Social Robotics in Therapy of Apraxia of Speech.

abstract：:The hemiplegic rehabilitation state diagnosing performed by therapists can be biased due to their subjective experience, which may deteriorate the rehabilitation effect. In order to improve this situation, a quantitative evaluation is proposed. Though many motion analysis systems are available, they are too complicate...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Sun T,Li H,Liu Q,Duan L,Li M,Wang C,Liu Q,Li W,Shang W,Wu Z,Wang Y

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fall prevention is an important issue particularly for the elderly. This paper proposes a camera-based line-laser obstacle detection system to prevent falls in the indoor environment. When obstacles are detected, the system will emit alarm messages to catch the attention of the user. Because the elderly spend a lot of...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Lin TH,Yang CY,Shih WP

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prosthetic component of dental implant is attached on the abutment which is connected to the fixture with an abutment screw. The abutment screw fracture is not frequent; however, the retrieval of the fractured screw is not easy, and it poses complications. A retrieval kit was developed which utilizes screw removal...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Sim BK,Kim B,Kim MJ,Jeong GH,Ju KW,Shin YJ,Kim MY,Lee JH

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A systematical evaluation work was performed on ten widely used and high-efficient QRS detection algorithms in this study, aiming at verifying their performances and usefulness in different application situations. Four experiments were carried on six internationally recognized databases. Firstly, in the test of high-q...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Liu F,Liu C,Jiang X,Zhang Z,Zhang Y,Li J,Wei S

更新日期：2018-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Low back pain (LBP) continues to be a severe global healthy problem, and a lot of patients would undergo conservative or surgical treatments. However, the improving capacity of spinal load sharing during activities of daily living (ADLs) after interventions is largely unknown. The objective of this study was...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Kuai S,Guan X,Liu W,Ji R,Xiong J,Wang D,Zhou W

更新日期：2019-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Three-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography (3D STE) is an emerging noninvasive method for predicting left ventricular remodeling (LVR) after acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Previous studies analyzed the predictive value of 3D STE with traditional models. However, no models that contain comprehensive risk f...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Zhong J,Liu P,Li S,Huang X,Zhang Q,Huang J,Guo Y,Chen M,Ruan Z,Qin C,Xu L

更新日期：2020-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients in the intensive care unit require fast and efficient handling, including in-diagnosis service. The objectives of this study are to produce a computer-aided system so that it can help radiologists to classify the types of brain tumors suffered by patients quickly and accurately; to build applications that can...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Fahmi F,Apriyulida F,Nasution IK,Sawaluddin

更新日期：2020-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals are usually contaminated with various artifacts, such as signal associated with muscle activity, eye movement, and body motion, which have a noncerebral origin. The amplitude of such artifacts is larger than that of the electrical activity of the brain, so they mask the cortical sign...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Lin CT,Huang CS,Yang WY,Singh AK,Chuang CH,Wang YK

更新日期：2018-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNA (miRNA) binding is primarily based on sequence, but structure-specific binding is also possible. Various prediction algorithms have been developed for predicting miRNA target genes; the results, however, have relatively high levels of false positives, and the degree of overlap between predicted targets from d...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Lee SY,Shin SY,Yoon YJ,Park YR

更新日期：2018-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The early screening and diagnosis of tuberculosis plays an important role in the control and treatment of tuberculosis infections. In this paper, an integrated computer-aided system based on deep learning is proposed for the detection of multiple categories of tuberculosis lesions in chest radiographs. In this system,...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Xie Y,Wu Z,Han X,Wang H,Wu Y,Cui L,Feng J,Zhu Z,Chen Z

更新日期：2020-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The power of exercise-induced T-wave alternans (TWA) to predict the occurrence of ventricular arrhythmias was evaluated in 67 patients with an implanted cardiac defibrillator (ICD). During the 4-year follow-up, electrocardiographic (ECG) tracings were recorded in a bicycle ergometer test with increasing workload rangi...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Burattini L,Man S,Sweene CA

更新日期：2013-01-01 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

authors： Ning Y,Zhao Y,Juraboev A,Tan P,Ding J,He J

更新日期：2018-06-28 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

authors： Akcan S,Güldeş M

更新日期：2019-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Claustrophobia is an anxiety disorder characterized by the fear of enclosed spaces. Although medication treatment can effectively control symptoms, the effects quickly disappear once medication is discontinued. Many studies have shown that combining psychotherapy and medication is more efficacious than solely using me...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Tsai CF,Yeh SC,Huang Y,Wu Z,Cui J,Zheng L

