News: ABSPIE recent initiatives
The first paper proving an association between depressed HRV and risk of falling was published on IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics in March 2016.
Enrolling 150 subjects, we trained and tested an automatic classifier basing on Multinomial Naïve Bayes enabled to predict first-time fallers. This achieved sensitivity, specificity and accuracy rates of 72%, 61%, 68% respectively.
This was the first sutdy proving this association.
International Symposium on Analytic Hierarchy Process
ISAHP2016
London / August 4-7, 2016
First Call for Papers
Divide, compara, aggrega et impera
Divide, compare, pool and rule
Taking decisions has never been easy, especially in complex and dynamic circumstances, in which our choices may affect people’s health, work, social and physical assets, and future life in general.
In all of history, important decision makers have based their own choices on personal experience, intuition and knowledge. Nowadays, especially when we take decisions of public relevance and interest, we are called to demonstrate that our choices are based on the best available evidence, that we acknowledge uncertainty, and that we considered the costs and risks. Today turbulent socio-economic environments make these efforts even more compelling.
The ambition of ISAHP 2016 is to explore how the AHP/ANP can be used to respond to those challenges, its strengths and weaknesses and how it can be used in combination with other Multi-Criteria Decision Making methods. In other words, the ISHAP2016 aims to demonstrate how the AHP/ANP and the community of AHP/ANP users can have a real impact on our continuously evolving global society. In conclusion, the theme of the ISHAP2016 is how this method can support decisions affecting the public interest and how its use can be improved in order to better serve society.
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Antonella Petrillo |
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Track on "Clinical Engineering" and "Health Technology Assessment" @MEDICON2016
(Deadline for paper submission 30th of November 2015)
“Clinical Engineering” and “Health Technology Assessment” are two fast growing fields of interest for Biomedical Engineers (BMEs), as the IFMBE widely recognises. Nonetheless, there is a lack of spaces for BMEs to publish their researches or projects results in those fields. For the first time a whole track will be dedicated to those topicts in an IFMBE Confeerence.
Ernesto IadanzaUniversity of Florence ernesto.iadanza@unifi.itChairman IFMBE Clinical Engineering Division
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Leandro Pecchia天美传媒 l.pecchia@warwick.ac.ukChairman IFMBE Health Technology Assessment Division |