the unstructured referral letters, (b) classify them according to their semantic type, and (c) transcribe a case report form based on the extracted information from the referral letter. We take a semantic text analytics approach where SNOMED-CT ontology is used to both classify referral concepts and to establish semantic similarities between referral concepts and CRF elements. We used 100 spine injury referral letters, and a standard case report form used by Association of Dalhousie Neurosurgeons, Dalhousie University
Wasif Hasan Baig; Samina Abidi; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
An Ontological Model of Behaviour Theory to Generate Personalized Action Plans to Modify Behaviours Proceedings Article
In: Exploring Complexity in Health: An Interdisciplinary Systems Approach. 26th European Medical Informatics Conference (MIE2016), Munich, pp. 399-403, IOS Press, 2016.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Action Plans, Behaviour Modelling, Information Personalization, Ontology
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Behavior change approaches aim to assist patients in achieving self-efficacy in managing their condition. Social cognitive theory (SCT) stipulates self-efficacy as a central element to behavior change and provides constructs to achieve self-efficacy guided by person-specific action plans. In our work, to administer behaviour change in patient with chronic conditions, our approach entails the computerization of SCT-based self-efficacy constructs in order to generate personalized action plans that are suitable to an individual's current care scenario. We have taken a knowledge management approach, whereby we have computerized the SCT-based self-efficacy constructs in terms of a high-level SCT knowledge model that can be operationalized to generate personalized behaviour change action plans. We have collected and computerized behavior change content targeting healthy living and physical activity. Semantic web technologies have been used to develop the SCT knowledge model, represented in terms of an ontology and SWRL rules. The ontological SCT model can inferred to generate personalized self-management action plans for a given patient profile. We present formative evaluation of the clinical correctness and relevance of the generated personalized action plans for a range of test patient profiles
Samina Raza Abidi; Jafna Cox; Ashraf Abusharekh; Nima Hashemian; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
A Digital Health System to Assist Family Physicians to Safely Prescribe NOAC Medication Proceedings Article
In: Exploring Complexity in Health: An Interdisciplinary Systems Approach. 26th European Medical Informatics Conference (MIE2016), Munich, pp. 519-523, IOS Press, 2016.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Clinical Decision Support Systems, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Digital Health
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abstract = {Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia. Generally, the therapeutic options for managing AF include the use of anticoagulant drugs that prevent the coagulation of blood. New Oral Anticoagulants (NOACs) are not optimally prescribed to patients, despite their efficacy. In Canada, NOAC medications are not directly available to patients who belong to provincial benefits programs, rather a NOAC special authorization process establishes the eligibility of a patient to receive a NOAC and be paid by the provincial Pharmacare program. This special authorization process is tedious and paper-based which inhibits physicians to prescribe NOAC leading to suboptimal AF care to patients. In this paper, we present a computerized NOAC Authorization Decision Support System (NOAC-ADSS), accessible to physicians to help them (a) determine a patient eligibility for NOAC based on Canadian AF clinical guidelines, and (b) complete the special authorization form. We present a semantic web based system to ontologically model the NOAC eligibility criteria and execute the knowledge to determine a patient NOAC eligibility and dosage},
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Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia. Generally, the therapeutic options for managing AF include the use of anticoagulant drugs that prevent the coagulation of blood. New Oral Anticoagulants (NOACs) are not optimally prescribed to patients, despite their efficacy. In Canada, NOAC medications are not directly available to patients who belong to provincial benefits programs, rather a NOAC special authorization process establishes the eligibility of a patient to receive a NOAC and be paid by the provincial Pharmacare program. This special authorization process is tedious and paper-based which inhibits physicians to prescribe NOAC leading to suboptimal AF care to patients. In this paper, we present a computerized NOAC Authorization Decision Support System (NOAC-ADSS), accessible to physicians to help them (a) determine a patient eligibility for NOAC based on Canadian AF clinical guidelines, and (b) complete the special authorization form. We present a semantic web based system to ontologically model the NOAC eligibility criteria and execute the knowledge to determine a patient NOAC eligibility and dosage
Hossein Mohammadhassanzadeh; William Van Woensel; Samina Raza Abidi; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
A Semantic Web-based Approach to Plausible Reasoning for Improving Clinical Knowledge Engineering Proceedings Article
In: IEEE International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, Las Vegas, 2016.
Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: Clinical Decision Support Systems, Plausbile Reasoning, Semantic Web
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In this paper, we present a semantic web based knowledge engineering approach to extend the coverage of medical knowledge-based systems in order to solve complex medical queries that demand the integration of deterministic and plausible knowledge. We leverage plausible reasoning mechanisms, which exploit associations between the underlying domain-specific data, as well as tentative domain knowledge, to extend the coverage of a medical knowledge base. We demonstrate that Semantic Web technologies, due to their efficient solutions for federated data management and built-in DL-based inferencing methods, offer useful opportunities to support plausible reasoning for medical decision support tasks. We evaluated our multi-strategy medical reasoning approach using real-world medical data. Our results illustrate that plausible reasoning improved the knowledge coverage of the original medical knowledge base by 10-12%, and in turn helped to solve complex disease diagnostic queries.
Nelofar Kureshi; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi; Christian Blouin
A Predictive Model for Personalized Therapeutic Interventions in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer. Journal Article
In: IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 424-431, 2016, ISSN: 2168-2208.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Cancer, Data Mining, Decision Trees, Health Data Analytics, Personalized Medicine, Prediction Model
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Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) constitutes the most common type of lung cancer and is frequently diagnosed at advanced stages. Clinical studies have shown that molecular targeted therapies increase survival and improve quality of life in patients. Nevertheless, the realization of personalized therapies for NSCLC faces a number of challenges including the integration of clinical and genetic data and a lack of clinical decision support tools to assist physicians with patient selection. To address this problem, we used frequent pattern mining to establish the relationships of patient characteristics and tumor response in advanced NSCLC. Univariate analysis determined that smoking status, histology, EGFR mutation, and targeted drug were significantly associated with response to targeted therapy. We applied four classifiers to predict treatment outcome from EGFR-TKIs. Overall, the highest classification accuracy was 76.56% and the AUC was 0.76. The decision tree used a combination of EGFR mutations, histology, and smoking status to predict tumor response and the output was both easily understandable and in keeping with current knowledge. Our findings suggest that support vector machines and decision trees are a promising approach for clinical decision support in the patient selection for targeted therapy in advanced NSCLC
Borna Jafarpour; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi; Samina Raza Abidi
Exploiting Semantic Web Technologies to Develop OWL-Based Clinical Practice Guideline Execution Engines Journal Article
In: IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 388-398, 2016, ISSN: 2168-2194.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Clinical Decision Support Systems, Clinical Practice Guidelines, OWL, Semantic Web
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abstract = {Computerizing paper-based CPG and then executing them can provide evidence-informed decision support to physicians at the point of care. Semantic web technologies especially Web Ontology Language (OWL) ontologies have been profusely used to represent computerized CPG. Using semantic web reasoning capabilities to execute OWL based computerized CPG unties them from a specific custom-built CPG execution engine and increases their shareability as any OWL reasoner and triple store can be utilized for CPG execution. However, existing semantic web reasoning based CPG execution engines suffer from lack of ability to execute CPG with high levels of expressivity, high cognitive load of computerization of paper-based CPG and updating their computerized versions. In order to address these limitations, we have developed three CPG execution engines based on OWL 1 DL, OWL 2 DL and OWL 2 DL + Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL). OWL 1 DL serves as the base execution engine capable of executing a wide range of CPG constructs, however for executing highly complex CPG the OWL 2 DL and OWL 2 DL + SWRL offer additional executional capabilities. We evaluated the technical performance and medical correctness of our execution engines using a range of CPG. Technical evaluations show the efficiency of our CPG execution engines in terms of CPU time and validity of the generated recommendation in comparison to existing CPG execution engines. Medical evaluations by domain experts show the validity of the CPG-mediated therapy plans in terms of relevance, safety, and ordering for a wide range of patient scenarios.},
