Digital devices for health conditions

Developing cutting edge applications, tools and devices aimed at predicting and managing health conditions

Elderly woman's hand and wrist, wearing a smart watch

Digital health is revolutionising healthcare by shifting from a traditional face-to-face model to real-time personalised monitoring and care.

Digital devices, including software (such as mobile health apps, AI software frameworks) and hardware (like sensors and wearable devices), can facilitate disease prevention, early diagnosis and chronic condition management outside traditional healthcare settings.

The Centre for Health Technology is actively engaged in developing cutting-edge applications, AI tools, and wearable devices aimed at predicting the risk of stroke, facilitating early intervention for heart failure, and detecting Alzheimer’s disease at its earliest stages, to name a few. We collaborate closely with both clinical and non-clinical partners, bringing together expertise from both research institutes and industry at national and international levels.

Our projects

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Wysa: AI enabled mental health app

Utilising user-friendly technology and traditional resources to support home-based Parkinson's care.

Childbearing women with epilepsy engaging with digital health technology

Publications

2024

Beer, O. W. J., McInroy, L. B., Hefner, J., & Beer, S. E. (2024). Examining the feasibility and acceptability of an online mindfulness-based stress reduction program for frontline child protection social workers in England. Journal of Public Child Welfare. https://doi.org/10.1080/15548732.2024.2312838

Haughtigan, K., Griffiths, A., Link, K., Beer, O. W. J., & Powell, K. (2024). Lessons learned: Facilitating a health and wellness intervention for frontline child welfare workers during COVID-19. Child Welfare: Journal of Policy, Practice, and Program, 101(4), 31-51. https://www.cwla.org/child-welfare-journal/

Singh OP, Bocchino A, Guillerm T, Hu Y, Stam F, O'Mahony C. Flexible, Conductive Fabric‐Backed, Microneedle Electrodes for Electrophysiological Monitoring. Advanced Materials Technologies. 2024 Feb;9(3):2301606.

2023

Ahmed Alsayat, Hossein Ahmadi, A Hybrid Method Using Ensembles of Neural Network and Text Mining for Learner Satisfaction Analysis from Big Datasets in Online Learning Platform, Neural Processing Letters, volume 55, pages 3267–3303 (2023). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11063-022-11009-y

Ahmed Alsayat, Hossein Ahmadi, Workers’ Opinions on Using the Internet of Things to Enhance the Performance of the Olive Oil Industry: A Machine Learning Approach, Processes, 11(1), 2023, 271. https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9717/11/1/271

Bradwell HL, Cooper L, Edwards KJ On behalf of the GOALD project, et al Staff perceptions towards virtual reality-motivated treadmill exercise for care home residents: a qualitative feedback study with key stakeholders and follow-up interview with technology developer BMJ Open 2023;13:e073307. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-073307

E. Longo, B. Burnett, S. Bauermeister, S.-M. Zhou‡, “Identifying dynamic patterns of polypharmacy for patients with dementia from primary care electronic health records: A machine learning driven longitudinal study”, Ageing and Disease, 14(2), April 2023 (http://www.aginganddisease.org/EN/10.14336/AD.2022.0829) (‡Corresponding author)

Goli Arji, Hossein Ahmadi, Pejman Avazpoor, Morteza Hemmat, Identifying resilience strategies for disruption management in the healthcare supply chain during COVID-19 by digital innovations: A systematic literature review, Informatics in Medicine Unlocked, Volume 38, 2023, 101199. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352914823000412

Griffiths, A., Link, K., Haughtigan, K., Beer, O. W. J., Powell, L., & Royse, D. (2023). Physiological evidence of escalating stress during COVID-19: A longitudinal assessment of child welfare workers. Journal of Public Child Welfare, 18(1), 158-181. https://doi.org/10.1080/15548732.2023.2182396

Link, K., Griffiths, A., Haughtigan, K., Beer, O. W. J., & Powell, L. (2023). Child welfare workforce health: Exploring stress, burnout, depression, and sleep during COVID-19. Child Welfare: Journal of Policy, Practice, and Program, 101(5), 79-103. https://www.cwla.org/child-welfare-journal/

Mehrbakhsh Nilashi, Rabab Ali Abumalloh, Hossein Ahmadi, Sarminah Samad, Abdullah Alghamdi, Mesfer Alrizq, Sultan Alyami, Fatima Khan Nayer, Electroencephalography (EEG) eye state classification using learning vector quantization and bagged trees, Heliyon, 9 (2023). https://www.cell.com/heliyon/pdf/S2405-8440(23)02465-9.pdf

