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November 2020
IEEE November Meeting Series – Hyatt Regency Bellevue, Bellevue, WA
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8th European Medical and Biological Engineering Conference (EMBEC 2020)
Important announcement from the local Organising Committee regarding the Coronavirus ...
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From Face-to-Face to FaceTime
In a Jetsons episode from 60 years ago, Elroy, the youngest Jetson, tries to get out of taking a space calculus test at school by telling his mom he’s sick. “I think I have Venus Virus,” he says. His mom doubts him, but summons a doctor anyway...
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Tracking Sleep to Optimize Health
With the advent of wearable biometrictechnology like smart watches, “hacking” our bodies’ functions and cycles has become a tool in the never-ending quest for better health. And sleep is no exception. For example, a staggering one-third of Americans don’t get enough sleep, according to the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...
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Posted on 23 OCT 2020
Rural Health Care for Coronavirus Requires Collaboration, Creativity
Before the novel coronavirus (COVID-19)
started sweeping across the United States, it began
on the coasts. The first known case was reported in
a county just outside of Seattle, WA, with other cases
quickly cropping up in California and in the greater
New York City region...
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Posted on 23 OCT 2020
In a Pandemic, Technology Has Its Limits
If there’s one thing made abundantly clear as
the pandemic rages on, it’s this: Technology alone
can’t save us...
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Posted on 23 OCT 2020
IoMT (Internet of Medical Things): Reducing Cost While Improving Patient Care
Citizens’ dissatisfaction with the scope of the United States health care system has been a hot topic for many years. In a country where patient to
nurse ratios remain 6:1, even universal health care coverage cannot guarantee adequate patient care...
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Posted on 23 OCT 2020
New, At-Home Antibody Test For Detecting, Tracking COVID-19
The test will be part of a large U.S. study to understand prevalence, post-infection immunity and potential lingering health impacts.
An at-home test for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) could be released commercially as early as August, according to Scanwell Health of...
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Posted on 23 OCT 2020
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IEEE Open Journal of
Engineering in Medicine and Biology
2020
VOLUME 1
IOJEA7
VOLUME 1
IOJEA7
1
Critical COVID-19 Research from our Fast-Track
SARS-CoV-2 Detection from Voice
Abstract:
Automated voice-based detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) could facilitate the screening for COVID19. A dataset of cellular phone recordings from 88 subjects was recently collected. The dataset included vocal utterances, speech and coughs that were self-recorded...
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Posted on 25 SEP 2020
Magnetic Microdevices for MRI Measurement of SARS-CoV-2 Concentration
Lamar O. Mair, Olivia Hale, Sahar Jafari, Cheng Chen, Oleg Udalov, Roland Probst, Ittai S. Baum, Anjana Hevaganinge, Elaine Wang, Olga C. Rodriguez, Christopher Albanese, Stanley T. Fricke, Irving Norman Weinberg
Goal: To develop a micron-scale device that can operate as an MRI-based reporter for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 virus. Methods: Iron rod microdevices were constructed via template-guided synthesis and suspended in phosphate buffered saline (PBS). Heat-inactivated SARS-CoV-2 viruses were added...
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Posted on 25 SEP 2020
IEEE Journal of
Biomedical And Health Informatics
NOVEMBER 2020
VOLUME 24
ISSUE 11
IJBHA9
VOLUME 24
ISSUE 11
IJBHA9
24
The IEEE Journal of Biomedical And Health Informatics Volume 24 has been published.
Automatic and Explainable Labeling of Medical Event Logs with Autoencoding
Hugo DeOliveira, Vincent Augusto, Baptiste Jouaneton, Ludovic Lamarsalle, Martin Prodel, Xiaolan Xie
Process mining is a suitable method for knowledge extraction from patient pathways. Structured in event logs, medical events are complex, often described using various medical codes. An efficient labeling of these events before applying process mining analysis is challenging. This...
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Posted on 28 OCT 2020
Special Issue on AI-driven Informatics, Sensing, Imaging and Big Data Analytics for Fighting the COVID-19 Pandemic
In this issue, vol. 24, issue 11, November 2020, 15 papers are published related to the Special Issue on AI-driven Informatics, Sensing, Imaging and Big Data Analytics for Fighting the COVID-19 Pandemic. Please click here to view them, with links...
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Posted on 28 OCT 2020
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