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Computerizing paper-based CPG and then executing them can provide evidence-informed decision support to physicians at the point of care. Semantic web technologies especially Web Ontology Language (OWL) ontologies have been profusely used to represent computerized CPG. Using semantic web reasoning capabilities to execute OWL based computerized CPG unties them from a specific custom-built CPG execution engine and increases their shareability as any OWL reasoner and triple store can be utilized for CPG execution. However, existing semantic web reasoning based CPG execution engines suffer from lack of ability to execute CPG with high levels of expressivity, high cognitive load of computerization of paper-based CPG and updating their computerized versions. In order to address these limitations, we have developed three CPG execution engines based on OWL 1 DL, OWL 2 DL and OWL 2 DL + Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL). OWL 1 DL serves as the base execution engine capable of executing a wide range of CPG constructs, however for executing highly complex CPG the OWL 2 DL and OWL 2 DL + SWRL offer additional executional capabilities. We evaluated the technical performance and medical correctness of our execution engines using a range of CPG. Technical evaluations show the efficiency of our CPG execution engines in terms of CPU time and validity of the generated recommendation in comparison to existing CPG execution engines. Medical evaluations by domain experts show the validity of the CPG-mediated therapy plans in terms of relevance, safety, and ordering for a wide range of patient scenarios.
William Van Woensel; Patrice C. Roy; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
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.
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2015
William Van Woensel; Hossein Mohammadhassanzadeh; Samina Raza Abidi; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
Multi-Strategy Semantic Web Reasoning for Medical Knowledge Bases Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of International Workshop on Biomedical Data Mining, Modeling, and Semantic Integration: A Promising Approach to Solving Unmet Medical Needs (BDM2I2015), 2015.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: Health Informatics, Knowledge Based Systems, Ontology, Semantic Web
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date = {2015-10-11},
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Borna Jafarpour; Samina Raza Abidi; Ahmad Marwan Ahmad; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
INITIATE: An Intelligent Adaptive Alert Environment Proceedings Article
In: MEDINFO 2015: eHealth-enabled Health - Proceedings of the 15th World Congress on Health and Biomedical Informatics, Sao Paulo, Brazil, pp. 285–289, IOS Press, 2015, ISBN: 978-1-61499-563-0.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: Alert Fatigue, Clinical Decision Support Systems, Knowledge Management
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title = {INITIATE: An Intelligent Adaptive Alert Environment},
author = {Borna Jafarpour and Samina Raza Abidi and Ahmad Marwan Ahmad and Syed Sibte Raza Abidi},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-564-7-285},
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William Van Woensel; Patrice C. Roy; Samina Raza Abidi; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
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.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: Chronic Disease Management, Mobile Health, Patient Diary, Patient Empowerment, Self-Management
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Ashraf Abusharekh; Samuel Alan Stewart; Nima Hashemian; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
H-DRIVE: A Big Health Data Analytics Platform for Evidence-Informed Decision Making Proceedings Article
In: IEEE International Congress on Big Data, New York City, NY, USA, pp. 416–423, IEEE Press, 2015, ISBN: 978-1-4673-7278-7.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: Clinical Decision Support Systems, Decision Support, Health Informatics, Information Personalization, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Modelling, Ontology
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Syed Sibte Raza Abidi; Samina Raza Abidi; Ashraf Abusharekh; Jafna Cox
A Clinical Decision Support Framework to Monitor and Manage Atrial Fibrillation Patients Proceedings Article
In: 17th International Symposium on Health Information Management Research, York, UK, 2015.
