Brain and nerve = Shinkei kenkyu no shinpo
Jan 1, 2019
Artificial Intelligence technologies are recently attracting attentions. More medical information is available including inspection results and health records of numbers, images and documents, also including audio and video information of subjects. I...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Dec 1, 2018
A 57-year-old man visited our hospital with right hypochondralgia. Abdominal contrast CT showed a 10 cm sized mass in S6-7of the liver and abdominal hemorrhage areas. The tumor showed extrahepatic growth. Blood a-fetoprotein(AFP)was high at 4,447.9ng...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2018
Falls are generally classified into two groups in clinical settings in Japan: falls from the same level and falls from one level to another. We verified whether clinical staff could distinguish between these two types of falls by comparing 3,078 free...
Breast cancer is the most common invasive cancer among women and its incidence is increasing. Risk assessment is valuable and recent methods are incorporating novel biomarkers such as mammographic density. Artificial neural networks (ANN) are adaptiv...
Middlesex University and the University of Bedfordshire are collaborating on a programme to develop a human-shaped robot to assist in social care for older people.
Shokuhin eiseigaku zasshi. Journal of the Food Hygienic Society of Japan
Jan 1, 2017
In November 2015, a patient presented with symptoms of toxicity after eating whole boiled samples of the scavenging gastropod Nassarius (Alectrion) glans "Kinshibai" in Nagasaki. This food poisoning case was the third recorded in Japan. The case was ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Aiming to eliminate a labor shortage caused by the aging of society, many kinds of service robots are under development. Nursing care for the elderly is considered as a typical application of service robots, especially in Japan. Elderly care robots o...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
In order for manufacturers of robotic devices for nursing care to predict injury in accidents related to their products, risk assessments are carried out according to various standards e.g. ISO 12100. Probabilities of death, bone fracture and head in...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
An ongoing Japan-wide project for the development and deployment of care and assistive robotic devices is being followed by a program of standardizing some of the outcome technologies while focusing on safe usage. We examine the concept defining the ...
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