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Computation Methods for Biomedical Information Analysis

Computation Methods for Biomedical Information Analysis Hindawi Journal of Healthcare Engineering Volume 2018, Article ID 8683601, 2 pages https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/8683601 Editorial 1 2 3 4 Yong Xia , Weidong Cai, Xiaofeng Yang, and Shanshan Wang School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia Department of Radiation Oncology and Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China Correspondence should be addressed to Yong Xia; yxia@nwpu.edu.cn Received 30 September 2018; Accepted 30 September 2018; Published 1 November 2018 Copyright © 2018 Yong Xia et al. %is is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. With the advances in computer technology, biomedical data quadratic discriminant analysis algorithms, in distinguish- have been growing at an explosive speed, especially the ing the normal heartbeats, premature ventricular contrac- massive accumulation of clinical medical data. It highly tion beats, and others. raises the requirement of data processing and analysis. %e paper “Organic Boundary Location Based on Color- Meanwhile, the computation methods can not only help Texture of Visual Perception in Wireless Capsule Endoscopy medical professionals and researchers to get rid of the Video” combines the color-saliency region detection method limitations of manual information processing in traditional and support vector machine (SVM) classifier to promote the efficiency and accuracy of locating the pylorus in wireless methods but also provide them with more effective methods to use data. With the application of computation methods to capsule endoscopy videos. biomedical information analysis, effective ways have been %e paper “Breast Mass Detection in Digital Mammo- proposed to solve some problems that cannot be solved gram Based on Gestalt Psychology” incorporates visual before. perception properties described by the Gestalt psychology %is special issue provides a platform for medical pro- framework into breast mass detection in a digital mam- fessionals and researchers to present their ideas about the mogram to achieve good performance on both the Mam- latest issues and developments in biomedical analysis fields. mographic Image Analysis Society (MIAS) data set and %e papers in this special issue address the development and Digital Database for Screening Mammography (DDSM) application of medical image segmentation, classification, data set. detection, modeling, predicting, and literature mining. %e paper “A Filtering Method for Identification of Significant Target mRNAs of Coexpressed and Differentially %e major part of this special issue is a collection of papers on image processing and analysis in various appli- Expressed MicroRNA Clusters” devises to use hyper- cation areas. geometric distributions to identify significant miRNA target %e paper “Predicting Interactions between Virus and genes from an extensive list of predicted miRNA target gene Host Proteins Using Repeat Patterns and Composition of relationships. Amino Acids” uses the repeat patterns and composition of %e paper “A Method for Tooth Model Reconstruction amino acids to predict interactions between virus and host Based on Integration of Multimodal Images” develops a tooth proteins and find new virus-host protein-protein in- model reconstruction method based on integration of com- teractions (PPIs) with little information. puted tomography (CT) images and laser scan images, which can generate a tooth model with a more accurate crown and %e paper “Bayesian Classification Models for Premature Ventricular Contraction Detection on ECG Traces” com- can obtain a complete tooth model at any stage of orthodontic treatment by using one CT scan at the pretreatment stage and pares three well-known Bayesian classification algorithms, including the naive Bayes, linear discriminant analysis, and one laser scan at that stage to avoid multiple CT scans. 2 Journal of Healthcare Engineering %e paper “Link Prediction Investigation of Dynamic Information Flow in Epilepsy” adapts link prediction for proposing a novel workflow, which detects the seizure oc- currence and monitors the total seizure course for quanti- fying seizure dynamics and uncovers pathological mechanisms of epilepsy. %e paper “Comparative Study on Automated Cell Nuclei Segmentation Methods for Cytology Pleural Effusion Images” presents a comparative study on 12 automated cell nuclei segmentation methods, finding that the segmentation performances of the Otsu, k-means, mean shift, Chan–Vese, and graph cut methods outperform the others, which will be useful for current and potential future studies on cytology images of pleural effusion. %is special issue also has two papers, which describe medical data retrieval systems. %e paper “%e Cell Research Trends of Asthma: A Stem Frequency Analysis of the Literature” summarizes the asthma literature indexed in the medical literature analysis and retrieval system online (MEDLINE) and explores the history to present trends of asthma cell research by stem frequency ranking to forecast the prospect of the future work. %e paper “%e Wall Apposition Evaluation for a Me- chanical