A Novel Method to Quantify Longitudinal Orthodontic Bone Changes with In Vivo Micro-CT Data.

abstract：:This research aimed to find main users, frequent utilized tasks, major usability problems, and the context of use of a neonatal incubator (NI) present in a neonatal intensive care unit from a Brazilian hospital and to find out the problems faced by a new user. The chosen methods were the heuristics analysis, contextua...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Ribeiro Custódio RA,Trzesniak C,Pinto Ribeiro Miranda R,Donda Angelini GH,Bordón JS,Santos Vieira LC,Pereira Mello CH

更新日期：2019-01-06 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：: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...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Yang Y,Wang H

更新日期：2013-01-01 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

authors： Kuranuki S,Sato T,Okada S,Hosoya S,Seko A,Sugihara K,Nakamura T

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to recent surveys, the current ways of diabetics trying to estimate their insulin need based on experience and conjecture are sometimes inefficient in practice. This paper proposes a prediction algorithm and presents the validation of the model in outpatient care. The algorithm consists of two state-of-the-a...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Gyuk P,Vassányi I,Kósa I

更新日期：2019-01-10 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 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

authors： Gonzalez E,Peña R,Avila A,Vargas-Rosales C,Munoz-Rodriguez D

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：: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：: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 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: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：:Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a serious cardiovascular disease with the phenomenon of beating irregularly. It is the major cause of variety of heart diseases, such as myocardial infarction. Automatic AF beat detection is still a challenging task which needs further exploration. A new framework, which combines modified f...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Xu X,Wei S,Ma C,Luo K,Zhang L,Liu C

更新日期：2018-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Allergic rhinitis is a major chronic respiratory disease and an immunoneuronal disorder. We aimed at providing further knowledge on the function of the neural system in nasal allergic reaction. Here, a method to assess simultaneously the nasal airflow resistance and the underlying function of autonomic nervous system ...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Seppänen TM,Alho OP,Seppänen T

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：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：: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：: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：:Apraxia of speech is a motor speech disorder in which messages from the brain to the mouth are disrupted, resulting in an inability for moving lips or tongue to the right place to pronounce sounds correctly. Current therapies for this condition involve a therapist that in one-on-one sessions conducts the exercises. Ou...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Castillo JC,Álvarez-Fernández D,Alonso-Martín F,Marques-Villarroya S,Salichs MA

更新日期：2018-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In the recent era, a liver syndrome that causes any damage in life capacity is exceptionally normal everywhere throughout the world. It has been found that liver disease is exposed more in young people as a comparison with other aged people. At the point when liver capacity ends up, life endures just up to 1 or 2 days...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Naseem R,Khan B,Shah MA,Wakil K,Khan A,Alosaimi W,Uddin MI,Alouffi B

更新日期：2020-12-12 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：: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

authors： Gao J,Liu N,Lawley M,Hu X

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：: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：Objective:The purpose of this study was to observe the three-dimensional growth and development of the maxillary arch in 10-year-olds with normal occlusion during the late mixed dentition stage. Methods:Forty-four 10-year-old students (22 males and 22 females) who had normal occlusion during late mixed dentition were ...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Yang D,Liang S,Zhang K,Gao W,Bai Y

更新日期：2019-11-14 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：: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：Objectives:This study was performed to provide epidemiological information on microbial colonization in central venous catheters (CVCs). Methods:CVCs submitted to Medical Microbiology Laboratory from January 1, 2013, through October 1, 2017, which met our criteria would be included for analysis. Quantitative culture w...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： He Y,Zhao H,Wei Y,Gan X,Ling Y,Ying Y

更新日期：2019-09-17 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

authors： Zhang R,Zhou Z,Wu W,Lin CC,Tsui PH,Wu S

更新日期：2018-10-29 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

authors： Jaffrin MY,Bousbiat S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00