Dr Venet Osmani
PhD (SETU, Ireland)
Information School
Senior Lecturer in Data Science
+44 114 222 2676
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- Profile
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Before joining the University of ߲ݴý, I was a tenured Senior Researcher in Digital Health Centre at Fondazione Bruno Kessler research institute, Italy where I led a group of researchers and students in tackling challenges in medicine using machine learning methods. I was also a lecturer in the department of Psychology and Cognitive Science at University of Trento, Italy.
- Research interests
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My research interests are in developing machine learning methods, to address some of the fundamental questions in medicine. These include:
- predictive modelling
- explainable AI
- generative adversarial approaches (GAN)
- causal inference
- health inequality and bias
My work focuses on analysis of large-scale, longitudinal health records, including:
- biomarkers
- imaging
- multi-omics
- routine health care data
The main aims are to optimise treatment strategies, improve patient care, and provide novel insights to health institutions.
Apart from clinical data, I also work on incorporating human behaviour data, such as those generated from wearable devices, with a particular focus on mental health.
The overarching objective of my research is to integrate predictive modelling in the bedside and bring the acquired evidence back, in a continuously improving feedback loop, consequently establishing a learning health system.
Through my interdisciplinary research I have established and maintain close collaborations with some of the leading research and US clinical institutions, including Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, and Harvard School of Public Health as well as leading European institutions. These and many other international collaborations are reflected in over a hundred peer-reviewed journal and conference publications.
- Publications
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Books
Journal articles
- . PLOS ONE, 19(3).
- . Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 144.
- . Clinics and Research in Hepatology and Gastroenterology, 102181-102181.
- . BMC Infectious Diseases, 23(1).
- . Wiener klinische Wochenschrift, 135(3-4), 80-88.
- . PLOS Digital Health, 1(11).
- . Information Processing and Management, 59(6).
- . Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie, 60(08), e689-e689.
- . JAMIA Open, 5(2).
- . BMC Emergency Medicine, 22(1).
- . Medical Principles and Practice, 31(2), 187-194.
- . IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.
- . Wiener klinische Wochenschrift, 134(3-4), 139-147.
- . Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing, 36(4), 1087-1097.
- . Diagnostics, 10(12).
- . Journal of Personalized Medicine, 11(10), 981-981.
- . Frontiers in Medicine, 8.
- . JMIR Formative Research, 5(5).
- . BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 21(1).
- . Personalized Medicine, 18(3), 283-294.
- . Respiratory Care, 66(5), 814-821.
- . International Journal of Medical Informatics, 145.
- . European Journal of Internal Medicine, 83, 74-77.
- . IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 20(6), 2313-2325.
- . PLoS ONE, 15(7).
- . Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 270, 73-77.
- . Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 192(2).
- . Critical Care Medicine, 48(1), 182-182.
- . Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 10(7), 2757-2770.
- Processing of Electronic Health Records using Deep Learning: A review. arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.01758.
- . Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 31, 50-66.
- . Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 63, 344-356.
- Mobile Health Systems for Bipolar Disorder.
- . IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 20(4), 1053-1060.
- . Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare.
- . IEEE Pervasive Computing, 14(3), 10-13.
- Automatic Stress Detection in Working Environments from Smartphones’ Accelerometer Data: A First Step. Biomedical and Health Informatics, IEEE Journal of.
- Exploring the link between behaviour and health. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 19, 255-257.
- Welcome message from the Editors.. EAI Endorsed Trans. Pervasive Health Technol., 1, e1-e1.
- . Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 19(2), 335-353.
- . IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 19(1), 140-148.
- Mobile Health Systems for Bipolar Disorder: The Relevance of Non-Functional Requirements in MONARCA Project.
- Mobile Health Systems for Bipolar Disorder: The relevance of Non-Functional Requirements in MONARCA Project. International Journal of Handheld Computing Research.
- Mobile health systems for bipolar disorder: the relevance of non-functional requirements in MONARCA project. International Journal of Handheld Computing Research (IJHCR), 5, 1-12.
- . Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 5(3), 297-306.
- . IEEE Communications Magazine, 51(7), 114-121.
- , 195-205.
- . Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 17(2), 211-213.
- . Methods of Information in Medicine, 51(01), 45-54.
- . Mobile Networks and Applications, 17(6), 808-819.
- Mobile Stress Treatment.
- Sedentary Work Style and Heart Rate Variability: A Short Term Analysis. Computing Paradigms for Mental Health, 96-96.
- Activity Identification for Gait Recognition Using Mobile Devices.
- FM radio for indoor localization with spontaneous recalibration. Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 6, 642-656.
- Indoor positioning using FM Radio. International Journal of Handheld Computing Research (IJHCR), 1, 19-31.
