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2. Project Advisor: Dr. Khalid Mehmood ul Hassan
Undergraduate Final Year Project Presentation
Dated: 4th April, 2018
Department of Electrical Engineering,
University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore

3. Kainat Altaf (Team Leader)
2014-EE-151
Specialization: Computer
Maria Shaukat
2014-EE-105
Specialization: Computer
Muhammad Danyal Khan
2014-EE-178
Specialization: Computer
Waleed Ahmad
2014-EE-187
Specialization: Computer

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Major Health Challenges
Low
health-
care
budget
Lack of
awareness
Lack of
diagnostic
equipment
Costly
diagnosis
High
patient-
physician
ratioInadequate
patient
profiling
Untimely
Diagnosis
Top ranking diseases in Pakistan
26.90%
11.47%
4.90%
16%
Cardiovascular disorders Diabetes
Hepatitis-C Pneumonia
Impediments in health-care delivery

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 Disorders of human heart and blood vessels (arteries,
capillaries, veins)
 26.9% population of Pakistan is suffering from
Coronary artery disease
Cardiovascular Disorders
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
Coronary
artery disease
Stroke Pneumonia
and respiratory
infections
Obstructive
pulmonary
disease
Tuberculosis Diarrhoeal
disease
Diabetes
mellitus
Preterm birth
complications
Deathsper100,000population
Causes of death

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Diabetes
A group of metabolic diseases in which the
person suffers from hyperglycaemia
11.47% of population of Pakistan is diabetic
0
5
10
15
1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016
%PrevalenceofDiabetes
Years
Pakistan
Pakistan

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 A blood borne disease which is caused when
hepatitis c virus invades into the body and
affects the liver
 Causes 1.34 million deaths per year globally
Hepatitis C
3.4
3.6
3.8
4
4.2
4.4
4.6
2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016
%ofinfectedpeople
Years
Pakistan
Pakistan

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 Leading contagious reason of death among
children
 Pneumonia kills 2,500 children per day
 Pakistan ranks third for pneumonia deaths in
the world
Pneumonia
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
50
Noofpneumoniacases(inmillions)
Countries

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End-to-end
Patient-centric health-
care provision system
Zero cost diagnosis
Intuitive user interface
Cardiovascular
Disorders
Diabetes
Hepatitis C
Pneumonia

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Salient Features
Extraction of high-risk
patients to hospitals
Diagnose highly
prevalent diseases
Convenient patient
profiling
Integrated state-of-the
art clinical guidelines
Zero cost diagnosis
Freely download-able
Low technology literacy
required
Portable sensor
integration

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Multilingual & Audio Aid
English
Urdu
Other local languages

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Wearable Sensors
Glucometer Oximeter Blood pressure meterElectrocardiogram

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Architecture

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Use Case: User Registration

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Use Case: Diagnose Activity

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Clinical Guidelines
Merck Manual
World Health Organization
American Diabetes Association
American Association for the Study of Liver
Disease
National Institute for Health and Care
Infectious Disease Society of America

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Bayesian Network

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Network Updating API
Training Data Learning API Updated Network

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Intuitive User Interface

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Business Model

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SWOT Analysis
Strengths
1. Incorporates disease symptoms
2. Knowledge base extracted from Clinical
Guidelines
3. Freely Available
4. compatible with multiple platforms
5. Intuitive user interface
Weaknesses
1. Network Connectivity problems may hinder
diagnosis
2. Data is not available openly
3. Large data base and fast servers required
Opportunities
1. Expandable to include more diseases
2. Serve as platform for patient data collection
3. Aid decision making and training process of
medical practitioners
Threats
1. High Cost of equipment
2. Time limitations for data collection
3. Market competition

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Future Work
• Multilingual Support
• Full-Spectrum Health Sensor Suite Integration
• Fingerprint / Face-Recognition based Registration &
Authentication
• High-risk Patient Extraction Protocol
• Hospital Information Management System (HIMS) Integration
• Health Information Exchange (HIX) Integration
• Bridging with Pharmacy, Ambulance Service, Clinic-at-Home,
Sensor company, Clinical Testing Laboratory

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References
 [1] World Health Organization, “WHO | Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) factsheet No.
317,” Http://Www.Who.Int/Mediacentre/Factsheets/Fs317/En/Index.Html. 2015.
 [2] World Health Organization, “Global Report on Diabetes,” Isbn, vol. 978, p. 88,
2016.
 [3] S. Patel, R. Nanda, S. Sahoo, and E. Mohapatra, “Biosensors in health care: The
milestones achieved in their development towards lab-on-chip-analysis,” Biochemistry
Research International, vol. 2016. 2016.
 [4] S. Palaniappan and R. Awang, “Intelligent heart disease prediction system using
data mining techniques,” in 2008 IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer
Systems and Applications, 2008, pp. 108–115.

24. We dedicate our work to the
resilient people of Pakistan