Computer Aided Diagnosis Sensors by Ayman El-Baz

Computer Aided Diagnosis Sensors by Ayman El-Baz

Sensors used to diagnose, monitor or treat diseases in the medical domain are known as medical sensors. There are several types of medical sensors that can be utilized for various applications, such as temperature probes, force sensors, pressure sensors, oximeters, electrocardiogram sensors that measure the electrical activity of the heart, heart rate sensors, electroencephalogram sensors that measure the electrical activity of the brain, electromyogram sensors that record electrical activity produced by skeletal muscles, and respiration rate sensors that count how many times the chest rises in a minute. The output of these sensors used to be interpreted by humans, which was time consuming and tedious; however, such interpretations became easy with advances in artificial intelligence (AI) techniques and the integration of the sensor outputs into computer-aided diagnostic (CAD) systems. This reprint presents some of the state-of-the-art AI approaches that are used to diagnose different diseases and disorders based on the data collected from different medical sensors. The ultimate goal is to develop comprehensive and automated computer-aided diagnosis by focusing on the different machine learning algorithms that can be used for this purpose as well as novel applications in the medical field.

Ayman El-Baz, Ph.D, is an associate professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Dr. El-Baz has twelve years of hands-on experience in the fields of bioimaging modeling and computer-assisted diagnostic systems. He has developed new techniques for analyzing 3D medical images. His work has been reported at several prestigious international conferences (e.g., CVPR, ICCV, MICCAI, etc.) and in journals (e.g., IEEE TIP, IEEE TBME, IEEE TITB, Brain, etc.). His work related to novel image analysis techniques for lung cancer and autism diagnosis have earned him multiple awards, including: first place at the annual Research Louisville 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011 and 2012 meetings, and the Best Paper Award in Medical Image Processing from the prestigious ICGST International Conference on Graphics, Vision, and Image Processing (GVIP-2005). Dr. El-Baz has authored or coauthored more than 300 technical articles.

Xiaoyi Jiang studied computer science at Peking University and received his Ph.D and Venia Docendi (Habilitation) degree in computer science from University of Bern, Switzerland. He was an associate professor at Technical University of Berlin, Germany. Since 2002, he has been a full professor of computer science at University of M�nster, Germany. Currently, he is editor-in-chief of the Int. Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence and also serves on the advisory board and editorial board of several journals including Pattern Recognition, IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part B, and Chinese Science Bulletin. His research interests include biomedical image analysis, 3D image analysis, and structural pattern recognition. He is a PI of the new Cluster of Excellence Cells in Motion funded by the German Excellence Initiative, a senior member of IEEE, and a fellow of IAPR.