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Previous Awards

The papers receiving these awards were selected from a set of outstanding papers, based on the quantitative and qualitative classifications as well as comments provided by the program committee reviewers, their final classification as full paper and their oral presentation at the conference.

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HEALTHINF 2024

Best Paper Award

Learning on Forecasting HIV Epidemic Based on Individuals' Contact Networks
Chaoyue Sun, Yiyang Liu, Christina Parisi, Rebecca Fisk-Hoffman, Marco Salemi, Ruogu Fang, Brandi Danforth, Mattia Prosperi and Simone Marini

Best Student Paper Award

Comparison Between Graph Databases and RDF Engines for Modelling Epidemiological Investigation of Nosocomial Infections
Lorena Pujante-Otalora, Manuel Campos, Jose M. Juarez and Maria-Esther Vidal

Comparison of Different Data Augmentation Techniques for Improving Epileptic Seizure Detection Based on 3D Acceleration, Heart Rate and Temperature Data
Maleyka Seyidova, Jasmin Henze, Arne Pelzer and Beate Rhein

Best Poster Award

Counting Red Blood Cells in Thin Blood Films: A Comparative Study
Alan Klinger Sousa Alves and Bruno Motta de Carvalho

HEALTHINF 2023

Best Paper Award

How Different Elements of Audio Affect the Word Error Rate of Transcripts in Automated Medical Reporting
Emma Kwint, Anna Zoet, Katsiaryna Labunets and Sjaak Brinkkemper

Best Student Paper Award

An Easy-to-Use and Robust Approach for the Differentially Private De-Identification of Clinical Textual Documents
Yakini Tchouka, Jean-François Couchot and David Laiymani

Best Poster Award

Intelligent Provision of Tailored, Easily Understood, and Trusted Health Information for Patient Empowerment
Marco Alfano, John Kellett, Biagio Lenzitti and Markus Helfert

HEALTHINF 2022

Best Paper Award

Integrated Label Transfer for Oligodendrocyte Subpopulation Profiling in Parkinson’s Disease and Multiple System Atrophy
Erin Teeple, Pooja Joshi, Rahul Pande, Yinyin Huang, Akshat Karambe, Martine Latta-Mahieu, S. Pablo Sardi, Angel Cedazo-Minguez, Katherine W. Klinger, Amilcar Flores-Morales, Stephen L. Madden, Deepak K. Rajpal and Dinesh Kumar

Best Student Paper Award

Best Practice in Multi-organisation Sensitive Health Data Sharing: A Comparative Analysis of Ireland’s Data Governance Approach for the Covid–19 Data Research Hub
Aleksandra Czarnik, Aoife Darragh, Maria Hurley, Daniel O’Connell, Michele Quagliata and Rob Brennan

Best Poster Award

A Systematic Map of Interpretability in Medicine
Hajar Hakkoum, Ibtissam Abnane and Ali Idri

HEALTHINF 2021

Best Paper Award

Enhancing Cross-lingual Semantic Annotations using Deep Network Sentence Embeddings
Ying-Chi Lin, Phillip Hoffmann and Erhard Rahm

Best Student Paper Award

Developing a Machine Learning Workflow to Explain Black-box Models for Alzheimer’s Disease Classification
Louise Bloch and Christoph M. Friedrich

Best Poster Award

Digital Inclusion of Nursing Home Residents: A Usability Evaluation of the Digital Kiosk siosLIFE™
Carla V. Leite, Daniel Carvalho, Ivone Almeida, Sofia Nunes and Ana Margarida Almeida

Best Industrial Paper Award

Behavioral Predictive Analytics towards Personalization for Self-management
Bon Sy, Jin Chen, Magdalen Beiting-Parrish and Connor Brown

HEALTHINF 2020

Best Paper Award

Deep Learning from Heterogeneous Sequences of Sparse Medical Data for Early Prediction of Sepsis
Mahbub Ul Alam, Aron Henriksson, John Karlsson Valik, Logan Ward, Pontus Naucler and Hercules Dalianis

Best Student Paper Award

Combining Rhythmic and Morphological ECG Features for Automatic Detection of Atrial Fibrillation
Gennaro Laudato, Franco Boldi, Angela Rita Colavita, Giovanni Rosa, Simone Scalabrino, Paolo Torchitti, Aldo Lazich and Rocco Oliveto

