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A Blockchain-Based Notarization Service for Biomedical Knowledge Retrieval
(Elsevier Ltd., 2018-08)
Biomedical research and clinical decision depend increasingly on scientific evidence realized by a number of au-thoritative databases, mostly public and continually enriched via peer scientific contributions. Given the ...
A probabilistic semantic analysis of eHealth scientific literature
(Sage Journals, 2019-05-12)
Introduction: eHealth emerged as an interdisciplinary research area about 70 years ago. This study employs probabilistic techniques to semantically analyse scientific literature related to the field of eHealth in order to ...
Blockchain Applications in the Biomedical Domain: A Scoping Review
(Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 2019)
Blockchain is a distributed, immutable ledger technology introduced as the enabling mechanism to support cryptocurrencies. Blockchain solutions are currently being proposed to address diverse problems in different domains. ...
Integrated visualisation of wearable sensor data and risk models for individualised health monitoring and risk assessment to promote patient empowerment
(Springer Link, 2017-05)
Patient empowerment delivers health and social care services that enable people to gain more control of their healthcare needs. With the advancement of sensor technologies, it is increasingly possible to monitor people’s ...
DUTH at TREC 2015 Clinical Decision Support Track
(2015)
In this report we give an overview of our participation in the TREC 2015 Clinical Decision
Support Track. We present two approaches for pre-processing and indexing of the open-access
PubMed articles, and four methods for ...
Capturing Provenance, Evolution and Modification of Clinical Protocols via a Heterogeneous, Semantic Social Network
(IOS Press, 2016)
Healthcare delivery is largely based on medical best practices as in clinical protocols. Research so far has addressed the computerized execution of clinical protocols by developing a number of related representation ...
Integrating Medical Scientific Knowledge with the Semantically Quantified Self
(International Semantic Web Conference, 2016-09-23)
The assessment of risk in medicine is a crucial task, and depends on scientific knowledge derived by systematic clinical studies on factors affecting health, as well as on particular knowledge about the current status of ...
Communicating Personalized Risk Factors for Lifestyle Coaching
(2018)
Chronic non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, chronic cardiorenal and respiratory disease and cancer, are serious, burdensome and costly conditions that share a common characteristic: they heavily depend on common ...
Towards Privacy by Design in Personal e-Health Systems
(SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, Lda, 2016)
Personal e-health systems are the next generation of e-health applications and their goal is to assist patientsin managing their disease and to help both patients and healthy people maintain behaviours that ...
An Online Service for Topics and Trends Analysis in Medical Literature
(IFMBE Proceedings, 2018-05)
Topic modeling refers to a suite of probabilistic algorithms for extracting word patterns from a collection of documents aiming for data clustering and detection of research trends. We developed an online service that ...