BibTeX | Tags: Chronic Disease Management, Clinical Decision Support Systems, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Knowledge Management, Mobile Health
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Sangwhan Cha; Ashraf Abusharekh; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
Towards a 'Big' Health Data Analytics Platform Proceedings Article
In: First IEEE International Conference on Big Data Computing Service and Applications, BigDataService, Redwood City, CA, USA, pp. 233–241, IEEE Press, 2015, ISBN: 978-1-4799-8128-1.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: Big Data, Data Mining, Decision Support, Health Data Analytics
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2014
William Van Woensel; Newres Al Haider; Patrice C. Roy; Ahmad Marwan Ahmad; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
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.
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William Van Woensel; Newres Al Haider; Ahmad Marwan Ahmad; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
A Cross-Platform Benchmark Framework for Mobile Semantic Web Reasoning Engines Proceedings Article
In: The Semantic Web - ISWC 2014 - 13th International Semantic Web Conference, Riva del Garda, Italy, October 19-23, 2014. Proceedings, Part I, pp. 389–408, 2014.
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Mei Kuan Wong; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi; Ian D. Jonsen
A Multi-Phase Correlation Search Framework for Mining Non-Taxonomic Relations from Unstructured Text Journal Article
In: Knowl. Inf. Syst., vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 641–667, 2014.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: Non-Taxonomic Relations, Ontology, Text Mining
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year = {2014},
date = {2014-01-01},
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Samuel Alan Stewart; Samina Raza Abidi; Louise Parker; Mark Bernstein; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
Clinical Guideline-Driven Personalized Self-Management Diary for Paediatric Cancer Survivors Proceedings Article
In: e-Health - For Continuity of Care - Proceedings of MIE2014, the 25th European Medical Informatics Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, August 31 - September 3, 2014, pp. 18–22, 2014.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: Chronic Disease Management, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Information Personalization, Patient Diary, Patient Education, Self-Management
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title = {Clinical Guideline-Driven Personalized Self-Management Diary for Paediatric Cancer Survivors},
author = {Samuel Alan Stewart and Samina Raza Abidi and Louise Parker and Mark Bernstein and Syed Sibte Raza Abidi},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-432-9-18},
year = {2014},
date = {2014-01-01},
booktitle = {e-Health - For Continuity of Care - Proceedings of MIE2014, the 25th European Medical Informatics Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, August 31 - September 3, 2014},
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Newres Al Haider; Samina Raza Abidi; William Van Woensel; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
Integrating Existing Large Scale Medical Laboratory Data into the Semantic Web Framework Proceedings Article
In: 2014 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2014, Washington, DC, USA, October 27-30, 2014, pp. 1040–1048, 2014.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: Health Data Analytics, Health Informatics, Semantic Web
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url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/BigData.2014.7004338},
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Amina Russell; Samina Raza Abidi; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
Shared Decision Making: Using Theories and Technology to Engage the Patient in Their Health Journey Proceedings Article
In: e-Health - For Continuity of Care - Proceedings of MIE2014, the 25th European Medical Informatics Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, August 31 - September 3, 2014, pp. 303–307, 2014.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: Behaviour Modelling, Behavioural Theory, Health Informatics, Shared Decision Making
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title = {Shared Decision Making: Using Theories and Technology to Engage the Patient in Their Health Journey},
author = {Amina Russell and Samina Raza Abidi and Syed Sibte Raza Abidi},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-432-9-303},
year = {2014},
date = {2014-01-01},
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Patrice C. Roy; Newres Al Haider; William Van Woensel; Ahmad Marwan Ahmad; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
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.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: Clinical Decision Support Systems, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Health Informatics
