Publications

@inproceedings{VANWOENSEL2020-COCIG1,

title = {A CIG Integration Framework to Provide Decision Support for Comorbid Conditions using Transaction-based Semantics and Temporal Planning},

author = {William Van Woensel and Samina Abidi and Borna Jafarpour and Syed Sibte Raza Abidi},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-08-01},

urldate = {2020-08-01},

booktitle = {International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 2020)},

abstract = {Managing comorbid conditions, i.e., patients with multiple medical conditions, is quite challenging for Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) based on computerized Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG). In case of comorbidity, CDSS will need to recommend treatments from multiple different CPG, which may adversely interact (e.g., drug-disease interactions), or introduce inefficiencies. A-priori, static integration of computerized comorbid CPG is insufficient for clinical practice. In this paper, we present a solution for dynamic integration of CPG in response to evolving health profiles. Using Description and Transaction Logics, we define a set of CIG integration semantics for encoding integration decisions that cope with comorbidity issues at execution-time. These dynamic, transaction-based semantics are well-suited to roll back prior decisions when no longer safe or efficient; or, inversely, apply new decisions when relevant. Moreover, comorbid CIG integration should consider temporal properties of CIG tasks—at execution-time, these properties will be influenced by a range of temporal constraints. Given all temporal constraints, optimal task schedules will be calculated that will determine the feasibility of CIG integration decisions.},

keywords = {Clinical Decision Support Systems, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Comorbidities, Ontology, Semantic Web},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Abidi2016b,

title = {A Digital Health System to Assist Family Physicians to Safely Prescribe NOAC Medication},

author = {Samina Raza Abidi and Jafna Cox and Ashraf Abusharekh and Nima Hashemian and Syed Sibte Raza Abidi},

doi = {10.3233/978-1-61499-678-1-519},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-08-15},

booktitle = {Exploring Complexity in Health: An Interdisciplinary Systems Approach. 26th European Medical Informatics Conference (MIE2016), Munich},

volume = {228},

pages = {519-523},

publisher = {IOS Press},

series = {Studies in Health Technology and Informatics},

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},

keywords = {Clinical Decision Support Systems, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Digital Health},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/ishimr/Abidi15,

title = {A Clinical Decision Support Framework to Monitor and Manage Atrial Fibrillation Patients},

author = {Syed Sibte Raza Abidi and Samina Raza Abidi and Ashraf Abusharekh and Jafna Cox 

},

year  = {2015},

date = {2015-06-25},

booktitle = {17th International Symposium on Health Information Management Research, York, UK},

keywords = {Chronic Disease Management, Clinical Decision Support Systems, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Knowledge Management, Mobile Health},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/mie/StewartAPBA14,

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},

pages = {18--22},

crossref = {DBLP:conf/mie/2014},

keywords = {Chronic Disease Management, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Information Personalization, Patient Diary, Patient Education, Self-Management},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Roy2014,

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},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/hicss/AbidiCAS12,

title = {Using OWL Ontologies for Clinical Guidelines Based Comorbid Decision Support},

author = {Samina Raza Abidi and Jafna Cox and Syed Sibte Raza Abidi and Michael A. Shepherd},

url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2012.629},

year  = {2012},

date = {2012-01-01},

booktitle = {45th Hawaii International International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS-45 2012), Proceedings, 4-7 January 2012, Grand Wailea, Maui, HI, USA},

pages = {3030--3038},

crossref = {DBLP:conf/hicss/2012},

keywords = {Clinical Decision Support Systems, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Comorbidities, OWL},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/aime/JafarpourAA11,

title = {Exploiting OWL Reasoning Services to Execute Ontologically-Modeled Clinical Practice Guidelines},

author = {Borna Jafarpour and Samina Raza Abidi and Syed Sibte Raza Abidi},

url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22218-4_39},

year  = {2011},

date = {2011-01-01},

booktitle = {13th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2011, Bled, Slovenia, July 2-6, 2011. },

pages = {307--311},

crossref = {DBLP:conf/aime/2011},

keywords = {Clinical Practice Guidelines, Decision Support Systems, Knowledge Execution, Ontology, OWL Reasoning},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Din:StudHealthTechnolInform:2010,

title = {Ontology Based Modeling and Execution of Nursing Care Plans and Practice Guidelines},

author = {Muzammil Abdulrehman Din and Syed Sibte Raza Abidi and Borna Jafarpour},

issn = {0926-9630},

year  = {2010},

date = {2010-01-01},

booktitle = {Stud Health Technol Inform},

volume = {160},

number = {Pt 2},

pages = {1104-8},

address = {Netherlands},

abstract = {Nursing Care Plans (NCP) and Nursing Clinical Practice Guidelines (NCPG) promote evidence-based patient care, but in their paper form they are difficult to be applied at the point-of-care. We present our approach to generate patient-specific nursing care plans by modeling and computerizing these nursing knowledge resources. We present a Nursing CarePlan Ontology (NCO) that models the NCP and NCPG to realize an integrated knowledge base for designing and executing patient-specific nursing CarePlans. We adapted METHONTOLOGY methodology for ontology engineering to develop our OWL-based NCO, and instantiated a set of NCP and NCPG. We have developed an execution engine that provides recommendations to nurses based on the patient's data. NCO was successfully evaluated for representational accuracy and completeness using a set of test NCP and NCPG.},

