Journal Contents: International Journal of Computational Models and Algorithms in Medicine (IJCMAM)

Volume 4 (2014)
Issue 1
Article 1
A Technique to Exploit Free-Form Notes to Predict Customer Churn (pages 1-16)
Gregory W. Ramsey (Department of Information Science and Systems, School of Business and Management, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, USA), Sanjay Bapna (Department of Information Science and Systems, School of Business and Management, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, USA)
Article 2
A Mobile Agent-Based Technique for Medical Monitoring (Supports of Patients with Diabetes) (pages 17-32)
Zineb Chaouch (Faculty of Science and Technology, Bechar University, Bechar, Algeria), Mohammed Tamali (Faculty of Science and Technology, Bechar University, Bechar, Algeria)
Article 3
Algorithmic Analysis of Clinical and Neuropsychological Data in Localization-Related Epilepsy (pages 33-58)
Masoud Latifi-Navid (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey), Kost V. Elisevich (Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Spectrum Health System, Grand Rapids, MI, USA), Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Control and Intelligent Processing Center of Excellence, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran & School of Cognitive Sciences, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran & Departments of Research Administration and Radiology, Medical Image Analysis Lab, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI, USA)
Article 4
Rational Drug Design: One Target, Many Paths to It (pages 59-85)
Khaled H. Barakat (Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada & Department of Engineering, Mathematics and Physics, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt), Michael Houghton (Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada), D. Lorne Tyrrel (Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada), Jack A. Tuszynski (Department of Oncology, Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada)
Issue 2
Article 1
Subspace Clustering of DNA Microarray Data: Theory, Evaluation, and Applications (pages 1-52)
Alain B. Tchagang (Information and Communications Technologies, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada), Fazel Famili (Information and Communications Technologies, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada), Youlian Pan (Information and Communications Technologies, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada)
Article 2
Decision Support for Mental Health: Towards the Information-based Psychiatry (pages 53-65)
Jan Kalina (Institute of Computer Science of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic and National Institute of Mental Health, Klecany, Czech Republic), Jana Zvárová (Institute of Computer Science of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic and First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)
Article 3
Development of Stress Management System for Prevention of a Mental Disease using Smart Finger Plethysmogram Measurement (pages 66-74)
Hidehiko Hayashi (Naruto University of Education, Naruto, Japan), Akinori Minazuki (Kushiro Public University, Kushiro, Japan)
Volume 3 (2012)
Issue 1
Article 1
A Case Study to Assess Implementation of Electronic Health Records at Central Flacq Hospital, Mauritius (pages 1-13)
Mohit Arora (Central Flacq Hospital, Mauritius), Ashish Joshi (Central Flacq Hospital, Mauritius & University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA)
Article 2
Understanding Human-Computer Interactions in Intensive Care Unit Clinical Communication (pages 14-31)
Saif Khairat (Institute for Health Informatics, University of Minnesota, USA), Catherine K. Craven (Institute for Health Informatics, University of Missouri, USA), Yang Gong (School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA)
Article 3
A Methodology for Clustering Transient Biomedical Signals by Variable (pages 32-71)
Pimwadee Chaovalit (National Electronics and Computer Technology Center, Thailand)
Issue 2
Privacy in Health Informatics
Guest Editorial Preface
Article 1
Towards HIPAA-Compliant Healthcare Systems in Cloud Computing (pages 1-22)
Ruoyu Wu (Arizona State University, USA), Gail-Joon Ahn (Arizona State University, USA), Hongxin Hu (Delaware State University, USA)
Article 2
Audit Mechanisms in Electronic Health Record Systems: Protected Health Information May Remain Vulnerable to Undetected Misuse (pages 23-42)
Jason King (North Carolina State University, USA), Ben Smith (North Carolina State University, USA), Laurie Williams (North Carolina State University, USA)
Article 3
Managing Privacy and Effectiveness of Patient-Administered Authorization Policies (pages 43-62)
Thomas Trojer (University of Innsbruck, Austria), Basel Katt (University of Innsbruck, Austria), Ruth Breu (University of Innsbruck, Austria), Thomas Schabetsberger (ITH-icoserve Technology for Healthcare, Austria), Richard Mair (ITH-icoserve Technology for Healthcare, Austria)
Article 4
Systematic Redaction for Neuroimage Data (pages 63-75)
Matt Matlock (Center for Biological Systems Engineering, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, USA), Nakeisha Schimke (Institute of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Tandy School of Computer Science, University of Tulsa, USA), Liang Kong (Institute of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Tandy School of Computer Science, University of Tulsa, USA), Stephen Macke (Institute of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Tandy School of Computer Science, University of Tulsa, USA), John Hale (Institute of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Tandy School of Computer Science, University of Tulsa, USA)