Mehrbakhsh Nilashi, Rabab Ali, Sarminah Samad, Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli, Ha Hang Thi, OA Alghamdi, Muhammed Yousoof Ismail, Hossein Ahmadi, The Impact of Multi-Criteria Ratings in Social Networking Sites on the Performance of Online Recommendation Agents, Telematics and Informatics, Volume 76, January 2023, 101919. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11063-022-11009-y

Oscar Rodríguez-Espíndola, Hossein Ahmadi, Diego Gastélum-Chavira, Omar Ahumada-Valenzuela, Soumyadeb Chowdhury, Prasanta Kumar Dey, Pavel Albores, Humanitarian logistics optimization models: An investigation of decision-maker involvement and directions to promote implementation, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Volume 89, October 2023, 101669. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0038012123001817

Technology in Action: Examples from GOALD and ICONIC projects. Professor Ray Jones MBE and colleagues.

Watson, P.W.L., House, S., Hart, R., Abbas, J., Asthana, S., Gaudl, S.E. (2023). A Case Study Using Virtual Reality to Prime Knowledge for Procedural Medical Training. In: Abdelnour Nocera, J., Kristín Lárusdóttir, M., Petrie, H., Piccinno, A., Winckler, M. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2023. INTERACT 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14145. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42293-5_15

2022

Cortina Borja, M., Stander, J. and Sebastiani, G. (2022) On Sir David Cox's publications. Significance 19 (2):39-40 Apr 2022. https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1740-9713.01634

Dema, E., Stander, J., Cortina-Borja, M., Thorne, C. and Bailey, H. (2022) Estimating the number of livebirths to Hepatitis C seropositive women in England in 2013 and 2018 using Bayesian modelling. PLOS ONE. November 21, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0274389

Giorgi I, Tirotto FA, Hagen O, Aider F, Gianni M, Palomino M & Masala GL (2022) 'Friendly But Faulty: A Pilot Study on the Perceived Trust of Older Adults in a Social Robot' IEEE Access 10, 92084-92096 , DOI Open access

Haynes C, Palomino MA, Stuart L, Viira D, Hannon F, Crossingham G & Tantam K (2022) 'Automatic Classification of National Health Service Feedback' Mathematics 10, (6) , DOI Open access

Khan A, Milne-Ives M, Meinert E, Iyawa GE, Jones RB & Josephraj AN (2022) 'A Scoping Review of Digital Twins in the Context of the Covid-19 Pandemic' Biomedical Engineering and Computational Biology 13, DOI Open access

L. Huo, L. Bai, S.-M. Zhou‡, “Automatically Generating Natural Language Descriptions of Images by A Deep Hierarchical Framework.” IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 52(8), pp7441-7452, 2022 (‡Corresponding author) (https://doi.org/10.1109/TCYB.2020.3041595).

Maramba ID, Jones R, Austin D, Edwards K, Meinert E & Chatterjee A (2022) 'The Role of Health Kiosks: Scoping Review' JMIR Medical Informatics 10, (3) , DOI Open access

Mehrbakhsh Nilashi, Rabab Ali Abumalloh, Mesfer Alrizq, Ahmed Almulihi, OA Alghamdi, Murtaza Farooque, Sarminah Samad, Saidatulakmal Mohd, Hossein Ahmadi, A Hybrid Method to Solve Data Sparsity in Travel Recommendation Agents Using Fuzzy Logic Approach, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Volume 2022. https://www.hindawi.com/journals/mpe/2022/7372849/

Milne-Ives M, Fraser L, Khan A, Walker D, van Velthoven MH, May J, Wolfe I, Harding T & Meinert E (2022) 'Life.course digital T.wins – I.ntelligent M.onitoring for E.arly and continuous intervention and prevention (LifeTIME): Proposal for a proof-of-concept study' JMIR Research Protocols 11, (5) , DOI Open access

Milne-Ives M, Selby E, Inkster B, Lam C & Meinert E (2022) 'Artificial intelligence and machine learning in mobile apps for mental health: A scoping review' PLOS Digital Health 1, (8) , DOI Open access

Miranda E & Siegelwax BN (2022) 'Teaching Qubits to Sing: Mission Impossible?' International Journal of Unconventional Computing 17, (4) 303-331 Author Site Publisher Site Open access

