Abstract：
:Breast cancer, the most common type of cancer among women in the western world, affects approximately one out of every eight women over their lifetime. In recognition of the high invasiveness of surgical excision and severe side effects of chemical and radiation therapies, increasing efforts are made to seek minimally invasive modalities with fewer side effects. Nanoparticles (<100 nm in size) have shown promising capabilities for delivering targeted therapeutic drugs to cancer cells and confining the treatment mainly within tumors. Additionally, some nanoparticles exhibit distinct properties, such as conversion of photonic energy into heat, and these properties enable eradication of cancer cells. In this review, current utilization of nanostructures for cancer therapy, especially in minimally invasive therapy, is summarized with a particular interest in breast cancer.
journal_name
J Healthc Engjournal_title
Journal of healthcare engineeringauthors
Yang Y,Wang Hdoi
10.1260/2040-2295.4.1.67subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2013-01-01 00:00:00pages
67-86issue
1eissn
2040-2295issn
2040-2309pii
G2R4326106RU5K27journal_volume
4pub_type
杂志文章,评审abstract：:Medical image segmentation is one of the hot issues in the related area of image processing. Precise segmentation for medical images is a vital guarantee for follow-up treatment. At present, however, low gray contrast and blurred tissue boundaries are common in medical images, and the segmentation accuracy of medical ...
journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1155/2019/8597606
更新日期：2019-12-26 00:00:00
abstract：:Wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) is an effective video technology to diagnose gastrointestinal (GI) disease, such as bleeding. In order to avoid conventional tedious and risky manual review process of long duration WCE videos, automatic bleeding detection schemes are getting importance. In this paper, to investigate b...
journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1155/2018/9423062
更新日期：2018-02-25 00:00:00
abstract：:A method based on measurement correlation (MC) and linear minimum mean square error (LMMSE) for multichannel surface electromyography (sEMG) signal decomposition was developed in this study. This MC-LMMSE method gradually and iteratively increases the correlation between an optimized vector and a reconstructed matrix ...
journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1155/2018/2347589
更新日期：2018-06-28 00:00:00
abstract：:This paper investigates the measurement of fat-free mass (FFM) by bioimpedance using foot-to-foot impedancemeters (FFI) with plantar electrodes measuring the foot-to-foot resistance R34 and hand-to-foot medical impedancemeters. FFM measurements were compared with corresponding data using Dual X-ray absorptiometry (DXA...
journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1260/2040-2295.5.2.123
更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Electrode configuration is an important issue in the continuous measurement of respiration using impedance pneumography (IP). The robust configuration is usually confirmed by comparing the amplitude of the IP signals acquired with different electrode configurations, while the relative change in waveform and the effect...
journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1260/2040-2295.5.3.313
更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：Purpose:To evaluate a new postprocessing framework that eliminates arterial vessel signal contributions in the quantification of normalized visible venous volume (NVVV, a ratio between venous and brain volume) in susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI) exams in patients with sickle cell disease (SCD). Materials and Meth...
journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1155/2017/5369385
更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Diagnosis of liver disease principally depends on physician's subjective knowledge. Automatic prediction of the disease is a critical real-world medical problem. This work presents an EHC-ERF-based intelligence-integrated model purposive to predict different types of liver disease including alcoholic liver damage, pri...
journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1155/2018/1469043
更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:To develop a minimally invasive interstitial fluid extraction technology (MIET) to monitor postprandial glucose area under the curve (AUC) without blood sampling, we evaluated the accuracy of glucose AUC measured by MIET and compared with that by blood sampling after food intake. METHODS:Interstitial fluid g...
journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1260/2040-2295.4.4.529
更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In this paper, an improved fuzzy connectedness (FC) method was proposed for automatic three-dimensional (3D) liver vessel segmentation in computed tomography (CT) images. The vessel-enhanced image (i.e., vesselness image) was incorporated into the fuzzy affinity function of FC, rather than the intensity image used by ...
journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1155/2018/2376317
更新日期：2018-10-29 00:00:00
abstract：:Online healthcare forums (OHFs) have become increasingly popular for patients to share their health-related experiences. The healthcare-related texts posted in OHFs could help doctors and patients better understand specific diseases and the situations of other patients. To extract the meaning of a post, a commonly use...
journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1155/2017/2460174
更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:This paper employed the clinical Polysomnographic (PSG) data, mainly including all-night Electroencephalogram (EEG), Electrooculogram (EOG) and Electromyogram (EMG) signals of subjects, and adopted the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) clinical staging manual as standards to realize automatic sleep staging. Au...
journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1260/2040-2295.5.4.505
更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Segmentation of liver tumors plays an important role in the choice of therapeutic strategies for liver disease and treatment monitoring. In this paper, we generalize the process of a level set with a novel algorithm of dynamic regulation to energy functional parameters. The presented method is fully automatic once the...
journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1155/2019/4321645
更新日期：2019-02-24 00:00:00
abstract：:Cataract is one of the leading causes of blindness in the world's population. A method to evaluate blurriness for cataract diagnosis in retinal images with vitreous opacity is proposed in this paper. Three types of features are extracted, which include pixel number of visible structures, mean contrast between vessels ...
journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1155/2017/5645498
更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The healthcare industry has generated large amounts of data, and analyzing these has emerged as an important problem in recent years. The MapReduce programming model has been successfully used for big data analytics. However, data skew invariably occurs in big data analytics and seriously affects efficiency. To overco...
journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1155/2017/1425102
更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：Background:Utilization of the widely used wearable sensor and smartphone technology for remote monitoring represents a healthcare breakthrough. This study aims to design a remote real-time monitoring system for multiple physiological parameters (electrocardiogram, heart rate, respiratory rate, blood oxygen saturation, ...
journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1155/2019/5674673
更新日期：2019-11-19 00:00:00
abstract：:Measuring the physiological functions of the human body in a noncontact manner through walls is useful for healthcare, security, and surveillance. And radar technology can be used for this purpose. In this paper, a new method for detecting the human heartbeat using ultra wideband (UWB) impulse radar, which has advanta...
journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1155/2018/4832605
更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In this work, tunable nonwoven mats based on poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) and type I collagen (Coll) were successfully produced by electrospinning. The PHB/Coll weight ratio (fixed at 100/0, 70/30, and 50/50, resp.) was found to control the morphological, thermal, mechanical, and degradation properties of the mats. I...
journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1155/2018/6573947
更新日期：2018-04-19 00:00:00
abstract：:Frame-based regularization method as one kind of sparsity representation method has been developed in recent years and has been proved to be an efficient method for CT image reconstruction. However, most of the developed CT image reconstruction methods are analysis-based frame methods. This paper proposes a novel fram...
journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1155/2017/1417270
更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Automatic gesture recognition is an important field in the area of human-computer interaction. Until recently, the main approach to gesture recognition was based mainly on real time video processing. The objective of this work is to propose the utilization of commodity smartwatches for such purpose. Smartwatches embed...
journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1155/2018/3180652
更新日期：2018-07-19 00:00:00
abstract：:We establish a novel mathematical model to describe and analyze pH levels in the vicinity of poly(N-vinylcaprolactam-co-acetoacetoxyethyl methacrylate-co-N-vinylimidazole) (VCL/AAEM/VIm) microgel-functionalized polymers during biodegradation. Biodegradable polymers, especially aliphatic polyesters (polylactide/polygly...
journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1155/2016/8125416
更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:While walking with fast speed aims to promote health and fitness of individuals, the potential risk on lower limb joint loading across walking speed is still unknown. In order to determine the joint contact force loading associated with different walking speeds, fifteen young male and fifteen female participants perfo...
journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1155/2017/6375976
更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:Finite-element method was used to evaluate biomechanics stability of extraforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (ELIF) under different internal fixation. METHODS:The L3-L5 level finite-element model was established to simulate decompression and internal fixation at L4-L5 segment. The intact finite model was trea...
journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1155/2017/9365068
更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A variety of cognitive assessment tools are used to determine the functional status of the brain before and after injury in athletes. Questionnaires, neuropsychological tests, and electroencephalographic (EEG) measures have been recently used to directly assess brain function on and near the playing field. However, ex...
journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1155/2019/4794637
更新日期：2019-04-30 00:00:00
abstract：:Tactile-kinesthetic-proprioceptive (TKP) input used to facilitate speech motor control is considered an active ingredient within speech motor interventions. Objective metrics identifying skill level differences across speech-language pathologists (S-LP) providing TKP cues are crucial for monitoring treatment delivery ...
journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1155/2018/4323046
更新日期：2018-12-31 00:00:00
abstract：:Overweight and obesity increase risks of knee osteoarthritis, which is a major cause of disability. Severe knee osteoarthritis can be treated by knee arthroplasty. Total knee arthroplasty has been used in overweight and obese patients; however, clinical reports showed that the outcome of this group of patients was not...
journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1155/2017/1496379
更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：Purpose:To establish the correlation model between Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) constitution and physical examination indexes by backpropagation neural network (BPNN) technology. A new method for the identification of TCM constitution in clinics is proposed, which is trying to solve the problem like shortage of T...
journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1155/2020/8812678
更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In supply chain literature, supplier evaluation and selection problem is one of the most studied subjects because of the significant roles of suppliers in terms of the chain's sustainability and profitability. Therefore, it is important for organizations to adopt a systematic way to evaluate and select the best suppli...
journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1155/2019/5614892
更新日期：2019-10-10 00:00:00
abstract：:The continuous technological advances in favor of mHealth represent a key factor in the improvement of medical emergency services. This systematic review presents the identification, study, and classification of the most up-to-date approaches surrounding the deployment of architectures for mHealth. Our review includes...
journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1155/2017/9186270
更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Tissue hemodynamics, including the blood flow, oxygenation, and oxygen metabolism, are closely associated with many diseases. As one of the portable optical technologies to explore human physiology and assist in healthcare, near-infrared diffuse optical spectroscopy (NIRS) for tissue oxygenation measurement has been d...
journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1155/2019/3750495
更新日期：2019-02-12 00:00:00
abstract：:Diabetic skin manifestations, previous to ulcers and wounds, are not highly accounted as part of diagnosis even when they represent the first symptom of vascular damage and are present in up to 70% of patients with diabetes mellitus type II. Here, an application for skin macules characterization based on a three-stage...
journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1155/2018/9397105
更新日期：2018-12-16 00:00:00