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title = {Towards Guideline Compliant Clinical Decision Support System Integration in Smart and Mobile Environments: Formalizing and Using Clinical Guidelines For Diagnosing Sleep Apnea},
author = { Patrice C. Roy and Newres Al Haider and William Van Woensel and Ahmad Marwan Ahmad and Syed Sibte Raza Abidi},
url = {http://web.cs.dal.ca/~woensel/paper/Towards Guideline Compliant Clinical Decision Support System Integration in Smart and Mobile Environments.pdf},
year = {2014},
date = {2014-01-01},
booktitle = {AAAI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Applied to Assistive Technologies and Smart Environments (ATSE 2014)},
publisher = {AAAI Press},
address = {Quebec, Canada},
keywords = {Clinical Decision Support Systems, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Health Informatics},
pubstate = {published},
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Syed Sibte Raza Abidi; Ali Daniyal; Syed Farrukh Mehdi
Web Service Matchmaking Using a Hybrid of Signature and Specification Matching Methods Proceedings Article
In: 2014 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conferences on Web Intelligence (WI) and Intelligent Agent Technologies (IAT), Warsaw, Poland, August 11-14, 2014 - Volume I, pp. 266–273, 2014.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: Specification Matching, Web Services
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title = {Web Service Matchmaking Using a Hybrid of Signature and Specification Matching Methods},
author = {Syed Sibte Raza Abidi and Ali Daniyal and Syed Farrukh Mehdi},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WI-IAT.2014.107},
year = {2014},
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Samina Abidi; Michael Vallis; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi; Helena Piccinini-Vallis; Syed Ali Imran
D-WISE: Diabetes Web-Centric Information and Support Environment: conceptual specification and proposed evaluation. Journal Article
In: Can J Diabetes, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 205-11, 2014, ISSN: 2352-3840.
Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: Behaviour Modelling, Behavioural Theory, Diabetes Management, Health Informatics, Mobile Health, Patient Education
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title = {D-WISE: Diabetes Web-Centric Information and Support Environment: conceptual specification and proposed evaluation.},
author = {Samina Abidi and Michael Vallis and Syed Sibte Raza Abidi and Helena Piccinini-Vallis and Syed Ali Imran},
issn = {2352-3840},
year = {2014},
date = {2014-01-01},
journal = {Can J Diabetes},
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abstract = {OBJECTIVE: To develop and evaluate Diabetes Web-Centric Information and Support Environment (D-WISE) that offers 1) a computerized decision-support system to assist physicians to A) use the Canadian Diabetes Association clinical practice guidelines (CDA CPGs) to recommend evidence-informed interventions; B) offer a computerized readiness assessment strategy to help physicians administer behaviour-change strategies to help patients adhere to disease self-management programs; and 2) a patient-specific diabetes self-management application, accessible through smart mobile devices, that offers behaviour-change interventions to engage patients in self-management. METHODS: The above-mentioned objectives were pursued through a knowledge management approach that involved 1) Translation of paper-based CDA CPGs and behaviour-change models as computerized decision-support tools that will assist physicians to offer evidence-informed and personalized diabetes management and behaviour-change strategies; 2) Engagement of patients in their diabetes care by generating a diabetes self-management program that takes into account their preferences, challenges and needs; 3) Empowering patients to self-manage their condition by providing them with personalized educational and motivational messages through a mobile self-management application. The theoretical foundation of our research is grounded in behaviour-change models and healthcare knowledge management. We used 1) knowledge modelling to computerize the paper-based CDA CPGs and behaviour-change models, in particular, the behaviour-change strategy elements of A) readiness-to-change assessments; B) motivation-enhancement interventions categorized along the lines of patients' being ready, ambivalent or not ready; and C) self-efficacy enhancement. The CDA CPGs and the behaviour-change models are modelled and computerized in terms of A) a diabetes management ontology that serves as the knowledge resource for all the services offered by D-WISE; B) decision support services that use logic-based reasoning algorithms to utilize the knowledge encoded within the diabetes management ontology to assist physicians by recommending patient-specific diabetes-management interventions and behaviour-change strategies; C) a mobile diabetes self-management application to engage and educate diabetes patients to self-manage their condition in a home-based setting while working in concert with their family physicians. RESULTS: We have been successful in creating and conducting a usability assessment of the physician decision support tool. These results will be published once the patient self- management application has been evaluated. CONCLUSIONS: D-WISE will be evaluated through pilot studies measuring 1) the usability of the e-Health interventions; and 2) the impact of the interventions on patients' behaviour changes and diabetes control},
