Applying Human Factors Engineering Methods for Risk Assessment of a Neonatal Incubator.

abstract：:Segmentation of liver tumors plays an important role in the choice of therapeutic strategies for liver disease and treatment monitoring. In this paper, we generalize the process of a level set with a novel algorithm of dynamic regulation to energy functional parameters. The presented method is fully automatic once the...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Deng Z,Guo Q,Zhu Z

更新日期：2019-02-24 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：: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：: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：: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：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：: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：: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：: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：: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：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：: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：: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：:There are various methods to generate nanobubbles, and in this study, we experimented using a nanobubble generator with a high-density of stainless steel mesh nozzle to deliver nanobubble water (normal water and two kinds of mouthwash) stream through a tooth tray to clean bacteria coated on the denture. It showed that...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Lin PJ

更新日期：2020-10-30 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：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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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