Embolus Retrieval Device” presents a computa- tional evaluation approach to the wall apposition of a cerebral mechanical emboli retrieval device (MERD) and provides references and suggestions for further research and work. Although it is impossible to comprehensively cover the growing field of computation methods for biomedical in- formation analysis in a special issue like this, we believe that this special issue presents a set of state-of-the-art compu- tational methods and their potentials in the biomedical information analysis and related domains. We hope this issue would inspire further research on the aforementioned topics. Conflicts of Interest %e editors declare that they have no conflicts of interest. Acknowledgments As guest editors of this special issue, we would like to thank all the authors who have submitted their contributions to this special issue; without their interests and collaborations, this issue would not have been possible. We would also like to thank all referees for their rigorous reviews with insightful and constructive comments that have definitely improved the quality of this issue. Yong Xia Weidong Cai Xiaofeng Yang Shanshan Wang International Journal of Advances in Rotating Machinery Multimedia Journal of The Scientific Journal of Engineering World Journal Sensors Hindawi Hindawi Publishing Corporation Hindawi Hindawi Hindawi Hindawi www.hindawi.com Volume 2018 http://www www.hindawi.com .hindawi.com V Volume 2018 olume 2013 www.hindawi.com Volume 2018 www.hindawi.com Volume 2018 www.hindawi.com Volume 2018 Journal of Control Science and Engineering Advances in Civil Engineering Hindawi Hindawi www.hindawi.com Volume 2018 www.hindawi.com Volume 2018 Submit your manuscripts at www.hindawi.com Journal of Journal of Electrical and Computer Robotics Engineering Hindawi Hindawi www.hindawi.com Volume 2018 www.hindawi.com Volume 2018 VLSI Design Advances in OptoElectronics International Journal of Modelling & Aerospace International Journal of Simulation Navigation and in Engineering Engineering Observation Hindawi Hindawi Hindawi Hindawi Volume 2018 Volume 2018 Hindawi www.hindawi.com Volume 2018 www.hindawi.com Volume 2018 www.hindawi.com www.hindawi.com www.hindawi.com Volume 2018 International Journal of Active and Passive International Journal of Antennas and Advances in Chemical Engineering Propagation Electronic Components Shock and Vibration Acoustics and Vibration Hindawi Hindawi Hindawi Hindawi Hindawi www.hindawi.com Volume 2018 www.hindawi.com Volume 2018 www.hindawi.com Volume 2018 www.hindawi.com Volume 2018 www.hindawi.com Volume 2018 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Healthcare Engineering Hindawi Publishing Corporation

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Hindawi Journal of Healthcare Engineering Volume 2018, Article ID 8683601, 2 pages https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/8683601 Editorial 1 2 3 4 Yong Xia , Weidong Cai, Xiaofeng Yang, and Shanshan Wang School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia Department of Radiation Oncology and Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China Correspondence should be addressed to Yong Xia; yxia@nwpu.edu.cn Received 30 September 2018; Accepted 30 September 2018; Published 1 November 2018 Copyright © 2018 Yong Xia et al. %is is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. With the advances in computer technology, biomedical data quadratic discriminant analysis algorithms, in distinguish- have been growing at an explosive speed, especially the ing the normal heartbeats, premature ventricular contrac- massive accumulation of clinical medical data. It highly tion beats, and others. raises the requirement of data processing and analysis. %e paper “Organic Boundary Location Based on Color- Meanwhile, the computation methods can not only help Texture of Visual Perception in Wireless Capsule Endoscopy medical professionals and researchers to get rid of the Video” combines the color-saliency region detection method limitations of manual information processing in traditional and support vector machine (SVM) classifier to promote the efficiency and accuracy of locating the pylorus in wireless methods but also provide them with more effective methods to use data. With the application of computation methods to capsule endoscopy videos. biomedical information analysis, effective ways have been %e paper “Breast Mass Detection in Digital Mammo- proposed to solve some problems that cannot be solved gram Based on Gestalt Psychology” incorporates visual before. perception properties described by the Gestalt psychology %is special issue provides a platform for medical pro- framework into breast mass detection in a digital mam- fessionals and researchers to present their ideas about the mogram to achieve good performance on both the Mam- latest issues and developments in biomedical analysis fields. mographic Image Analysis Society (MIAS) data set and %e papers in this special issue address the development and Digital Database for Screening Mammography (DDSM) application of medical image segmentation, classification, data set. detection, modeling, predicting, and literature mining. %e paper “A Filtering Method for Identification of Significant