Miranda E, Venkatesh S, Martin-Guerrero JD, Hernani-Morales C, Lamata L & Solano E (2022) 'An approach to interfacing the brain with quantum computers: practical steps and caveats' International Journal of Unconventional Computing 17, (3) Publisher Site Open access

Miranda ER, Martín-Guerrero JD, Venkatesh S, Hernani-Morales C, Lamata L & Solano E (2022) 'Quantum Brain Networks: A Perspective' Electronics 11, (10) , DOI Open access

Neda Ahmadi, Mehrbakhsh Nilashi, Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli, Murtaza Farooque, Sarminah Samad, Nojood O. Aljehane, Waleed Abdu Zogaan, Hossein Ahmadi, Eye State Identification Utilizing EEG Signals: A Combined Method Using Self-Organizing Map and Deep Belief Network, Scientific Programming, Volume 2022. https://www.hindawi.com/journals/sp/2022/4439189/

Palomino MA & Aider F (2022) 'Evaluating the Effectiveness of Text Pre-Processing in Sentiment Analysis' Applied Sciences 12, (17) 8765-8765 , DOI Open access

Prestige, E., Stander, J. and Wei, Y. (2022) Covid lockdowns in the UK: Estimating their effects on transmission. Significance 19 (2):14-18 Apr 2022. https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1740-9713.01628

Sankaran G, Palomino MA, Knahl M & Siestrup G (2022) 'A Modeling Approach for Measuring the Performance of a Human-AI Collaborative Process' Applied Sciences 12, (22) 11642-11642 , DOI Open access

S-M. Zhou, R. A. Lyons, M. A Rahman, A. Holborow, S. Brophy. " Predicting hospital readmission for campylobacteriosis from electronic health records: A machine learning and text mining perspective", Journal of Personalized Medicine, 2022, 12(1), 86; (https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm12010086).

Venkatesh S, Miranda ER & Braund E (2022) 'SSVEP-based Brain-computer Interface for Music using a Low-density EEG System' Assistive Technology , DOI Open access

Venkatesh S, Moffat D & Miranda ER (2022) 'You Only Hear Once: A YOLO-like Algorithm for Audio Segmentation and Sound Event Detection' Applied Sciences 12, (7) , DOI Open access

Vranopoulos G, Clarke N & Atkinson S (2022) 'Addressing big data variety using an automated approach for data characterization' Journal Of Big Data 9, (1) , DOI Open access

Zahra Ahmed Almowil, Shang-Ming Zhou, Jodie Croxall, and Sinead Brophy. “Concept libraries for repeatable and reusable research: a qualitative study exploring the needs of users.” JMIR Human Factors, 2022 Mar 15;9(1):e31021.

2021

Aguiar Noury G, Walmsley A, Jones RB, Gaudl SE (2021) The Barriers of the Assistive Robotics Market—What Inhibits Health Innovation? Sensors Vol.21 Iss.9 10.3390/s21093111 http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/17260

Ali Ahani, Mehrbakhsh Nilashi, Waleed Abdu Zogaan, Sarminah Samad, Nojood O. Aljehane, Ashwaq Alhargan, Saidatulakmal Mohd, Hossein Ahmadi, Louis Sanzogni, Evaluating medical travelers’ satisfaction through online review analysis, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Volume 48, September 2021, 519-537. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1447677021001261

Alobaidi H, Clarke N, Li F & AbdulrahmanAlruban (2021) 'Real-World Smartphone-based Gait Recognition' Computers and Security 113, , DOI Open access

Bradwell HL, Aguiar Noury GE, Edwards KJ, Winnington R, Thill S & Jones RB (2021) 'Design recommendations for socially assistive robots for health and social care based on a large scale analysis of stakeholder positions' Health Policy and Technology 10, (3) , DOI Open access

Bradwell HL, Edwards K, Shenton D, Winnington R, Thill S & Jones RB (2021) 'User-Centered Design of Companion Robot Pets Involving Care Home Resident-Robot Interactions and Focus Groups With Residents, Staff, and Family: Qualitative Study' JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies 8, (4) , DOI Open access

Chia, K.P., Li, O.K., Yuong, T.S., Singh, O.P., Faudzi, A.A.B.M., Sornambikai, S. and Madhanagopal, J., 2021. New real-time force monitoring device with enhanced accuracy for evaluation of applied force during the joint mobilization technique. Technology and Health Care, 29(4), pp.829-836.

de Pennington N, Mole G, Lim E, Milne-Ives M, Normando E, Xue K, Meinert E (2021) Safety and acceptability of a natural-language AI assistant to deliver clinical follow-up to cataract surgery

Eke CS, Jammeh E, Li X, Carroll C, Pearson S & Ifeachor E (2021) 'Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease with Blood Plasma Proteins Using Support Vector Machines' IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics 25, (1) 218-226 , DOI Open access

El-Badawy, I.M., Singh, O.P. and Omar, Z., 2021. Automatic classification of regular and irregular capnogram segments using time-and frequency-domain features: A machine learning-based approach. Technology and Health Care, 29(1), pp.59-72.

