R. Fletcher

ORCID: 0000-0001-8470-8417
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Research Areas
  • Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring
  • Respiratory Support and Mechanisms
  • Airway Management and Intubation Techniques
  • Hemodynamic Monitoring and Therapy
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
  • Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
  • Phonocardiography and Auscultation Techniques
  • Anesthesia and Sedative Agents
  • Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • Thermal Regulation in Medicine
  • ECG Monitoring and Analysis
  • Respiratory and Cough-Related Research
  • Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention
  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research
  • Ion channel regulation and function
  • Infrared Thermography in Medicine
  • Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
  • RFID technology advancements
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Music and Audio Processing
  • COVID-19 diagnosis using AI
  • Tracheal and airway disorders
  • Surgical site infection prevention

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2016-2025

Massachusetts General Hospital
2023-2024

Harvard University
2024

MIT Lincoln Laboratory
2023

University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
2016-2021

Children's Hospital at Westmead
2018

Human Media
2018

Boston University
2015

University of Florida
2011

PureTech (United States)
2008-2009

Widespread use of affective sensing in healthcare applications has been limited due to several practical factors, such as lack comfortable wearable sensors, wireless standards, and low-power affordable hardware. In this paper, we present a new low-cost, sensor platform implemented using the IEEE 802.15.4 standard, describe design compact sensors for long-term measurement electrodermal activity, temperature, motor photoplethysmography. We also illustrate technology continuous monitoring...

10.1109/titb.2009.2038692 article EN IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine 2010-01-12

The analysis of lung sounds, collected through auscultation, is a fundamental component pulmonary disease diagnostics for primary care and general patient monitoring telemedicine. Despite advances in computation algorithms, the goal automated sound identification classification has remained elusive. Over past 40 years, published work this field demonstrated only limited success identifying with most studies using small numbers patients (typically N<;20) usually to single type sound. Larger...

10.1109/embc.2016.7590823 article EN 2016-08-01

Wearable sensors enable long-term continuous physiological monitoring, which is important for the treatment and management of many chronic illnesses, neurological disorders, mental health issues. Examples include: diabetes, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), depression, drug addition, anxiety disorders. In this paper, we present a few mobile technologies developed by our group also discuss emerging opportunities as well existing challenges. Technologies presented include wearable electrodermal...

10.1109/iembs.2010.5626734 article EN 2010-08-01

We present a wearable sensor platform designed for monitoring and studying autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity the purpose of mental health treatment interventions. The mobile consists band worn on ankle that continuously monitors electrodermal (EDA), 3-axis acceleration, temperature. A custom-designed ECG heart monitor chest is also used as an optional part system. EDA signal from bands provides measure sympathetic to detect arousal events. data can be improve classification algorithm...

10.1109/iembs.2011.6090513 article EN Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society 2011-08-01

Cough sound analysis has attracted interest as a potential low-cost diagnostic tool for low-resource settings, where the burden of pulmonary disease is quite high. However, published results on cough are generally limited to specific diseases (e.g. detection Whooping - Pertussis) and study sizes small. In this paper, we present general framework analysis, which includes automatic segmentation, feature extraction classification design that can be applied wide range diseases. For our three...

10.1109/ghtc.2017.8239338 article EN 2017-10-01

From the Departments of Surgery and Pathology Harvard Medical School at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts *Current Address: Department Surgery, University Chicago, Illinois. (Previously, Post Doctoral Fellow, National Institutes Health.) **Current Universidad del Valle. Cali, Colombia. ***Medical Corps, U. S. Army. †Assistant Professor Pathology, Associate Pathologist, Hospital. ††Moseley Surgeon-in-Chief,

10.1097/00000658-197008000-00004 article EN Annals of Surgery 1970-08-01

Many adolescent mothers are parenting young children under highly stressful conditions as they managing first-time parenthood, poverty, lack of housing, school and work, challenging peer familial relationships. Mobile health (mHealth) technology has the potential to intervene at various points in emotion regulation process provide them support for more adaptive emotional behavioral course their daily life.The goal this study was examine acceptability, feasibility, use patterns, mechanisms by...

10.2196/pediatrics.9037 article EN cc-by JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting 2018-03-01

Chest radiography is a critical tool in the early detection, management planning, and follow-up evaluation of COVID-19 pneumonia; however, smaller clinics around world, there shortage radiologists to analyze large number examinations especially performed during pandemic. Limited availability high-resolution computed tomography real-time polymerase chain reaction developing countries regions high patient turnover also emphasizes importance chest as both screening diagnostic tool. In this...

10.3389/fmed.2020.00550 article EN cc-by Frontiers in Medicine 2020-08-18

Clonidine was administered intravenously in an attempt to limit sympatico‐adrenal activity and thereby reduce the incidence of arterial hypertension associated with coronary artery by‐pass graft surgery (CABG). Forty patients scheduled for CABG were assigned two groups. Twenty received clonidine 4μg kg ‐1 before surgery, 2 μg after cardiopulmonary 1 when skin sutured. The other 20 served as controls. All anesthetized fentanyl, droperidol, nitrous oxide alcuronium. During 5 min sternotomy,...

10.1111/j.1399-6576.1986.tb02404.x article EN Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica 1986-04-01

10.1093/bja/56.11.1183 article EN publisher-specific-oa British Journal of Anaesthesia 1984-11-01

The emerging field of digital phenotyping leverages the numerous sensors embedded in a smartphone to better understand its user's current psychological state and behavior, enabling improved health support systems for patients. As part this work, common task is use accelerometer automatically recognize or classify behavior user, known as human activity recognition (HAR). In article, we present deep learning method using Resnet architecture implement HAR popular UniMiB-SHAR public dataset,...

10.3389/fpubh.2023.1086671 article EN cc-by Frontiers in Public Health 2023-02-28
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