- ECG Monitoring and Analysis
- Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring
- Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
- Healthcare Technology and Patient Monitoring
- Phonocardiography and Auscultation Techniques
- Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
- Gestational Diabetes Research and Management
- Time Series Analysis and Forecasting
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
- Machine Learning in Healthcare
- Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies
- Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
- Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies
- Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes
- Innovation, Technology, and Society
- Music and Audio Processing
- Digital Transformation in Industry
- Network Security and Intrusion Detection
- Nutritional Studies and Diet
- COVID-19 diagnosis using AI
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Birth, Development, and Health
- Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
KU Leuven
2019-2023
Philips (Netherlands)
2021
Tata Consultancy Services (India)
2015-2018
Healthcare data is quite rich and often contains human survival related information. Analyzing healthcare of prime importance particularly considering the immense potential saving life improving quality life. Furthermore, IoT revolution has redefined modern health care systems management. offers its greatest promise to deliver excellent progress in domain. In this talk, proactive analytics specifically for cardiac disease prevention will be discussed. Anomaly detection plays a prominent role...
In this paper, we present a methodology for classifying normal, atrial fibrillation (AF), non-AF related other abnormal heart rhythms and noisy recordings by analysing single lead ECG signal of short duration.In two layer binary cascaded approach proposed in our methodology, an unlabelled recording is initially classified into one the intermediate classes ('normal+others' 'AF+noisy') at first before actual classification second layer.The Physionet Challenge 2017 dataset containing more than...
Advances in Internet of Things (IoT) devices and Machine Learning (ML) applications can provide valuable insights predictions on personal health by optimizing data generation processing. Nevertheless, the flow about status a patient brings variety technical, legal economic challenges that need to be addressed through an interdisciplinary approach. In this context, based action research methodology, paper introduces exemplary health-related activity recognition platform IoT, developed as part...
Objective: Atrial fibrillation (AF) and other types of abnormal heart rhythm are related to multiple fatal cardiovascular diseases that affect the quality human life. Hence development an automated robust method can reliably detect AF, in addition non-sinus sinus rhythms, would be a valuable medicine. The present study focuses on developing algorithm for classification short, single-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) recordings into normal, rhythms noisy classes. Approach: proposed framework...
Ubiquity of smartphones with array inbuilt sensors, pave ways to inexpensive mobile-health systems, particularly for cardio-vascular health monitoring. Smartphones, wearable and body area sensors play an important role as a part Internet Things (IoT) m-health ecosystem. In this paper, we present iCarMa enable auto-triggered arrhythmia cardiac management solution catering the need in-house, round-the-clock It facilitates early detection fatal conditions like asystole, extreme bradycardia,...
In this paper we leverage the power of smartphone to enable proactive in-house heart condition monitoring. We introduce Heart-Trend, a nonparametric model analyze and detect abnormality conditions like arrhythmia from photoplethysmogram (PPG) signal. It does on-demand status monitoring using smartphones (can also be implemented in PC/ICU monitors) facilitates timely detection deterioration permit early diagnosis prevention fatal diseases. Proposed robust anomaly analytics engine accurately...
We aim to develop a reliable and robust algorithm that accurately analyses single short PCG recording (10-60s) from precordial location determine the presence of heart abnormality for Physionet/ Computing-in-Cardiology 2016 challenge.We extract timing information fundamental Heart Sounds i.e.S1 S2 using Hidden Markov Model based Springer's improved version Schmidt's method.These values are then used generate statistical features set in temporal, frequency, time-frequency wavelet domain.We...
Modelling real-world time series can be challenging in the absence of sufficient data. Limited data healthcare, arise for several reasons, namely when number subjects is insufficient or observed irregularly sampled at a very low sampling frequency. This especially true attempting to develop personalised models, as there are typically few points available training from an individual subject. Furthermore, need early prediction (as often case healthcare applications) amplifies problem limited...
We propose here derivation algorithms for physiological parameters like beat start point, systolic peak, pulse duration, peak-to-peak distance related to heart rate, dicrotic minima, diastolic peak from Photoplethysmogram (PPG) signals robustly. Our methods are based on unsupervised learning mainly following morphology as well discrete nature of the signal. Statistical has been used a special aid infer most probable feature values cope up with presence noise, which is assumed be...
Sensors play a vital role for realizing the vision of connected smart universe. In this paper, we present novel sensor agnostic model SensIPro to perform robust unsupervised analysis data support scalable analytics, prime need Internet things (IoT). context outliers contain most delicate information. Analysis anomaly or outlier is mostly dependent on application domain as well signal characteristics. Our proposed analytics automates based inferring characteristics diverse sensors from...
Feature subset selection and identification of appropriate classification method plays an important role to optimize the predictive performance supervised machine learning system. Current literature makes isolated attempts feature classifier identification. However, set has intrinsic relationship with technique together they form a `model' for task. In this paper, we propose AutoModeling that finds optimal model jointly hypothesis space maximize measure objective function. It is automated...
