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Marques, J. A. L., Cortez, P. C., Madeiro, J. P. V., Albuquerque, V. H. C., Fong, S. J., & Schlindwein, F. S. (2020). Nonlinear characterization and complexity analysis of cardiotocographic examinations using entropy measures. Journal of Supercomputing, 76(2), 1305–1320. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-018-2570-8

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Armando Carlos Hombo Nogueira, Luis Miguel Pacheco, & Marcus Antonio Almeida Rodrigues. (2019). Influência da nova estrutura fiscal de impostos de Angola na gestão de escolas privadas do municipio do Lobito. Revista Gestao Em Analise. https://doi.org/10.12662/2359-618xregea.v8i2.p11-30.2019

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de Aguiar, A. W. O., Bezerra, J. D. H., Marques, J. A. L., & de Alexandria, A. R. (2019). Lead: An iOS Application to Help in the Construction of New Habits. International Journal of Information and Electronics Engineering, 9(4). http://www.ijiee.org/index.php?m=content&c=index&a=show&catid=87&id=820

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Do Vale Madeiro, J. P., Barreto, D., Marques, J. A. L., & Salinet, J. L. (2019). Evaluating Mathematical Models for Morphological Classification of the QRS Complex. Computing in Cardiology, 2019-September. https://doi.org/10.23919/CinC49843.2019.9005790

Marques, J. A. L., Cortez, P. C., Madeiro, J. P. D. V., Fong, S. J., Schlindwein, F. S., & Albuquerque, V. H. C. D. (2019). Automatic Cardiotocography Diagnostic System Based on Hilbert Transform and Adaptive Threshold Technique. IEEE Access, 7, 73085–73094. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2877933

The visual analysis of cardiotocographic examinations is a very subjective process. The accurate detection and segmentation of the fetal heart rate (FHR) features and their correlation with the uterine contractions in time allow a better diagnostic and the possibility of anticipation of many problems related to fetal distress. This paper presents a computerized diagnostic aid system based on digital signal processing techniques to detect and segment changes in the FHR and the uterine tone signals automatically. After a pre-processing phase, the FHR baseline detection is calculated. An auxiliary signal called detection line is proposed to support the detection and segmentation processes. Then, the Hilbert transform is used with an adaptive threshold for identifying fiducial points on the fetal and maternal signals. For an antepartum (before labor) database, the positive predictivity value (PPV) is 96.80% for the FHR decelerations, and 96.18% for the FHR accelerations. For an intrapartum (during labor) database, the PPV found was 91.31% for the uterine contractions, 94.01% for the FHR decelerations, and 100% for the FHR accelerations. For the whole set of exams, PPV and SE were both 100% for the identification of FHR DIP II and prolonged decelerations.

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NEGREIROS, J. G. M., & MARQUES, J. L. (2019). Microsoft Power BI Desktop for Data Analytics. Proc. Multidiscip. Acad. Conf, 132.

Li, T., Fong, S., Lobo Marques, J. A., & Wong, R. K. (2018). Fast Cluster-learning with Prior Probability from Big Dataset. 2018 5th International Conference on Soft Computing & Machine Intelligence (ISCMI), 60–66. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCMI.2018.8703219

Association Rule Mining by Aprior method has been one of the popular data mining techniques for decades, where knowledge in the form of item-association rules is harvested from a dataset. The quality of item-association rules nevertheless depends on the concentration of frequent items from the input dataset. When the dataset becomes large, the items are scattered far apart. It is known from previous literature that clustering helps produce some data groups which are concentrated with frequent items. Among all the data clusters generated by a clustering algorithm, there must be one or more clusters which contain suitable and frequent items. In turn, the association rules that are mined from such clusters would be assured of better qualities in terms of high confidence than those mined from the whole dataset. However, it is not known in advance which cluster is the suitable one until all the clusters are tried by association rule mining. It is time consuming if they were to be tested by brute-force. In this paper, a statistical property called prior probability is investigated with respect to selecting the best out of many clusters by a clustering algorithm as a pre-processing step before association rule mining. Experiment results indicate that there is correlation between prior probability of the best cluster and the relatively high quality of association rules generated from that cluster. The results are significant as it is possible to know which cluster should be best used for association rule mining instead of testing them all out exhaustively.