Best Poster Award

Clinical Performance Evaluation of a Machine Learning System for Predicting Hospital-Acquired Clostridium Difficile Infection
Erin Teeple, Thomas Hartvigsen, Cansu Sen, Kajal Claypool and Elke Rundensteiner

Best Industrial Paper Award

Receptivity of an AI Cognitive Assistant by the Radiology Community: A Report on Data Collected at RSNA
Karina Kanjaria, Anup Pillai, Chaitanya Shivade, Marina Bendersky, Vandana Mukherjee and Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood

HEALTHINF 2019

Best Paper Award

Digital Picture Co-occurrence Texture Characteristics Discriminate between Patients with Early Dementia of Alzheimer’s Type and Cognitive Healthy Subjects
Sibylle Robens, Thomas Ostermann, Sebastian Unger, Petra Heymann, Stephan Müller, Christoph Laske and Ulrich Elbing

Best Student Paper Award

Usability Study of a Tool for Patients’ Access Control to Their Health Data
Sandra Reis, Ana Ferreira, Pedro Vieira-Marques and Ricardo Cruz-Correia

Best Poster Award

Non-Invasive Blood Pressure Monitoring with Positionable Three-chamber Pneumatic Sensor
V. E. Antsiperov, G. K. Mansurov, M. V. Danilychev and D. V. Churikov

HEALTHINF 2018

Best Paper Award

A Remote Home Monitoring System to Support Informal Caregivers of People with Dementia
Stefan Lentelink, Monique Tabak, Boris van Schooten, Dennis Hofs, Harm op den Akker and Hermie Hermens

Best Student Paper Award

Automated Measurement of Adherence to Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Guidelines using Neurological ICU Data
Anthony Stell, Ian Piper and Laura Moss

Best Poster Award

Impact of Online Health Information on Patient-physician Relationship and Adherence; Extending Health-belief Model for Online Contexts
Tahir Hameed

BIOSTEC 2017

Best Paper Award

Effects of Configuration and Dimension of Concentric Ring Electrodes in EEnG Recording Applications
V. Zena-Giménez, J. Garcia-Casado, G. Prats-Boluda and Y. Ye-Lin

Localization of Demyelinating Plaques in MRI using Convolutional Neural Networks
Bartłomiej Stasiak, Pawel Tarasiuk, Izabela Michalska, Arkadiusz Tomczyk and Piotr S. Szczepaniak

Protein Disorder Prediction using Information Theory Measures on the Distribution of the Dihedral Torsion Angles from Ramachandran Plots
Jonny A. Uribe, Julián D. Arias-Londoño and Alexandre Perera-Lluna

A Neural Network Approach for Automatic Detection of Acoustic Alarms
Alex Peiró Lilja, Ganna Raboshchuk and Climent Nadeu

Technologies for Ageing in Place to Support Home Monitoring of Patients with Chronic Diseases
Alexandra Queirós, Luís Pereira, Ana Dias and Nelson Pacheco Rocha

Best Student Paper Award

Determination of the Selectivity of Printed Wearable Sweat Sensors
Alicia Zörner, Susanne Oertel, Björn Schmitz, Nadine Lang, Michael P. M. Jank and Lothar Frey

Segmentation of Retinal Ganglion Cells From Fluorescent Microscopy Imaging
Silvia Baglietto, Ibolya E. Kepiro, Gerrit Hilgen, Evelyne Sernagor, Vittorio Murino and Diego Sona

Reconstruction of Mitochondrial Genotypes from Diverse next Generation Sequencing Datasets
Peter Ulz, Michael R. Speicher and Gerhard G. Thallinger

Flow Parameters Derived from Impedance Pneumography after Nonlinear Calibration based on Neural Networks
Marcel Młyńczak and Gerard Cybulski

Healthcare-Oriented Characterisation of Human Movements by Means of Impulse-Radar Sensors and by Means of Accelerometric Sensors
Paweł Mazurek, Jakub Wagner, Andrzej Miękina, Roman Z. Morawski and Frode Fadnes Jacobsen

HEALTHINF 2017

Best Paper Award

Technologies for Ageing in Place to Support Home Monitoring of Patients with Chronic Diseases
Alexandra Queirós, Luís Pereira, Ana Dias and Nelson Pacheco Rocha