Fabiola Fernández-Gutiérrez, Jonathan I. Kennedy, Roxanne Cooksey, Mark Atkinson, Ernest Choy, Sinead Brophy, Lin Huo, Shang-Ming Zhou‡,“Mining primary care electronic health records for automatic disease phenotyping: A transparent machine learning framework.” Diagnostics, 2021, 11, 1908. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics11101908 (‡Corresponding author).

G. Tsang, S.-M. Zhou, and X. Xie, "Modeling Large Sparse Data for Feature Selection: Hospital Admission Predictions of the Dementia Patients Using Primary Care Electronic Health Records," in IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine, vol. 9, pp. 1-13, 2021 (https://doi.org/10.1109/JTEHM.2020.3040236).

Huo L, Bai L, Zhou S-M (2021) Automatically Generating Natural Language Descriptions of Images by a Deep Hierarchical Framework IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CYBERNETICS 10.1109/tcyb.2020.3041595

Iyawa GE, Dansharif AR & Khan A (2021) 'Mobile apps for self-management in pregnancy: a systematic review' Health and Technology 11, (2) 283-294 , DOI Open access

K. Morgan, S.-M. Zhou‡, R. Hill, R. Lyons, S. Paranjothy and S. Brophy., “Identifying prenatal and postnatal determinants of infant growth: A structural equation modelling based cohort analysis,” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021, 18, 10265. (https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910265) (‡Corresponding author).

Lambert JD, Elliott LR, Taylor AH, Farrand P, Haase AM, Greaves CJ (2021) A novel method for assessing design fidelity in web-based behavioral interventions. HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY Vol.40 Iss.3 10.1037/hea0001046 http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/17792

Leila Shahmoradi, Sohrab Almasi, Hossein Ahmadi, Azadeh Bashiri, Tania Azadi, Alireza Mirbagherie, Noureddin Nakhostin Ansar, Roshanak Honarpishe, Virtual Reality Games for Rehabilitation of Upper Extremities in Stroke Patients, Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies, Volume 26, April 2021, Pages 113-122. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136085922030187X

Leila Shahmoradi, Reza Safdari, Hossein Ahmadi, Maryam Zahmatkeshan, Clinical decision support systems-based interventions to improve medication outcomes: A systematic literature review on features and effects, Medical Journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran (MJIRI), Volume 35, Issue 1, 1-2021.
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McInroy, L. B., & Beer, O. W. J. (2021). Adapting vignettes for online social science survey research. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 25(3), 335-347. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2021.1901440

Mehesz E, Karoui H, Strutton PH, Hughes SW (2021) Exposure to an Immersive Virtual Reality Environment can Modulate Perceptual Correlates of Endogenous Analgesia and Central Sensitization in Healthy Volunteers THE JOURNAL OF PAIN Vol.22 Iss.6 10.1016/j.jpain.2020.12.007

Mehrbakhsh Nilashi, Sarminah Samadi,Ali Ahani, Hossein Ahmadi, Eesa Alsolami, Marwan Mahmoud, Hamsa D. Majeed, Ala Abdulsalam Alarood, Big social data and customer decision making in vegetarian restaurants: A combined machine learning method, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Volume 62, September 2021, 02630. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S096969892100196X

Mehrbakhsh Nilashi, Sarminah Samadi,Ali Ahani, Hossein Ahmadi, Eesa Alsolami, Marwan Mahmoud, Hamsa D. Majeed, Ala Abdulsalam Alarood, Travellers decision making through preferences learning: a case on Malaysian spa hotels in TripAdvisor, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Volume 158, August 2021, 107348. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0360835221002527

Milne-Ives M, Lam C & Meinert E (2021) 'Digital technologies for monitoring and improving treatment adherence in children and adolescents with asthma: A scoping review of randomised controlled trials' JMIR Public Health and Surveillance 4, (3) , DOI Open access

