Advances in Biomedical Informatics

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This book presents authoritative recent research on Biomedical Informatics, bringing together contributions from some of the most respected researchers in this field. Biomedical Informatics represents a growing area of interest and innovation in the management of health-related data, and is essential to the development of focused computational models. Outlining the direction of current research, the book will be of considerable interest to theoreticians and application scientists alike. Further, as all chapters are self-contained, it also provides a valuable sourcebook for graduate students. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv Advances in Biomedical Informatics: An Introduction (Dawn E. Holmes, Lakhmi C. Jain)....Pages 1-4 Digital Health Research Methods and Tools: Suggestions and Selected Resources for Researchers (Kathleen Gray, Cecily Gilbert)....Pages 5-34 Machine Learning for Structured Clinical Data (Brett Beaulieu-Jones)....Pages 35-51 Defining and Discovering Interactive Causes (Xia Jiang, Richard Neapolitan)....Pages 53-78 Bayesian Network Modeling for Specific Health Checkups on Metabolic Syndrome (Yoshiaki Miyauchi, Haruhiko Nishimura)....Pages 79-96 Unsupervised Detection and Analysis of Changes in Everyday Physical Activity Data (Gina Sprint, Diane J. Cook, Maureen Schmitter-Edgecombe)....Pages 97-122 Machine Learning Applied to Optometry Data (Beatriz Remeseiro, Noelia Barreira, Luisa Sánchez-Brea, Lucía Ramos, Antonio Mosquera)....Pages 123-160 Intelligent Decision Support Systems in Automated Medical Diagnosis (Florin Gorunescu, Smaranda Belciug)....Pages 161-186 On The Automation of Medical Knowledge and Medical Decision Support Systems (Vicente Moret-Bonillo, Isaac Fernández-Varela, Elena Hernández-Pereira, Diego Alvarez-Estévez, Volker Perlitz)....Pages 187-217 Vital Signs Telemonitoring by Using Smart Body Area Networks, Mobile Devices and Advanced Signal Processing (Hariton Costin, Cristian Rotariu)....Pages 219-246 Preprocessing in High Dimensional Datasets (Amparo Alonso-Betanzos, Verónica Bolón-Canedo, Carlos Eiras-Franco, Laura Morán-Fernández, Borja Seijo-Pardo)....Pages 247-271 Gerotranscendental Change in the Elderly: An Analysis of ‘Faith’ and ‘Leaving from Clinging to Self’ (Takayuki Kawaura, Yasuyuki Sugatani)....Pages 273-295