Patients increasingly collect health-related data using mobile health apps and sensors. Studies have shown that this data can be beneficial for both clinicians and patients if used during medical consultations. However, such data is almost never used outside controlled situations or medical trials. This paper explains why the usage of self-collected health data is not widespread by identifying ...

In human subject research, various data about the studied individuals are collected. Through re-identification and statistical inferences, this data can be exploited for interests other than the ones the subjects initially consented to. Such exploitation must be avoided to maintain trust with the researched population. We argue that keeping data-access policies up-to-date and building accountability ...

rticle 17 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) contains a right for the data subject to obtain the erasure of personal data. The right to erasure in the GDPR gives, however, little clear guidance on how controllers processing personal data should erase the personal data to meet the requirements set out in Article 17. Machine Learning (ML) models that have been trained on personal data ...

<p><i>Background</i>: Research in type 1 diabetes management has increased exponentially since the irruption of mobile health apps for its remote and self-management. Despite this fact, the features affect in the disease management and patient empowerment are adopted by app makers and provided to the general population remain unexplored.</p> <p><i>Objective</i>: To study the gap between literature ...

We devise a mobile agent middleware architecture for supporting distributed applications in a wide-area network. The architecture provides a structural framework for functional components that are needed to support mobile agents in asymmetric networking environments.

Health consumers are increasingly using the Internet to search for health information. The existence of overloaded, inaccurate, obsolete, or simply incorrect health information available on the Internet is a serious obstacle for finding relevant and good-quality data that actually helps patients. Search engines of multimedia Internet platforms are thought to help users to find relevant information ...

Dry eye disease (DED) has a prevalence of between 5 and 50%, depending on the diagnostic criteria used and population under study. However, it remains one of the most underdiagnosed and undertreated conditions in ophthalmology. Many tests used in the diagnosis of DED rely on an experienced observer for image interpretation, which may be considered subjective and result in variation in diagnosis. ...

Local-first software aims at both the ability to work offline on local data and the ability to collaborate across multiple devices. CRDTs (conflict-free replicated data types) are abstractions for offline and collaborative work that guarantees strong eventual consistency. RDB (relational database) is a mature and successful computer industry for management of data, and SQLite is an ideal RDB candidate ...

Lung cancer is currently the first leading cause of worldwide cancer deaths since the early stage of lung cancer detection is still a challenge. In lung diagnosis, nodules sometimes overlap with ribs and tissues on lung chest radiographic images, which are complex for doctors and radiologists. Dual-energy subtraction (DES) is a suitable solution to solve those issues. This article will develop an ...

The in vitro fertilization procedure called intracytoplasmic sperm injection can be used to help fertilize an egg by injecting a single sperm cell directly into the cytoplasm of the egg. In order to evaluate, refine and improve the method in the fertility clinic, the procedure is usually observed at the clinic. Alternatively, a video of the procedure can be examined and labeled in a time-consuming ...