J-BHI publishes original papers describing recent advances in the field of biomedical and health informatics where information and communication technologies intersect with health, healthcare, life sciences and biomedicine.
Sinziana Mazilu received her engineering and M.Sc. degrees in computer science and information technology from Politehnica University of Bucharest in 2009 and 2011, respectively. She joined the Electronics Laboratory at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, as research assistant in 2011. Her research interests lie at the intersection of wearable computing for healthcare, human computer interaction, applied machine learning, and multimodal context recognition from on-body sensors.
Freezing of gait (FoG) is a common and severe gait impairment among patients with advanced Parkinson’s disease. FoG is associated with falls and negatively impacts the patient’s quality of life. Wearable systems that detect FoG in real time have been...
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