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Date : Sept.

The 4th International Symposium

in Computational Medical and

Health Technology

21-22 2014

The 4th International Symposium in Computational Medical and Health Technology

Taipei, Taiwan, Sept. 21-22, 2014

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The 4th International Symposium in

Computational Medical and Health Technology

Organizer：University of Hyogo (兵庫県立大学)

Host：Department of Electrical Engineering, Taipei Tech (台北科技大

學電機工程系)

Sponsors：

Alumni Association of Electrical Engineering , Taipei Tech (台北科技

大學電機工程系系友會)、

Plan for Developing Technological University Paradigms at NTUT (教

育部典範科大計畫(台北科技大學) )

Time: September 21 and 22, 2014

Venue: Room 318, Integrated Technology Complex Building

Taipei Tech, Taipei, Taiwan



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Program Manual

Contents

I. Organization ................................................................................................. 3

II. Schedule ....................................................................................................... 4

III. Venue ......................................................................................................... 5

IV. Plenary Talk 1 ............................................................................................. 6

V. Plenary Talk 2 ............................................................................................. 8

VI. Plenary Talk 3 ............................................................................................. 9

VII. Plenary Talk 4 ........................................................................................... 10

VIII. Session Schedule ...................................................................................... 11

IX. Paper Abstracts ........................................................................................ 13



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I. Organization

Symposium Chair：Naotake Kamiura (University of Hyogo)、

Jwo-‐Shiun Sun (Taipei Tech)

Vise Symposium Chair：Nobuyuki Matsui (University of Hyogo)、

Chao-‐Rong Chen (Taipei Tech)

Financial Chair：Syoji Kobashi (University of Hyogo)、

Jen-‐Hsiang Chou (Taipei Tech)

Program Chair：Manabu Nii (University of Hyogo)、

Tan-‐Hsu Tan (Taipei Tech)

Local Arrangement Chair：Juei-‐Chao Chen (Fu Jen Catholic University)、

Chao-‐Cheng Wu (Taipei Tech)

Publication Chair：Masakazu Morimoto (University of Hyogo)



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II. Schedule

Date Time Topic

2014

-‐09-‐21

(Sun

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8:20 – 8:30 Opening Ceremony

8:30 – 9:20 Plenary Talk 1

Health Care by Information Technology

9:30 – 11:00 Session 1

11:10 – 12:00 Plenary Talk 2

Digital Healthcare for Lifestyle Modification

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 14:20 Plenary Talk 3

Automatic Tongue Diagnosis System -‐ An Introduction

14:30 – 15:15 Session 2

15:15 – 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 – 16:45 Session 3

17:00 – 17:50

Plenary Talk 4 A Novel Technique to Measure the Parameters of

Cardiovascular Based on Mechanism of Sphygmomanometer

18:00 – Banquet

2014

-‐09-‐22

(M

on)

9:30 – 17:00 Social Events

(Visit Tamkang University)



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III. Venue

1. Venue: Room 318, Integrated Technology Complex Building (綜合科館).

2. Exit 4 of Taipei Metro Zhongxiao Xinsheng (忠孝新生) Station.

3. Direction from Taipei Metro Station to the venue.

4. Direction to Taipei Main Station.

5. Direction to Golden China Hotel.

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IV. Plenary Talk 1

Health Care by Information Technology Yutaka Hata

Graduate School of Simulation Studies, University of Hyogo, Kobe, Japan

Abstract

Due to the huge cost of medical fee of about 40 % in national budget, Japan faces to save

the cost. The most promising way to save the cost is keeping the all Japanese people

healthy. To control health condition, a wearable device including smart phones receives

much considerable attentions. Especially, smart phone software aimed at weight control,

sleeping recording, food calorie calculation, pedometer, blood pressure recording is used

for many users. Wearable devices to record life log are also popular. While, all most

Japanese people receives medical checkup. Medical checkup over 40 years old people

employs breast X-‐ray, weight and height, blood pressure, eye test, blood test, and

stomach X-‐ray. These data would be useful to find how to keep them healthy. Cloud

computing gives us a wonderful solution to solve this problem. In my talk, first I introduce

an analysis platform to treat Japanese medical checkup data in fuzzy logic. This aims to

find an advice how to keep them healthy. Second, I introduce a wearable device with

electrocardiograph and accelerometer, and talk how to use it. This device has great

potential to do not only emergency use of heart attack but also keep us healthy. 3D

acceleration data can exactly open daily athletic state with complementary use of heart

rate.