- Indoor positioning using FM radio. International Journal of Handheld Computing Research, 1, 19-31.
- Indoor positioning using off-the-shelf FM radio devices. IPIN2010, Zurich.
- . Proceedings of the 3d International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare.
- . Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 31(4), 628-655.
- A Distributed Hierarchical Structure for Object Networks Supporting Activity Recognition.
- An Architecture Supporting Human Activity Recognition.
- Context management support for activity recognition in health-care.
- An architecture for user-centric management of intelligent environments.
- Context? Yes, but to whom?.
- Agent Based Remote Network Element Management.
- . BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 22(S6).
- . JMIR Medical Informatics, 10(3), e32949-e32949.
- . JMIR Medical Informatics, 7(2), e12239-e12239.
- 2011 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth 2011).
- An Approach for Sustainable Pervasive Wellness.
- Conference General Chairs.
- DYNAMIC ABSTRACTION AND PROVISIONING OF CONTEXT INFORMATION.
- Happy or Moody.
- Indoor positioning using FM radio signals (PhD thesis summary).
- Mobile phones as medical devices in mental disorder treatment: an overview.
- Tuning to your position.
Chapters
- Stress Modelling Using Transfer Learning in Presence of Scarce Data, Ambient Intelligence for Health (pp. 224-236). Springer International Publishing
- , Emergent Trends in Personal, Mobile, and Handheld Computing Technologies (pp. 199-211). IGI Global
Conference proceedings papers
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- . Adjunct Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers
- . Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie, 9 September 2021 - 11 September 2021.
- . Proceedings of the 14th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare
- . Liječnički vjesnik, Vol. 142(supp 1)
- Automatic processing of Electronic Medical Records using Deep Learning. Proceedings of the 12th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (pp 251-257). ACM
- . Proceedings of the 11th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare
- Challenges and opportunities in evolving TreC personal health record platform. Proceedings of the 11th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (pp 288-291). ACM
- Using Intermediate Models and Knowledge Learning to Improve Stress Prediction. AFI 360° Conference Track on Future Internet e-Health (FI-eHealth)
- . 2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 25 August 2015 - 29 August 2015.
- Detecting Walking in Synchrony Through Smartphone Accelerometer and Wi-Fi Traces. Ambient Intelligence: European Conference, AmI 2014, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, November 11-13, 2014. Revised Selected Papers, Vol. 8850 (pp 33-33). Springer
- Does verbal interaction among colleagues affect perceived stress levels?. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
- Smartphone app usage as a predictor of perceived stress levels at workplace. 2015 9th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth) (pp 225-228). IEEE
- Stress modelling using transfer learning in presence of scarce data. Ambient Intelligence for Health (pp 224-236). Springer, Cham
- . Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments
- . Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments
- . Proceedings of the 5th Augmented Human International Conference
- Correlation of significant places with self-reported state of bipolar disorder patients. 2014 4th International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare-Transforming Healthcare Through Innovations in Mobile and Wireless Technologies (MOBIHEALTH) (pp 116-119). IEEE
- Correlation of significant places with self-reported state of patients with bipolar disorder. 2014 4th International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare-Transforming Healthcare Through Innovations in Mobile and Wireless Technologies (MOBIHEALTH). IEEE
- From Ubiquitous Computing to Human Aware Networking: Exploiting the Know-how of Ubicomp Research for Improving Networked-User Experience. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Context-Aware Systems and Applications (pp 110-113). ICST (Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and …
- Mobile Monitoring of Formal and Informal Social Interactions at Workplace. 3rd ACM Workshop on Mobile Systems for Computational Social Science (MCSS 2014). ACM
- Realising Anticipatory Networks through Human Aware Networking (HAN). 1st KuVS Workshop on Anticipatory Networks
- . Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare - "Transforming healthcare through innovations in mobile and wireless technologies", 3 November 2014 - 5 November 2014.
- . Proceedings of International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing & Multimedia - MoMM '13, 2 December 2013 - 4 December 2013.
- . Proceedings of the 2013 7th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare and Workshops, PervasiveHealth 2013
- Preface. 2013 7th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare and Workshops
- Virtual uniforms: using sound frequencies for grouping individuals. Proceedings of the 2013 ACM conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing adjunct publication (pp 159-162). ACM
- . 2012 Sixth UKSim/AMSS European Symposium on Computer Modeling and Simulation, 14 November 2012 - 16 November 2012.
- . 2012 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 28 August 2012 - 1 September 2012.
- . Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, 21 May 2012 - 24 May 2012.
- . 2012 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, 19 March 2012 - 23 March 2012.
