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Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics

8th International Conference, ITBAM 2017, Lyon, France, August 28–31, 2017, Proceedings

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Table of contents (10 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
  2. Editorial

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. IT in Biology & Medical Informatics: On the Challenge of Understanding the Data Ecosystem

      • Andreas Holzinger, Miroslav Bursa, Sami Khuri, M. Elena Renda
      Pages 3-7
  3. General Track

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
    2. A Hybrid Feature Selection Method to Classification and Its Application in Hypertension Diagnosis

      • Hyun Woo Park, Dingkun Li, Yongjun Piao, Keun Ho Ryu
      Pages 11-19
    3. Statistical Analysis of Perinatal Risk Factors for Emergency Caesarean Section

      • Ibrahim Abou Khashabh, Václav Chudáček, Michal Huptych
      Pages 20-29
  4. Poster Session

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53
    2. Contextual Decision Making for Cancer Diagnosis

      • Samia Sbissi, Said Gattoufi
      Pages 55-65
    3. A Review of Model Prediction in Diabetes and of Designing Glucose Regulators Based on Model Predictive Control for the Artificial Pancreas

      • Kyriaki Saiti, Martin Macaš, Kateřina Štechová, Pavlína Pithová, Lenka Lhotská
      Pages 66-81
    4. Audit Trails in OpenSLEX: Paving the Road for Process Mining in Healthcare

      • Eduardo González López de Murillas, Emmanuel Helm, Hajo A. Reijers, Josef Küng
      Pages 82-91
    5. Riemannian Geometry in Sleep Stage Classification

      • Elizaveta Saifutdinova, Václav Gerla, Lenka Lhotská
      Pages 92-99
    6. Reducing Red Blood Cell Transfusions

      • James P. McGlothlin, Evan Crawford, Hari Srinivasan, Carissa Cianci, Brenda Bruneau, Ihab Dorotta
      Pages 120-133
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 135-135

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  1. Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics

About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics, ITBAM 2017, held in Lyon, France, in August 2017.


The 3 revised full papers and 6 poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 15 submissions. The papers address a broad range of topics in applications of information technology to biomedical engineering and medical informatics.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic

    Miroslav Bursa

  • Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria

    Andreas Holzinger

  • Institute of Informatics and Telematics, Pisa, Italy

    M. Elena Renda

  • San José State University, San José, USA

    Sami Khuri

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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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