For affordable cardiac health monitoring, it is required to ensure accurate condition detection from smartphone or wearable-extracted photoplethysmogram (PPG) signals through precise identification, and removal of signal corruption.Presence noise particularly due motion artifacts strongly impacts the outcome analysis.We establish that denoising PPG would pave ways for better clinical prediction than analyzing in presence noise.In this paper, we prove on cleaned (denoised) yields significant...
Sensors are one of the primary building blocks IoT. Owing to close proximity physical world, sensors often collect sensitive information. Invariably, sensor data has rich information content. Here we propose a novel solution IAS: Information Analytics for unlock massive potential through analytics and demonstrate an alerting mechanism based on criticality ECG anomaly detection healthcare, unusual appliance operation from smart energy meter data, bad road condition as well activity...
Excessive or inadequate Gestational Weight Gain (GWG) is considered to not only put the mothers, but also infants at increased risks with a number of adverse outcomes. In this paper, we use self-reported weight measurements from early days pregnancy predict and classify end-of-pregnancy gain into an underweight, normal obese category in accordance Institute Medicine recommended guidelines. Self-reported suffer issues such as lack enough data non-uniformity. We propose compare two novel...
Remote cardiac health management is an important healthcare application. We have developed Heartmate that enables basic screening of using low cost sensors or smartphone-inbuilt without manual intervention. It consists robust denoising algorithm along with effective anomaly analytics for physiological signals. identifies and eliminates signal corruption as well detects condition from signals like heart sound phonocardiogram (PCG) photoplethysmogram (PPG).
Early gestational weight gain prediction can help expecting women overcome several associated risks. However, training the model requires access to centrally stored privacy sensitive and other meta-data. In this demo, we present a preserving federated learning approach where train global by aggregating client models trained locally on their personal data. We showcase software data-exploration tool that exhibits local generation, sharing updating across users server for proposed collaborative...
Detection of normal and anomalous events from sensor signal is a key necessity in today's smart world. Here, we propose novel mechanism to classify phenomena by using self-learning signal, i.e., discovering its pattern. This the first step long drawn out analysis signals. We demonstrate prototype our proposed method real field quasi-periodic photoplethysmogram (PPG) with (or without) motion artifacts, which has an immense impact on cardiac health monitoring, stress, blood pressure, SPO2...
Phonocardiogram (PCG) records heart sound and murmurs, which contains significant information of cardiac health. Analysis PCG signal has the potential to detect abnormal condition. However, presence noise motion artifacts in hinders accuracy clinical event detection. Thus, detection elimination are crucial ensure accurate analysis. In this paper, we present a robust denoising technique, Proclean that precisely detects noisy through pattern recognition, statistical learning. We propose novel...
Computational analysis on physiological signals would provide immense impact for enabling automated clinical analytics. However, the class imbalance issue where negative or minority instances are rare in number impairs robustness of practical solution. The key idea our approach is intelligent augmentation examples to construct smooth, unbiased decision boundary robust semi-supervised learning. This solves problem anomaly detection task computational analytics using signals. We choose two...
Pre-pregnancy body mass index and weight gain management are associated with pregnancy outcomes in expecting women. Poor gestational (GWG) could increase the risk of adverse complications. These risks can be alleviated by lifestyle based interventions if undesired GWG trend is detected early on pregnancy. Current literature lacks analysis data tracking over time. In this work, we collected longitudinal from women during their model measurements to predict end-of-pregnancy classify it...
In this paper, we present completely automated cardiac anomaly detection for remote screening of cardio-vascular abnormality using Phonocardiogram (PCG) or heart sound signal. Even though PCG contains significant and vital health information signature, the presence substantial noise does not guarantee highly effective analysis condition. Our proposed method intelligently identifies eliminates noisy signal consequently detects pathological We further a unified model hybrid feature selection...
We present a system to analyze patterns inside pulsatile signals and discover repetitions signals. measure dominance of the using morphology discrete nature by exploiting machine learning information theoretic concepts. Patterns are represented as combinations basic features derived features. Consistency discovered identifies state physiological stability which varies from one individual another. Hence it has immense impact on deriving accurate parameters for personalized health analytics....
Datasets in healthcare are plagued with incomplete information. Imputation is a common method to deal missing data where the basic idea substitute some reasonable guess for each value and then continue analysis as if there were no data. However unbiased predictions based on imputed datasets can only be guaranteed when mechanism completely independent of observed or Often, this promise broken dataset acquisition due unintentional errors response bias interviewees. We highlight issue by...
Gestational weight gain prediction in expecting women is associated with multiple risks. Manageable interventions can be devised if the predicted as early possible. However, training model to predict such requires access centrally stored privacy sensitive data. Federated learning help mitigate this problem by sending local copies of trained models instead raw data and aggregate them at central server. In paper, we present a preserving federated approach where participating users...