更新日期：2018-11-25 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

authors： Kundu AK,Fattah SA,Rizve MN

更新日期：2018-02-25 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

authors： Mezari A,Maglogiannis I

更新日期：2018-07-19 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

authors： Cho HS,Park YJ

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the 20th century, cancer has become one of the main diseases threatening human health. Liver cancer is a malignant tumor with extremely high clinical morbidity and fatality rate and easy recurrence after surgery. Research on the postoperative recurrence time and recurrence location of patients with liver cancer ...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Jianzhu B,Shuang L,Pengfei M,Yi Z,Yanshu Z

更新日期：2021-01-12 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

authors： Bürgermeister L,Hermann M,Fehér K,Molano Lopez C,Pich A,Hannen J,Vogt F,Schulz W

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous EEG-based brain-computer interface (BCI) systems that are being developed focus on novel feature extraction algorithms, classification methods and combining existing approaches to create hybrid BCIs. Several recent studies demonstrated various advantages of hybrid BCI systems in terms of an improved accuracy ...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Ko LW,Ranga SSK,Komarov O,Chen CC

更新日期：2017-01-01 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

authors： Wang C,Guo Y,Shi J,Chen W

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current sign-in methods of patrolling security guards mainly comprise signature, image identification, and fingerprint identification; notably, none of these methods indicate the physical and mental conditions of such guards. In particular, when patrolling security guards perform their duties consecutively for a long ...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Chang KM,Xu HC,Ching CT,Liu SH

更新日期：2018-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：Background:With the outbreak of COVID-19, large-scale telemedicine applications can play an important role in the epidemic areas or less developed areas. However, the transmission of hundreds of megabytes of Sectional Medical Images (SMIs) from hospital's Intranet to the Internet has the problems of efficiency, cost, a...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Qiao L,Wu H,Wu Y,Wu W,Yang J,Nian Y,Chen M,Bai S,Huang H,Qiu M

更新日期：2020-12-04 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

authors： Wang HB,Yen CW,Liang JT,Wang Q,Liu GZ,Song R

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Automatic segmentation of particular heart parts plays an important role in recognition tasks, which is utilized for diagnosis and treatment. One particularly important application is segmentation of epicardial fat (surrounds the heart), which is shown by various studies to indicate risk level for developing various c...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Zlokolica V,Krstanović L,Velicki L,Popović B,Janev M,Obradović R,Ralević NM,Jovanov L,Babin D

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to forecast the pattern of the demand for hemorrhagic stroke healthcare services based on air quality and machine learning. Hemorrhagic stroke, air quality, and meteorological data for 2016-2017 were obtained from the Longquanyi District of China, and the study included 1932 cases. Six machine learnin...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Chen J,Li H,Luo L,Zhang Y,Zhang F,Chen F,Chen M

更新日期：2019-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Specimen handling is a critical patient safety issue. Problematic handling process, such as misidentification (of patients, surgical site, and specimen counts), specimen loss, or improper specimen preparation can lead to serious patient harms and lawsuits. Value stream map (VSM) is a tool used to find out non-value-ad...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Hung SH,Wang PC,Lin HC,Chen HY,Su CT

更新日期：2015-01-01 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

authors： Yang M,Sun G,Guo S,Zeng C,Yan M,Han Y,Xia D,Zhang J,Li X,Xiang Y,Pan J,Li L,Tan J

更新日期：2017-01-01 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

authors： Wang X,Ma Y,Hou BY,Lam WK

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microwave ablation (MWA) by using coaxial antennas is a promising alternative for breast cancer treatment. A double short distance slot coaxial antenna as a newly optimized applicator for minimally invasive treatment of breast cancer is proposed. To validate and to analyze the feasibility of using this method in clini...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Ortega-Palacios R,Trujillo-Romero CJ,Cepeda Rubio MFJ,Vera A,Leija L,Reyes JL,Ramírez-Estudillo MC,Morales-Alvarez F,Vega-López MA

更新日期：2018-05-08 00:00:00