Best Student Paper Award

Best Poster Award

Internet of Things Controlled Home Objects for the Elderly
Research Dawadi, Zeeshan Asghar and Petri Pulli

BIOSTEC 2016

Best Paper Award

Electrochemical Analysis of Accelerated Aging of PEDOT-PTS Coated Screen-printed Electrodes
Nathalia Peixoto, Tjerignimin Silue, Catalina Vallejo-Giraldo and Manus Biggs

Design of Customised Orthodontic Devices by Digital Imaging and CAD/FEM Modelling
Sandro Barone, Alessandro Paoli, Armando Viviano Razionale and Roberto Savignano

Highly Robust Classification: A Regularized Approach for Omics Data
Jan Kalina and Jaroslav Hlinka

Extraction of Temporal Gait Parameters using a Reduced Number of Wearable Accelerometers
Mohamed Boutaayamou, Vincent Denoël, Olivier Brüls, Marie Demonceau, Didier Maquet, Bénédicte Forthomme, Jean-Louis Croisier, Cédric Schwartz, Jacques G. Verly and Gaëtan Garraux

ICT-mediated Community Coaching to Improve Physical Activity
Lamia Elloumi, Margot Meijerink, Bert-Jan van Beijnum and Hermie Hermens

Best Student Paper Award

Discontinuous Dielectrophoresis - A Technique for Investigating the Response of Loosely Adherent Cells to High Shear Stress
Rebecca Soffe, Sara Baratchi, Shi-yang Tang, Peter McIntyre, Arnan Mitchell and Khashayar Khoshmanesh

Tackling the Problem of Data Imbalancing for Melanoma Classification
Mojdeh Rastgoo, Guillaume Lemaitre, Joan Massich, Olivier Morel, Franck Marzani, Rafael Garcia and Fabrice Meriaudeau

BioMed Xplorer - Exploring (Bio)Medical Knowledge using Linked Data
Mohammad Shafahi, Hayo Bart and Hamideh Afsarmanesh

A Simulation-based Methodology to Test and Assess Designs of Mechatronic Neural Interface Systems
Samuel Bustamante, Juan C. Yepes, Vera Z. Pérez and Julio C. Correa

Generalizing the Detection of Internal and External Interactions in Clinical Guidelines
Veruska Zamborlini, Rinke Hoekstra, Marcos da Silveira, Cedric Pruski, Annette ten Teije and Frank van Harmelen

HEALTHINF 2016

Best Paper Award

ICT-mediated Community Coaching to Improve Physical Activity
Lamia Elloumi, Margot Meijerink, Bert-Jan van Beijnum and Hermie Hermens

Best Student Paper Award

Generalizing the Detection of Internal and External Interactions in Clinical Guidelines
Veruska Zamborlini, Rinke Hoekstra, Marcos da Silveira, Cedric Pruski, Annette ten Teije and Frank van Harmelen

Best Poster Award

Generating SD-Rules in the SPECIALIST Lexical Tools - Optimization for Suffix Derivation Rule Set
Chris J. Lu, Destinee Tormey, Lynn McCreedy and Allen C. Browne

On the Reactivity of Sleep Monitoring with Diaries
M. S. Goelema, M. M. Willems, R. Haakma and P. Markopoulos

BIOSTEC 2015

Best Paper Award

Noise Analysis of Programmable Gain Analog to Digital Converter for Integrated Neural Implant Front End
Amir Zjajo, Carlo Galuzzi and Rene van Leuken

Content Based Retrieval of MRI Based on Brain Structure Changes in Alzheimer’s Disease
Katarina Trojacanec, Ivan Kitanovski, Ivica Dimitrovski and Suzana Loshkovska

Identifying Aging Genes in the Aging Mouse Hypothalamus Using Gateway Node Analysis of Correlation Networks
Kathryn M. Cooper, Stephen Bonasera and Hesham Ali

A User-centric Design of Permanent Magnetic Articulography based Assistive Speech Technology
Lam A. Cheah, Jie Bai, Jose A. Gonzalez, Stephen R. Ell, James M. Gilbert, Roger K. Moore and Phil D. Green

Eyetrace2014 - Eyetracking Data Analysis Tool
Katrin Sippel, Thomas Kübler, Wolfgang Fuhl, Guilherme Schievelbein, Raphael Rosenberg and Wolfgang Rosenstiel

