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==Asthma: Challenges and Opportunities==
Asthma is a great example of a problem that spans Physical-Cyber-Social ([[PCS]]) systems. The health signals related to asthma spans Physical (environmental), Cyber (CDC reports), and Social (asthma/symptom reports on social media) modalities. Specifically, for asthma, we group health signals as personal (wheezing level, exhaled Nitric Oxide), population (asthma reports on social media), and public health signals (CDC asthma reports).
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Asthma is a great example of a problem that spans Physical-Cyber-Social ([[PCS]]) systems. The health signals related to asthma spans Physical (environmental), Cyber (CDC reports), and Social (asthma/symptom reports on social media) modalities. Specifically, for asthma, we group health signals as personal (wheezing level, exhaled Nitric Oxide), population (asthma reports on social media), and public health signals (CDC asthma reports).
  
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==kHealth for Asthma==
 
==kHealth for Asthma==

Revision as of 21:36, 22 August 2017

Motivation and Background

More than 25 million people in the U.S. are diagnosed with asthma, out of which 7 million are children [1]. Asthma related healthcare costs alone are around $50 billion a year [2]. Current reactive healthcare costs more than 17% of GDP in the US [3, 4]. Specifically, with the current reactive care for asthma, there were 155,000 hospital admissions and 593,000 ER visits in 2006 [16]. It is estimated that, by 2025, over 400 million people will be affected by asthma worldwide. With increasing adoption of mobile devices and low-cost sensors, an unprecedented amount of data is being collected by people [5]. This data collection has exacerbated the problem of understanding the data and making sense of it. In this project, we explore the role of knowledge empowered algorithms in making sense of this data deluge in the context of asthma assessment and management.

kHealth Vision


Digital health and mobile health applications are benefitting from semantic web research from Wright State's Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-Enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis). Director of Kno.e.sis and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Dr. Amit Sheth describes development of mobile health applications with sensor technology to monitor patient health, mobile computational support, and clear feedback to the patient and physician.


Amit Sheth, Pramod Anantharam, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, "kHealth: Proactive Personalized Actionable Information for Better Healthcare", Workshop on Personal Data Analytics in the Internet of Things at VLDB2014, Hangzhou, China, September 5, 2014.


Keynote at WorldComp2014, July 21, 2014. Smart Data for you and me: Personalized and Actionable Physical Cyber Social Big Data.

Asthma: Challenges and Opportunities

Asthma is a great example of a problem that spans Physical-Cyber-Social (PCS) systems. The health signals related to asthma spans Physical (environmental), Cyber (CDC reports), and Social (asthma/symptom reports on social media) modalities. Specifically, for asthma, we group health signals as personal (wheezing level, exhaled Nitric Oxide), population (asthma reports on social media), and public health signals (CDC asthma reports).

Asthma health signals spanning personal, public, and population level observations

kHealth for Asthma

We tackle this important problem by a combination of active and passive sensing. Active sensing involves the patient in the loop (obtrusive) while the passive sensing does not involve patient involvement (unobtrusive). Using a novel approach of utilizes low-cost sensors for continuous monitoring (active and passive sensing), we propose to develop algorithms that can take this multi-modal data and translate them to practical and actionable information for asthma patients and their healthcare provider. Specifically, provide information on asthma control level based on symptoms and their severity, asthma triggers and early alerts for increasing asthma symptoms.

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Funding

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  • Grant Number: 1 R01 HD087132-01
  • Principal Investigators: Amit P. Sheth (Kno.e.sis, Wright State University)
  • Project Title: KHealth: Semantic Multisensory Mobile Approach to Personalized Asthma Care
  • Timeline: 07/01/2016 – 06/30/2019
  • Award Amount: $938,725

People

  • Principal Investigators:

Contact: Utkarshani Jaimini

Left to right: Swati Padhee, Utkarshani Jaimini, Dr. T.K. Prasad, Dr. Amit Sheth, Dr. Maninder Kalra, Dr. Tanvi Banerjee, and Vaikunth Sridharan.