Miranda ER (2021) Handbook of Artificial Intelligence for Music Foundations, Advanced Approaches, and Developments for Creativity. Springer Nature

Norman A, Baptie G, Andrade J, Bacon A (2021) Virtually renovating the Trauma Film Paradigm: Comparing Virtual Reality with on-screen presentation of an analogue trauma CYBERPSYCHOLOGY: JOURNAL OF PSYCHOSOCIAL RESEARCH ON CYBERPSPACE Vol.15 Iss.1 10.5817/CP2021-1-6 http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/16736

Raj ANJ, Zhu H, Khan A, Zhuang Z, Yang Z, Mahesh VGV & Karthik G (2021) 'ADID-UNET—a segmentation model for COVID-19 infection from lung CT scans' PeerJ Computer Science 7, Publisher Site , DOI Open access

S.-M. Zhou, F. Chiclana, R. I. John, J. M. Garibaldi, and L. Huo, “Type-1 OWA Operators in Aggregating Multiple Sources of Uncertain Information: Properties and Real World Application in Integrated Diagnosis,” IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, vol.29, no.8, pp. 2112-2121, 2021 (https://doi.org/10.1109/TFUZZ.2020.2992909).

Singh, O.P., El-Badawy, I.M. and Malarvili, M.B., 2021. Design and validation of a handheld capnography device for cardiopulmonary assessment based on the Arduino platform. Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, 14(06), p.2150015.

Singh, O.P., Vallejo, M., El-Badawy, I.M., Aysha, A., Madhanagopal, J. and Faudzi, A.A.M., 2021. Classification of SARS-CoV-2 and non-SARS-CoV-2 using machine learning algorithms. Computers in biology and medicine, 136, p.104650.

Sohrab Almasi, Hossein Ahmadi, Farkhondeh Asadi, Leila Shahmoradi, Goli Arji, Mojtaba Alizadeh, Hoshang Kolivand 6, Kinect-based rehabilitation systems for stroke patients: a scoping review, BioMed research international, Volume 67, November 2021, 101766. https://www.hindawi.com/journals/bmri/2022/4339054/

Somayeh Nasiri, Farahnaz Sadoughi, Afsaneh Dehnad, Mohammad Hesam Tadayon, Hossein Ahmadi, Layered Architecture for Internet of Things-Based Healthcare System: A Systematic Literature Review, Informatica, Vol 45, No 4 (2021). https://www.informatica.si/index.php/informatica/article/view/3601

Surodina S, Lam C, Grbich S, Milne-Ives M, van Velthoven M, Meinert E (2021) Authors’ Response to Peer Reviews of “Machine Learning for Risk Group Identification and User Data Collection in a Herpes Simplex Virus Patient Registry: Algorithm Development and Validation Study” JMIRX MED Vol.2 Iss.2 10.2196/28917

Surodina S, Lam C, Grbich S, Milne-Ives M, van Velthoven M, Meinert E (2021) Machine Learning for Risk Group Identification and User Data Collection in a Herpes Simplex Virus Patient Registry: Algorithm Development and Validation Study JMIRX MED Vol.2 Iss.2 10.2196/25560

Terbeck S, Charlesford J, Clemans H, Pope E, Lee A, Turner J, Gummerum M, Bussmann B (2021) Physical Presence during Moral Action in Immersive Virtual Reality INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH Vol.18 Iss.15 10.3390/ijerph18158039 [Online]

Z. Almowil, S.-M. Zhou and S. Brophy. “Concept Libraries for Automatic Electronic Health Record Based Phenotyping: A Review.” International Journal of Population Data Science, 2021 Jun 16;6(1):1362 (https://doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v5i1.1362)

2020

Babiloni C, Blinowska K, Bonanni L, Cichocki A, De Haan W, Del Percio C, Dubois B, Escudero J, Fernández A & Frisoni G (2020) 'What electrophysiology tells us about Alzheimer's disease: a window into the synchronization and connectivity of brain neurons' Neurobiology of Aging 85, 58-73 , DOI

Barakabitze AA, Mkwawa I-H, Hines A, Sun L & Ifeachor E (2020) 'QoEMultiSDN: Management of Multimedia Services using MPTCP/SR in Softwarized and Virtualized Networks' IEEE Access 1-1 , DOI Open access

Baxter R, Smith A (2020) Searching for individual determinants of probabilistic cueing in large-scale immersive virtual environments Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 10.1177/1747021820969148 http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/16446

