Topic: Clinical data
Published:
2024
- DetailsVerde, L., Marulli, F., De Fazio, R., Campanile, L., & Marrone, S. (2024). HEAR set: A ligHtwEight acoustic paRameters set to assess mental health from voice analysis [Article]. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2024.109021
Abstract
Background: Voice analysis has significant potential in aiding healthcare professionals with detecting, diagnosing, and personalising treatment. It represents an objective and non-intrusive tool for supporting the detection and monitoring of specific pathologies. By calculating various acoustic features, voice analysis extracts valuable information to assess voice quality. The choice of these parameters is crucial for an accurate assessment. Method: In this paper, we propose a lightweight acoustic parameter set, named HEAR, able to evaluate voice quality to assess mental health. In detail, this consists of jitter, spectral centroid, Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients, and their derivates. The choice of parameters for the proposed set was influenced by the explainable significance of each acoustic parameter in the voice production process. Results: The reliability of the proposed acoustic set to detect the early symptoms of mental disorders was evaluated in an experimental phase. Voices of subjects suffering from different mental pathologies, selected from available databases, were analysed. The performance obtained from the HEAR features was compared with that obtained by analysing features selected from toolkits widely used in the literature, as with those obtained using learned procedures. The best performance in terms of MAE and RMSE was achieved for the detection of depression (5.32 and 6.24 respectively). For the detection of psychogenic dysphonia and anxiety, the highest accuracy rates were about 75 % and 97 %, respectively. Conclusions: The comparative evaluation was carried out to assess the performance of the proposed approach, demonstrating a reliable capability to highlight affective physiological alterations of voice quality due to the considered mental disorders. © 2024 The Author(s)
2023
- DetailsBobbio, A., Campanile, L., Gribaudo, M., Iacono, M., Marulli, F., & Mastroianni, M. (2023). A cyber warfare perspective on risks related to health IoT devices and contact tracing [Article]. Neural Computing and Applications, 35(19), 13823–13837. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-021-06720-1
Abstract
The wide use of IT resources to assess and manage the recent COVID-19 pandemic allows to increase the effectiveness of the countermeasures and the pervasiveness of monitoring and prevention. Unfortunately, the literature reports that IoT devices, a widely adopted technology for these applications, are characterized by security vulnerabilities that are difficult to manage at the state level. Comparable problems exist for related technologies that leverage smartphones, such as contact tracing applications, and non-medical health monitoring devices. In analogous situations, these vulnerabilities may be exploited in the cyber domain to overload the crisis management systems with false alarms and to interfere with the interests of target countries, with consequences on their economy and their political equilibria. In this paper we analyze the potential threat to an example subsystem to show how these influences may impact it and evaluate a possible consequence. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature.
2021
- DetailsCampanile, L., Marulli, F., Mastroianni, M., Palmiero, G., & Sanghez, C. (2021). Machine Learning-aided Automatic Calibration of Smart Thermal Cameras for Health Monitoring Applications [Conference paper]. International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security, IoTBDS - Proceedings, 2021-April, 343–353. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85137959400&partnerID=40&md5=eb78330cb4d585e500b77cd906edfbc7
Abstract
In this paper, we introduce a solution aiming to improve the accuracy of the surface temperature detection in an outdoor environment. The temperature sensing subsystem relies on Mobotix thermal camera without the black body, the automatic compensation subsystem relies on Raspberry Pi with Node-RED and TensorFlow 2.x. The final results showed that it is possible to automatically calibrate the camera using machine learning and that it is possible to use thermal imaging cameras even in critical conditions such as outdoors. Future development is to improve performance using computer vision techniques to rule out irrelevant measurements. © 2021 by SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, Lda.