Related kHealth Projects

kHealth Observations

Asthma is a multi-faceted problem and we propose a holistic solution for
Personal
Physiological: Wheezometer [6], Nitric Oxide [7], Accelerometer, Microphone, Contextual Questions
Environmental: Foobot [17], Sensordrone [8], Dust Sensor [9], Location
Public Health
CDC [10], DCHC’s EMR Records (periodic manual review)
Population Level
Everyaware [11], AirQuality Egg [12], Allergy Alerts [13,14], Social Observations (e.g., tweets), Air Quality Index[15]

Preliminary Data Analysis

kHealth kit could be used to collect observations (both sensor and patients questionnaire response) in the patient home environment (which was never accessible in a quantitative form to doctors). These observations when collected based on expert guidance, prove valuable for clinical decision support. These observations when interpreted by a doctor, lead to some interesting insights:


*Medication (Albuterol) use possibly leading to decreasing exhaled Nitric Oxide


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*Activity limitation is likely related to high exhaled Nitric Oxide

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*Low exhaled Nitric Oxide observed with absence of coughing

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*Activity limitation observed with high pollen activity

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THESE PRELIMINARY FINDINGS NEED TO BE VALIDATED IN LARGER STUDIES

Dataset Size

We collect observations from three sensors (temperature, humidity, Carbon monoxide) on Sensordrone at the rate of 1 Hz (1 observation/second). Nitric Oxide observations from the NODE sensor are collected at the rate of 2 observations/day. Patients answer a questionnaire which has 5 questions resulting in 5 observations/day. For a single patient, we collect over 250,000 observations/day. In our study of three patients, we have collected over 9 million data points.

Foobot Reliability Testing

We used an indoor air quality monitor, Foobot to monitor patient's indoor environment. Foobot measure five different air quality parameters (with thresholds defined by Foobot): Particulate Matter (25 ug/m3), Volatile Organic Compounds (300 ppb), Carbon Dioxide (1300 ppm), Temperature (40 celsius), Relative Humidity(60%). It records data every 5 minutes. The Foobot has been used in many medical facilities and its calibration is checked at regular intervals. In terms of system error measurement, the following specifications were provided by the manufacturer:
1. Particulate Matter (PM) - Detection range 0 to 1 300 µg/m³ ; Precision ±4µg or ±20%
2. Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) - Detection range: 100 to 1000 ppb
3. Carbon Dioxide - Detection range 400-6000 ppm
4. Temperature - Detection range 15 to 45°C; ±1°C
5. Humidity - Detection range 30 to 85% (non-condensing) ; RH ±5%

To further test the reliability of the Foobot devices, we tested three Foobot sensors concurrently in two different environments.

 (i) The first experiment was intended to model the consistency of the Foobot in a relatively clean, controlled environment. 
 (ii)The second was intended to model the type of consistency that might be expected in an environment where polluting activity such as cooking or smoking is occurring. 


To test consistency in a clean, controlled environment, we put four Foobots in an unused office for a duration of three hours. Data were recorded at 5-minute intervals by each device over this time period. Using a two-way main effects ANOVA model which included Sensor and Time as fixed factors, we quantified the average between-sensor consistency across time using the sensor-specific root mean square deviation (RMSD). We also used the sensor-specific RMSD to quantify between-sensor consistency in the cooking environment by placing three sensors in a kitchen where cooking (stir fry) was happening. The sensors were placed at a distance of 10 meters from the cooking event. Two cooking events were measured. The first was approximately was approximately 2.5 hours duration, and the second was a 40-minute duration. The sensor-specific RMSD was quantified through a 3-way factorial ANOVA model, where Time, Cooking Event, and Sensor, were treated as fixed factors.

In the controlled environment, PM and VOC showed no variation. While this is indicative of a relatively clean and unchanging environment, it was difficult to get a reliable estimate of the precision of these measures. In the cooking environment, both the ranges and average differences between sensors were larger. Through the two cooking events, PM ranged from 0 to 68.3, with a RMSD of 12.33. This amounts to an average percent error of around 20%. VOC ranged from 125.0 to 242.0, with an RMSD of 23.35, which indicates a percent error of 10-19%. In the controlled environment, average carbon dioxide levels ranged between 450.0 and 451.0, with an average difference between sensors of 0.98, which amounts to a percent error below 0.3%. The range increased to 450.0-875.0, and the RMSD increased to 85.31, amounting to a percent error of 10-19%. The significantly larger error rates in PM, VOC, and carbon dioxide during the cooking event results from the increased variation of PM and VOC in the environment, and the fact that PM and VOC are distributed unevenly in the room. It is likely that much of between-device difference is due to different concentration gradients of PM, VOC, and carbon dioxide in the environment. While this is not indicative of a limitation of the device itself, it does show that the concentration of these chemicals may be different between the location of the device and the patient. To the end of monitoring air quality toward reduction of asthma symptoms, this warrants a recommendation to keep the device as close to the patient as possible.