Issue 3
Article 1
Risk Factors of Breast Cancer in Indian Context: A Systematic Review (pages 1-9)
Biswa Bandita (Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, Orissa Bhubaneswar, India, & Centre for Public Informatics, Asian Institute of Public Health, Samantarapur, Bhubaneswar, India), Dipti Mohanty (Asian Institute of Public Health, Samantarapur, Bhubaneswar, India), S. K. Pradhan (Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, Orissa Bhubaneswar, India), S. N. Rath (Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, Orissa Bhubaneswar, India), Madhusmita Sahu (Centre for Public Informatics, Asian Institute of Public Health, Samantarapur, Bhubaneswar, India), Ashish Joshi (Department of Health Services Research Administration, Center for Global Health and Development, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA)
Article 2
Using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Tags to Store Medical Information Needed by First Responders: Data Format, Privacy, and Security (pages 10-26)
Chris Hart (Department of Electrical Engineering, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, USA), Peter J. Hawrylak (College of Engineering and natural Sciences, Department of Electrical Engineering, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, USA)
Article 3
Dynamic Document Clustering Using Singular Value Decomposition (pages 27-55)
Rashmi Nadubeediramesh (Department of Information Systems, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, MD, USA), Aryya Gangopadhyay (Department of Information Systems, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, MD, USA)
Issue 4
Article 1
The Value of Quantitative EEG Measures in the Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease (pages 1-10)
Hideaki Tanaka (Department of Neurology, Dokkyo Medical University, Mibu, Japan)
Article 2
Visual Gnosis and Face Perception (pages 11-20)
Shozo Tobimatsu (Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Neurological Institute, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan)
Article 3
A New Mechanical Algorithm for Calculating the Amplitude Equation of the Reaction-Diffusion Systems (pages 21-28)
Houye Liu (Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, China), Weiming Wang (Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, China)
Article 4
Human Oral Bioavailability Prediction of Four Kinds of Drugs (pages 29-42)
Aixia Yan (Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China), Zhi Wang (Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China), Jiaxuan Li (Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China), Meng Meng (Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China)
Article 5
A Multiscale Computational Model of Chemotactic Axon Guidance (pages 43-60)
Giacomo Aletti (University of Milan, Milan, Italy), Paola Causin (University of Milan, Milan, Italy), Giovanni Naldi (University of Milan, Milan, Italy), Matteo Semplice (University of Insubria, Como, Italy)
Article 6
Volume 2 (2011)
Issue 1
Article 2
A Framework for Multidimensional Real-Time Data Analysis: A Case Study for the Detection of Apnoea of Prematurity (pages 16-37)
Christina Catley (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada), Kathy Smith (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada), Carolyn McGregor (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada), Andrew James (The Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, Canada), J. Mikael Eklund (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)
Article 3
Subspace Discovery for Disease Management: A Case Study in Metabolic Syndrome (pages 38-59)
Josephine Namayanja (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA), Vandana P. Janeja (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA)
Article 4
Similarity Searching of Medical Image Data in Distributed Systems: Facilitating Telemedicine Applications (pages 60-79)
Amalia Charisi (University of Patras, Greece), Panagiotis Korvesis (University of Patras, Greece), Vasileios Megalooikonomou (University of Patras, Greece, and Temple University, USA)
Issue 2
Article 1
Identifying Temporal Changes and Topics that Promote Growth Within Online Communities: A Prospective Study of Six Online Cancer Forums (pages 1-22)
Kathleen T. Durant (Silverlink Communications, USA), Alexa T. McCray (Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, USA), Charles Safran (Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, USA)
Article 2
The Role of Information and Computer Technology for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and the Facial Expression Wonderland (FEW) (pages 23-41)
Rung-Yu Tseng (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA), Ellen Yi-Luen Do (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Article 3
Information Therapy (Ix) Service and Patients’ Preference (pages 42-50)
Vahideh Zarea Gavgani (Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Iran)
Article 4
Bring Out Your Data: The Evolution of the National Anesthesia Clinical Outcomes Registry (NACOR) (pages 51-69)
Thomas E. Grissom (University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA), Andrew DuKatz (University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA), Hubert A. Kordylewski (Anesthesia Quality Institute, USA), Richard P. Dutton (University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA)
Issue 3
Article 1
Portable Devices to Detect Directed Energy: User Perceptions of Personal Risk and Protective Devices (pages 1-13)
Andrew D. Boyd (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA), Melissa Naiman (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA), Richard Preston (Sensing Strategies, USA), Greer Stevenson (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA), Annette L. Valenta (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Article 2