Blesse C, Kharko A, Locher C, DesRoches CM, Mandl KD (2020) US primary care in 2029: A Delphi survey on the impact of machine learning PLOS ONE Vol.15 Iss.10 10.1371/journal.pone.0239947 http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/16496

Bradwell HL, Johnson CW, Lee J, Winnington R, Thill S, Jones RB (2020) Microbial contamination and efficacy of disinfection procedures of companion robots in care homes PLOS ONE Vol.15 Iss.8 10.1371/journal.pone.0237069 http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/16278

Bradwell HL, Winnington R, Thill S, Jones RB (2020) Ethical perceptions towards real-world use of companion robots with older people and people with dementia: survey opinions among younger adults BMC GERIATRICS Vol.20 Iss.1 10.1186/s12877-020-01641-5 http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/16279

de Cock C, Milne-Ives M, van Velthoven MH, Alturkistani A, Lam C & Meinert E (2020) 'Effectiveness of Conversational Agents (Virtual Assistants) in Health Care: Protocol for a Systematic Review' JMIR Research Protocols 9, (3) e16934-e16934 , DOI

Gianni, M. Uddin, M. S. (2020). Role and task allocation framework for Multi-Robot Collaboration with latent knowledge estimation. Engineering Reports. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Mehrbakhsh Nilashi, Hossein Ahmadi, Abbas Sheikhtaheri, Roya Naemi, Reem Alotaibi, Ala Abdulsalam Alarood, Asmaa Munshi, Tarik A. Rashid, Jing Zhao, Remote Tracking of Parkinson's Disease Progression Using Ensembles of Deep Belief Network and Self-Organizing Map, Expert Systems with Applications, Volume 159, 30 November 2020, 113562. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0957417420303869

Mehrbakhsh Nilashi, Hossein Ahmadi, Azizah Abdul Manaf, Tarik A. Rashid, Sarminah Samad, Leila Shahmoradi, Nahla Aljojo, Elnaz Akbari, Coronary Heart Disease Diagnosis Through Self-Organizing Map and Fuzzy Support Vector Machine with Incremental Updates, International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, 2, 1376–1388 (2020). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40815-020-00828-7#auth-1

Mehrbakhsh Nilashi, Neda Ahmadi, Sarminah Samad, Leila Shahmoradi, Hossein Ahmadi, Othman Ibrahim, Shahla Asadi, Rusli Abdullah, Rabab Ali Abumalloh, Elahe Yadegari, Disease Diagnosis Using Machine Learning Techniques: A Review and Classification, Journal of Soft Computing and Decision Support Systems, Volume 7, Issue 1, 12 March 2020. https://www.jscdss.com/index.php/files/article/view/224/pdf_266

Meinert E, Lam C, van Velthoven M (2020) Developing a blockchain-based supply chain system for advanced therapies: study protocol JMIR RESEARCH PROTOCOLS Vol.9 Iss.12 10.2196/17005 http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/16384

Milne-Ives M, de Cock C, Lim E, Shehadeh M, de Pennington N, Mole G, Meinert E (2020) The effectiveness of artificial intelligence conversational agents in healthcare: a systematic review JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH Vol.22 Iss.10 10.2196/20346 http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/16225

Milne-Ives M, de Cock C, Lim E, Shehadeh M, de Pennington N, Mole G & Meinert E (2020) 'The effectiveness of artificial intelligence conversational agents in healthcare: a systematic review' Journal of Medical Internet Research 22, (10) , DOI Open access

Milne-Ives M, Lam C, De Cock C, Van Velthoven MH & Meinert E (2020) 'Mobile Apps for Health Behavior Change in Physical Activity, Diet, Drug and Alcohol Use, and Mental Health: Systematic Review' JMIR mHealth and uHealth 8, (3) e17046-e17046 , DOI

Milne-Ives M, Lam C, van Velthoven M, Meinert E (2020) Mobile Fitness and Weight Management Apps: Protocol for a Quality Evaluation JMIR RESEARCH PROTOCOLS Vol.9 Iss.9 10.2196/17685

Miranda E, Daly I, Nicolaou N, Williams D, Hwang F, Kirke A & Nasuto SJ (2020) 'Neural and physiological data from participants listening to affective music' Scientific Data 7, (1) Publisher Site , DOI Open access

Ollevier A, Aguiar G, Palomino M & Simpelaere IS (2020) 'How can technology support ageing in place in healthy older adults? A systematic review' Public Health Reviews 41, (1) , DOI Open access