Thus, this device has high potential to reveal our life-‐style improvement record used to

diagnose some diseases. Thus, health related system and its market with information



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technology would be receive much more attentions in the world. This direction is the

most promising way to keep all people healthy in the world.



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V. Plenary Talk 2

Digital Healthcare for Lifestyle Modification Hiroshi Nakajima

Omron Corporation, Kyoto, Japan

Abstract

Lifestyles related diseases of hypertension and diabetes have impacted social system

seriously recent days because of less child and aging. It has been well known that they

are strongly connected with the risk of the cardiovascular events such as stroke and heart

attack which are main causes of the long-‐term nursing care. According to the background,

the development of various digital healthcare systems has been accelerated by the

technologies of sensing, information, and communication. In this context, we also

developed the system by employing healthcare devices and services to extract the

individualized causalities between vital signals such as blood pressure and lifestyles. Our

lifestyle is simply composed by nutrition, exercise, and sleep. It must be important for us

to understand and realize what is our own better lifestyle by quantifying lifestyle

components and vitals. Through the realization, keeping our lifestyle modification is the

final goal and the precious value against the diseases. In this talk, our backdrop and

system overview are briefly introduced. Some statistical analysis results follow them with

important discussion points.



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VI. Plenary Talk 3

Automatic Tongue Diagnosis System -‐ An Introduction John Y. Chiang

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Sun Yat-‐sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Abstract

Intra-‐ and inter-‐observer agreements of the automatic tongue diagnosis system (ATDS)

and TCM practitioners have been conducted in our laboratory. The results demonstrate

that the ATDS is very consistent even in the face of variations of environmental lighting

and extruding tongue with an intra-‐observer agreement significantly higher than that of

the TCM doctors, while the inter-‐observer agreements between the ATDS and a group of

TCM doctors and among the TCM doctors are both moderate. ATDS serves not only as

clinical equipment in providing doctors with consistent tongue features of patients, but

also as a feasible teaching and evaluation means for students learning tongue diagnosis.

In this study, the ATDS developed by our team was utilized to train novice TCM doctors,

with assistance and guidance of a senior physician, to improve skills and consistency in

tongue diagnosis. With the vast amount of tongue images collected, accompanied by the

corresponding features extracted automatically, learning through the knowledge base of

ATDS is expected to be more effective than that guided by senior physicians only.



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VII. Plenary Talk 4

A Novel Technique to Measure the Parameters of

Cardiovascular Based on Mechanism of

Sphygmomanometer Shing-‐Hong Liu

Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering Chaoyang University of Technology, Taichung, Taiwan

Abstract

Because the medicine and biological technique are quickly developed, humans’ life is

higher than before. But, in the moment the mortality of cardiovascular diseases is still at

the high rank in the death reasons. Besides, the chronic diseases, like as hypertension,

diabetes, or nephropathy, also easily let the people get the cardiovascular diseases.

Many our friends or families are sudden death because they get the apoplexy or

myocardium infarction. However, now the popular and easy operating apparatus

monitoring the cardiovascular conditions in the home is only the oscillometric

sphygmomanometer. Although the blood pressure is an important parameter for

monitoring the cardiovascular conditions, how to develop an easy operating apparatus

on the homecare that not only measure the blood pressure, but also can monitor the

other parameters of cardiovascular is a challenge. A novel technique has been studied

which mechanism was an oscillometric sphygmomanometer. It not only measure blood

pressure, but also simultaneously measure the arterial stiffness, stroke volume and

cardiac output. It very suits users in home use, just as the use of sphygmomanometer.



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VIII. Session Schedule

Session 1

Time: 9:30 – 11:00 Chairs：Teijiro Isokawa、Juei-‐Chao Chen

1 [Sec 1.1] Online camera monitoring system for elderly people / Tetsuya Fujisawa, Tadahito Egawa, Kazuhiko Taniguchi, Naotake Kamiura, and Yutaka Hata

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[Sec 1.2] Monitoring of activity of daily living for elderly people using RFID and wearable Technologies / Tan-‐Hsu Tan, Ke-‐Hao Chen, Munkhjargal Gochoo, Fu-‐Rong Jean, Yung-‐Fu Chen, and Li-‐Chu Lee

3 [Sec 1.3] An Elderly Surveillance System using Wireless Signal Fluctuation / R. Nishimura and M. Morimoto

4 [Sec 1.4] A Novel Automated Quantitative Method of CerebroSpinal Fluid Area for the Diagnosis of Lumbar Spine Stenosis / Jiann-‐Her Lin, Yung-‐Hsiao Chiang, and Chao-‐Cheng Wu