Lan, K., Li, T., Fong, S., Marques, J. A. L., & Wong, R. K. (2018). Multi-view Convolution Neural Network with Swarm Search Based Hyperparameter Optimization for Enhancing Heart Disease and Breast Cancer Detection. 5th International Conference on Soft Computing and Machine Intelligence, ISCMI 2018, 140–146. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCMI.2018.8703249

Lobo-Marques, J. Al. (2018). Artificial intelligence and forensic computing. In Forensic Computing.

Paulo do Vale Madeiro, J., César Cortez, Arnaldo Aires Peixoto Júnior, P., Alexandre Lôbo Marques, J., Alisson Pessoa Guimarães, A., & Hebert da Silva Felix, J. (2015). A Heart Rate Variability-based Smart Approach to Analyze Frailty in Older Adults. The Smart Computing Review. https://doi.org/10.6029/smartcr.2015.04.002

This paper presents an algorithm that applies metrics derived from automatic QRS detection and segmentation in electrocardiogram signals for analyzing Heart Rate Variability to study the evolution of metrics in the frequency domain of a clinical procedure. The analysis was performed on three sets of elderly people, who are categorized according to frailty phenotype. The first set was comprised of frail elderly, the second pre-frail elderly, and the third robust elderly. Investigators from many disciplines have been encouraged to contribute to the understanding of molecular and physiological changes in multiple systems that may increase the vulnerability of frail elderly. In this work, the frailty phenotype can be characterized by unintentional weight loss, as self-reported, fatigue assessed by self-report, grip strength (measured directly), physical activity level assessed by self-report and gait speed (measured). The results obtained demonstrate the existence of significant differences between Heart Rate Variability metrics for the three groups, especially considering a higher preponderance for sympathetic nervous system for the group of robust patients in response to postural maneuver.

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Gutiérrez-Adrianzén, O. A., Moraes, M. E. A., Almeida, A. P., Lima, J. W. O., Marinho, M. F., Marques, A. L., Madeiro, J. P. V., Nepomuceno, L., da Silva Jr, J. M. S., Silva Jr, G. B., Daher, E. F., & Rodrigues Sobrinho, C. R. M. (2015). Pathophysiological, cardiovascular and neuroendocrine changes in hypertensive patients during the hemodialysis session. Journal of Human Hypertension, 29(6), 366–372. https://doi.org/10.1038/jhh.2014.93

The pathophysiological mechanisms of arterial hypertension during hemodialysis (HD) in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) are still poorly understood. The aim of this study is to investigate physiological, cardiovascular and neuroendocrine changes in patients with ESRD and its correlation with changes in blood pressure (BP) during the HD session. The present study included 21 patients with ESRD undergoing chronic HD treatment. Group A (study) consisted of patients who had BP increase and group B (control) consisted of those who had BP reduction during HD session. Echocardiograms were performed during the HD session to evaluate cardiac output (CO) and systemic vascular resistance (SVR). Before and after the HD session, blood samples were collected to measure brain natriuretic peptide (BNP), catecholamines, endothelin-1 (ET-1), nitric oxide (NO), electrolytes, hematocrit, albumin and nitrogen substances. The mean age of the studied patients was 43±4.9 years, and 54.6% were males. SVR significantly increased in group A (P<0.001). There were no differences in the values of BNP, NO, adrenalin, dopamin and noradrenalin, before and after dialysis, between the two groups. The mean value of ET-1, post HD, was 25.9 pg ml−1 in group A and 13.3 pg ml−1 in group B (P=<0.001). Patients with ESRD showed different hemodynamic patterns during the HD session, with significant BP increase in group A, caused by an increase in SVR possibly due to endothelial dysfunction, evidenced by an increase in serum ET-1 levels.

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Lobo Marques, J. A. (July 21). Finding the “BUY BUTTON”. The creation of the Laboratory of Neuroeconomics at USJ [Conference]. 12th International Conference on E-business, Management and Economics (ICEME 2021), Beijing China.

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