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：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：: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：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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：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：Background:Utilization of the widely used wearable sensor and smartphone technology for remote monitoring represents a healthcare breakthrough. This study aims to design a remote real-time monitoring system for multiple physiological parameters (electrocardiogram, heart rate, respiratory rate, blood oxygen saturation, ...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Al-Naggar NQ,Al-Hammadi HM,Al-Fusail AM,Al-Shaebi ZA

更新日期：2019-11-19 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 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：: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：: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：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：: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 healthcare-related functions of wearable devices are very useful for continuous monitoring of biological information. Wearable devices equipped with communication function can be used for additional healthcare services. Among the wearable devices, the wristband type is most suitable for acquiring biological signal...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Cho J

更新日期：2019-06-16 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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

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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:The structural and functional neural differences between the elite karate athletes and control group have been investigated in the concept of this study. 13 elite karate athletes and age-gender matched 13 volunteers who have not performed regular exercises participated in the study. Magnetic resonance imaging was used...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Duru AD,Balcioglu TH

更新日期：2018-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Orthodontic tooth movement (OTM) is the result of region-specific bone modeling under a load. Quantification of this change in the alveolar bone around a tooth is a basic requirement to understand the mechanism of orthodontics. The purpose of this study was to quantify subregional alveolar bone changes during orthodon...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Wang C,Cao L,Yang C,Fan Y

更新日期：2018-10-01 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：: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：Introduction:Freezing of gait (FoG) is a movement abnormality that presents with advancing Parkinson's disease (PD) and is one of the most debilitating symptoms of the disease. The mainstay of nonpharmacological management of FoG is typically through external cueing techniques designed to relieve or prevent the freezin...

journal_title：Journal of healthcare engineering

authors： Rosenthal L,Sweeney D,Cunnington AL,Quinlan LR,ÓLaighin G

更新日期：2018-08-01 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：: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