5 [Sec 1.5] An Evolutionary Computation Approach to Menu Creation for Hospital Meals / Teijiro Isokawa, Naotake Kamiura, and Nobuyuki Matsui

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[Sec 1.6] Mean/variance based gameplay data exploration for player experience evaluation to increase adherence of Kinect-‐game based rehabilitaiton exercises at long-‐term care services /Tien-‐Lung Sun, Ta-‐Min Hung, Juei-‐Chao Chen, Kuo-‐Hung Lo, Chun Pei, and Chien-‐Hua Huang

Session 2

Time: 14:30 – 15:15 Chairs：Takayuki Fujita、Tan-‐Hsu Tan

1 [Sec 2.1] Directed graph based text representation for nursing-‐care text classification / Manabu Nii, Kazunobu Takahama, Takuya Iwamoto, Reiko Sakashita, and Atsuko Uchinuno

2 [Sec 2.2] Mobile Telemedicine System for Elderly Homecare: Design and Implementation / Cheng-‐Wei Hu, Yauri Hartoyo, and Yung-‐Chung Wang

3 [Sec 2.3] Electromagnetic Harvester by Damped Vibration of Impulse Shock / Kohei Yamaguchi, Takayuki Fujita, Yuji Tanaka, Koki Yamamoto, Koji Sonoda, Kensuke Kanda, and Kazusuke Maenaka



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Session 3

Time: 16:00 – 16:45 Chairs：Takayuki Fujita、Tan-‐Hsu Tan

1 [Sec 3.1] Fully automated artery extraction from 3-‐D TOF MRA images using fuzzy connectedness image segmentation / Syoji Kobashi, Tamotsu Nomura, Tomomoto Ishikawa, and Naotake Kamiura

2 [Sec 3.2] The Effects of Moderate Intensity Exercise on Heart Rate Variability in Relieving Work Stress / Shing-‐Hong Liu, Ming-‐Zhu Chang, and Jia-‐Jung Wang

3 [Sec 3.3] Sojourn-‐Time Reduction for Patients at Department of Cardiology / Naotake Kamiura, Syoji Kobashi and Kei Kuramoto, Takashi Fujii



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IX. Paper Abstracts Sec 1.1

Online camera monitoring system for elderly people

Tetsuya Fujisawa, Tadahito Egawa, Kazuhiko Taniguchi, Naotake Kamiura, and

Yutaka Hata

Abstract

This paper proposes an online gas monitoring system for watching over an elderly person.

For gas monitoring, a single camera captures gas meter image at fixed intervals. The

system applies edge detection and the connected-‐component labeling to extract numeral

regions of a gas mater image. It extracts shape characteristics from the numeral region. It

recognizes numeral image by fuzzy inference from acquired shape characteristics. Once

system fails to recognize gas consumption by some accidents, the consumption is

interpolated from time-‐series data. For an online monitoring in a day, it is shown that the

system successfully estimates gas consumption and visualizes them.



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Sec 1.2

Monitoring of activity of daily living for elderly people

using RFID and wearable Technologies

Tan-‐Hsu Tan, Ke-‐Hao Chen, Munkhjargal Gochoo, Fu-‐Rong Jean, Yung-‐Fu Chen,

and Li-‐Chu Lee

Abstract

A telecare system for monitoring activity of daily living (ADL) of elderly people is

presented in this study by using active radio frequency identification (RFID) and wearable

technologies. The active RFID is employed to identify the identity and activity area of the

elderly people. A wearable device, the Fitbit Flex Wristband (FFW) is utilized to measure

the walking steps and energy expenditure of the elderly people in daily activity. The

activity data are then sent to the remote server installed in monitoring center to build

the activity density map (ADM) and the textural features extracted from ADM are

employed to calculate a dissimilarity measurement of the elderly people during different

weeks for detecting if any abnormal activity pattern happens. Experimental results show

the potential of the proposed system for practical application.



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Sec 1.3

An Elderly Surveillance System using Wireless Signal

Fluctuation

R. Nishimura and M. Morimoto

Abstract

To avoid unattended death of “single elderly people”, this paper proposes a discreet

surveillance system. The proposed surveillance system use wireless communication

device to sense living activities, because employing surveillance camera will cause

invasions of privacy. In this paper we report some results of preliminary experiments,

which clarify relationship between wireless signal fluctuation and several living activities;

sleeping, deskwork, walk-‐through and so on. As a result, we can show that our system

can sense living activities from signal fluctuations.



