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Predicting hospital emergency department visits with deep learning approaches

Zhao Xinxing, Lai Joel Weijia, Ho Andrew Fu Wah, Liu Nan, Ong Marcus Eng Hock, Cheong Kang Hao

Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering

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2022

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Vol. 42, no. 3

1051--1065

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Overcrowding in emergency department (ED) causes lengthy waiting times, reduces adequate emergency care and increases rate of mortality. Accurate prediction of daily ED visits and allocating resources in advance is one of the solutions to ED overcrowding problem. In this paper, a deep stacked architecture is being proposed and applied to the daily ED visits prediction problem with deep components such as Long Short Term Memory (LSTM), Gated Recurrent Units (GRU) and simple Recurrent Neural Network (RNN). The proposed architecture achieves very high mean accuracy level (94.28–94.59%) in daily ED visits predictions. We have also compared the performance of this architecture with non-stacked deep models and traditional prediction models. The results indicate that deep stacked models outperform (4–7%) the traditional prediction models and other non-stacked deep learning models (1–2%) in our prediction tasks. The application of deep neural network in ED visits prediction is novel as this is one of the first studies to apply a deep stacked architecture in this field. Importantly, our models have achieved better prediction accuracy (in one case comparable) than the state-of-the-art in the literature.

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Application of Artificial Intelligence techniques for the detection of Alzheimer’s disease using structural MRI images

Zhao Xinxing, Ang Candice Ke En, Acharya U. Rajendra, Cheong Kang Hao

Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering

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2021

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Vol. 41, no. 2

456--473

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Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is an irreversible, progressive brain disorder that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills. It is one of the leading types of dementia for persons aged above 65 worldwide. In order to achieve accurate and timely diagnosis, and for detection of AD in its early stages, numerous Artificial Intelligence (AI) based Computer-aided Diagnostic (CAD) approaches have been proposed using data from brain imaging. In this paper, we review the recent application of AI based CAD systems on AD and its stages, with a particular focus on the use of structural MRI due to its cost effectiveness and lack of ionizing radiation. We will review important factors of different AI techniques pertinent to AD, summarize contributions from different research groups, critically discuss challenges involved and propose directions for future research. Ultimately, it would be ideal for development of a diagnostic framework that could be applicable to not only AD, but to different types of dementia as well in the future.

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An automated skin melanoma detection system with melanoma-index based on entropy features

Cheong Kang Hao, Tang Kenneth Jian Wei, Zhao Xinxing, Koh Joel En Wei, Faust Oliver, Gururajan Raj, Ciaccio Edward J., Rajinikanth V., Acharya U. Rajendra

Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering

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2021

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Vol. 41, no. 3

997--1012

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Skin melanoma is a potentially life-threatening cancer. Once it has metastasized, it may cause severe disability and death. Therefore, early diagnosis is important to improve the conditions and outcomes for patients. The disease can be diagnosed based on Digital-Dermoscopy (DD) images. In this study, we propose an original and novel Automated Skin-Melanoma Detection (ASMD) system with Melanoma-Index (MI). The system incorporates image pre-processing, Bi-dimensional Empirical Mode Decomposition (BEMD), image texture enhancement, entropy and energy feature mining, as well as binary classification. The system design has been guided by feature ranking, with Student’s t-test and other statistical methods used for quality assessment. The proposed ASMD was employed to examine 600 benign and 600 DD malignant images from benchmark databases. Our classification performance assessment indicates that the combination of Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Radial Basis Function (RBF) offers a classification accuracy of greater than 97.50%. Motivated by these classification results, we also formulated a clinically relevant MI using the dominant entropy features. Our proposed index can assist dermatologists to track multiple information-bearing features, thereby increasing the confidence with which a diagnosis is given.