Automatic Detection of Brain Tumor on Computed Tomography Images for Patients in the Intensive Care Unit.

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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Frame-based regularization method as one kind of sparsity representation method has been developed in recent years and has been proved to be an efficient method for CT image reconstruction. However, most of the developed CT image reconstruction methods are analysis-based frame methods. This paper proposes a novel fram...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Zhou W,Xiang H

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：: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：: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：Purpose:To establish the correlation model between Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) constitution and physical examination indexes by backpropagation neural network (BPNN) technology. A new method for the identification of TCM constitution in clinics is proposed, which is trying to solve the problem like shortage of T...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Luo Y,Lin B,Zhao S,He L,Wen C

更新日期：2020-09-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:This review aims to compare existing robot-assisted ankle rehabilitation techniques in terms of robot design. Included studies mainly consist of selected papers in two published reviews involving a variety of robot-assisted ankle rehabilitation techniques. A free search was also made in Google Scholar and Scopus by us...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Miao Q,Zhang M,Wang C,Li H

更新日期：2018-03-15 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：: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

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：: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：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：: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：: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 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：: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：: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