Antonio Mendoza, a third-year graduate student in electrical and computer engineering (ECE) at Rice, is the lead author on a paper that won the Best Paper Award: Runner Up at the IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics.
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers-Engineering and Medicine Biology Society conference was held Nov. 10-13 in Houston. Mendoza’s paper is titled “Clinical Features and Physiological Signals Fusion Network for Mechanical Circulatory Support Need Prediction in Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit.”
The research proposes a novel system for processing minute-by-minute multi-sensor data to identify the need for mechanical circulatory support in patients admitted to the hospital with acute decompensated heart failure.
Mendoza’s co-authors are his doctoral adviser, Joseph Cavallaro, professor of ECE and of computer science; Dr. Sebastian Tume and Dr. Kriti Puri, clinical instructors at Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH) and assistant professors of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM);
Sebastian Acosta, assistant professor of pediatrics-cardiology at BCM, who earned his Ph.D. from Rice in computational and applied mathematics in 2014.
Mendoza and Cavallaro are members of the Digital Health Initiative at Rice.