Research

(topics are listed in descending chronological order; only selected publications are listed)

• building multilingual databases with web-interfaces (2004-)
  • researchers: Jure Dimec, Brane L. Leskosek
  • for more information, see the EUROETHICS database, developed within the eureth.net European Comission project from the Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources Programme
  • publication: Dimec, J, Leskosek, BL. Data entry application for NAS partners: User manual (PDF). Ljubljana: Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Biomedical Informatics, 2004.
• automated classification of medical abstracts (2003-)
  • researchers: Bostjan Jerko, Jure Dimec
  • publication: Jerko, B. Automated abstract indexing (PDF, in Slovenian). In: Erjavec, T, Gros, J, editors. Language technologies: proceedings B of the 7th International Multi-Conference Information Society IS 2004; Ljubljana, Slovenia. Ljubljana: Jozef Stefan Institute, 2004; 13-7.
• bibliometric research in nursing (2003-)
  • researchers: Ema Dornik, Gaj Vidmar
  • publications:
    • Dornik E, Vidmar, G, Zumer M. Nursing education in Slovenia and its impact on nurses publishing in their professional journal (PDF). Nurse Educ Today 2005; 25: 197-203.
    • Dornik E, Vidmar, G, Zumer M. Analysis of cited references in the Journal of the Slovenian Nursing Association (PDF, in Slovenian). Library 2003; 47(3): 49-66
    • Dornik, E, Vidmar, G. Impact of nursing education in Slovenia on nurses' publishing in their professional journal (PDF). Stud Health Technol Inform 2003; 95: 794-9.
• bibliometric research in medicine, especially OLAP for bibliographic databases (2002-)
  • researchers: Emil Hudomalj, Gaj Vidmar, Ema Dornik
  • publication: Hudomalj, E, Vidmar, G. OLAP and bibliographic databases (PDF). Scientometrics 2003; 58(3): 609-22.
• electromyography of pregnant uterus in sheep

(2002-)

• • researchers: Brane L. Leskosek, Gaj Vidmar
  • publications:
    • Leskosek, BL, Pajntar M. Electromyography of the pregnant uterus in humans and sheep. IFMBE proceedings 2002; 3: 554-5.
    • Verdenik, I, Pajntar, M, Leskosek, BL. Uterine electrical activity as predictor of preterm birth in women with preterm contractions. European Journal of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology 2001; 95: 149-53.
    • Pajntar, M, Leskosek, BL, Rudel, D, Verdenik, I. Contribution of cervical smooth muscle activity to the duration of latent and active phases of labour. British journal of obstetrics and gynaecology 2001; 108(5): 533-8.
• using OLAP for public health data analysis (2000-)
  • researchers: Dimitar Hristovski, Gaj Vidmar, Emil Hudomalj
  • publications:
    • Artnik B, Vidmar G, Javornik, J. OLAP for health statistics: how to turn a simple spreadsheet into a powerful analytic tool (PDF). In: Tkacik B, editor. 12th Statistical Days; 2002; Radenci, Slovenia. Ljubljana: Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, Statistical Society of Slovenia, 2002; 476-81.
    • Hristovski D, Rogac M, Markota M. Using data warehousing and OLAP in public healt care. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2000; (Suppl): 369-73.
• literature-based knowledge discovery (1999-)
  • researcher: Dimitar Hristovski
  • for more information, visit the homepage of the BITOLA system
  • publications:
    • Hristovski D, Peterlin B, Mitchell JA, Humphrey SM. Improving literature based discovery support by genetic knowledge integration (PDF).  Stud Health Technol Inform 2003; 95: 68-73.
    • Hristovski D, Peterlin B, Dzeroski S, Stare J. Literature Based Discovery Support System and its Application to Disease Gene Identification (book chapter in print, PDF).
    • Hristovski D, Stare J, Peterlin B, Dzeroski S. Supporting discovery in medicine by association rule mining in Medline and UMLS (PDF). Medinfo. 2001; 10(Pt 2): 1344-8.
• evaluation of research in the field of biomedicine in Slovenia (1995-)
  • researcher: Dimitar Hristovski
  • automated analysis based on citation indices, apllying bibliometric and nonbibliometric measures
• bioinformatics - Y chromosome microdeletion diagnostic test development (1999-2004)
  • researcher: Dimitar Hristovski
  • publications:
    • Peterlin B, Kunej T, Hristovski D. Diagnostic test for Y chromosome microdeletion screening in male infertility. Genetic Testing 2004; 8(1): 45-9
    • Dzeroski S, Hristovski D, Peterlin B. Using data mining and OLAP to discover patterns in a database of patients with Y-chromosome deletions. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2000; (Suppl): 215-9.
    • Dzeroski S, Hristovski D, Kunej T, Peterlin B. A data mining approach to the development of a diagnostic test for male infertility. Stud Health Technol Inform 2000; 77: 779-83.
• digital library of Slovenian medical documents (1999-2003)
  • researchers: Ljupco Todorovski, Jure Dimec
  • for more information, visit our Collection of Multimedia Medical Databases
• web-user behaviour analysis (1999-2002)
  • researchers: Dimitar Hristovski, Ljupco Todorovski
  • publications:
    • Rozic-Hristovski A, Hristovski D, Todorovski L. User's information-seeking behavior on a medical library website. J Med Libr Assoc 2002; 90(2): 210-7.
    • Rozic-Hristovski A, Hristovski D, Todorovski L. Discovering patterns in library website usage: a data mining approach. In: EAHIL workshop 2001 Cyberspace Odyssey; 2001; Alghero, Sardinia. Alghero: EAHIL, 2001; 1-7.
• electronic publishing of medical journals (1996-2000)
  • researcher: Jure Dimec
  • publications:
    • JAMA (Slovenian edition, 1996-2000)
    • ISIS (in Slovenian, 1996-1999)
• intelligent information storage and retrieval of Slovene and English medical documents on Internet (1995-2000)
  • researchers: Jure Dimec, Anamarija Rozic-Hristovski, Dimitar Hristovski, Emil Hudomalj, Ljupco Todorovski
  • for historical purposes, we've kept the homempage of the Subproject of INCO-Copernicus Project: 960154, CRII
• computer-assisted medical image analysis - analysis of blood flow in muscle fibres (1991-1997)
  • researcher: Emil Hudomalj
  • publication: Hudomalj, E, Erzen, I. Successive shape hulls as a tool for capillary distribution analysis. V: Erzen I, Pajer Z, urednika. Life sciences 1996: Proceedings of the 3rd international conference; 1996; Gozd Martuljek, Slovenia. Ljubljana: Society for stereology and quantitative image analysis, 1996; 159-60.
• unified access to various bibliographic databases (1991-1994)
  • researchers: Dimitar Hristovski, Anamarija Rozic-Hristovski, Jure Dimec
  • now incorporated into literature-based knowledge discovery