Unlike PM, VOC, and carbon dioxide, temperature and humidity measures are consistent and precise in both the controlled and Cooking environments. In the controlled environment, the temperature ranged from 21.69 to 22.34 C, and the RMSD between devices was 0.96. This yielded a percent error below 5%. Percent error dropped below 3% in the Cooking environment, where temperatures ranged between 18.74 and 27.38 C, with and RMSD of 0.53. For measurement of humidity, percent error rates were below 10% for both the controlled and Cooking environments. In the controlled environment, humidity ranged between 27.83 and 29.08, with RMSD of 2.42. In the Cooking environment, values ranged between 30.47 and 46.83, with and RMSD of 2.04.

Between-device consistency in Controlled and Cooking environments. Here, RMSD refers to the root mean square deviation in the sensor readings between the devices.
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IRB

Dayton Children's Hospital Institutional Review Board (IRB) approved the pilot study in October 2013 which began enrolling pediatric patients and their parents to use the kHealth kit for Asthma. IRB continuation was approved in October 2014. Please contact Prof. Amit Sheth [amit at knoesis.org] or Dr. Shalini Forbis [ForbisS at childrensdayton.org] to obtain the exact copy of IRB.

kHealth User Manual

kHealth Asthma user guide

kHealth App Introduction

Related Talks and Presentations

Publications

  1. Utkarshani Jaimini, Tanvi Banerjee, William Romine, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Amit Sheth. Investigation of an Indoor Air Quality Sensor for Asthma Management in Children. In IEEE Sensors Letters, Volume 1, Issue 2, April 2017.
  2. Amit Sheth. Ontology-enabled Healthcare Applications Exploiting Physical-Cyber-Social Big Data. In Ontology Summit 2016. Virtual; 2016.
  3. Pramod Anantharam, Tanvi Banerjee, Amit Sheth, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Surendra Marupudi, Vaikunth Sridharan, Shalini Forbis. Knowledge-driven Personalized Contextual mHealth Service for Asthma Management in Children. 2015 IEEE International Conference on Mobile Services. New York, NY: IEEE; 2015. p. 284 - 291.
  4. Amit Sheth. Smart Data: How You and I Will Exploit Big Data for Personalized Digital Health and Many Other Activities. 2015.
  5. Amit Sheth, Pramod Anantharam, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, "kHealth: Proactive Personalized Actionable Information for Better Healthcare", Workshop on Personal Data Analytics in the Internet of Things at VLDB2014, Hangzhou, China, September 5, 2014.

References

  1. NHLBI description of Asthma, Available online at: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/asthma/
  2. Asthma related facts, Available online at: http://www.lung.org/lung-disease/asthma/resources/facts-and-figures/asthma-in-adults.html
  3. Squires, D. A., The U.S. Health System in Perspective: A Comparison of Twelve Industrialized Nations, June 2011, Available online at: http://bit.ly/oZwhFZ
  4. Health Costs: How the U.S. Compares With Other Countries, Available online at: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2012/10/health-costs-how-the-us-compares-with-other-countries.html
  5. Quantified Self http://quantifiedself.com/
  6. Wheezometer by iSonea, Available online at: http://www.isoneamed.com/wheezometer.html
  7. Nitric Oxide Sensor, Available online at: http://nodesensors.com/product/oxa-gas-sensor-nitric-oxide-no/
  8. Sensordrone, a bluetooth enabled low-cost sensor for monitoring the environment, Available online at: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/453951341/sensordrone-the-6th-sense-of-your-smartphoneand-be/
  9. Optical Dust Sensor, Available online at: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9689
  10. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Available online at: http://www.cdc.gov/
  11. Everyaware, Sensing Air Pollution, Available online at: http://www.everyaware.eu/activities/case-studies/air-quality/
  12. Community-led sensing of AirQuality, Available online at: http://airqualityegg.com/
  13. National and Local Allergy Forecast, Available online at: http://www.pollen.com/allergy-weather-forecast.asp
  14. National Allergy Bureau Alerts, Available online at: http://www.aaaai.org/global/nab-pollen-counts.aspx
  15. Air Quality Index from United States Environmental Protection Agency, Available online at : http://www.epa.gov/
  16. Akinbami et al. (2009). Status of childhood asthma in the United States, 1980–2007. Pediatrics,123(Supplement 3), S131-S145.
  17. Foobot, Available online at: https://foobot.io/