2020
- DetailsCampanile, L., Iacono, M., Lotito, R., & Mastroianni, M. (2020). A WSN Energy-Aware approach for air pollution monitoring in waste treatment facility site: A case study for landfill monitoring odour [Conference paper]. IoTBDS 2020 - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security, 526–532. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85089477488&partnerID=40&md5=13ea9ca38f15c5b885ef7e501067010c
Abstract
The gaseous emissions derived from industrial plants are generally subject to a strictly program of monitoring, both continuous or one-spot, in order to comply with the limits imposed by the permitting license. Nowadays the problem of odour emission, and the consequently nuisance generated to the nearest receptors, has acquired importance so that is frequently asked a specific implementation of the air pollution monitoring program. In this paper we studied the case study of a generic landfill for the implementation of the odour monitoring system and time-specific use of air pollution control technology. The off-site monitoring is based on the deployment of electronic nose as part of a specifically built WSN system. The nodes outside the landfill boundary do not act as a continuously monitoring stations but as sensors activated when specific conditions, inside and outside the landfill, are achieved. The WSN is then organized on an energy-aware approach so to prolong the lifetime of the entire system, with significant cost-benefit advancement, and produce a monitoring-structure that can answer to specific input like threshold overshooting. Copyright © 2020 by SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, Lda. All rights reserved. - DetailsMainenti, G., Campanile, L., Marulli, F., Ricciardi, C., & Valente, A. S. (2020). Machine learning approaches for diabetes classification: Perspectives to artificial intelligence methods updating [Conference paper]. IoTBDS 2020 - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security, 533–540. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85089519717&partnerID=40&md5=bf7cc36e86c1988dd85e04c2fce06de1
Abstract
In recent years the application of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques in healthcare helped clinicians to improve the management of chronic patients. Diabetes is among the most common chronic illness in the world for which often is still challenging do an early detection and a correct classification of type of diabetes to an individual. In fact it often depends on the circumstances present at the time of diagnosis, and many diabetic individuals do not easily fit into a single class. The aim is this paper is the application of ML techniques in order to classify the occurrence of different mellitus diabetes on the base of clinical data obtained from diabetic patients during the daily hospitals activities. Copyright © 2020 by SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, Lda. All rights reserved.
2024
- DetailsVerde, L., Marulli, F., De Fazio, R., Campanile, L., & Marrone, S. (2024). HEAR set: A ligHtwEight acoustic paRameters set to assess mental health from voice analysis [Article]. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2024.109021
Abstract
Background: Voice analysis has significant potential in aiding healthcare professionals with detecting, diagnosing, and personalising treatment. It represents an objective and non-intrusive tool for supporting the detection and monitoring of specific pathologies. By calculating various acoustic features, voice analysis extracts valuable information to assess voice quality. The choice of these parameters is crucial for an accurate assessment. Method: In this paper, we propose a lightweight acoustic parameter set, named HEAR, able to evaluate voice quality to assess mental health. In detail, this consists of jitter, spectral centroid, Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients, and their derivates. The choice of parameters for the proposed set was influenced by the explainable significance of each acoustic parameter in the voice production process. Results: The reliability of the proposed acoustic set to detect the early symptoms of mental disorders was evaluated in an experimental phase. Voices of subjects suffering from different mental pathologies, selected from available databases, were analysed. The performance obtained from the HEAR features was compared with that obtained by analysing features selected from toolkits widely used in the literature, as with those obtained using learned procedures. The best performance in terms of MAE and RMSE was achieved for the detection of depression (5.32 and 6.24 respectively). For the detection of psychogenic dysphonia and anxiety, the highest accuracy rates were about 75 % and 97 %, respectively. Conclusions: The comparative evaluation was carried out to assess the performance of the proposed approach, demonstrating a reliable capability to highlight affective physiological alterations of voice quality due to the considered mental disorders. © 2024 The Author(s)
2023
- DetailsBobbio, A., Campanile, L., Gribaudo, M., Iacono, M., Marulli, F., & Mastroianni, M. (2023). A cyber warfare perspective on risks related to health IoT devices and contact tracing [Article]. Neural Computing and Applications, 35(19), 13823–13837. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-021-06720-1
Abstract
The wide use of IT resources to assess and manage the recent COVID-19 pandemic allows to increase the effectiveness of the countermeasures and the pervasiveness of monitoring and prevention. Unfortunately, the literature reports that IoT devices, a widely adopted technology for these applications, are characterized by security vulnerabilities that are difficult to manage at the state level. Comparable problems exist for related technologies that leverage smartphones, such as contact tracing applications, and non-medical health monitoring devices. In analogous situations, these vulnerabilities may be exploited in the cyber domain to overload the crisis management systems with false alarms and to interfere with the interests of target countries, with consequences on their economy and their political equilibria. In this paper we analyze the potential threat to an example subsystem to show how these influences may impact it and evaluate a possible consequence. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature.
