TY - GEN
T1 - Leveraging dynamic user profiles for the assistance of anxiety disorders' treatment using inferential rules
AU - Panagiotakopoulos, Theodor C.
AU - Lyras, Dimitrios P.
AU - Manolessos, George M.
AU - Lymberopoulos, Dimitrios K.
AU - Sgarbas, Kyriakos N.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - While anxiety disorders exhibit an impressive spread especially in western societies, context-awareness seems a promising technology to provide assistance to physicians in psychotherapy sessions. In the present paper an approach addressing the assistance of the anxiety disorders' treatment is proposed. The suggested method employs the a priori association rule mining algorithm in order to achieve dynamic update of patient profiles according to generated rules describing the underlying relations between patients' main context conditions and their stress level. This method was evaluated by therapists specializing in the mental health domain and the feedback received was very encouraging with respect to the assistance dynamic patient profiles offer, during CBT sessions.
AB - While anxiety disorders exhibit an impressive spread especially in western societies, context-awareness seems a promising technology to provide assistance to physicians in psychotherapy sessions. In the present paper an approach addressing the assistance of the anxiety disorders' treatment is proposed. The suggested method employs the a priori association rule mining algorithm in order to achieve dynamic update of patient profiles according to generated rules describing the underlying relations between patients' main context conditions and their stress level. This method was evaluated by therapists specializing in the mental health domain and the feedback received was very encouraging with respect to the assistance dynamic patient profiles offer, during CBT sessions.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77950972304&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5332542
DO - 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5332542
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 19963683
AN - SCOPUS:77950972304
SN - 9781424432967
T3 - Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009
SP - 6632
EP - 6635
BT - Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009
Y2 - 2 September 2009 through 6 September 2009
ER -