Sebastiani, G. and Stander, J. (2020). Returning to schools and universities in the time of coronavirus: Some statistical suggestions. Significance. https://www.significancemagazine.com/science/ 687-returning-to-schools-and-universities-in-the-time-of-coronavirus-some-statistical-suggestions? highlight=WyJzdGFuZGVyIl0=

Sebastiani, G., Stander, J. and Cortina Borja, M. (2020). Some comparisons between Italy and the UK for Covid-19: March to April 2020. Significance. https://www.significancemagazine.com/science/ 657-some-comparisons-between-italy-and-the-uk-for-covid-19-march-to-april-2020?highlight= WyJzdGFuZGVyIl0=

Stander, M. and Stander, J. (2020). A simple method for correcting for the Will Rogers phenomenon. Biometrical Journal, 62 (4), 1080–1089.

Tsang, G., Xie, X., Zhou, S.-M. (2020)“Harnessing the Power of Machine Learning in Dementia Informatics Research: Issues, Opportunities and Challenges.” IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering, 13: 113-129; 2020 (https://doi.org/10.1109/RBME.2019.2904488) (‡Corresponding author)

Van Velthoven MH, Milne-Ives M, de Cock C, Mooney M & Meinert E (2020) 'Use of Apps to Promote Childhood Vaccination: Protocol for a Systematic Review' JMIR Research Protocols 9, (2) e16929-e16929 , DOI

Yunus J, Ifeachor E & Edworthy JE (2020) 'Improving Alarm Response in ICU/CCU' International Journal of Simulation Systems Science & Technology , DOI

2019

A. Holborow, B. Coupe, M. Davies, S.-M. Zhou, “Machine learning methods in predicting chemotherapy-induced neutropenia in oncology patients using clinical data,” Clinical Medicine. 2019 Jun; 19(Suppl 3): 89–90 (https://dx.doi.org/10.7861%2Fclinmedicine.19-3s-s89)

Aguiar Noury G, Bradwell H, Thill S & Jones R (2019) 'User-defined challenges and desiderata for robotics and autonomous systems in health and social care settings' Advanced Robotics 33, (7-8) 309-324 , DOI Open access

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Bradwell HL, Edwards KJ, Winnington R, Thill S & Jones RB (2019) 'Companion robots for older people: importance of user-centred design demonstrated through observations and focus groups comparing preferences of older people and roboticists in South West England' BMJ Open 9, (9) , DOI Open access

Goli Arji, Hossein Ahmadi, Mehrbakhsh Nilashi, A Rashid Tarik, Omed Hassan Ahmed, Nahla Aljojo, Azida Zainol, Fuzzy Logic Approach for Infectious Disease Diagnosis: A Methodical Evaluation, Literature and Classification, Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Volume 39, Issue 4, October – December 2019, 937 – 955. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0208521619303468

Hossein Ahmadi, Zeinab Mahdian, Abbas Sheikhtaheri, The Effect of Short Message Service Reminders on Medication Adherence in Patients with Chronic Hyperlipidemia, Journal of Health Administration, December 2019, pages 12-21. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263224119300144

Mehrbakhsh Nilashi, Abbas Mardani, Huchang Liao, Hossein Ahmadi, Azizah Abdul Manaf, Wafa Almukadi, A Hybrid Method with TOPSIS and Machine Learning Techniques for Sustainable Development of Green Hotels Considering Online Reviews, Sustainability, Volume 11, Issue 21, 29 October 2019. https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/21/6013

Mehrbakhsh Nilashi, Hossein Ahmadi, Leila Shahmoradi, Othman bin Ibrahim, Elnaz Akbari, A predictive method for hepatitis disease diagnosis using ensembles of Neuro-Fuzzy technique, Journal of Infection and Public Health. Volume 12, Issue 1, January–February 2019, Pages 13-20. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1876034118301497

Mehrbakhsh Nilashi, Parveen Fatemeh Rupani, Mohammad Mobin Rupani, Hesam Kamyab, Weilan Shao, Hossein Ahmadi, A Rashid Tarik, Nahla Aljojo, Measuring Sustainability Through Ecological Sustainability and Human Sustainability: A Machine Learning Approach, Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 240, 10 December 2019, 118162. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095965261933032X

Mehrbakhsh Nilashi, Sarminah Samad, Azizah Abdul Manaf, Hossein Ahmadi, Tarik A. Rashid, Asmaa Munshi, Othman Ibrahim, Omed Hassan Ahmed, Factors influencing medical tourism adoption in Malaysia: A DEMATEL-Fuzzy TOPSIS approach, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Volume 137, November 2019, 106005. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0360835219304632