keywords = {Care Plans, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Health Informatics, Knowledge Modelling, Nursing, Ontology},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/aime/AbidiA09,

title = {Towards the Merging of Multiple Clinical Protocols and Guidelines via Ontology-Driven Modeling},

author = {Samina Raza Abidi and Syed Sibte Raza Abidi},

url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02976-9_10},

year  = {2009},

date = {2009-01-01},

booktitle = {12th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Verona, Italy, July 18-22, 2009. },

pages = {81--85},

crossref = {DBLP:conf/aime/2009},

keywords = {Clinical Pathways, Clinical Practice Guidelines, CPG Merging, Health Informatics, Ontology},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/aime/HussainA09,

title = {Integrating Healthcare Knowledge Artifacts for Clinical Decision Support: Towards Semantic Web Based Healthcare Knowledge Morphing},

author = {Sajjad Hussain and Syed Sibte Raza Abidi},

url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02976-9_23},

year  = {2009},

date = {2009-01-01},

booktitle = {12th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2009, Verona, Italy, July 18-22, 2009. },

pages = {171--175},

crossref = {DBLP:conf/aime/2009},

keywords = {Clinical Decision Support Systems, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Morphing},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/mie/DaniyalAA09,

title = {Computerizing Clinical Pathways: Ontology-Based Modeling and Execution},

author = {Ali Daniyal and Samina Raza Abidi and Syed Sibte Raza Abidi},

url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-60750-044-5-643},

year  = {2009},

date = {2009-01-01},

booktitle = {The 22nd International Congress of the European Federation for Medical Informatics, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina},

pages = {643--647},

crossref = {DBLP:conf/mie/2009},

keywords = {Clinical Practice Guidelines, CPG Computerization, Knowledge Execution, Knowledge Modelling, Ontology},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/ecaiw/AbidiS08,

title = {Modeling the Form and Function of Clinical Practice Guidelines: An Ontological Model to Computerize Clinical Practice Guidelines},

author = {Syed Sibte Raza Abidi and Shapoor Shayegani},

url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03262-2_7},

year  = {2008},

date = {2008-01-01},

booktitle = {Knowledge Management for Health Care Procedures, ECAI 2008 Workshop, K4HelP 2008, Patras, Greece, July 21, 2008, Revised Selected Papers},

pages = {81--91},

crossref = {DBLP:conf/ecaiw/2008k4help},

keywords = {Clinical Practice Guidelines, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Modelling, Ontology},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/medinfo/AbidiAHS07,

title = {Ontology-based Modeling of Clinical Practice Guidelines: A Clinical Decision Support System for Breast Cancer Follow-up Interventions at Primary Care Settings},

author = {Samina Abidi and Syed Sibte Raza Abidi and Sajjad Hussain and Michael A. Shepherd},

url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-58603-774-1-845},

year  = {2007},

date = {2007-01-01},

booktitle = {MEDINFO 2007 - Proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Health (Medical) Informatics - Building Sustainable Health Systems, 20-24 August, 2007, Brisbane, Australia},

pages = {845--849},

crossref = {DBLP:conf/medinfo/2007},

keywords = {Breast Cancer, Clinical Decision Support Systems, Clinical Practice Guidelines, CPG Computerization, Ontology, Semantic Web},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/hicss/AbidiKM05,

title = {BiRD: A Strategy to Autonomously Supplement Clinical Practice Guidelines with Related Clinical Studies},

author = {Syed Sibte Raza Abidi and Michael Kershaw and Evangelos Milios},

url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2005.121},

year  = {2005},

date = {2005-01-01},

booktitle = {38th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-38 2005), CD-ROM / Abstracts Proceedings, 3-6 January 2005, Big Island, HI, USA},

crossref = {DBLP:conf/hicss/2005},

keywords = {Clinical Practice Guidelines, Info-Button, Knowledge Linkage},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/hicss/JonesAY05,

title = {Using Computerized Clinical Practice Guidelines to Generate Tailored Patient Education Materials},

author = {Brent Jones and Syed Sibte Raza Abidi and Winston Ying},

url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2005.655},

year  = {2005},

date = {2005-01-01},

booktitle = {38th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-38 2005), CD-ROM / Abstracts Proceedings, 3-6 January 2005, Big Island, HI, USA},

crossref = {DBLP:conf/hicss/2005},

keywords = {Clinical Practice Guidelines, Information Personalization, Knowledge Management},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}