Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics: 6th International Conference, ITBAM 2015, Valencia, Spain, September 3-4, 2015, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Book 9267)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics, ITBAM 2015, held in Valencia, Spain, in September 2015, in conjunction with DEXA 2015. The 9 revised long papers presented together with 1 poster paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 15 submissions. The papers address the following two topics: medical terminology and clinical processes and machine learning in biomedicine. Front Matter....Pages I-X Front Matter....Pages 1-1 From Literature to Knowledge: Exploiting PubMed to Answer Biomedical Questions in Natural Language....Pages 3-15 Using Twitter Data and Sentiment Analysis to Study Diseases Dynamics....Pages 16-24 An Open Data Approach for Clinical Appropriateness....Pages 25-33 Front Matter....Pages 35-35 A Logistic Regression Approach for Identifying Hot Spots in Protein Interfaces....Pages 37-48 The Discovery of Prognosis Factors Using Association Rule Mining in Acute Myocardial Infarction with ST-Segment Elevation....Pages 49-55 Data Mining Techniques in Health Informatics: A Case Study from Breast Cancer Research....Pages 56-70 Artificial Neural Networks in Diagnosis of Liver Diseases....Pages 71-80 How to Increase the Effectiveness of the Hepatitis Diagnostics by Means of Appropriate Machine Learning Methods....Pages 81-94 Ant-Inspired Algorithms for Decision Tree Induction....Pages 95-106 Front Matter....Pages 107-107 Microsleep Classifier Using EOG Channel Recording: A Feasibility Study....Pages 109-113 Back Matter....Pages 115-115 This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics, ITBAM 2013, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in August 2013, held in conjunction with DEXA 2013. The 7 revised long papers presented together with 4 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers address the following topics: critical health and intelligent systems in medical research, and obstetrics, neonatology and decision systems in cardiology.