- A Pilot Study of Short-term Effects of Non-sedentary Behaviour on Mood Changes.. HEALTHINF (pp 299-304)
- Comm2sense: Detecting proximity through smartphones. 2012 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (pp 253-258). IEEE
- Mobile stress treatment: The interstress approach. 2012 6th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth) and Workshops (pp 197-198). IEEE
- Mobile stress treatment: The interstress approach. 2012 6th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth) and Workshops (pp 197-198). IEEE
- Mobile stress treatment: The interstress approach. 2012 6th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth) and Workshops (pp 197-198). IEEE
- StandFit: Fighting Sedentary Work Life. NordCHI 2012 International Workshop on Designing for Wellness and Behavior Change. N/A
- StandFit: Fighting Sedentary Work Life. NordiCHI2012
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- Correlation between self-reported mood states and objectively measured social interactions at work: A pilot study. 2011 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth) and Workshops (pp 308-311). IEEE
- Indoor localization using audio features of FM radio signals. International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (pp 246-249). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
- RFID-based system for tracking people: Approaches to tagging demented patients. International Conference on Ambient Media and Systems (pp 60-65). Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- . Proceedings of the 4th International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, 22 March 2010 - 25 March 2010.
- An Indoor Positioning System based on a WiFi router and FM beacons. 18th Telecommunications forum TELFOR
- Happy or Moody? Why so?. 5th UbiHealth Workshop in conjunction with UBICOMP-2010. Copenhagen, Denmark
- Happy or Moody? Why so?. 5th UbiHealth Workshop in conjunction with UBICOMP-2010. Copenhagen, Denmark
- . 2010 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), 29 March 2010 - 2 April 2010.
- UbiHealth 2010: the 5th international workshop on ubiquitous health and wellness. Proceedings of the 12th ACM international conference adjunct papers on Ubiquitous computing-Adjunct (pp 497-500). ACM
- FINDR: Low-cost indoor positioning using FM radio. International Conference on Mobile Wireless Middleware, Operating Systems, and Applications (pp 15-26). Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Human activity recognition supporting context-appropriate reminders for elderly. 2009 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (pp 1-4). IEEE
- A bayesian network and rule-base approach towards activity inference. 2007 IEEE 66th Vehicular Technology Conference (pp 254-258). IEEE
- . Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Body Area Networks BodyNets, 11 June 2007 - 13 June 2007.
- A distributed hierarchical structure for object networks supporting human activity recognition. IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (pp 128-133). Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- A distributed hierarchical structure for object networks supporting human activity recognition. IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (pp 128-133). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
- Context driven, user-centric access control for smart spaces. IEE International Workshop on Intelligent Environments (pp 13-19)
- A. Gr unerbl, P. Lukowicz, C. Haring, and O. Mayora. Monitoring activity of patients with bipolar disorder using smart phones. ACM Proceedings of International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM2013), DOI, Vol. 10
Theses / Dissertations
- Managing the Scarcity of Monitoring Data through Machine Learning in Healthcare Domain.
- Wearable Sensing of Mental Health and Human Behavior.
- Sensing Social Interactions Using Non-Visual and Non-Auditory Mobile Sources, Maximizung Privacy and Minimizing Obtrusiveness..
- Indoor positioning using FM radio signals.
Other
- Blood lactate concentration prediction in critical care patients: handling missing values.
- Benchmarking machine learning models on eICU critical care dataset.
- Pervasive and mobile sensing and computing for healthcare: technological and social issues.
Preprints
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- Mitigating Health Data Poverty: Generative Approaches versus Resampling for Time-series Clinical Data.
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- Prediction of Blood Lactate Values in Critically Ill Patients: A Retrospective Multi-center Cohort Study.
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- Blood lactate concentration prediction in critical care patients: handling missing values.
- Benchmarking machine learning models on multi-centre eICU critical care dataset.
- Natural Language Processing of Clinical Notes on Chronic Diseases: Systematic Review.
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- Processing of Electronic Health Records using Deep Learning: A review.
- Smartphone apps usage patterns as a predictor of perceived stress levels at workplace.
- Enabling Prescription-based Health Apps.
- Automatic Stress Detection in Working Environments from Smartphones' Accelerometer Data: A First Step.
- Smartphones in Mental Health: Detecting Depressive and Manic Episodes.
- Investigation of indoor localization with ambient FM radio stations.
- Professional activities and memberships
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I am an invited expert for the following governmental funding bodies:
- UK's Medical Research Council (MRC)
- UK's National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)
- European Commission (EC) in the following programmes:
- Horizon Europe / Horizon 2020
- EIC Pathfinder / Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
- Main Health Programme
- Marie Curie Actions programmes
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
- Dutch Research Council (NWO)
Furthermore, I am on the Editorial Board of BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making journal as well as an Associate Editor of Frontiers’ Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing Journal.