Target mRNAs of Coexpressed and Differentially %e major part of this special issue is a collection of papers on image processing and analysis in various appli- Expressed MicroRNA Clusters” devises to use hyper- cation areas. geometric distributions to identify significant miRNA target %e paper “Predicting Interactions between Virus and genes from an extensive list of predicted miRNA target gene Host Proteins Using Repeat Patterns and Composition of relationships. Amino Acids” uses the repeat patterns and composition of %e paper “A Method for Tooth Model Reconstruction amino acids to predict interactions between virus and host Based on Integration of Multimodal Images” develops a tooth proteins and find new virus-host protein-protein in- model reconstruction method based on integration of com- teractions (PPIs) with little information. puted tomography (CT) images and laser scan images, which can generate a tooth model with a more accurate crown and %e paper “Bayesian Classification Models for Premature Ventricular Contraction Detection on ECG Traces” com- can obtain a complete tooth model at any stage of orthodontic treatment by using one CT scan at the pretreatment stage and pares three well-known Bayesian classification algorithms, including the naive Bayes, linear discriminant analysis, and one laser scan at that stage to avoid multiple CT scans. 2 Journal of Healthcare Engineering %e paper “Link Prediction Investigation of Dynamic Information Flow in Epilepsy” adapts link prediction for proposing a novel workflow, which detects the seizure oc- currence and monitors the total seizure course for quanti- fying seizure dynamics and uncovers pathological mechanisms of epilepsy. %e paper “Comparative Study on Automated Cell Nuclei Segmentation Methods for Cytology Pleural Effusion Images” presents a comparative study on 12 automated cell nuclei segmentation methods, finding that the segmentation performances of the Otsu, k-means, mean shift, Chan–Vese, and graph cut methods outperform the others, which will be useful for current and potential future studies on cytology images of pleural effusion. %is special issue also has two papers, which describe medical data retrieval systems. %e paper “%e Cell Research Trends of Asthma: A Stem Frequency Analysis of the Literature” summarizes the asthma literature indexed in the medical literature analysis and retrieval system online (MEDLINE) and explores the history to present trends of asthma cell research by stem frequency ranking to forecast the prospect of the future work. %e paper “%e Wall Apposition Evaluation for a Me- chanical Embolus Retrieval Device” presents a computa- tional evaluation approach to the wall apposition of a cerebral mechanical emboli retrieval device (MERD) and provides references and suggestions for further research and work. Although it is impossible to comprehensively cover the growing field of computation methods for biomedical in- formation analysis in a special issue like this, we believe that this special issue presents a set of state-of-the-art compu- tational methods and their potentials in the biomedical information analysis and related domains. We hope this issue would inspire further research on the aforementioned topics. Conflicts of Interest %e editors declare that they have no conflicts of interest. Acknowledgments As guest editors of this special issue, we would like to thank all the authors who have submitted their contributions to this special issue; without their interests and collaborations, this issue would not have been possible. We would also like to thank all referees for their rigorous reviews with insightful and constructive comments that have definitely improved the quality of this issue. Yong Xia Weidong Cai Xiaofeng Yang Shanshan Wang International Journal of Advances in Rotating Machinery Multimedia Journal of The Scientific Journal of Engineering World Journal Sensors Hindawi Hindawi Publishing Corporation Hindawi Hindawi Hindawi Hindawi www.hindawi.com Volume 2018 http://www www.hindawi.com .hindawi.com V Volume 2018 olume 2013 www.hindawi.com Volume 2018 www.hindawi.com Volume 2018 www.hindawi.com Volume 2018 Journal of Control Science and Engineering Advances in Civil Engineering Hindawi Hindawi www.hindawi.com Volume 2018 www.hindawi.com Volume 2018 Submit your manuscripts at www.hindawi.com Journal of Journal of Electrical and Computer Robotics Engineering Hindawi Hindawi www.hindawi.com Volume 2018 www.hindawi.com Volume 2018 VLSI Design Advances in OptoElectronics International Journal of Modelling & Aerospace International Journal of Simulation Navigation and in Engineering Engineering Observation Hindawi Hindawi Hindawi Hindawi Volume 2018 Volume 2018 Hindawi www.hindawi.com Volume 2018 www.hindawi.com Volume 2018 www.hindawi.com www.hindawi.com www.hindawi.com Volume 2018 International Journal of Active and Passive International Journal of Antennas and Advances in Chemical Engineering Propagation Electronic Components Shock and Vibration Acoustics and Vibration Hindawi Hindawi Hindawi Hindawi Hindawi www.hindawi.com Volume 2018 www.hindawi.com Volume 2018 www.hindawi.com Volume 2018 www.hindawi.com Volume 2018 www.hindawi.com Volume 2018

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