Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

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Vibration Stimulation as a Non-Invasive Approach to Monitor the Severity of Meniscus Tears
Mohsen Safaei, Nicholas B. Bolus, Daniel C. Whittingslow, Hyeon Ki Jeong, Alper Erturk, Omer T. Inan
Musculoskeletal disorders and injuries are one of the most prevalent medical conditions across age groups. Due to a high load-bearing function, the knee is particularly susceptible to injuries such as meniscus tears. Imaging techniques are commonly used to assess meniscus... Read more
Posted on 26 MAR 2021
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Improving Detection of Rapid Cystic Fibrosis Disease Progression—Early Translation of a Predictive Algorithm into a Point-of-Care Tool
Rhonda D. Szcezniak, Cole Brokamp, Weiji Su, Gary L. McPhail, John Pestian, John P. Clancy
      Abstract The clinical course of cystic fibrosis (CF) lung disease is marked by acute drops of lung function, defined clinically as rapid decline. As such, lung function is monitored routinely through pulmonary function testing, producing hundreds of measurements over the lifespan... Read more
Posted on 14 DEC 2018
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Improving Detection of Rapid Cystic Fibrosis Disease Progression—Early Translation of a Predictive Algorithm into a Point-of-Care Tool
Rhonda D. Szcezniak, Cole Brokamp, Weiji Su, Gary L. McPhail, John Pestian, John P. Clancy
      Early Access Note: Early Access articles are new content made available in advance of the final electronic or print versions and result from IEEE’s Preprint or Rapid Post processes. Preprint articles are peer-reviewed but not fully edited. Rapid Post articles are... Read more
Posted on 21 NOV 2018
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Patient-Specific Pose Estimation in Clinical Environments
Kenny Chen, Paolo Gabriel, Abdulwahab Alasfour, Chenghao Gong, Werner K. Doyle, Orrin Devinsky, Daniel Friedman, Patricia Dugan, Lucia Melloni, Thomas Thesen, David Gonda, Shifteh Sattar, Sonya Wang, Vikash Gilja
              Abstract Reliable posture labels in hospital environments can augment research studies on neural correlates to natural behaviors and clinical applications that monitor patient activity. However, many existing pose estimation frameworks are not calibrated for these unpredictable settings. In this paper, we... Read more
Posted on 31 OCT 2018
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A Ballistographic Approach for Continuous and Non-Obtrusive Monitoring of Movement in Neonates
Rohan Joshi, Bart L. Bierling, Xi Long, Janna Weijers, Loe Feijs, Carola Van Pul, Peter Andriessen
       Continuously monitoring body movement in preterm infants can have important clinical applications since changes in movement-patterns can be a significant marker for clinical deteriorations including the onset of sepsis, seizures, and apneas. This paper proposes a system and method to... Read more
Posted on 31 OCT 2018
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Clinician-Driven Design of VitalPAD – Intelligent Monitoring & Communication Device to Improve Patient Safety in the Intensive Care Unit
Luisa Flohr, Shaylene Beaudry, K Taneille Johnson, Nicholas West, Catherine M Burns, J Mark Ansermino, Guy A Dumont, David Wensley, Peter Skippen, Matthias Görges
          The pediatric intensive care unit (ICU) is a complex environment, in which a multidisciplinary team of clinicians (registered nurses, respiratory therapists, and physicians) continually observe and evaluate patient information. Data are provided by multiple, and often physically separated sources, cognitive... Read more
Posted on 6 MAR 2018
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Collaborative Paradigm of Preventive, Personalized and Precision Medicine with Point-of-Care Technologies
Atam Dhawan
This Article is Featured in the Special Issue NIH-IEEE POCT 2015 Recent advances in biosensors, medical instrumentation, and information processing and communication technologies (ICT) have enabled significant improvements in healthcare. However, these technologies have been mainly applied in clinical environments, such... Read more
Posted on 14 DEC 2016
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New Methods to Monitor Stair Ascents Using a Wearable Pendant Device Reveal How Behavior, Fear, and Frailty Influence Falls in Octogenarians
Matthew A. Brodie, Kejia Wang, Kim Delbaere, Nigel Lovell, Stephen J. Redmond, Michael B. Del Rosario, Stephen R. Lord
We investigated whether a freely worn pendant inertial sensor, containing a triaxial accelerometer and a barometer, could be used to accurately identify stair ascent by 52 older adults in free living. Stair ascent could be identified using a decision tree,... Read more
Posted on 25 OCT 2015