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OBJECTIVE: To develop and evaluate Diabetes Web-Centric Information and Support Environment (D-WISE) that offers 1) a computerized decision-support system to assist physicians to A) use the Canadian Diabetes Association clinical practice guidelines (CDA CPGs) to recommend evidence-informed interventions; B) offer a computerized readiness assessment strategy to help physicians administer behaviour-change strategies to help patients adhere to disease self-management programs; and 2) a patient-specific diabetes self-management application, accessible through smart mobile devices, that offers behaviour-change interventions to engage patients in self-management. METHODS: The above-mentioned objectives were pursued through a knowledge management approach that involved 1) Translation of paper-based CDA CPGs and behaviour-change models as computerized decision-support tools that will assist physicians to offer evidence-informed and personalized diabetes management and behaviour-change strategies; 2) Engagement of patients in their diabetes care by generating a diabetes self-management program that takes into account their preferences, challenges and needs; 3) Empowering patients to self-manage their condition by providing them with personalized educational and motivational messages through a mobile self-management application. The theoretical foundation of our research is grounded in behaviour-change models and healthcare knowledge management. We used 1) knowledge modelling to computerize the paper-based CDA CPGs and behaviour-change models, in particular, the behaviour-change strategy elements of A) readiness-to-change assessments; B) motivation-enhancement interventions categorized along the lines of patients' being ready, ambivalent or not ready; and C) self-efficacy enhancement. The CDA CPGs and the behaviour-change models are modelled and computerized in terms of A) a diabetes management ontology that serves as the knowledge resource for all the services offered by D-WISE; B) decision support services that use logic-based reasoning algorithms to utilize the knowledge encoded within the diabetes management ontology to assist physicians by recommending patient-specific diabetes-management interventions and behaviour-change strategies; C) a mobile diabetes self-management application to engage and educate diabetes patients to self-manage their condition in a home-based setting while working in concert with their family physicians. RESULTS: We have been successful in creating and conducting a usability assessment of the physician decision support tool. These results will be published once the patient self- management application has been evaluated. CONCLUSIONS: D-WISE will be evaluated through pilot studies measuring 1) the usability of the e-Health interventions; and 2) the impact of the interventions on patients' behaviour changes and diabetes control
2013
Samuel Alan Stewart; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
Linking Like-minded Professionals within an Online Medical Community Based on their Message Content Proceedings Article
In: Abidi, Syed; Bath, Peter (Ed.): 16th Intl. Symp. on Health Information Management Research, Halifax, 2013.
BibTeX | Tags: Knowledge Translation, Social Network Analysis
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title = {Linking Like-minded Professionals within an Online Medical Community Based on their Message Content},
author = {Samuel Alan Stewart and Syed Sibte Raza Abidi},
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year = {2013},
date = {2013-06-26},
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Borna Jafarpour; Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
A Semantic Web Based Ontology Mapping and Instance Transformation Framework Proceedings Article
In: 4th Canadian Semantic Web Symposium part of the Semantic Trilogy 2013, Montreal, QC, Canada, July 10th, 2013., pp. 5–11, 2013.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: Ontology Mapping, OWL, Semantic Web
@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/csws/JafarpourA13,
title = {A Semantic Web Based Ontology Mapping and Instance Transformation Framework},
author = {Borna Jafarpour and Syed Sibte Raza Abidi},
url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1054/paper-03.pdf},
year = {2013},
date = {2013-01-01},
booktitle = {4th Canadian Semantic Web Symposium part of the Semantic Trilogy 2013, Montreal, QC, Canada, July 10th, 2013.},
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