The journal of medical investigation : JMI
Jan 1, 2025
Life support robots in care settings must be able to read a person's emotions from facial expressions to achieve empathic communication. This study aims to determine the degree of agreement between Multi-task Cascaded Convolutional Neural Networks (M...
The journal of medical investigation : JMI
Jan 1, 2025
This review discusses the introduction of healthcare robots, such as those that provide transfer, toileting, bathing, and communication assistance, in Japanese facilities for older adults and considers these issues from the perspective of nursing eth...
The journal of medical investigation : JMI
Jan 1, 2022
Lung cancer is one of the life taking disease and causes more deaths worldwide. Early detection and treatment is necessary to save life. It is very difficult for doctors to interpret and identify diseases using imaging modalities alone. Therefore com...
The journal of medical investigation : JMI
Jan 1, 2022
Objectives : To evaluate whether virtual partial nephrectomy images could help surgeons identify vascular and collecting system around tumors during actual surgery. Materials & methods : We retrospectively analyzed 36 patients who underwent robot-ass...
The journal of medical investigation : JMI
Jan 1, 2022
Robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (RALP) for prostate cancer was introduced in 2000 and rapidly gained popularity. The Da Vinci Surgical System? can ensure improved local control of cancer and fewer perioperative complications. However, RALP ...
The journal of medical investigation : JMI
Jan 1, 2021
Spasticity is the major cause of disabilities in stroke-survivors. Botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) injections have been used to reduce the muscle tone in those patients, but its efficacy in functional outcome is not well delineated. We have studied the e...
The journal of medical investigation : JMI
Jan 1, 2019
Healthcare for older adults is a significant problem in Japan and in other developed countries. To address this problem, healthcare robots, now realized, can assist and meet healthcare and welfare practice demands. The aim of this study was to clarif...
The journal of medical investigation : JMI
Jan 1, 2019
Japan's declining birth rate and increasing aging population prompted intercessory efforts towards robot technologies in nursing practice for theelderly. Today, technological companies are developing robots that meet universal health care technology ...