Healthcare Knowledge Management: The Art of the Possible (2009)
Abstract. Healthcare knowledge management is an active, yet not a well characterized research topic. In this chapter, we attempt to characterize healthcare knowledge management and highlight the...
Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi, Micheal Kershaw, Evangelos Milios
In this paper we introduce a framework to supplement and tag computerized CPG with related best-evidence automatically sourced from on-line medical literature repositories. The idea is to provide CPG...
K-MORPH: A Semantic Web Based Knowledge Representation and Context-driven Morphing Framework (2009)
Sajjad Hussain, Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi
Abstract. A knowledge-intensive problem is often not solved by an individual knowledge artifact; rather the solution needs to draw upon multiple, and even heterogeneous, knowledge artifacts. Each...
K-MORPH: A Semantic Web Based Knowledge Representation and Context-driven Morphing Framework (2009)
Sajjad Hussain, Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi
Abstract. A knowledge-intensive problem is often not solved by an individual knowledge artifact; rather the solution needs to draw upon multiple, and even heterogeneous, knowledge artifacts. Each...
Sanjun Yan A, Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi
We present a data mining framework to cluster optic nerve images obtained by Confocal Scanning Laser Tomography (CSLT) in normal subjects and patients with glaucoma. We use self-organizing maps and...
Fehmida Hussain A, Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi
In this paper we present a knowledge management framework that allows the automatic linking/mapping of contextually and functionally similar medical knowledge that may originate from different...
Zhixin Chen, Michael Shepherd, Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi
The goal of this research is to provide a means by which the tacit knowledge in an e-mail archive can be browsed in an organized manner and linked directly to the explicit knowledge found in PubMed....
HealthInfoCDA denotes a health informatics educational intervention for learning about the clinical process through use of the Clinical Document Architecture (CDA). We hypothesize those common...
Brent Jones, Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi, Winston Ying
In this paper we present a novel approach to generate tailored patient education materials by using an evidencebased clinical practice guideline to model patients and direct the selection of relevant...
Health Informatics Journal (2008)
Janet Curran-smith, Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi, Paula Forgeron, Janet Curran-smith
Towards a collaborative learning environment for children’s pain management: leveraging an online discussion forum
Facilitating Knowledge Maintenance of Clinical Guidelines and Protocols (2008)
Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi, Allen Finley, Evangelos Milios, Michael Shepherd, David Zitner, ...
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Selena Davis, Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi
Abstract. The PULSE project objectives are to generate and evaluate a webbased personalized educational intervention for the management of cardiovascular risk. We present a web-based adaptive...
Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi, Kok Meng Hoe
The application of data mining techniques upon medical data is certainly beneficial for researchers interested in discerning the complexity of healthcare processes in real-life operational...
Semantic Web Framework for Knowledge-Centric Clinical Decision Support Systems (2008)
Sajjad Hussain, Samina Raza Abidi, Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi
Abstract. Lately, there have been considerable efforts to computerize Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) so that they can be executed via Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) at the point of...
Zhixin Chen, Michael Shepherd, Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi
The goal of this research is to provide a means by which the tacit knowledge in an e-mail archive can be browsed in an organized manner and linked directly to the explicit knowledge found in PubMed....
Medical Knowledge Morphing via a Semantic Web Framework (2008)
Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi, Sajjad Hussain
Clinical decision-making involves an active interplay between various medical knowledge modalities. Medical knowledge morphing aims to support clinical decision support by mimicking the interplay...
Zafar Iqbal Hashmi, Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi, Yu-n Cheah
Within the confines of a Healthcare Enterprise Memory (HEM), most traditional medical systems do not sufficiently provide the necessary assistance to healthcare practitioners in the handling of...
Worldwide healthcare delivery trends are undergoing a subtle paradigm shift—patient centerd services as opposed to provider centerd services and wellness maintenance as opposed to illness...
In A. Hasman, B. Blobel, J. Dudeck, R. Engelbrecht, G. Gell, H. Prokosch (eds, ...
Abstract. Easier and focused access to healthcare information can empower individuals to make ‘informed’ choices and judgements about personal health maintenance. To achieve ‘optimum ’...
Zeina Chedrawy, Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi
In this paper, we propose a new approach for combining item-based Collaborative Filtering (CF) with Case Based Reasoning (CBR) to pursue personalized information filtering in a knowledge sharing...
Janet Curran, Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi
Abstract. Peer to peer knowledge sharing is recognized as a key contributor to the development of expert practice for health care professionals. EDs with access to extensive expertise, such as in...
Syed Zahid, Hassan Zaidi, Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi, Selvakumar Manickam
This paper presents a case for an intelligent agent based framework for knowledge discovery in a distributed healthcare environment comprising multiple heterogeneous healthcare data repositories....
Katrina F Hurley, Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi
Clinical pathways translate evidence-based recommendations into locally practicable, process-specific algorithms that reduce practice variations and optimize quality of care. Our objective was to...
Ontology Driven CPG Authoring and Execution via a Semantic Web Framework (2008)
Sajjad Hussain, Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi
Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) are used by healthcare practitioners to standardize clinical practice and to provide evidence mediated health-care. Currently, there have been considerable efforts...
Medical Knowledge Morphing: Towards Case-Specific Integration of Heterogeneous (2008)
Clinical decision-making involves an active interplay between various medical knowledge modalities—the spectrum of medical knowledge modalities spanning from tacit knowledge to experiential...
Abstract. Presently, there is a growing demand from the healthcare community to leverage upon and transform the vast quantities of healthcare data into value-added, ‘decision-quality ’ knowledge,...
Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi, Yan Zeng
Abstract. Recommender systems, using information personalization methods, provide information that is relevant to a user-model. Current information personalization methods do not take into account...
Knowledge management in healthcare: towards ‘knowledge-driven ’ decision-support services (2008)
In this paper, we highlight the involvement of Knowledge Management in a healthcare enterprise. We argue that the ‘knowledge quotient ’ of a healthcare enterprise can be enhanced by procuring...
Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi, Samina Raza Abidi
Clinical evidence exist in modalities other than published clinical literature, such as clinical data ranging from patient clinical profiles to clinical trials; clinical experiences of eminent...
Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi, Chong Yong Han, Samina Raza Abidi
Information (PHI) dissemination system. Information personalisation is guided by the individual’s current health profile as recorded in his/her EMR. A PHI package is composed by intelligently...
TIDE: An Intelligent Home-Based Healthcare Information & Diagnostic Environment (2008)
In P. Kokol, B. Zupan, J. Stare, M. Premik, R. Engelbrecht (eds, ...
Abstract. The 21 st century promises to usher in an era of Internet based healthcare
Zeina Chedrawy, Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi
Abstract-In this paper, we present an intelligent information filtering strategy that is a hybrid of item-based Collaborative Filtering (CF) and Case Based Reasoning (CBR) methods. Information...
Selena Davis, Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi
Quality and timely patient education can reduce cardiovascular risk. The PULSE (Personalization Using Linkages of SCORE and behaviour change readiness to webbased Education) project objectives are to...
Towards ‘Knowledge-Driven ’ Strategic Services Abstract (2008)
Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi, Cheah Yu-n
Lately, there is a growing realisation amongst the healthcare community to leverage upon the vast quantities of healthcare data and enterprise-wide knowledge to transform it into value-added,...
Abstract. We propose that the Case Based Reasoning (CBR) paradigm offers an interesting alternative to developing adaptive hypermedia systems, such that the inherent analogy-based reasoning strategy...
In P. Kokol, B. Zupan, J. Stare, M. Premik, R. Engelbrecht (eds, ...
Abstract. The Malaysian Telemedicine initiative advocates a paradigm shift in healthcare
Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi, Yong Han Chong
Web portals provide an efficient gateway to a broad range of Eservices, resources and information. Web portals need to evolve towards being adaptive in nature, so that the ensuing E-services provided...
The 21 st century promises to usher in an era of online healthcare services, i.e. Tele-Healthcare, inspired by the emergence of sophisticated, `intelligent' information systems/agents working in...
Telemedicine and Medical Informatics in the Multimedia Super Corridor: The Malaysian Vision (2007)
Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi, Alwyn Goh, Zaharin Yusoff
The practice of medicine, with its wide range of environmental conditions and complex dependencies, has long been used as a testbed for various advanced technologies. Telemedicine as conceptualised...
Neural networks, provide a basis for studying various aspect of human learning and cognitive development in a seemingly `psychologically plausible' manner. We present a `hybrid' neural...
The profuse use of the information highway has promoted it as a meritorious medium for global information sharing; accessing and sharing information stored in different databases that are...
`Virtual' Text Corpora and their Management (2007)
Paul Holmes-higgin, Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi, Khurshid Ahmad
The extensive use of computer-based corpora for a range of language studies has led to the proliferation of the ways in which texts within an individual corpus are organised Basically, the...
Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi, Alwyn Goh
Bacterial sensitivity and resistivity to any antibiotic tends to undergo temporal fluctuations. The clinical consequence of such behaviour is reduced effectiveness of a particular antibiotic to treat...
Neural Networks to Simulate Human Learning: A Shift towards `Modular' Architectures (2007)
Neural networks have a natural propensity for learning - learning from being instructed or from experience. We believe that neural networks provide substantial opportunities for simulating various...
Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi, Chong Yong Han, Samina Raza Abidi
The featured work aims to provide a technology-enriched solution to web-mediated patient empowerment initiatives via the implementation of an intelligent info-structure that features (1) dynamic...
Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi, Khurshid Ahmad
Connectionist networks, or the so-called neural networks, provide a basis for studying child language development in that these networks emphasise learning, either from observations or from being...
Internet-Based Database Navigation System (2007)
Abstract. The profuse use of the information highway has promoted it as a meritorious medium for global information sharing; accessing and sharing information stored in different databases that are...
Engineering of Multi-Agent Systems to Effectuate Distributed Data Mining Activities (2007)
Syed Zahid, Hassan Zaidi, Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi
The proliferation of healthcare data has resulted in a large number of concerted efforts to inductively discover ‘useful ’ knowledge from the collected data, and indeed interesting results have...
Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi, Cheah Yu-n
Enterprise information systems need to leverage enterprise knowledge management methodologies and tools to formally manage and capitalise on enterprise-wide knowledge resources. In this paper, we...
Selvakumar Manickam, Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi
driven medical diagnostic system requires a large volume of clinical cases that depict the problem-solving methodology of medical experts. Successful usage of CBR based systems in healthcare is...
We present a Personalized Health Information Generation and Delivery System that leverages case based reasoning techniques to dynamically author a Personalized Health Information Package based on an...
A Neural Network Simulation of Child Language Development at the One-word Stage (2007)
Neural networks, or the so-called connectionist networks, provide a basis for studying child language development in that such networks emphasise learning, either from observations or from being...
Zeina Chedrawy, Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi
Abstract. In this paper, we present a new approach that is a synergy of itembased Collaborative Filtering (CF) and Case Based Reasoning (CBR) for personalized recommendations. We present a two-phase...
Michael Kershaw, Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi, Evangelos Milios
Clinical practice guidelines (CPG) are instrumental in standardizing the quality and delivery of care across different practitioners, departments and even institutions. Health practitioners when...
Michael Kershaw, Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi, Evangelos Milios, Name Dr, Syed Sibte, ...
Clinical practice guidelines (CPG) are instrumental in standardizing the quality and delivery of care across different practitioners, departments and even institutions. Health practitioners when...
Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi, Yong Han Chong
Abstract. Constraints formalize the dependencies in a physical world in terms of a logical relation among several unknowns. Constraint satisfaction methods allow efficient navigation of large search...
Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi, Chong Yong Han, Samina Raza Abidi
Information (PHI) dissemination system. Information personalisation is guided by the individual’s current health profile as recorded in his/her EMR. A PHI package is composed by intelligently...
Web-based Medical Case Based Reasoning Systems Abstract (2001)
Selvakumar Manickam, Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi
driven medical diagnostic system requires a large volume of clinical cases that depict the problem-solving methodology of medical experts. Successful usage of CBR based systems in healthcare is...
Analyzing Data Clusters: A Rough Set Approach to Extract Cluster Defining Symbolic Rules (2001)
Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi, Kok Meng Hoe, Alwyn Goh
Abstract. In this paper we present a strategy together with its computational implementation to intelligently analyze data clusters in terms of symbolic cluster-defining rules. We present a symbolic...
Cheah Yu-n, Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi
The ‘Knowledge Age ’ has fuelled the need to capitalise on organisation-wide Intellectual Capital with the aim of gaining competitive advantage vis-à-vis a higher return-on-knowledge and...
Cheah Yu-n, Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi
The ‘Knowledge Age ’ has fuelled the need to capitalise on organisation-wide Intellectual Capital with the aim of gaining competitive advantage vis-à-vis a higher return-on-knowledge and...
Telemedicine and Medical Informatics in the Multimedia Super Corridor: The Malaysian Vision (1998)
Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi, Alwyn Goh, Zaharin Yusoff
The practice of medicine, with its wide range of environmental conditions and complex dependencies, has long been used as a testbed for various advanced technologies. Telemedicine as conceptualised...
Data-Driven Healthcare Management: From a Philosophy to an Info-Structure (1998)
Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi, Zaharin Yusoff
Business and scientific endeavours now routinely gather large quantities of data that can help in acquiring an intimate understanding of the parent enterprise, thus leading to value-added strategic...
Applying Knowledge Discovery to Predict Infectious Disease Epidemics (1998)
Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi, Alwyn Goh
. Predictive modelling, in a knowledge discovery context, is regarded as the problem of deriving predictive knowledge from historical/temporal data. Here we argue that neural networks, an established...
A WWW Based Tele-Healthcare Information and Diagnostic Environment (1998)
The Malaysian Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) project promotes Telemedicine as a flagship application. The primary objective of MSC-based telemedicine---more appropriately Tele-Healthcare---is to...
Applying Knowledge Discovery to Predict Infectious Disease Epidemics (1998)
Syed Sibte, Raza Abidi, Alwyn Goh
Abstract. Predictive modelling, in a knowledge discovery context, is regarded as the problem of deriving predictive knowledge from historical/temporal data. Here we argue that neural networks, an...
Neural networks provide a basis for studying child language development in that such networks emphasise learning. We report a simulation of some key aspects of child language development during...
Towards Information Brokering: An `intelligent' Database Navigation And Management System (1996)
In a `real-world' database application the need to make available data according to the user's requirements is very real. For that matter, the true measure of the efficacy of a database...
Neural Networks: Their Efficacy Towards The Malaysian It Environment (1996)
In a tutorial paper we introduce the rapidly emerging technology of Neural Networks. Neural networks draw much of their inspiration from neurosciences; structurally attempting to mimic the...
A Neural Network Simulation of Child Language Development at the One-word Stage (1996)
Neural networks, or the so-called connectionist networks, provide a basis for studying child language development in that such networks emphasise learning, either from observations or from being...
Neural networks provide a basis for studying child language development in that such networks emphasise learning. We report a simulation of some key aspects of child language development during...