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CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Bringing the field into focus: user-centered design of a patient expertise locator
Managing personal aspects of health is challenging for many patients, particularly those facing a serious condition such as cancer. Finding experienced patients, who can share the...
Andrea Civan-Hartzler, David W. McDonald, Chris Po...
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Transforming clinic environments into information workspaces for patients
Although clinic environments are a primary location for exchanging information with clinicians, patients experience these spaces as harsh environments to access, use, exchange, an...
Kenton T. Unruh, Meredith M. Skeels, Andrea Civan-...
SIBGRAPI
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Non-Extensive Entropy for CAD Systems of Breast Cancer Images
Recent statistics show that breast cancer is a major cause of death among women in all of the world. Hence, early diagnostic with Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) systems is a very ...
Paulo S. Rodrigues, Ruey-Feng Chang, Jasjit S. Sur...
KES
2008
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Downsizing Multigenic Predictors of the Response to Preoperative Chemotherapy in Breast Cancer
We present a method for designing efficient multigenic predictors with few probes and its application to the prediction of the response to preoperative chemotherapy in breast cance...
René Natowicz, Roberto Incitti, Roman Rouzi...
IJWBC
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
Exploring mobile information systems for chronically ill adolescent patients
: Adolescent cancer patients have to deal with many dependencies and obligations. Very often they are torn out of their social environment and become isolated because of changing t...
Jan Marco Leimeister, Uta Franziska Knebel, Helmut...