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A Microsoft Kinect-Based Point-of-Care Gait Assessment Framework for Multiple Sclerosis Patients

A Microsoft Kinect-Based Point-of-Care Gait Assessment Framework for Multiple Sclerosis Patients

Author(s)3: Farnood Gholami, Daria A. Trojan, Jozsef Kovecses, Wassim M. Haddad, Behnood Gholami
A Microsoft Kinect-Based Point-of-Care Gait Assessment Framework for Multiple Sclerosis Patients 780 435 Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI)

     Gait impairment is a prevalent and important difficulty for patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), a common neurological disorder. An easy to use tool to objectively evaluate gait in MS…

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Small Things and Big Data: Controversies and Challenges in Digital Healthcare

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Special Issues 250 189 Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI)

Upcoming Special Issues Advances on Neuro-Informatics Neuro-Informatics is one of the most attractive research topics for many generations of Scientists, Engineers, Practitioners, Physicians, others due to its profound importance in…

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Parallel vs. Distributed Data Access for Giga-pixel-resolution Histology Images: Challenges and Opportunities

Parallel vs. Distributed Data Access for Giga-pixel-resolution Histology Images: Challenges and Opportunities

Author(s)3: Esma Yildirim, David J. Foran
Parallel vs. Distributed Data Access for Giga-pixel-resolution Histology Images: Challenges and Opportunities 780 435 Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI)

Recent advances in digital pathology technology have led to significant improvements in terms of both the quality and resolution of the resulting images, which now often exceed several Gigabytes each.…

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Health Engineering and Informatics Driven by the Industry4.0 for Aging Society

Call for Papers: Health Engineering and Informatics Driven by the Industry4.0 for Aging Society

Call for Papers: Health Engineering and Informatics Driven by the Industry4.0 for Aging Society 1000 419 Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI)

J-BHI Special Issue on “Health Engineering and Informatics Driven by the Industry4.0 for Aging Society” As a traditional research topic of biomedical engineering and health informatics, the aging of population…

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Towards Unobtrusive Patient Handling Activity Recognition for Reducing Injury Risk among Caregivers

Towards Unobtrusive Patient Handling Activity Recognition for Reducing Injury Risk among Caregivers

Author(s)3: Feng Lin, Aosen Wang, Lora Cavuto, Wenyao Xu
Towards Unobtrusive Patient Handling Activity Recognition for Reducing Injury Risk among Caregivers 780 435 Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI)

Nurses regularly perform patient handling activities. These activities with awkward postures expose healthcare providers to a high risk of overexertion injury. The recognition of patient handling activities is the first…

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Special Issue on Nutrition Informatics: from Food Monitoring to Dietary Management

Special Issue on Nutrition Informatics: from Food Monitoring to Dietary Management

Special Issue on Nutrition Informatics: from Food Monitoring to Dietary Management 1269 459 Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI)

Non-Communicable  Diseases (NCD), namely diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases and cancer, account for a massively increasing proportion of the global health burden. A number of behavioral and physiological…

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Special Issue: IEEE BHI 2016

Special Issue: IEEE BHI 2016 780 345 Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI)

The IEEE International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI) is a special topic conference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE-EMBS). BHI2016 was co-located with the Annual…

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Special Issue: Deep Learning for Biomedical and Health Informatics

Special Issue: Deep Learning for Biomedical and Health Informatics

Special Issue: Deep Learning for Biomedical and Health Informatics 780 349 Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI)

Deep learning is a rapidly advancing field in recent years, in terms of both methodological development and practical applications. It allows computational models of multiple processing layers to learn and…

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Toward Pervasive Gait Analysis With Wearable Sensors: A Systematic Review

Toward Pervasive Gait Analysis With Wearable Sensors: A Systematic Review

Author(s)3: Shanshan Chen, John Lach, Benny P.L. Lo, Guang-Zhong Yang
Toward Pervasive Gait Analysis With Wearable Sensors: A Systematic Review 780 348 Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI)

After decades of evolution, measuring instruments for quantitative gait analysis have become an important clinical tool for assessing pathologies manifested by gait abnormalities. However, such instruments tend to be expensive…

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Special Issue: IEEE EMBC 2015

Special Issue: IEEE EMBC 2015

Special Issue: IEEE EMBC 2015 170 177 Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI)

Elsa D. Angelini ; Riccardo Bellazzi ; Walter Besio ; Marius Linguraru This special issue of the IEEE JOURNAL ON BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH INFORMATICS (JBHI) presents full articles of the…

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