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November 2020
IEEE November Meeting Series – Hyatt Regency Bellevue, Bellevue, WA
The IEEE Meeting Series takes place three times per year ...
8th European Medical and Biological Engineering Conference (EMBEC 2020)
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Managing Weight With Technology
More than 30% of the world’s population is overweight or obese. That is double the percentage in 1980, and it is getting worse [1]. That excess weight has been linked to numerous health conditions, notably type 2 (adult-onset) diabetes, the prevalence of which has also nearly doubled since 1980 [2]. Eating less and exercising more is good advice, but it doesn’t work for everyone. Other options such as gastric bypass surgeries and systemic weight-loss drugs are also not suitable for everyone, and can carry risks of their own...
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COVID-19 Is Straining Mental Health—Could Technology Be the Answer?
One of the most pernicious side effects of the COVID-19 pandemic is a steep rise in stress and mental health problems. According to a poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation, nearly half of American adults say that worry and stress about the pandemic is hurting their mental health. There are plenty of factors feeding into this phenomenon...
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Posted on 14 AUG 2020
AI-Driven COVID-19 Tools to Interpret, Quantify Lung Images
Qualitative interpretation is a good thing when it comes to reading lung images in the fight against coronavirus 2019 disease (COVID-19), but quantitative analysis makes radiology reporting much more comprehensive. To that end, several research groups have begun looking to artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool for reading and analyzing X-rays and computed tomography (CT) scans, and helping to diagnose and monitor COVID-19...
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Posted on 14 AUG 2020
Tracking COVID-19: There’s an App for That
In march 2020, before COVID-19 laid claim to the United States, Vice President Mike Pence briefed the press about the coronavirus outbreak, which at the time was a threat to passengers aboard the Grand Princess cruise ship moored off the coast of California [1]. At the time, cases had spiked in Iran, Italy, and Spain, but the disease was still an abstraction to most Americans...
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Posted on 14 AUG 2020
Healing Gets a Helping Hand
The human body is miraculous in its capacity to heal but it can always use a little help. Wound care traditionally consists of little more than a protective barrier, possibly with an antibacterial agent, to cover the damage while the body works its magic. Now, a new technology has opened up a more active approach to encouraging healing...
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Posted on 14 AUG 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 10 AUG 2020
Health and Safety of 5G: Addressing Misinformation
As wireless network providers begin to roll out 5G networks, in similar fashion to the introduction of other new technologies—from the microwave oven to smart meters—public concern regarding the safety of the technology has emerged, particularly due to the use...
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Posted on 10 AUG 2020
COVID-19 Testing: What New Mexico Did Right
Unlike many other states across America that struggled to get enough diagnostic tests for coronavirus 2019 disease (COVID-19) this past spring, New Mexico was able to not only meet the demand for testing symptomatic patients, but was able to begin...
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Posted on 29 JUN 2020
Unmasked Behavior
Faced with the evidence, scientists ponder why everyone doesn’t wear a mask
After initial assertions that the wearing of face masks was an unnecessary public health tool in the prevention of the spread of COVID-19, the advice coming out of the...
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Posted on 29 JUN 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
OCTOBER 2020
VOLUME 24
NUMBER 10
IJBHA9
VOLUME 24
NUMBER 10
IJBHA9
24
The IEEE Journal of Biomedical And Health Informatics Volume 24 has been published.
±-Satellite: An AI-driven System and Benchmark Datasets for Dynamic COVID-19 Risk Assessment in the United States
Ye Yanfang, Hou Shifu, Fan Yujie, Zhang Yiming, Qian Yiyue, Sun Shiyu, Peng Qian, Ju Mingxuan, Song Wei, Loparo Kenneth
The fast evolving and deadly outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has posed grand challenges to human society...
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Posted on 30 SEP 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 10, October 2020, 8 papers are published related to the topic 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 in IEEE XPLORE...
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Posted on 30 SEP 2020
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