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Explainability as fig leaf? An exploration of experts’ ethical expectations towards machine learning in psychiatry

The increasing implementation of programs supported by machine learning in medical contexts will affect psychiatry. It is crucial to accompany this development with careful ethical considerations informed by empirical research involving experts from the fi ...

2023

Medical and Personal Characteristics Can Predict the Risk of Lung Metastasis

Michele De Palma, Nahal Mansouri

Aims: Understanding the correlations between underlying medical and personal characteristics of a patient with cancer and the risk of lung metastasis may improve clinical management and outcomes. We used machine learning methodologies to predict the risk o ...

2023

MedCo(2): Privacy-Preserving Cohort Exploration and Analysis

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Juan Ramón Troncoso-Pastoriza, Jean Louis Raisaro, David Jules Froelicher, Mickaël Misbach

Medical studies are usually time consuming, cumbersome and extremely costly to perform, and for exploratory research, their results are also difficult to predict a priori. This is particularly the case for rare diseases, for which finding enough patients i ...

IOS PRESS2020

Neural network training for cross-protocol radiomic feature standardization in computed tomography

Adrien Raphaël Depeursinge

Radiomics has shown promising results in several medical studies, yet it suffers from a limited discrimination and informative capability as well as a high variation and correlation with the tomographic scanner types, pixel spacing, acquisition protocol, a ...

SPIE-SOC PHOTO-OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERS2019

The dynamics of motor learning through the formation of internal models

Camilla Pierella

A medical student learning to perform a laparoscopic procedure or a recently paralyzed user of a powered wheelchair must learn to operate machinery via interfaces that translate their actions into commands for an external device. Since the user’s actions a ...

2019

Privacy-Enhancing Technologies for Medical and Genomic Data: From Theory to Practice

Jean Louis Raisaro

The impressive technological advances in genomic analysis and the significant drop in the cost of genome sequencing are paving the way to a variety of revolutionary applications in modern healthcare. In particular, the increasing understanding of the human ...

EPFL2018

Live Demonstration: An IoT SmartWatch-based System for Intensive Care Monitoring

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Francesca Stradolini, Eleonora Lavalle

Nowadays, wearable devices are largely spread in many fields and in wellness monitoring too. In this paper we propose a smartwatch-based IoT system to improve the monitoring efficacy of critical hospitalized patients. The medical doctor assigned to the uni ...

2017

Paradigm-Shifting Players for IoT: Smart-Watches for Intensive Care Monitoring

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Francesca Stradolini, Danilo Demarchi, Eleonora Lavalle

Wearable devices, e.g. smart-watches, are gaining popularity in many fields and in wellness monitoring too. In this paper we propose an IoT application to alert the medical doctor assigned to a critical unit by using a smart-watch. The wearable device impr ...

2016

Circulation of Opinions in Visualization Reading

Dario Rodighiero

Visualizations need interpretation as a way to grasp the meaning of visual representation. They are complex, and often the process of creation is hidden to the public. Because of this, the following text illustrates a way to read the visual representation ...

CEUR.WS.org2016

Evaluation of an active optical system for lower limb motion tracking

Hannes Bleuler, Mohamed Bouri, Jeremy Olivier, Amalric Louis Ortlieb

Observation of lower limb kinematics is essential for the characterization of gait and related activities disorders. Robust, flexible and easy to use measurement systems are precious for patients’ follow-up in different medical domains. This study aims to ...

2014

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