Care of terminally ill / Palliative care

Design of Novel End-effectors for Robot-assisted Swab Sampling to Combat Respiratory Infectious Diseases.

The COVID-19 outbreak has caused the mortality worldwide and the use of swab sampling is a common way of screening and diagnosis. To combat respiratory infectious diseases and assist sampling, robots have been utilized and shown promising potentials. Nonetheless, a safe, patient-friendly, and low-cost swabbing system would be crucial for the practical implementation of robots in hospitals or inspe...

Kinematic and Workspace Analysis of the Master Robot in the Sina Robotic Telesurgery System.

Robotic telesurgery systems, including master and slave robots, have emerged in recent years to provide benefits for both surgeons and patients. Surgeons use the master manipulator to navigate the slave robot. The Sina telesurgery system introduced recently by Sina Robotics and Medical Innovators Co., Ltd. consists of two main subsystems: master robotic surgery console and slave surgery robots. As...

Assistive Sliding Mode Control of a Rehabilitation Robot with Automatic Weight Adjustment.

There are approximately 13 million new stroke cases worldwide each year. Research has shown that robotics can provide practical and efficient solution...

An end-to-end heterogeneous graph representation learning-based framework for drug-target interaction prediction.

Accurately identifying potential drug-target interactions (DTIs) is a key step in drug discovery. Although many related experimental studies have been...

Deep learning-based stereophonic acoustic echo suppression without decorrelation.

Traditional stereophonic acoustic echo cancellation algorithms need to estimate acoustic echo paths from stereo loudspeakers to a microphone, which of...

Model Experimental Study of Man-Machine Interactive Robot-Assisted Craniotomy.

To evaluate the feasibility, safety, and accuracy of the new man-machine interactive robotic system in model experiment. The implantation of the 8 to ...

On training targets for deep learning approaches to clean speech magnitude spectrum estimation.

Estimation of the clean speech short-time magnitude spectrum (MS) is key for speech enhancement and separation. Moreover, an automatic speech recognit...

Surgical management of secondary hyperparathyroidism in dialysis patients in Senegal.

Secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT) is a common complication of end-stage renal disease. Surgical management occurs in severe forms and/or unresponsi...

Predicting Age with Deep Neural Networks from Polysomnograms.

The aim of this study was to design a new deep learning framework for end-to-end processing of polysomnograms. This framework can be trained to analyz...

End-to-End Approach for Structuring Radiology Reports.

Radiology reports include various types of clinical information that are used for patient care. Reports are also expected to have secondary uses (e.g....

Investigating the Barriers to Physician Adoption of an Artificial Intelligence- Based Decision Support System in Emergency Care: An Interpretative Qualitative Study.

The development of artificial intelligence (AI) systems to support diagnostic decision-making is rapidly expanding in health care. However, important ...

[Heartbeat-based end-to-end classification of arrhythmias].

OBJECTIVE: We propose a heartbeat-based end-to-end classification of arrhythmias to improve the classification performance for supraventricular ectopi...

Radiology-Pathology Correlation to Facilitate Peer Learning: An Overview Including Recent Artificial Intelligence Methods.

Correlation of pathology reports with radiology examinations has long been of interest to radiologists and helps to facilitate peer learning. Such cor...

An End-to-end System for Automatic Characterization of Iba1 Immunopositive Microglia in Whole Slide Imaging.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide. Detailed studies of the microglial response after TBI req...

Fusion of End-to-End Deep Learning Models for Sequence-to-Sequence Sleep Staging.

Sleep staging, a process of identifying the sleep stages associated with polysomnography (PSG) epochs, plays an important role in sleep monitoring and...

Detecting Meals In the Wild Using the Inertial Data of a Typical Smartwatch.

Automated and objective monitoring of eating behavior has received the attention of both the research community and the industry over the past few yea...

Robot-Aided Upper-limb Proprioceptive Training in Three-Dimensional Space.

Proprioception, the ability to sense body position and limb movements in space without visual feedback, is one of the key factors in controlling body ...

Semi-Autonomous Tongue Control of an Assistive Robotic Arm for Individuals with Quadriplegia.

Individuals suffering from quadriplegia can achieve increased independence by using an assistive robotic manipulator (ARM). However, due to their disa...

Interface Operation and Implications for Shared-Control Assistive Robots.

Shared-control for assistive devices can increase the independence of individuals with motor impairments. However, each person is unique in their leve...

Development of a Robotic Unloader Brace for Investigation of Conservative Treatment of Medial Knee Osteoarthritis.

Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a painful and debilitating condition that is associated with mechanical loading of the knee joint. Numerous conservative ...