Current Status and Prospects of Health-Related Sensing Technology in Wearable Devices.

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：: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：: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 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：: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：: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：: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：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：: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：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：: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：: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：: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：: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

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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:The prosthetic component of dental implant is attached on the abutment which is connected to the fixture with an abutment screw. The abutment screw fracture is not frequent; however, the retrieval of the fractured screw is not easy, and it poses complications. A retrieval kit was developed which utilizes screw removal...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Sim BK,Kim B,Kim MJ,Jeong GH,Ju KW,Shin YJ,Kim MY,Lee JH

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

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：: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：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 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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