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Knowledge Engineering has become essential in the fields of Medical and Health Care with emphasis for helping citizens to improve their health and quality of life. This includes individual methods and techniques in healthârelated knowledge acquisition and representation and their application in the construction of intelligent systems capable of using the acquired information to improve the patients' health and/or quality of life. Haematoâoncological diseases can provide significant disability and suffering, with severe symptoms and psychological distress. They can create difficulties in fulfilling professional, family and social roles, affecting an individual's quality of life. Health related quality of life (HRQoL) is a subjective concept but there is also an objective component related to physiological indicators. Some of these physiological indicators can be easily assessed by wearable technology such heart rate variability (HRV). This paper introduces an intelligent system to assess, in realâtime, potential HRV indices, that can predict HRQoL in lymphoma patients throughout chemotherapy treatment and to account the individuals' variability.
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Haemato-oncological diseases, Wearable smart sensors Health-related quality of life Heart rate variability Longitudinalanalysis Mixed-effect regression models Physiological indicators
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Oliveira, A., Silva, E., Aguiar, J., Faria, B. M., Reis, L. P., Cardoso, H., . . . Marques, H. (2020). Biometrics and quality of life of lymphoma patients: A longitudinal mixed-model approach. Expert Systems, n/a(n/a), e12640. doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/exsy.12640