Biomedical Statistics and Informatics

Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2017

  • Cancer Cases in Kenya; Forecasting Incidents Using Box & Jenkins Arima Model

    Amos Langat, George Orwa, Joel Koima

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2017
    Pages: 37-48
    Received: 13 December 2016
    Accepted: 17 January 2017
    Published: 15 February 2017
    DOI: 10.11648/j.bsi.20170202.11
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    Abstract: The aim of the study was to fit appropriate time series models in assessing the accuracy of the Box Jenkins and ARIMA model in forecasting of Cancer case admissions for all people of any age from different health facilities across the country. Box-Jenkins was selected for evaluation because it has the potential of producing a point forecast within ... Show More
  • Design and Analysis of Hexagon Microstrip Patch Sierpinski Carpet Antenna

    T. Jayanthy, D. Rajeswari

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2017
    Pages: 49-53
    Received: 11 January 2017
    Accepted: 24 January 2017
    Published: 21 February 2017
    DOI: 10.11648/j.bsi.20170202.12
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    Abstract: In the present paper a detailed study of a new compacted hexagon microstrip patch antenna using fractal ground plane and shorting pin is presented. The design process starts by a simple hexagon patch antenna fed by a microstrip line and simulated in the frequency range of 3.1GHz-10.8GHz. The fractal geometry used here is Sierpinski carpets method. ... Show More
  • Noise Pollution and Control in Mechanical Processing Wood Industries

    Mayowa Jacob Owoyemi, Babajide Charles Falemara, Ayomide Joseph Owoyemi

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2017
    Pages: 54-60
    Received: 8 January 2017
    Accepted: 6 February 2017
    Published: 24 February 2017
    DOI: 10.11648/j.bsi.20170202.13
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    Abstract: High level of noise is a disturbance to the human environment. Noise in industries is also an occupational hazard because of its attendant effects on workers’ health. Noise presents health and social problems in industrial operations, and the source is related to the machineries used in the industries. One of the unique features of the noise associ... Show More
  • Causality in Medicine and Its Relationship with the Role of Statistics

    Antonio Monleon-Getino, Jaume Canela-Soler

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2017
    Pages: 61-68
    Received: 17 January 2017
    Accepted: 4 February 2017
    Published: 24 February 2017
    DOI: 10.11648/j.bsi.20170202.14
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    Abstract: The general goal of this work is the clarification of the use of concepts of causality in medicine and its relationship with the role of statistics. The value of an association is the evidence of causality. The Bradford Hill considerations on causality are the criteria commonly used to infer causality. Statistics help to know the role of chance in ... Show More
  • An Empirical Study on Impact of Customers’ Satisfaction and Loyalty Towards Hospitals in Coimbatore City

    S. Shanmugapriya, K. Arun Kumar, P. Kiruthika, L. Priya

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2017
    Pages: 69-72
    Received: 29 November 2016
    Accepted: 6 February 2017
    Published: 27 February 2017
    DOI: 10.11648/j.bsi.20170202.15
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    Abstract: In the competitive world number of Hospitals have been emerged and captured the market too. Almost every one of us is using hospitals for their health care. Each hospital has been providing different Treatment methods with specialized doctors, and introducing innovation equipment to retain the customers. In fact, it is a daunting task for each Hosp... Show More
  • Automatic Brain Tumor Detection in MRI Using Image Processing Techniques

    Mariam Saii, Zaid Kraitem

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2017
    Pages: 73-76
    Received: 6 January 2017
    Accepted: 3 February 2017
    Published: 1 March 2017
    DOI: 10.11648/j.bsi.20170202.16
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    Abstract: The research offers a fully automatic method for tumor segmentation on Magnetic Resonance Images MRI. In this method, at first in the preprocessing level, anisotropic diffusion filter is applied to the image by 8-connected neighborhood for removing noise from it. In the second step, using Support Vector Machine SVM Classifier for tumor detection ac... Show More
  • Towards Internet of Things Supported Active Ageing and Home-Care

    Basile Spyropoulos

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2017
    Pages: 77-86
    Received: 15 January 2017
    Accepted: 7 February 2017
    Published: 9 March 2017
    DOI: 10.11648/j.bsi.20170202.17
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    Abstract: Population-ageing, due to rising life expectancy, has been observed in most Western and the developed Asian-Pacific countries. It is important to ensure for the ageing population, the necessary technical-background, the medical-managerial environment and the social-economic conditions, ensuring a better perspective for their “third age”. WHO summar... Show More
  • A Family of Recurrence Generated Functions Based on “Half–Hyperbolic Tangent Activation Function”

    Vesselin Kyurkchiev, Nikolay Kyurkchiev

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2017
    Pages: 87-94
    Received: 9 January 2017
    Accepted: 1 March 2017
    Published: 22 March 2017
    DOI: 10.11648/j.bsi.20170202.18
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    Abstract: In this note we construct a family of recurrence generated parametric half hyperbolic tangent activation functions. We prove precise upper and lower estimates for the Hausdorff approximation of the sign function by means of this family. Numerical examples, illustrating our results are given.