IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jun 1, 2019
Robot-assisted rehabilitation of hand function is becoming an established approach to complement conventional therapy after stroke, particularly in view of its possible unsupervised use to promote an increase in therapy dose. Given their intensive th...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jun 1, 2019
This paper presents a novel robotic finger prosthesis for partially amputated patients who have lost a thumb and index finger. The challenging issues were to design i) a three-degree-of-freedom (DOF) underactuated mechanism that mimics intact finger ...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jun 1, 2019
Proprioceptive deficits are common among stroke survivors and are associated with slower motor recovery, poorer upper limb motor function, and decreased self-care ability. Somatosensory feedback augmenting proprioception should enhance motor control ...
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 ...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jun 1, 2019
Robot-based neurorehabilitation strategies often ignore cognitive performance during treatment, but this is a need in populations dealing with a wide variety of cognitive and motor impairments, such as the stroke and HIV populations, for which an ass...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jun 1, 2019
Hand function is often impaired after neurological injuries such as stroke. In order to design patient-specific rehabilitation, it is essential to quantitatively assess those deficits. Current clinical scores cannot provide the required level of deta...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jun 1, 2019
A key feature of a successful game is its ability to provide the player with an adequate level of challenge. However, the objective of difficulty adaptation in serious games is not only to maintain the player's motivation by challenging, but also to ...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jun 1, 2019
Proprioception, the ability to sense body position and limb movements in space without visual feedback, is one of the key factors in controlling body movements and performing activities of daily living. However, this capability might be affected afte...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jun 1, 2019
The aim of this work is to present a novel robot-based method to assess the sources of a lack of functionality in patients with recent traumatic wrist injuries. Post-traumatic patients experience limited range of motion as well as strength and propri...
To compare results for radiological prediction of pathological invasiveness in lung adenocarcinoma between radiologists and a deep learning (DL) system.Ninety patients (50 men, 40 women; mean age, 66 years; range, 40-88 years) who underwent pre-opera...
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