Published Articles

Integration of New Technology for Research in the Emergency Department: Feasibility of Deploying a Robotic Assessment Tool for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Evaluation

Author(s)3: Vignesh Subbian, Jonathan J. Ratcliff, Jason M. Meunier, Joseph J. Korfhagen, Fred R. Beyette, George J. Shaw
Integration of New Technology for Research in the Emergency Department: Feasibility of Deploying a Robotic Assessment Tool for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Evaluation 540 295 IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine (JTEHM)

This paper demonstrates the effective deployment of a robotic assessment tool for evaluation of mild Traumatic Brain Injury patients in a busy, resource-constrained, urban Emergency Department (ED). Over 14 months,…

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Brain Cooling With Ventilation of Cold Air Over Respiratory Tract in Newborn Piglets: an Experimental and Numerical study

Author(s)3: Mohammad Fazel Bakhsheshi, Hadi Vafadar, Errol E. Stewart, Lynn Keenliside, Ting - Yim Lee
Brain Cooling With Ventilation of Cold Air Over Respiratory Tract in Newborn Piglets: an Experimental and Numerical study 100 100 IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine (JTEHM)

This paper investigates thermal effects of pulmonary cooling which was induced by cold air through an endotracheal tube via a ventilator on newborn piglets. We demonstrated that pulmonary cooling by…

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Automated Health Alerts Using In-Home Sensor Data for Embedded Health Assessment

Automated Health Alerts Using In-Home Sensor Data for Embedded Health Assessment

Author(s)3: Marjorie Skubic, Rainer Dane Guevara, Marilyn Rantz
Automated Health Alerts Using In-Home Sensor Data for Embedded Health Assessment 540 342 IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine (JTEHM)

This paper proposes a model for early detection of health decline in seniors using personalized normals and continuous in-home monitoring with embedded sensors. Sensors embedded in senior housing apartments unobtrusively…

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Noninvasive Real-Time Automated Skin Lesion Analysis System for Melanoma Early Detection and Prevention

Noninvasive Real-Time Automated Skin Lesion Analysis System for Melanoma Early Detection and Prevention

Author(s)3: Omar Abuzaghleh, Buket D. Barkana, Miad Faezipour
Noninvasive Real-Time Automated Skin Lesion Analysis System for Melanoma Early Detection and Prevention 540 388 IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine (JTEHM)

This figure shows a few steps of the proposed dermoscopy image analysis system (a) iPhone dermotoscope, up to 20x magnification. (b) Sample of skin lesion, including normal lesion (first column),…

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Automatic Real-time Embedded QRS Complex Detection for a Novel Patch-Type Electrocardiogram Recorder

Author(s)3: Dorthe B. Saadi, George Tanev, Morten Flintrup, Armin Osmanagic, Kenneth Egstrup, Karsten Hoppe, Poul Jennum, Jorgen L. Jeppesen, Helle K. Iversen, Helge B. D. Sorensen
Automatic Real-time Embedded QRS Complex Detection for a Novel Patch-Type Electrocardiogram Recorder 540 339 IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine (JTEHM)

The design and optimization of our novel automatic QRS complex detection algorithm was performed on two different databases: The MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database (Se=99.90%, P+=99.87) and a private ePatch Training Database (Se=99.88%, P+=99.37%).…

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Engineering a High-Throughput 3D in vitro Glioblastoma Model

Author(s)3: Yantao Fan, Naze G. Avci, Duong T. Nguyen, Andrei Dragomir, Yasemin M. Akay, Feng Xu, Metin Akay
Engineering a High-Throughput 3D in vitro Glioblastoma Model 540 275 IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine (JTEHM)

Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common and malignant primary brain tumor in adults. The existing treatment for GBM, which involves a combination of resection, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, has a…

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An Optokinetic Nystagmus Detection Method for Use with Young Children

Author(s)3: Mehrdad Sangi, Benjamin Thompson, Jason Turuwhenua
An Optokinetic Nystagmus Detection Method for Use with Young Children 516 570 IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine (JTEHM)

, , The detection of vision problems in early childhood can prevent neuro-developmental disorders such as amblyopia. However, accurate clinical assessment of visual function in young children is challenging. Optokinetic…

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An Integrated Model of Patient and Staff Satisfaction Using Queuing Theory

An Integrated Model of Patient and Staff Satisfaction Using Queuing Theory

Author(s)3: Alexander Komashie, Ali Mousavi, P Johnson Clarkson, Terry Young
An Integrated Model of Patient and Staff Satisfaction Using Queuing Theory 540 315 IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine (JTEHM)

This paper investigates the connection between patient satisfaction, waiting time, staff satisfaction and service time. It uses a variety of models to enable improvement against experiential and operational health service…

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Principal Dynamic Mode Analysis of EEG Data for Assisting the Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease

Author(s)3: Yue Kang, Javier Escudero, Dae Shin, Emmanuel Ifeachor, Vasilis Marmarelis
Principal Dynamic Mode Analysis of EEG Data for Assisting the Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease 540 284 IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine (JTEHM)

We examine whether modeling of the causal dynamic relationships between frontal and occipital electroencephalogram (EEG) time-series recordings reveal reliable differentiating characteristics of Alzheimer’s patients versus control subjects in a manner…

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