Developing the Performance of Tiling Arrays (pages 14-25)
Mohamed Abdelhamid Abbas (King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia)
Article 3
Scalability of Piecewise Synonym Identification in Integration of SNOMED into the UMLS (pages 26-45)
Kuo-Chuan Huang (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA), James Geller (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA), Michael Halper (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA), Gai Elhanan (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA), Yehoshua Perl (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
Article 4
Understanding Weight Change Behaviors through Online Social Networks (pages 46-69)
Xiaoxiao Ma (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA), Guanling Chen (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA), Juntao Xiao (Jiangsu HanWin Technology Co. Ltd., China)
Issue 4
Article 1
Social Credential-Based Role Recommendation and Patient Privacy Control in Medical Emergency (pages 1-22)
Soon Ae Chun (CUNY—College of Staten Island, USA), Joon Hee Kwon (Kyonggi University, Korea), Haesung Lee (Kyonggi University, Korea)
Article 2
Article 3
An Early Robot Architecture for Cancer Healing (pages 57-71)
Mohamed Abdelhamid Abbas (King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia)
Volume 1 (2010)
Issue 1
Article 1
A Formal Approach to Evaluating Medical Ontology Systems using Naturalness (pages 1-18)
Yoo Jung An (Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA), Kuo-Chuan Huang (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA), Soon Ae Chun (College of Staten Island, USA), James Geller (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
Article 2
A Partial Optimization Approach for Privacy Preserving Frequent Itemset Mining (pages 19-33)
Shibnath Mukherjee (Yahoo! Research and Development, India), Aryya Gangopadhyay (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA), Zhiyuan Chen (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA)
Article 3
Classification Systems for Bacterial Protein-Protein Interaction Document Retrieval (pages 34-44)
Hongfang Liu (Georgetown University Medical Center, USA), Manabu Torii (Georgetown University Medical Center, USA), Guixian Xu (Minzu University of China, China), Johannes Goll (The J. Craig Venter Institute, USA)
Article 4
Modeling a Classification Scheme of Epileptic Seizures Using Ontology Web Language (pages 45-60)
Bhaswati Ghosh (Cleveland State University, USA), Partha S. Ghosh (Cleveland Clinic Foundation, USA), Iftikhar U. Sikder (Cleveland State University, USA)
Article 5
Issue 2
Article 1
Exploring Type-and-Identity-Based Proxy Re-Encryption Scheme to Securely Manage Personal Health Records (pages 1-21)
Luan Ibraimi (University of Twente, The Netherlands), Qiang Tang (University of Twente, The Netherlands), Pieter Hartel (University of Twente, The Netherlands), Willem Jonker (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Article 2
Privacy Preserving Integration of Health Care Data (pages 22-36)
Xiaoyun He (Rutgers University, USA), Jaideep Vaidya (Rutgers University, USA), Basit Shafiq (Rutgers University, USA), Nabil Adam (Rutgers University, USA), Tom White (NY Office of Mental Health & Columbia University, USA)
Article 3
Regulatory Compliance and the Correlation to Privacy Protection in Healthcare (pages 37-52)
Tyrone Grandison (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA), Rafae Bhatti (Oracle Corporation, USA)
Article 4
Computer Aided Detection and Recognition of Lesions in Ultrasound Breast Images (pages 53-81)
Moi Hoon Yap (Loughborough University, UK), Eran Edirisinghe (Loughborough University, UK), Helmut Bez (Loughborough University, UK)
Issue 3
Article 1
An Effective Streams Clustering Method for Biomedical Signals (pages 1-30)
Pimwadee Chaovalit (National Science and Technology Development Agency, Thailand)
Article 2
Article 3
Upper GI Bleed, Etiology, Role of Endoscopy in Rural Population of Punjab (pages 55-68)
Ravinder Singh Malhotra (Sri Guru Ram Das Institute of Medical Sciences & Research and Center for Public Health Informatics, India), K. S. Ded (Sri Guru Ram Das Institute of Medical Sciences & Research and Center for Public Health Informatics, India), Arun Gupta (Sri Guru Ram Das Institute of Medical Sciences & Research and Center for Public Health Informatics, India), Darpan Bansal (Sri Guru Ram Das Institute of Medical Sciences & Research and Center for Public Health Informatics, India), Harneet Singh (Sri Guru Ram Das Institute of Medical Sciences & Research and Center for Public Health Informatics, India)
Article 4
Evaluation of Clustering Patterns using Singular Value Decomposition (SVD): A Case Study of Metabolic Syndrome (pages 69-80)
Josephine M. Namayanja (University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), USA)
Issue 4
Article 1
Optimization Model and Algorithm Help to Screen and Treat Sexually Transmitted Diseases (pages 1-18)
Kun Zhao (Georgia State University, USA), Guantao Chen (Georgia State University, USA), Thomas Gift (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA), Guoyu Tao (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA)
Article 2
Medical Outcome Prediction for Intensive Care Unit Patients (pages 19-30)
Simone A. Ludwig (North Dakota State University, USA), Stefanie Roos (Darmstadt University, Germany), Monique Frize (Carleton University, Canada), Nicole Yu (Carleton University, Canada)
Article 4
Home Blood Pressure Measurement: A Review (pages 46-56)
Gurmanik Kaur (SLIET, India), Ajat Shatru Arora (SLIET, India), Vijender Kumar Jain (SLIET, India)