Best Student Paper Award

High Voltage Integrated Chip Power Recovering Topology for Implantable Wireless Biomedical Devices
Vijith Vijayakumaran Nair, Jinhwan Youn and Jun Rim Choi

Essential Proteins and Functional Modules in the Host-Pathogen Interactions from Innate to Adaptive Immunity - C. albicans-zebrafish Infection Model
Chia-Chou Wu and Bor-Sen Chen

Recognizing Hand and Finger Gestures with IMU based Motion and EMG based Muscle Activity Sensing
Marcus Georgi, Christoph Amma and Tanja Schultz

Towards Guidelines for the Design of Patient Feedback in Stroke Rehabilitation Technology
Lilha Willems, Daniel Tetteroo and Panos Markopoulos

HEALTHINF 2015

Best Paper Award

Eyetrace2014 - Eyetracking Data Analysis Tool
Katrin Sippel, Thomas Kübler, Wolfgang Fuhl, Guilherme Schievelbein, Raphael Rosenberg and Wolfgang Rosenstiel

Best Student Paper Award

Towards Guidelines for the Design of Patient Feedback in Stroke Rehabilitation Technology
Lilha Willems, Daniel Tetteroo and Panos Markopoulos

BIOSTEC 2014

Best Paper Award

Development of Concurrent Object-oriented Logic Programming System to Intelligent Monitoring of Anomalous Human Activities
Alexei A. Morozov, Abhishek Vaish, Alexander F. Polupanov, Vyacheslav E. Antciperov, Igor I. Lychkov, Aleksandr N. Alfimtsev and Vladimir V. Deviatkov

Infrared Spectral Microimaging - A New Tool to Characterise the Tissue Features in Skin Cancers of Melanoma Type
David Sebiskveradze, Cyril Gobinet, Nathalie Cardot-Leccia, Michel Manfait, Pierre Jeannesson, Vincent Vuiblet and Olivier Piot

A Computational Study to Identify TP53 and SREBF2 as Regulation Mediators of miR-214 in Melanoma Progression
Gianfranco Politano, Alfredo Benso, Stefano Di Carlo, Francesca Orso, Alessandro Savino and Daniela Taverna

Observer Design for a Nonlinear Minimal Model of Glucose Disappearance and Insulin Kinetics
Driss Boutat, Mohamed Darouach and Holger Voos

Feasibility Estimation for Clinical Trials
Zhisheng Huang, Frank van Harmelen, Annette Ten Teije and Andre Dekker

Best Student Paper Award

VLSI Wavelet Denoising of Neural Signals - Critical Appraisal of Different Algorithmic Solutions for Threshold Estimation
Nicola Carta, Danilo Pani and Luigi Raffo

Model-based Approach to Tissue Characterization using Optical Coherence Tomography
Cecília Lantos, Rafik Borji, Stéphane Douady, Karolos Grigoriadis, Kirill Larin and Matthew A. Franchek

Exploring a Sub-optimal Hidden Markov Model Sampling Approach for De Novo Peptide Structure Modeling
Pierre Thevenet and Pierre Tufféry

Synchronization of Electroencephalography and Eye Tracking using Global Illumination Changes
Daniel Siboska, Henrik Karstoft and Henrik Pedersen

Partopens at the Point of Care - Evaluating Digital Pen-based Maternal Labor Monitoring in Kenya
Heather Underwood, John Ong’ech, Sara Rosenblum, Addie Crawley, S. Revi Sterling, John K. Bennett and Maya Appley

HEALTHINF 2014

Best Paper Award

Feasibility Estimation for Clinical Trials
Zhisheng Huang, Frank van Harmelen, Annette Ten Teije and Andre Dekker

Best Student Paper Award

HEALTHINF 2013

Best Paper Award

Inclusion of Data from the Domestic Domain in the Process of Clinical Decision Making using the Example of a Comprehensive Ambient Energy Expenditure Determination for COPD Patients
Axel Helmer, Frerk Müller, Okko Lohmann, Andreas Thiel, Marco Eichelberg and Andreas Hein

Best Student Paper Award

The PartoPen in Training and Clinical Use - Two Preliminary Studies in Kenya
Heather Underwood, S. Revi Sterling and John K. Bennett

