Browsing Master Theses & Projects by Author "McGregor, Carolyn"
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Automated partial premature infant pain profile scoring using big data analytics
Naik, Tanvi (2017-04-01)Lack of valid and reliable pain assessment in the neonatal population has become a significant challenge in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Current practice in the NICU involves the meticulous, time-consuming and ... -
Automated sleep-wake cycling detection in neonates from cerebral function monitor signals.
Fontana, Nick (2014-12-01)This thesis presents a link between a clinical need involving the analysis of high frequency physiological data and the informatics and technology designed to automate these specific clinical rules. An algorithmic design ... -
An evaluation method for the evaluation of big data based streaming analytic clinical decision support systems
Glass, Jonah (2020-04-01)This thesis presents a methodology for evaluating a scalable clinical decision support systems (CDSS) that uses high frequency streaming physiological data using a holistic approach that includes the presence of population ... -
Firefighter resilience assessment using a structured approach
Vyas, Khyati (2019-12-01)This thesis proposes a resilience assessment model to assess the physiological changes experienced during a simulated firefighting environment. Currently, a resilience assessment model that measures the response to job ... -
A flexible, longitudinal and surrogate consent model: Consent of Infants for Neonatal Secondary-use research (CoINS) Model
Choi, Yvonne (2020-04-01)Documenting healthcare, along with technology enabling capture of streaming patient telemetry, can deliver large datasets offering opportunities to discover new insights primarily identified through retrospective secondary ... -
A framework for quality improvement and evaluation of a clinical decision support system in NICU environment in cross-cultural settings.
Huang, Wenlan (2013-11-01)The primary purpose of this quality improvement research is to design a structured study to improve clinical process and outcomes in healthcare. This thesis presents a framework for quality improvement and evaluation of a ... -
HITEQI-A framework to implement health information technology-enabled quality improvement.
Jowitt, Ines (2014-08-01)This thesis proposes a framework known as the Health Information Technology-Enabled Quality Improvement (HITEQI) to provide a structured approach to quality improvement in healthcare where the intervention is through the ... -
An integrated big data framework utilizing stream computing to support real-time clinical decision-making in the field of space medicine
Prysyazhnyuk, Anastasiia (2020-08-01)Space exploration continues to be one of greatest endeavours of humankind. As manned space exploration extends to deep space, destinations such as the Moon and Mars, technological improvements and scientific advancements ... -
Measuring the effects of subclinical neck pain on sensorimotor integration using electroencephalography event related potentials and source localization
Shafiq, Hasan (2017-11-01)Subclinical neck pain (SCNP) is recurrent neck pain that has not yet been treated. This thesis investigated whether acute pain affects motor learning acquisition in SCNP vs. healthy individuals. 10 healthy and 10 SCNP ... -
A pre-post study of patient journey modeling as a change management tool to increase clinician acceptance of EHRs.
Joshi, Amardeep (2013-12-01)The purpose of this research was to determine if patient journey process modeling could act as a change management tool to support electronic health record (EHR) adoption, at a tertiary-care mental health centre. This ... -
Retinopathy of prematurity and blood oxygen saturation: confirmation of the relationship with high fidelity data
Fernando, K. Emmanuel Shiron (2017-08-01)The CRoss Industry Standard Process for Temporal Data Mining (CRISP-TDM) that supports physiological stream temporal data mining and CRISP-DM0 that supports null hypothesis driven confirmatory data mining in combination ... -
SDTDMn0 : a multidimensional distributed data mining framework supporting time series data analysis for critical care research
Dhanoa, Agam (2011-04-01)Premature birth is one of the major perinatal health issues across the world. In 2007, the estimated Canadian preterm birth rate was 8.1 % (CIHI, 2009). Recent research has shown that conditions, such as nosocomial infections ... -
STDMn+p0: a multidimensional patient oriented data mining framework for critical care research
Smith, Kathleen Patricia (2011-04-01)In the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) environment, critical care and treatment directly correlate to the multidimensional development of an infant and are influenced by attributes such as gender and gestational age ... -
A structured approach to assessing the suitability of clinical gold standards for use in computational decision support algorithm development
Pugh, J. Edward V. (2022-01-01)Advanced decision support diagnostic algorithm use in medicine is being hampered by the problem that high quality evidence is not available to support adoption. The strongest evidence for a diagnostic tool is obtained from ...