Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation
Dec 9, 2021
BACKGROUND: User-centered design approaches have gained attention over the past decade, aiming to tackle the technology acceptance issues of wearable robotic devices to assist, support or augment human capabilities. While there is a consensus that us...
Frontiers in public health
Dec 9, 2021
Survival prediction is highly valued in end-of-life care clinical practice, and patient performance status evaluation stands as a predominant component in survival prognostication. While current performance status evaluation tools are limited to thei...
The Canadian journal of cardiology
Nov 30, 2021
Clinical databases, particularly those composed of big data, face growing security challenges. Blockchain, the open, decentralized, distributed public ledger technology powering cryptocurrency, records transactions securely without the need for third...
Mathematical biosciences and engineering : MBE
Nov 30, 2021
Gait recognition is an emerging biometric technology that can be used to protect the privacy of wearable device owners. To improve the performance of the existing gait recognition method based on wearable devices and to reduce the memory size of the ...
Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
Nov 25, 2021
Multiresponsive flexile sensors with strain, temperature, humidity, and other sensing abilities serving as real electronic skin (e-skin) have manifested great application potential in flexible electronics, artificial intelligence (AI), and Internet o...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Nov 25, 2021
The collection of physiological data from people has been facilitated due to the mass use of cheap wearable devices. Although the accuracy is low compared to specialized healthcare devices, these can be widely applied in other contexts. This study pr...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Nov 17, 2021
Soft actuators (SAs) have been used in many compliant robotic structure and wearable devices, due to their safe interaction with the wearers. Despite advances, the capability of current SAs is limited by scalability, high hysteresis, and slow respons...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Nov 17, 2021
In this study, a wearable inertial measurement unit system was introduced to assess patients via the Berg balance scale (BBS), a clinical test for balance assessment. For this purpose, an automatic scoring algorithm was developed. The principal aim o...
Contrast media & molecular imaging
Nov 16, 2021
In order to improve the accuracy of the evaluation results of multiperception intelligent wearable devices, the mathematical statistical characteristics based on speech, behavior, environment, and physical signs are proposed; first, the PCA feature c...
Scientific reports
Nov 9, 2021
The ability to forecast seizures minutes to hours in advance of an event has been verified using invasive EEG devices, but has not been previously demonstrated using noninvasive wearable devices over long durations in an ambulatory setting. In this s...