Mehrbakhsh Nilashi, Othman Ibrahim, Sarminah Samad, Hossein Ahmadi, Leila Shahmoradi, Elnaz Akbari, An analytical method for measuring the Parkinson’s disease progression: a case on a Parkinson’s telemonitoring dataset, Measurement, Volume 136, March 2019, Pages 545-557. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263224119300144

Neda Ahmadi, Mehrbakhsh Nilashi, Sarminah Samad, Tarik A. Rashid, Hossein Ahmadi, An intelligent method for Iris recognition using supervised machine learning techniques, Optics & Laser Technology, Volume 120, December 2019, 105701. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0030399218320553

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Conferences

Beer, O. W. J., McInroy, L. B., Hefner, J., & Beer, S. E. (2024). Frontline child protection social workers and an online mindfulness-based stress reduction program. American Psychological Association. Seattle, USA. [Accepted]
Phillips, R. & Beer, O. W. J. (2024). Improving workforce retention and family outcomes: Understanding organizational commitment and turnover within Ohio’s child welfare system. APSAC, New Orleans, USA. [June 11]
McInroy, L. B., Beer, O. W. J., Leung, V., Scheadler, T., & Craig, S. L. (2024). Digital microaggressions against LGBTQ+ youth: An exploratory factor analysis. The Society for Social Work Research. Washington, USA.
McInroy, L. B., & Beer, O. W. J., Kirsch, J., Haran, H., and Park, C. (2023). Feasibility and acceptability of online simulation: Contemporary competencies and skills. Society for Social Work and Research. Phoenix, USA.
McInroy, L. B., & Beer, O. W. J., Kirsch, J., Klakos, K., Hechmer, C., & Holston, J. (2022). Feasibility and acceptability of online simulation: Building competencies and skills for practice. Council on Social Work Education. Anaheim, USA.
Haughtigan, K., Links, K., Griffiths, A., Beer, O. W. J., & Powell, L. (2022). Combining diverse perspectives: Developing a multidisciplinary collaboration to improve child welfare worker health. Title IV-E Conference. Bowling Green, USA.
Griffiths, A., & Beer, O. W. J. (2022). Novel actions to understanding the health and coping responses of the child welfare workforce: Efforts from a collective partnership. Child Welfare League of America, USA.
Haughtigan, K., Link, K., Griffiths, A., Beer, O. W. J., & Powell, L. (2022). Combining diverse perspectives: Developing a multidisciplinary collaboration to improve child welfare worker health. Oral presentation at the National Title IV-E Roundtable Conference in Bowling Green, USA.
Griffiths, A., Beer, O. W. J., Powell, L., Link, K., & Haughtigan, K. (2022). Utilizing biometric data to better understand the psychological and physiological impacts of work-related stress among child welfare workers: Implications for Title IV-E training and education partnerships. Oral presentation at the National Title IV-E Roundtable Conference in Bowling Green, USA.
McInroy, L. B., Beer, O. W. J., Scheader, T. R., Craig, S. L., & Eaton, A. (2022). Psychological impacts of online prejudice and digital microaggressions for LGBTQ+ youth. Society of Social Work & Research 25th Annual Conference, Denver, USA.
McInroy, L. B., Beer, O. W. J., Zapcic, I., Craig, S. L., & Eaton, A. (2022). The O(nline) N(egativity) Study: Sexual and gender minority youth experiences with digital microaggressions. Society of Social Work & Research 25th Annual Conference, Denver, USA.
Singh, O.P., Bocchino, A., Guillerm, T. and O'Mahony, C., 2022, July. Design, Fabrication and Performance Assessment of Flexible, Microneedle–Based Electrodes For ECG Signal Monitoring. In 2022 44th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC) (pp. 846-849). IEEE.
El-Badawy, I.M., Omar, Z. and Singh, O.P., 2022, July. Cooperative classification of clean and deformed capnogram segments using a voting approach: A trade-off between specificity and sensitivity. In 2022 44th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC) (pp. 389-393). IEEE.
Singh, O.P., Hu, Y., Bocchino, A., Guillerm, T. and O’Mahony, C., 2022, June. Performance Assessment of Microneedle Dry and Wet Gel Electrodes Using a Dual-Channel, Single Lead Wearable ECG Device. In 2022 IEEE 21st Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON) (pp. 737-740). IEEE.