IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
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Mechanical Imaging of Soft Tissues with Miniature Climbing robots
We propose a method that uses our previously developed skin-crawling robots to noninvasively test the mechanical properties of soft tissue. We explore the use of two miniature sensors: an indenter and a cutometer. We evaluate the sensor's performance from data collected on simulated tissue, classifying the depth and size of a simulated lump with over 98.8% accuracy using convolutional neural nets. Finally, we do limited on-body testing to map dry skin on the forearm with a cutometer. We hope to improve the ability to test tissues noninvasively, providing better sensitivity and systematic data collection...
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Posted on 30 SEP 2021
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A Framework for Efficient N-Way Interaction Testing in Case/Control Studies With Categorical Data
Aristos Aristodimou, Athos Antoniades, Efthimios Dardiotis, Eleni M. Loizidou, George M. Spyrou, Christina Votsi, Kyproula Christodoulou, Marios Pantzaris, Nikolaos Grigoriadis, Georgios M. Hadjigeorgiou, Theodoros Kyriakides, Constantinos S. Pattichis
Most common diseases are influenced by multiple gene interactions and interactions with the environment. Performing an exhaustive search to identify such interactions is computationally expensive and needs to address the multiple testing problem. A four-step framework is proposed for the...
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Posted on 28 SEP 2021
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FENet: A Frequency Extraction Network for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Detection
Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is a highly prevalent but inconspicuous disease that seriously jeopardizes the health of human beings. Polysomnography (PSG), the gold standard of detecting OSA, requires multiple specialized sensors for signal collection, hence patients have to physically visit...
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Posted on 3 AUG 2021
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Continuous Gait Phase Estimation using LSTM for Robotic Transfemoral Prosthesis Across Walking Speeds
User gait phase estimation plays a key role for the seamless control of the lower-limb robotic assistive devices (e.g., exoskeletons or prostheses) during ambulation. To achieve this, several studies have attempted to estimate the gait phase using a thigh or...
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Posted on 28 JUL 2021
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Characterization of a Benchmark Database for Myoelectric Movement Classification
Manfredo Atzori, Arjan Gijsberts, Ilja Kuzborskij, Simone Elsig, Anne-Gabrielle Mittaz Hager, Olivier Deriaz, Claudio Castellini, Henning Müller, Barbara Caputo
In this paper, we characterize the Ninapro database and its use as a benchmark for hand prosthesis evaluation. The database is a publicly available resource that aims to support research on advanced myoelectric hand prostheses. The database is obtained by...
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Posted on 21 JUL 2021
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A Novel Wearable Device for Continuous Temperature Monitoring & Fever Detection
Nishant Verma, Iman Haji-Abolhassani, Suhas Ganesh, Jesus Vera-Aguilera, Jonas Paludo, Roxana Heitz, Svetomir Markovic, Kimary Kulig, Atiyeh Ghoreyshi
Continuous temperature monitoring in high-risk patients can enable healthcare providers to remotely track patients’ temperatures, promptly detect fevers and timely intervene to improve clinical outcomes. We evaluated if a novel wearable, continuous temperature monitor (Verily Patch) can reliably estimate body...
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Posted on 20 JUL 2021
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Using Wearables and Machine Learning to Enable Personalized Lifestyle Recommendations to Improve Blood Pressure
Background: Blood pressure (BP) is an essential indicator for human health and is known to be greatly influenced by lifestyle factors, like activity and sleep factors. However, the degree of impact of each lifestyle factor on BP is unknown and...
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Posted on 20 JUL 2021
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Quantification of Motor Function Post-stroke using Novel Combination of Wearable Inertial and Mechanomyographic Sensors
Subjective clinical rating scales represent the gold-standard diagnosis of motor function following stroke, however in practice they suffer from well-recognized limitations including assessor variance, low inter-rater reliability and low resolution. Automated systems have been proposed for empirical quantification but have...
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Posted on 21 JUN 2021
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Evaluation of a Wireless Tongue Tracking System on the Identification of Phoneme Landmarks
Visualizing tongue movement in real-time has the potential to improve therapy outcome for millions of people worldwide living with a speech sound disorder because the positioning of the tongue is crucial in the production of many phonemes to be intelligible. Our team has developed a wearable 3D tongue tracking system based on a wireless magnetic localization method. To evaluate its tracking accuracy, 2,500 tongue trajectories were recorded from 10 subjects uttering 25 phonemes. The results show that our system is capable of tracking tongue motion with positional errors in the order of few millimeters (median: 3.9 mm, Q3: 5.8 mm)...
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Posted on 31 MAR 2021
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Fit to Burst: Toward Noninvasive Estimation of Achilles Tendon Load Using Burst Vibrations
In this study, we present a novel method of noninvasively estimating mechanical load in the Achilles tendon using burst vibrations. These vibrations, produced by a small vibration motor on the skin superficial to the tendon, are sensed by a skin-mounted accelerometer, which measures the tendon’s response to burst excitation under varying tensile load. Characteristic changes in the burst response profile as a function of tendon tension are observed and used as inputs to an ML model, which yields accurate (R2 = 0.85) estimates of ankle loading during gait. Preliminary results of a fully wearable ankle load monitor are also presented...
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Posted on 15 JAN 2021