IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

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Electro-optical classification of pollen grains via microfluidics and machine learning
Michele D’Orazio, Riccardo Reale, Adele De Ninno, Maria A. Brighetti, Arianna Mencattini, Luca Businaro, Eugenio Martinelli, Paolo Bisegna, Alessandro Travaglini, Federica Caselli
This interdisciplinary work involves sensor science, microfluidics, machine learning, and palynology. Palynology - i.e., the study of pollen and fungal spores - finds applications in high-impact fields like air quality control, allergology, and agriculture. Traditionally, the study of pollen takes place through microscopic analysis performed by specialized operators, after staining of the sample. The procedure requires long times and is prone to human errors. Therefore, there is an unmet need for accurate, label-free, and automated systems for the analysis of pollen, ideally within a field-portable and cost-effective platform. In this framework, we propose an original multimodal approach... Read more
Posted on 1 FEB 2022
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Development of a Smart Hallway for Markerless Human Foot Tracking and Stride Analysis
Vinod Gutta, Pascal Fallavollita, Natalie Baddour, Edward D Lemaire
Objective: In this research, a marker-less ‘smart hallway’ is proposed where stride parameters are computed as a person walks through an institutional hallway. Stride analysis is a viable tool for identifying mobility changes, classifying abnormal gait, estimating fall risk, monitoring... Read more
Posted on 30 MAR 2021
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Side-Channel Sensing: Exploiting Side-Channels to Extract Information for Medical Diagnostics and Monitoring
Aaron Spence, Shaun Bangay
Abstract Information within systems can be extracted through side-channels; unintended communication channels that leak information. The concept of side-channel sensing is explored, in which sensor data is analysed in non-trivial ways to recover subtle, hidden or unexpected information. Practical examples... Read more
Posted on 7 OCT 2020
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Non-contact Early Warning of Shaking Palsy
Xiaodong Yang, Dou Fan, Aifeng Ren, Nan Zhao, Zhiya Zhang, Daniyal Haider, Muhammad Bilal Khan, Jie Tian
        Abstract Objective: Parkinsonian gait is a defining feature of Shaking Palsy (SP) and it has one of the worse impact on human healthy life than other SP symptoms. The objective of this work is to propose a Parkinsonian gait detection system... Read more
Posted on 18 JUN 2019
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Gait and Dynamic Balance Sensing Using Wearable Foot Sensors
Mohamed Irfan Mohamed Refai, Bert-Jan F. van Beijnum, Jaap H. Buurke, Peter H. Veltink
    Remote monitoring of gait performance offers possibilities for objective evaluation, and tackling impairment in motor ability, gait, and balance in populations such as elderly, stroke, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s, etc. This requires a wearable and unobtrusive system capable of estimating ambulatory... Read more
Posted on 29 JAN 2019
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Sleep Apnea Syndrome Sensing at C-Band
Xiaodong Yang, Dou Fan, Aifeng Ren, Nan Zhao, Zhiya Zhang, Fangming Hu, Weigang Wang, Masood Ur Rehman, Jie Tian
         A non-intrusive sleep apnea detection system using a C-Band channel sensing technique is proposed to monitor sleep apnea syndrome in real time. The system utilizes perturbations of RF signals to differentiate between patient’s breathing under normal and sleep apnea conditions.... Read more
Posted on 26 NOV 2018
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Integrating Brain Implants with Local and Distributed Computing Devices: A Next Generation Epilepsy Management System
Vaclav Kremen, Benjamin H. Brinkmann, Inyong Kim, Hari Guragain, Mona Nasseri, Abigail L. Magee, Tal Pal Attia, Peter Nejedly, Vladimir Sladky, Nathanial Nelson, SuYoune Chang, Jeffrey A. Herron, Tom Adamski, Steven Baldassano, Jan Cimbalnik, Vince Vasoli, Elizabeth Fehrmann, Tom Chouinard, Edward E. Patterson, Brian Litt, Matt Stead, Jamie Van Gompel, Beverly K. Sturges, Chelsea M. Crowe, Timothy Denison, Gregory A. Worrell
                          Brain stimulation has emerged as an effective treatment for a wide range of neurological and psychiatric diseases. Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, and essential tremor have FDA indications for electrical brain stimulation using intracranially implanted electrodes. Interfacing implantable brain devices with local... Read more
Posted on 19 SEP 2018
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Healthcare Event and Activity Logging
Carlos Torres, Jeffrey C. Fried, B. S. Manjunath
   Part of the Special Issue on Advanced Internet of Things in Personalized Healthcare Systems: Validation, Analysis and Utilization The health of patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) can change frequently and inexplicably. Crucial events and activities responsible for these changes... Read more
Posted on 19 SEP 2018
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Design and Study of a Smart Cup for Monitoring the Arm and Hand Activity of Stroke Patients
Si Mon Kueh, Tom J. Kazmierski
  This paper presents a new platform to monitor the arm and hand activity of stroke patients during rehabilitation exercises in the hospital and at home during their daily living activities. The platform provides relevant data to the therapist in order... Read more
Posted on 10 SEP 2018
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Compliant Prosthetic Wrists Entail More Natural Use Than Stiff Wrists During Reaching, Not (Necessarily) During Manipulation
Gunter Kanitz, Federico Montagnani, Marco Controzzi, Christian Cipriani
    Developing an artificial arm with functions equivalent to those of the human arm is one of the challenging goals of bioengineering. State-of-the-art prostheses lack several degrees of freedom and force the individuals to compensate for them by means of compensatory... Read more
Posted on 25 JUL 2018