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Specialized personnel is usually required for the administration of this medical treatment; nevertheless, subjects whose clinical status can be considered stable require different monitoring strategies when compared with subjects with critical clinical conditions. In this case domiciliary treatment or monitoring can substantially improve the quality of life of patients undergoing dialysis. In this work, we present a<jats:italic>Computer Aided Detection<\/jats:italic>(CAD) system for the telemonitoring of patients\u2019 clinical parameters. The CAD was mainly designed to predict the insurgence of critical events; it consisted of two<jats:italic>Random Forest<\/jats:italic>(RF) classifiers: the first one (<mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\" id=\"M1\"><mml:mi mathvariant=\"normal\">R<\/mml:mi><mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mi mathvariant=\"normal\">F<\/mml:mi><\/mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mn mathvariant=\"normal\">1<\/mml:mn><\/mml:mrow><\/mml:msub><\/mml:math>) predicting the onset of any malaise one hour after the treatment start and the second one (<mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\" id=\"M2\"><mml:mi mathvariant=\"normal\">R<\/mml:mi><mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mi mathvariant=\"normal\">F<\/mml:mi><\/mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mn mathvariant=\"normal\">2<\/mml:mn><\/mml:mrow><\/mml:msub><\/mml:math>) again two hours later. The developed system shows an accurate classification performance in terms of both<jats:italic>sensitivity<\/jats:italic>and<jats:italic>specificity<\/jats:italic>. The<jats:italic>specificity<\/jats:italic>in the identification of nonsymptomatic sessions and the<jats:italic>sensitivity<\/jats:italic>in the identification of symptomatic sessions for<mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\" id=\"M3\"><mml:mi mathvariant=\"normal\">R<\/mml:mi><mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mi mathvariant=\"normal\">F<\/mml:mi><\/mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mn mathvariant=\"normal\">2<\/mml:mn><\/mml:mrow><\/mml:msub><\/mml:math>are equal to 86.60% and 71.40%, respectively, thus suggesting the CAD as an effective tool to support expert nephrologists in telemonitoring the patients.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1155\/2016\/8748156","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,3,6]],"date-time":"2016-03-06T16:01:10Z","timestamp":1457280070000},"page":"1-10","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Computer Aided Detection System for Prediction of the Malaise during Hemodialysis"],"prefix":"10.1155","volume":"2016","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1372-3916","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Sabina","family":"Tangaro","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, Via Orabona 4, 70125 Bari, Italy"}]},{"given":"Annarita","family":"Fanizzi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica \u201cM. 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