2021
- DetailsCampanile, L., Marulli, F., Mastroianni, M., Palmiero, G., & Sanghez, C. (2021). Machine Learning-aided Automatic Calibration of Smart Thermal Cameras for Health Monitoring Applications [Conference paper]. International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security, IoTBDS - Proceedings, 2021-April, 343–353. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85137959400&partnerID=40&md5=eb78330cb4d585e500b77cd906edfbc7
Abstract
In this paper, we introduce a solution aiming to improve the accuracy of the surface temperature detection in an outdoor environment. The temperature sensing subsystem relies on Mobotix thermal camera without the black body, the automatic compensation subsystem relies on Raspberry Pi with Node-RED and TensorFlow 2.x. The final results showed that it is possible to automatically calibrate the camera using machine learning and that it is possible to use thermal imaging cameras even in critical conditions such as outdoors. Future development is to improve performance using computer vision techniques to rule out irrelevant measurements. © 2021 by SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, Lda.
2020
- DetailsCampanile, L., Iacono, M., Lotito, R., & Mastroianni, M. (2020). A WSN Energy-Aware approach for air pollution monitoring in waste treatment facility site: A case study for landfill monitoring odour [Conference paper]. IoTBDS 2020 - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security, 526–532. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85089477488&partnerID=40&md5=13ea9ca38f15c5b885ef7e501067010c
Abstract
The gaseous emissions derived from industrial plants are generally subject to a strictly program of monitoring, both continuous or one-spot, in order to comply with the limits imposed by the permitting license. Nowadays the problem of odour emission, and the consequently nuisance generated to the nearest receptors, has acquired importance so that is frequently asked a specific implementation of the air pollution monitoring program. In this paper we studied the case study of a generic landfill for the implementation of the odour monitoring system and time-specific use of air pollution control technology. The off-site monitoring is based on the deployment of electronic nose as part of a specifically built WSN system. The nodes outside the landfill boundary do not act as a continuously monitoring stations but as sensors activated when specific conditions, inside and outside the landfill, are achieved. The WSN is then organized on an energy-aware approach so to prolong the lifetime of the entire system, with significant cost-benefit advancement, and produce a monitoring-structure that can answer to specific input like threshold overshooting. Copyright © 2020 by SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, Lda. All rights reserved. - DetailsMainenti, G., Campanile, L., Marulli, F., Ricciardi, C., & Valente, A. S. (2020). Machine learning approaches for diabetes classification: Perspectives to artificial intelligence methods updating [Conference paper]. IoTBDS 2020 - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security, 533–540. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85089519717&partnerID=40&md5=bf7cc36e86c1988dd85e04c2fce06de1
Abstract
In recent years the application of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques in healthcare helped clinicians to improve the management of chronic patients. Diabetes is among the most common chronic illness in the world for which often is still challenging do an early detection and a correct classification of type of diabetes to an individual. In fact it often depends on the circumstances present at the time of diagnosis, and many diabetic individuals do not easily fit into a single class. The aim is this paper is the application of ML techniques in order to classify the occurrence of different mellitus diabetes on the base of clinical data obtained from diabetic patients during the daily hospitals activities. Copyright © 2020 by SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, Lda. All rights reserved.