Measuring and Training Speech-Language Pathologists' Orofacial Cueing: A Pilot Demonstration.

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：: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：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：: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：: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：: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

authors： Teng L,Li H,Karim S

更新日期：2019-12-26 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：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：:Uterine contraction (UC) is an important clinical indictor for monitoring uterine activity. The purpose of this study is to develop a portable electrohysterogram (EHG) recording system (called PregCare) for monitoring UCs with EHG signals. The PregCare consisted of sensors, a signal acquisition device, and a computer ...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Hao D,An Y,Qiao X,Qiu Q,Zhou X,Peng J

更新日期：2019-07-01 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：: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：: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：: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：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：: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：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：: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 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：: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：: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：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：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：: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：: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：: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