BIOSTEC 2012

Best Paper Award

AUTONOMOUS SENTINELS FOR THE DETECTION OF INVASIVE PATHOGENS
Howard Clyde Wikle III, Suiqiong Li, Aleksandr Simonian and Bryan A. Chin

A n2 RNA SECONDARY STRUCTURE PREDICTION ALGORITHM
Markus E. Nebel and Anika Scheid

A WEARABLE GAIT ANALYSIS SYSTEM USING INERTIAL SENSORS PART II - Evaluation in a Clinical Setting
A. Sant'Anna, N. Wickström, H. Eklund and R. Tranberg

A HEART RATE PREDICTION MODEL FOR THE TELEREHABILITATION TRAINING OF CARDIOPULMONARY PATIENTS
Axel Helmer, Riana Deparade, Friedrich Kretschmer, Okko Lohmann, Andreas Hein, Michael Marschollek and Uwe Tegtbur

Best Student Paper Award

MOBILE, REAL-TIME SIMULATOR FOR A CORTICAL VISUAL PROSTHESIS
Horace Josh, Benedict Yong and Lindsay Kleeman

LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETERS PROTOTYPES VALIDATION USING MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS
Edite Figueiras, Rita Campos, Ricardo Oliveira, Luís F. Requicha Ferreira, Frits de Mul and Anne Humeau-Heurtier

AN EFFICIENT STOCHASTIC BASED MODEL FOR SIMULATING MICROELECTRODE RECORDINGS OF THE DEEP BRAIN - Modelling and Analysis
K. J. Weegink, J. J. Varghese, P. A. Bellette, T. Coyne, P. A. Silburn and P. A. Meehan

TWITTER IMPROVES SEASONAL INFLUENZA PREDICTION
Harshavardhan Achrekar, Avinash Gandhe, Ross Lazarus, Ssu-Hsin Yu and Benyuan Liu

HEALTHINF 2012

Best Paper Award

Best Student Paper Award

TWITTER IMPROVES SEASONAL INFLUENZA PREDICTION
Harshavardhan Achrekar, Avinash Gandhe, Ross Lazarus, Ssu-Hsin Yu and Benyuan Liu

HEALTHINF 2011

Best Paper Award

EEG AND ECG CHARACTERISTICS OF HUMAN SLEEP COMPOSITION TYPES
Amro Khasawneh, Sergio A. Alvarez, Carolina Ruiz, Shivin Misra and Majaz Moonis

Best Student Paper Award

PATIENT-BASED LITERATURE RETRIEVAL AND INTEGRATION - A Use Case for Diabetes and Arterial Hypertension
Ana Jimenez-Castellanos, Izaskun Fernández, David Perez-Rey, Elisa Viejo, Francisco Javier Díez, Xabier García de Kortazar, Miguel García-Remesal, Víctor Maojo, Antonio Cobo and Francisco del Pozo

HEALTHINF 2010

Best Paper Award

A LIGHTWEIGHT MODEL FOR REPRESENTING AND REASONING WITH TEMPORAL INFORMATION IN BIOMEDICAL ONTOLOGIES

Best Student Paper Award

USER CENTERED DESIGN OF PATIENT USER INTERFACES FOR REMOTE TRAINING SUPERVISION - A User Study

HEALTHINF 2009

Best Demo Paper Award

HEALTHINF 2008

Best Demo Paper Award

HEALTHINF 2009

Best Paper Award

BACKTRAINER - Computer-aided Therapy System with Augmented Feedback for the Lower Back
Cornelia Neuhaus, Dominique Brodbeck, Jan Kool, Mandy Scheermesser, Markus Degen, Michael Stanimirov and Peter Oesch

Best Student Paper Award

HOW TO PRESERVE PATIENT'S PRIVACY AND ANONYMITY IN WEB-BASED ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS
Christian Stingl and Daniel Slamanig

HEALTHINF 2008

Best Paper Award

AUTHENTICATION OF PROFESSIONALS IN THE RTS E-HEALTH SYSTEM
André Zúquete, Helder Gomes and João Paulo Silva Cunha

Best Student Paper Award

HEALTHCARE RISK MODELING FOR MEDICAID PATIENTS - The Impact of Sampling on the Prediction of High-Cost Patients
Sai T Moturu, Huan Liu and William G Johnson