Stress has become a significant cause for many diseases in the modern society. Recently, smartphones, smartwatches and smart wrist-bands have become an integral part of our lives and have reached a widespread usage. This raised the question of whethe...
INTRODUCTION: Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disorder characterized by disabling motor and non-motor symptoms. For example, idiopathic hyposmia (IH), which is a reduced olfactory sensitivity, is typical in >95% of PD patients ...
Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation
Feb 22, 2019
BACKGROUND: Soft wearable robots (exosuits), being lightweight, ergonomic and low power-demanding, are attractive for a variety of applications, ranging from strength augmentation in industrial scenarios, to medical assistance for people with motor i...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Feb 21, 2019
OBJECTIVE: This paper describes how non-invasive wearable sensors can be used in combination with deep learning to classify artificially induced gait alterations without the requirement for a medical professional or gait analyst to be present. This a...
Electronic skin (e-skin) is pursued as a key component in robotics and prosthesis to confer them sensing properties that mimic human skin. For pressure monitoring, a great emphasis on piezoresistive sensors was registered due to the simplicity of sen...
The physiological monitoring of older people using wearable sensors has shown great potential in improving their quality of life and preventing undesired events related to their health status. Nevertheless, creating robust predictive models from data...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Feb 18, 2019
The assessment of Parkinson's disease (PD) poses a significant challenge, as it is influenced by various factors that lead to a complex and fluctuating symptom manifestation. Thus, a frequent and objective PD assessment is highly valuable for effecti...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Feb 18, 2019
In this paper, we present a deep learning framework "Rehab-Net" for effectively classifying three upper limb movements of the human arm, involving extension, flexion, and rotation of the forearm, which, over the time, could provide a measure of rehab...
Mobile devices, wearables and Internet-of-Things are crammed into smaller form factors and batteries, yet they encounter demanding applications such as big data analysis, data mining, machine learning, augmented reality and virtual reality. To meet s...
Activity recognition using off-the-shelf smartwatches is an important problem in humanactivity recognition. In this paper, we present an end-to-end deep learning approach, able to provideprobability distributions over activities from raw sensor data....
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