Data Mining & Information Systems Lab (Lab of Prof. Jaewoo Kang)

Research

ESS - Electrodiagnosis Support System

Description

Needle electromyography (EMG) is used for the diagnosis of a neural injury in patients with a cervical/lumbar radiculopathy, plexopathy, peripheral neuropathy, or myopathy. Needle EMG is a particularly invasive test and thus it is important to minimize the pain causing inspections. In this paper, we introduce Electrodiagnosis Support System (ESS), which is a clinical decision support system specialized for neural injury diagnosis in the upper limb. ESS can guide users through the diagnosis process and assist them in making the optimal decision for minimizing unnecessary inspections. We expect it to be used as an educational tool for medical trainees. ESS provides a graphical user interface that visualizes the neural structure of the upper limb, through which users input the results of needle EMG tests and retrieve diagnosis results. We validated the accuracy of the system using the diagnosis records of 133 real patients.

Program availability and requirements

Licence : This program is provided for academic use only. It may not be used for commercial purposes. By using the program, the user agrees to cite the main paper if results obtained from this program are used in the manuscript.

Authors

Hanjun Shin	Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
Ki Hoon Kim(MD, MS)	Dept. of Rehailitation Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
Chihwan Song	Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
Injoon Lee	Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
Kyubum Lee	Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea Dept. of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
Jaewoo Kang(PhD)	Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea Dept. of Biostatics, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
Yoon Kyu Kang(MD, PhD)	Dept. of Rehabilitation Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Korea

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Reference is

Hanjun Shin, Ki Hoon Kim, Chihwan Song, Injoon Lee, Kyubum Lee, Jaewoo Kang, and Yoon Kyoo Kang "Electrodiagnosis support system for localizing neural injury in an upper limb" Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Vol. 17, Issue 3, Pages 345-347. May 2010 ( SCI, IF: 3.974 )