Functional and Structural Plasticity of Brain in Elite Karate Athletes.

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：: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：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a leading cause of dementia, which causes serious health and socioeconomic problems. A progressive neurodegenerative disorder, Alzheimer's causes the structural change in the brain, thereby affecting behavior, cognition, emotions, and memory. Numerous multivariate analysis algorithms have b...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Alam S,Kwon GR,Kim JI,Park CS

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：: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：: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：: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：: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

authors： Namasivayam AK,Bali R,Ward R,Tieu KD,Yan T,Hayden D,van Lieshout P

更新日期：2018-12-31 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：: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：:Automatic segmentation and three-dimensional reconstruction of the liver is important for liver disease diagnosis and surgical treatment. However, the shape of the imaged 2D liver in each CT image changes dramatically across the slices. In all slices, the imaged 2D liver is connected with other organs, and the connect...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Wang Z,Zhang C,Jiao T,Gao M,Zou G

更新日期：2018-11-18 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

abstract：:Porous oligolactide-hydroxyapatite composite scaffolds were obtained by stereolithographic fabrication. Gentamicin was then coated on the scaffolds afterwards, to achieve antimicrobial delivery ability to treat bone infection. The scaffolds examined by stereomicroscope, SEM, and μCT-scan showed a well-ordered pore str...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Channasanon S,Udomkusonsri P,Chantaweroad S,Tesavibul P,Tanodekaew S

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For hospitals' admission management, the ability to predict length of stay (LOS) as early as in the preadmission stage might be helpful to monitor the quality of inpatient care. This study is to develop artificial neural network (ANN) models to predict LOS for inpatients with one of the three primary diagnoses: corona...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Tsai PF,Chen PC,Chen YY,Song HY,Lin HM,Lin FM,Huang QP

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：: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：: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

authors： Hou L,Liu Y,Qian L,Zheng Y,Gao J,Cao W,Shang Y

更新日期：2019-02-12 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：: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

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：: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：: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：:The thyroid is one of the largest endocrine glands in the human body, which is involved in several body mechanisms like controlling protein synthesis and the body's sensitivity to other hormones and use of energy sources. Hence, it is of prime importance to track the shape and size of thyroid over time in order to eva...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Poudel P,Illanes A,Sheet D,Friebe M

更新日期：2018-09-23 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：: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：: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：:In the service industry, scheduling medical procedures causes difficulties for both patients and management. Factors such as fluctuations in customer demand and service time affect the appointment scheduling systems' performance in terms of, for example, patients' waiting time, idle time of resources, and total cost/p...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Chenl PS,Robielos RA,Palaña PK,Valencia PL,Chen GY

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：: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