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Sec 1.4

A Novel Automated Quantitative Method of

CerebroSpinal Fluid Area for the Diagnosis of Lumbar

Spine Stenosis

Jiann-‐Her Lin, Yung-‐Hsiao Chiang, Chao-‐Cheng Wu

Abstract

Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is the most common cause for lumbar spinal surgery in

patients older than 65 years. A grading system for LSS is needed to allow precise

communication between clinicians and for assessment of treatment responses. At

present, there are two categories of grading systems-‐qualitative and quantitative.

However, there is always individual subjectivity of radiologists in those qualitative

classifications systems. To overcome the inter-‐reader variability, some studies have

focused on dural sac cross-‐sectional area (DSCSA) or dural sac anterior-‐posterior

diameter (DSAPD) for diagnosis or grading of LSS. However, these measurement methods

are time-‐consuming and not relevant to clinical symptoms even with the same values for

DSCSA or DSAPD. Herein, we propose a novel quantitative automated method to

measure the cross-‐section area of the CSF. This quantitative automated method has two

advantages: First, it is time-‐saving-‐ it automatedly calculates the CSA of the CSF. Second,

it provides objective and quantitative results. This study is to introduce this novel

quantitative automated method, evaluate its reliability, and compare it to other two

semiquantitative CSF-‐based classification systems.



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Sec 1.5

An Evolutionary Computation Approach to Menu

Creation for Hospital Meals

Teijiro Isokawa, Naotake Kamiura, and Nobuyuki Matsui

Abstract

The task of manually planning daily menus for hospital meals is a complex one as many

conditions for nutrition apply, and it is important to ease these burden of planning. This

task can be formulated as an optimization problem with menu items as variables and

with specific nutritional and allergic constraints. In this study, a menu creation scheme

was proposed to satisfy these conditions, which also took into consideration patients’

food preferences. A genetic algorithm was utilized to better and more efficiently locate

combinations of menu dishes for individual patients. The proposed scheme was

evaluated for a virtual patient with or without food allergies. The results demonstrated

that several candidates for a well-‐balanced five-‐ day menu could be proposed in either

case with this scheme.



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Sec 1.6

Mean/variance based gameplay data exploration for

player experience evaluation to increase adherence of

Kinect-‐game based rehabilitaiton exercises at long-‐term

care services

Tien-‐Lung Sun, Ta-‐Min Hung, Juei-‐Chao Chen, Kuo-‐Hung Lo, Chun Pei, and

Chien-‐Hua Huang

Abstract

This paper first presents a new formula that is able to calculate mean and variance with

one pass of data reading while still retaining accuracy. The new formulas support

interactive gameplay data exploration to analyze player’s experiences at Kinect game

based rehabilitation exercises at long-‐term care. Player experiences are used as

feedbacks to increase social connections between the long-‐term care delivery people and

the players. Closer social connection increases player’s adherence to the game and

motivate regular, routine rehabilitation exercises. The usage of the new mean/variance

formulas will be more apparent when large amount of gameplay data are collected from

many long-‐term care patients.



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Sec 2.1

Directed graph based text representation for

nursing-‐care text classification

Manabu Nii, Kazunobu Takahama, Takuya Iwamoto, Reiko Sakashita, and

Atsuko Uchinuno

Abstract

Japan is one of the most aging countries. In such aging countries the number of patients

increases, however, the number of nurses does not increase or may decrease. Therefore,

it is very important for every nurse to improve the quality of nursing-‐care. Nursing-‐care

quality evaluation is needed for improving their actual nursing. For evaluating

nursing-‐care, freestyle Japanese texts that include actual nursing description are

gathered through the Internet. Such texts are classified by a SVM based classification

system that is trained using some texts evaluated by nursing-‐care experts. In order to

classify texts, we need to apply some preprocessing methods. Extracting features is one

of such preprocessing methods. In this paper, we propose a directed graph based feature

definition. Nursing-‐care texts are represented using directed graph expression. From

some experimental results, it is shown that our directed graph based feature definition

has effectiveness for classifying nursing-‐care texts.



