Methods, Models, and Computation for Medical Informatics is a comprehensive collection of research on computational capabilities, prototypes, and algorithms, as well as application in the areas of nursing, clinical care, public health, biomedical research, and much more. This book provides a better understanding of the models and methods used in the field of medicine for researchers, practitioners, and medical professionals alike.

Table of Contents and List of Contributors

1. Relevance of Mesh Dimension Optimization, Geometry Simplification and Discretization Accuracy in the Study of Mechanical Behavior of Bare Metal Stents
Mariacristina Gagliardi (University of Pisa, Italy)

2. A Framework for Multidimensional Real-Time Data Analysis: A Case Study for the Detection of Apnoea of Prematurity
Christina Catley (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada), Kathy Smith (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada), Carolyn McGregor (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada), Andrew James (The Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, Canada), J. Mikael Eklund (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)

3. Subspace Discovery for Disease Management: A Case Study in Metabolic Syndrome
Josephine Namayanja (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA), Vandana P. Janeja (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA)

4. Similarity Searching of Medical Image Data in Distributed Systems: Facilitating Telemedicine Applications
Amalia Charisi (University of Patras, Greece), Panagiotis Korvesis (University of Patras, Greece), Vasileios Megalooikonomou (University of Patras, Greece, and Temple University, USA)

5. Identifying Temporal Changes and Topics that Promote Growth Within Online Communities: A Prospective Study of Six Online Cancer Forums
Kathleen T. Durant (Silverlink Communications, USA), Alexa T. McCray (Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, USA), Charles Safran (Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, USA)

6. The Role of Information and Computer Technology for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and the Facial Expression Wonderland (FEW)
Rung-Yu Tseng (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA), Ellen Yi-Luen Do (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

7. Information Therapy (Ix) Service and Patients’ Preference
Vahideh Zarea Gavgani (Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Iran)

8. Bring Out Your Data: The Evolution of the National Anesthesia Clinical Outcomes Registry (NACOR)
Thomas E. Grissom (University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA), Andrew DuKatz (University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA), Hubert A. Kordylewski (Anesthesia Quality Institute, USA), Richard P. Dutton (University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA)

9. Portable Devices to Detect Directed Energy: User Perceptions of Personal Risk and Protective Devices
Andrew D. Boyd (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA), Melissa Naiman (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA), Richard Preston (Sensing Strategies, USA), Greer Stevenson (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA), Annette L. Valenta (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)

10. Developing the Performance of Tiling Arrays
Mohamed Abdelhamid Abbas (King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia)

11. Scalability of Piecewise Synonym Identification in Integration of SNOMED into the UMLS
Kuo-Chuan Huang (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA), James Geller (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA), Michael Halper (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA), Gai Elhanan (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA), Yehoshua Perl (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)

12. Understanding Weight Change Behaviors through Online Social Networks
Xiaoxiao Ma (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA), Guanling Chen (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA), Juntao Xiao (Jiangsu HanWin Technology Co. Ltd., China)

13. Social Credential-Based Role Recommendation and Patient Privacy Control in Medical Emergency
Soon Ae Chun (CUNY—College of Staten Island, USA), Joon Hee Kwon (Kyonggi University, Korea), Haesung Lee (Kyonggi University, Korea)

14. Privacy Preserving Principal Component Analysis Clustering for Distributed Heterogeneous Gene Expression Datasets
Xin Li (Georgetown University Medical Center, USA)

15. An Early Robot Architecture for Cancer Healing
Mohamed Abdelhamid Abbas (King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia)