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The under-assessment of pain response is one of the primary barriers to the adequate treatment of pain in critically ill patients and is associated with many negative outcomes such as chronic pain after discharge, prolonged mechanical ventilation, longer ICU stay and increased mortality risk. Currently, existing nonverbal pain assessment scales are based on manual assessment […]

Our survey paper on deep learning for EHR will appear in the September Issue of IEEE JBHI: Link  

NVIDIA reports on our intelligent ICU research, “AI Assists Doctors Monitor ICU Patients”: Researchers at the University of Florida developed a deep learning system that analyzes movement and expressions, as well as environmental factors, to better serve hospital patients in the intensive care unit.  This study is the first that uses an autonomous system for patient monitoring […]

Currently, many critical care indices are repetitively assessed and recorded by overburdened nurses, e.g. physical function or facial pain expressions of nonverbal patients. In addition, many essential information on patients and their environment are not captured at all, or are captured in a non-granular manner, e.g. sleep disturbance factors such as bright light, loud background […]

Congratulations to Anis for receiving a CVPR workshop travel award!

Our proposal on “Automated Integration of Patient-Generated Data with the Electronic Health Record Data”, PI, Rashidi, has been selected for funding by CTSI-UFII. Abstract: In recent years, patients have increasingly been using mobile health (mHealth) applications for monitoring their health conditions. While existing sensors and devices generate useful information for the patients, currently such information is […]

CVPR workshop paper on activity recognition in the ICU is accepted. Congratulations to Anis and Kumar!   Patients staying in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) have a severely disrupted circadian rhythm. Due to patients’ critical medical condition, ICU physicians and nurses have to provide round-the-clock clinical care, further disrupting patients’ circadian rhythm. Mistimed family visits […]

Our EMBC paper is accepted, congratulations to Anis, Raha, and Paul!   Physiological timeseries such as vital signs contain important information about a patient and are used in different clinical application. However, they suffer from missing values and sampling irregularity. In recent years, Gaussian Processes have been used as sophisticated nonlinear value imputation methods on […]

Congratulations to Natalie Evelev and Christie Nguyen, who were recently selected as Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering University Scholars for 2018-2019! The University Scholars Program introduces undergraduate students at the University of Florida to the exciting world of academic research. In the program, students work one-on-one with UF faculty on selected research projects. Through this initiative, students […]

We examined the structure of intra- and postoperative case-collaboration networks among the surgical service providers in a quaternary-care academic medical center, using retrospective electronic medical record (EMR) data. We also analyzed the evolution of the network properties over time, as changes in nodes and edges can affect the network structure. We used de-identified intra- and […]