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Sec 2.2

Mobile Telemedicine System for Elderly Homecare:

Design and Implementation

Cheng-‐Wei Hu, Yauri Hartoyo, and Yung-‐Chung Wang

Abstract

Most of countries have a problem with growing population of elderly. The elderly needs

young people to take care of them. However, it is hard to do in these modern days where

productive peoples are busy more than ever. Telemedicine system is a solution for this

problem. Telemedicine system allows medical information exchanged from one site to

another via electronic devices. With a telemedicine system, young people can know the

situation of the elderly remotely. In this study, we create a telemedicine system for

elderly homecare using event detector, notification server and Android device. The event

detector will be connected to IP cameras and receives real-‐time image of elderly current

situation. The event detector has an application for analyzing the image using fall

detection system with human shape and shadow elimination method. Whenever a fall

event detected from the image, a notification will be sent to Android device through a

notification server and Google Cloud Messaging service. When notification arrives on

Android device, homecare giver can see the image where fall event detected and be able

to connect directly to IP camera to monitor the real-‐time situation.



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Sec 2.3

Electromagnetic Harvester by Damped Vibration of

Impulse Shock

Kohei Yamaguchi, Takayuki Fujita, Yuji Tanaka, Koki Yamamoto, Koji Sonoda,

Kensuke Kanda, and Kazusuke Maenaka

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce the possibility of power generation by using shock on the

human body. Common vibratory energy harvesters have an efficient operating frequency

for power generation, the resonance frequency of the system, and they are not suitable

for the vibration composed of broadband frequency. Thus, the harvesting from vibration

of human body is rather difficult. We propose power generation by using damped

vibration with impulse shock on human body. By this technique, input vibration is not

limitted by sinusoidal vibration but by impulse shock. We simulate generation power by

using damped vibration in order to obtain optimal device structure suitable for human

movement.



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Sec 3.1

Fully automated artery extraction from 3-‐D TOF MRA

images using fuzzy connectedness image segmentation

Syoji Kobashi, Tamotsu Nomura, Tomomoto Ishikawa, and Naotake Kamiura

Abstract

Artery extraction from magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) images is essential for

computer-‐aided diagnosis of aneurysm detection using MRA images. In literatures, some

methods have been studied; however, there are few discussions on fully-‐automation,

applicability to various MRI scanner or patient symptoms. This paper proposes a new

method for extracting arteries with fully and automatically from MRA images. The

method does not require any user interaction such as analysis parameter setting. It is

based on fuzzy connectedness image segmentation (FCIS). The method firsts roughly

segments the parenchymal region, and then finds intensity threshold parameters using

the segmented parenchymal region. Next, the method extracts the artery region by using

FCIS. The proposed method has been applied to both of 1.5 T and 3.0 T MRA images. And,

the subjects are with or without aneurysms, diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidaemia,

and/or cerebral infarction. It found thresholds parameters fully-‐automatically and

segmented the artery region preciously in all subjects except one subject.



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Sec 3.2

The Effects of Moderate Intensity Exercise on Heart Rate

Variability in Relieving Work Stress

Shing-‐Hong Liu, Ming-‐Zhu Chang, and Jia-‐Jung Wang

Abstract

Long-‐term endurance exercise could increase parasympathetic activity and decrease

sympathetic activity in the heart at rest. However, previous studies all focused on the

effect of endurance training on heart rate variability (HRV) for athletes or sedentary

subjects. Thus, the goal of this study was to elucidate the beneficial effect of moderate

intensity exercise on relieving work stress in elementary schoolteachers. There were 20

participants in the exercise group, and another 20 participants in the non-‐exercise group.

The exercising teachers performance 12 weeks of moderate intensity exercise training,

consisting on average of 30 minutes per day, 3 times per week. HRV was measure before

and after 4th, and 12th weeks. The TP, HF, RRI, SDNN, RMSSD, and SDSD had the

significant increases (all p< 0.001) after 12 weeks training. But, the TP, HF, SDNN, RMSSD,

and SDSD in the non-‐exercise group had the significant decreases (all p< 0.001) after 12

weeks. Moreover, the weight and body fat in both groups didn’t any change after 12

weeks. We conclude that the moderate intensity exercises can relieve the psychological

stress in elementary schoolteacher. But, it can’t change the physical status.



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Sec 3.3

Sojourn-‐Time Reduction for Patients at Department of

Cardiology

Naotake Kamiura, Syoji Kobashi and Kei Kuramoto, Takashi Fujii

Abstract

In this paper, a method of determining the order of medical examinations is presented to

reduce sojourn times for patients visiting a department of cardiology. The batch process

made in the nighttime determines the order of medical examinations for patients with

appointments. In the daytime, free time slots into which the examinations for patients

without appointments can be inserted are searched in the list of examinations generated

during the night. When determining orders, values randomly generated from surveillance

results are used as examination times. Experimental results show that the proposed

method achieves short sojourn times both for patients without appointments and for

those with appointments, compared with the determination manually made by a nurse.

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