Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 21, 2019
Falls are the leading cause of injuries among older adults, particularly in the more vulnerable home health care (HHC) population. Existing standardized fall risk assessments often require supplemental data collection and tend to have low specificity...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 21, 2019
Patient falls, a subcategory of patient safety events, cause further harm and anxiety to patients in healthcare systems. Patient fall reports are a valuable resource to identify safety issues that demand further attention. Still, the main challenge f...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Aug 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: Geriatric syndromes such as functional disability and lack of social support are often not encoded in electronic health records (EHRs), thus obscuring the identification of vulnerable older adults in need of additional medical and social s...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
In this paper, we propose a new fall detection method that combines 3-axis accelerometer and depth sensors. By combining vision and acceleration-derived features we managed to minimize the false detection rate that is considerably higher when the dec...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
Gait is an extraordinary complex function of human body that involves the activation of entire visceral nervous system, making human gait definite to various functional abnormalities. Diagnosis and treatment of such disorders prior to their developme...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2019
The work of a nurse involves tasks that can lead to serious accidents with a single mistake or miss, and thus nurses are exposed to high stress. In particular, injections, pre-medications, tube connections, and falling are factors that lead to seriou...
Brain and nerve = Shinkei kenkyu no shinpo
Jul 1, 2019
For patients with dementia and their family, artificial intelligence (AI) has been utilized to support diagnosis and evaluation. In addition, communication robots equipped with AI offer a way to maintain the cognitive functions of patients with demen...
Medical care
Jul 1, 2019
BACKGROUND: Machine learning is increasingly used for risk stratification in health care. Achieving accurate predictive models do not improve outcomes if they cannot be translated into efficacious intervention. Here we examine the potential utility o...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jun 1, 2019
Early fall detection is an important issue during gait rehabilitation training. This paper proposes an approach for pre-impact fall detection during gait rehabilitation training based on a 3D convolutional neural network (CNN). Firstly, pre-training ...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jun 1, 2019
Postural responses to unstable conditions or perturbations are important predictors of the risk of falling and can reveal balance deficits in people with neurological disorders, such as Parkinson's Disease (PD). However, there is a lack of evidences ...