Circulation journal : official journal of the Japanese Circulation Society
Nov 14, 2023
BACKGROUND: Left heart abnormalities are risk factors for heart failure. However, echocardiography is not always available. Electrocardiograms (ECGs), which are now available from wearable devices, have the potential to detect these abnormalities. Ne...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Nov 8, 2023
Monitoring and quantifying movement behavior is crucial for improving the health of individuals with cerebral palsy (CP). We have modeled and trained an image-based Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to recognize specific movement classifiers relevan...
BMC geriatrics
Nov 8, 2023
BACKGROUND: Older adults have muscle loss and are at risk of falling. Recently, research in the healthcare field has been actively conducted, and Samsung Electronics has developed EX1, a hip joint assisted robot for exercise. This study aimed to veri...
Journal of materials chemistry. B
Nov 8, 2023
Flexible and multifunctional electronic devices and soft robots inspired by human organs, such as skin, have many applications. However, the emergence of electronic skins (e-skins) or textiles in biomedical engineering has made a great revolution in ...
The journal of spinal cord medicine
Nov 7, 2023
CONTEXT/OBJECTIVE: To explore changes in gait functions for patients with chronic spinal cord injury (SCI) before and after standard rehabilitation and rehabilitation with a wearable hip device, explore the utility of robot-assisted gait training (RA...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Nov 7, 2023
Despite the promising performance of automated pain assessment methods, current methods suffer from performance generalization due to the lack of relatively large, diverse, and annotated pain datasets. Further, the majority of current methods do not ...
Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE
Oct 27, 2023
In this study, we present a flexible wearable supernumerary robotic limb that helps chronic stroke patients with finger rehabilitation and grasping movements. The design of this innovative limb draws inspiration from bending pneumatic muscles and the...
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Oct 25, 2023
Realization of interactive human-machine interfaces (iHMI) is improved with development of soft tissue-like strain sensors beyond hard robotic exosuits, potentially allowing cognitive behavior therapy and physical rehabilitation for patients with bra...
ACS applied materials & interfaces
Oct 9, 2023
Flexible pressure sensors are increasingly sought after for applications ranging from physiological signal monitoring to robotic sensing; however, the challenges associated with fabricating highly sensitive, comfortable, and cost-effective sensors re...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Oct 8, 2023
Due to the advantages of ease of use, less motion disturbance, and low cost, wearable systems have been widely used in the human-machine interaction (HRI) field. However, HRI in complex clinical rehabilitation scenarios has further requirements for w...