An Easily Customized Gesture Recognizer for Assisted Living Using Commodity Mobile Devices.

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：:To reduce the high mortality rate from cardiovascular disease (CVD), the electrocardiogram (ECG) beat plays a significant role in computer-aided arrhythmia diagnosis systems. However, the complex variations and imbalance of ECG beats make this a challenging issue. Since ECG beat data exist in heavily imbalanced catego...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Gao J,Zhang H,Lu P,Wang Z

更新日期：2019-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In a model of murine ventricular cardiac tissue in vitro, we have studied the inotropic effects of electromagnetic stimulation (frequency, 75 Hz), isoproterenol administration (10 μM), and their combination. In particular, we have performed an image processing analysis to evaluate the kinematics and the dynamics of be...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Fassina L,Cornacchione M,Pellegrini M,Mognaschi ME,Gimmelli R,Isidori AM,Lenzi A,Magenes G,Naro F

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:The structural and functional neural differences between the elite karate athletes and control group have been investigated in the concept of this study. 13 elite karate athletes and age-gender matched 13 volunteers who have not performed regular exercises participated in the study. Magnetic resonance imaging was used...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Duru AD,Balcioglu TH

更新日期：2018-10-23 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：: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

authors： Devilbiss DM,Etnoyer-Slaski JL,Dunn E,Dussourd CR,Kothare MV,Martino SJ,Simon AJ

更新日期：2019-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：Introduction:Freezing of gait (FoG) is a movement abnormality that presents with advancing Parkinson's disease (PD) and is one of the most debilitating symptoms of the disease. The mainstay of nonpharmacological management of FoG is typically through external cueing techniques designed to relieve or prevent the freezin...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Rosenthal L,Sweeney D,Cunnington AL,Quinlan LR,ÓLaighin G

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The developing countries are still starving for the betterment of health sector. The disease commonly found among the women is breast cancer, and past researches have proven results that if the cancer is detected at a very early stage, the chances to overcome the disease are higher than the disease treated or detected...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Khan F,Khan MA,Abbas S,Athar A,Siddiqui SY,Khan AH,Saeed MA,Hussain M

更新日期：2020-05-18 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

authors： Toledo Peral CL,Ramos Becerril FJ,Vega Martínez G,Vera Hernández A,Leija Salas L,Gutiérrez Martínez J

更新日期：2018-12-16 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

authors： Gao Y,Zhou Y,Zhou B,Shi L,Zhang J

更新日期：2017-01-01 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

authors： Xiong L,Li H,Xu L

更新日期：2017-01-01 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

authors： Winchell AM,Song R,Loeffler RB,Wang WC,Hankins JS,Helton KJ,Hillenbrand CM

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：:The feasibility of a novel system to reliably estimate the normalized central blood pressure (CBPN) from the radial photoplethysmogram (PPG) is investigated. Right-wrist radial blood pressure and left-wrist PPG were simultaneously recorded in five different days. An industry-standard applanation tonometer was employed...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Zahedi E,Sohani V,Ali MA,Chellappan K,Beng GK

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:Frozen shoulder is a common clinical shoulder condition. Measuring the degree of shoulder joint movement is crucial to the rehabilitation process. Such measurements can be used to evaluate the severity of patients' condition, establish rehabilitation goals and appropriate activity difficulty levels, and understand the...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Cui J,Yeh SC,Lee SH

更新日期：2019-04-10 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

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:Heart rate variability (HRV) provides information about the activity of the autonomic nervous system. Because of the small amount of data collected, the importance of HRV has not yet been proven in clinical practice. To collect population-level data, smartphone applications leveraging photoplethysmography (P...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Bánhalmi A,Borbás J,Fidrich M,Bilicki V,Gingl Z,Rudas L

更新日期：2018-02-05 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：: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：: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：:Mosaicking of retinal images is potentially useful for ophthalmologists and computer-aided diagnostic schemes. Vascular bifurcations can be used as features for matching and stitching of retinal images. A fully convolutional network model is employed to segment vascular structures in retinal images to detect vascular ...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Feng X,Cai G,Gou X,Yun Z,Wang W,Yang W

更新日期：2020-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In tongue diagnosis, colour information of tongue body has kept valuable information regarding the state of disease and its correlation with the internal organs. Qualitatively, practitioners may have difficulty in their judgement due to the instable lighting condition and naked eye's ability to capture the exact colou...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Kamarudin ND,Ooi CY,Kawanabe T,Odaguchi H,Kobayashi F

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:This review aims to compare existing robot-assisted ankle rehabilitation techniques in terms of robot design. Included studies mainly consist of selected papers in two published reviews involving a variety of robot-assisted ankle rehabilitation techniques. A free search was also made in Google Scholar and Scopus by us...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Miao Q,Zhang M,Wang C,Li H

更新日期：2018-03-15 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：: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

authors： Zhang Y,Zhang X,Liu W,Luo Y,Yu E,Zou K,Liu X

更新日期：2014-01-01 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

authors： Salvatore L,Carofiglio VE,Stufano P,Bonfrate V,Calò E,Scarlino S,Nitti P,Centrone D,Cascione M,Leporatti S,Sannino A,Demitri C,Madaghiele M

更新日期：2018-04-19 00:00:00