The relationship between sleep posture and quality has been studied comprehensively. Over 70% of chronic diseases are highly correlated with problems. However, monitoring requires professional devices trained nursing staff in a medical center. This paper proposes contactless sleep-monitoring Internet Things (IoT) system that is equipped Raspberry Pi 4 Model B; radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags embedded bed sheets as part low-cost low-power microsystem. Random forest classification...

Intravenous or intraspinal transplantation of human umbilical cord blood cells-derived CD34+ cells (human cells) mesenchymal stem after spinal injury (SCI) improved hind limb functional recovery in adult rats. The objective this study is to ascertain whether SCI rats can be attenuated by conditioned medium (CM) secretome obtained from cultured cells. Sprague-Dawley were assigned one the following five groups: sham group, group treated with vehicle solution (SCI + V), CM CM), 17β-estradiol E2...

Pulse generator is the critical component in all ultrasound systems for driving a piezoelectric transducer to medical or nondestructive testing (NDT) applications. The system was driven by pulse train generator, which delivers high-voltage bipolar unipolar train. Several recent papers have discussed both importance and design of Bipolar voltage has lower unwanted DC low-frequency could decrease leakage current. Also, its peak-to-peak achieve twice rating coaxial cable connecting transducer....

Arteriovenous fistula (AVF) is a vascular access and very import in hemodialysis that treatment for patients suffering from end-stage renal disease. Stenosis considered the major cause of dysfunction AVF. Despite relatively low thrombosis rates AVF, surveillance programs are necessary detection stenosis. However, conventional Doppler ultrasound cannot facilitate risk assessment such as insufficient resolution. The objective this study was to develop an estimation system using FPGA based...

Recently, ultrasound techniques have become an important alternative in the assessment of osteoporosis. The speed sound (SOS) and broadband attenuation (BUA) on calcaneus are commonly used densitometer for osteoporosis evaluation. However, quantitative (QUS) parameters provided by a using most commercial instruments based assumption fixed bone thickness. Information thickness is critical factor accurate estimation SOS through conventional approaches; yet, tissue not available vivo...

BACKGROUND: A two-hospital patient referral problem intends to calculate an optimal value of patients between two hospitals and evaluate whether or not the current number is too low.OBJECTIVE: The goal this study develop a simulation-based optimization algorithm find with unfixed daily policy.METHODS: This applied system simulation bat (BA) build model in accordance status case patients.RESULTS: Based on 20 test instances, we verified stability algorithm.The results show that average...

According to the data from Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) in 2018, it is estimated that 10 million new dementia patients will be added worldwide, and global population 50 million. Due a decline birth rate development great progress of medical technology, proportion elderly people has risen annually Taiwan. In fact, Taiwan become one fastest-growing aged countries world. Consequently, problems related aging societies emerge. Dementia most prevailing aging-related diseases, with...

To achieve Industry 4.0 solutions for the networking of mechatronic components in production plants, use Internet Things (IoT) technology is optimal way goods transportation cyber-physical system (CPS). As a result, automated guided vehicles (AGVs) are networked to all other participants accept and execute transport jobs. Accurately tracking planned paths AGVs therefore essential. The omnidirectional mobile vehicle has shown its excellent characteristics crowded environments narrow aisle...

The so-called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or motor neuron disease (MND) is a neurodegenerative with various causes. It characterized by muscle spasticity, rapidly progressive weakness due to atrophy, and difficulty in speaking, swallowing, breathing. severe disabled always have common problem that about communication except physical malfunctions. steady-state visually evoked potential based brain computer interfaces (BCI), which apply visual stimulus, are very suitable play the role...

This paper proposes a method for electrocardiogram (ECG) heartbeat pattern recognition using adaptive wavelet network (AWN). The ECG beat can be divided into sequence of stages, starting from feature extraction and conversion QRS complexes, then identifying cardiac arrhythmias based on the detected features. discrimination beats is two-subnetwork architecture, consisting layer probabilistic neural (PNN). Morlet wavelets are used to extract features each heartbeat, PNN analyze meaningful...

The biomechanical properties of soft tissues vary with pathological phenomenon. Ultrasound elasticity imaging is a noninvasive method used to analyze the local in clinical diagnosis. However, echo signal-to-noise ratio (eSNR) diminished because attenuation ultrasonic energy by tissues. Therefore, improve quality elastography, eSNR and depth ultrasound penetration must be increased using chirp-coded excitation. Moreover, low axial resolution images generated pulse an appropriate compression...

The outbreak of swine diseases in Taiwan during the past years has caused a large number meat from sick pigs to reach market. This greatly affected willingness consumers purchase pork. In order enhance food safety and sustain income pig farmers, Council Agriculture recommended that pig's production history be presented public so product information could made transparent. At present, most Taiwan's farmers still use handwritten cards for administrative work. New record are filled out each...

Quantitative ultrasound (QUS) techniques have recently been widely applied for the characterization of tissues. For example, they can be used quantification Achilles tendon properties based on broadband attenuation (BUA) and speed sound (SOS) when wave passes through This study is to develop an integrated system investigate tendons using QUS images from UBIS 5000 (DMS, Montpellier, France) B-mode HDI (ATL, Ultramark, USA). Subjects including young (32 females 17 males; mean age: 23.7 ± 2.0)...

This paper proposes a portable system for hand motion identification (HMI) using the features from data glove with bend sensors and multichannel surface electromyography (SEMG). SEMG could provide information of muscle activities indirectly HMI. However it is difficult to discriminate finger like extension thumb little just SEMG; five designed detect motions in proposed system. Independent component analysis (ICA) grey relational (GRA) are used reduction core identification, respectively....

The number of patients undergoing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is on the increased. However, there are too few MRI machines, resulting in long waiting times for patients. In order to address this problem and shorten time, study focuses prospects sharing resources with other hospitals increase equipment availability. purpose analyze whether wasteful, unnecessary procedures taking up much time during studies, elimination which would mean improved efficiency shortening We employ Value...

Tortuous aortic arch is always challenging for beginner neuro-interventionalists. Herein, we share our experience of using 3D-printed extracranial vascular simulators (VSs) and the infrared imaging platform (IRIP) in two training courses diagnostic cerebral angiography past 4 years. A total four full-scale patient-specific carotid-aortic-iliac models were fabricated, including one type I arch, bovine variant, III arches. With an machine (AM) as practice final test, first course was held...

Clinically speaking, most spinal fractures are caused by fall or traffic accidents. If, after a trauma, there failures limitations in the movement on lower limbs, it is suspected that thoracolumbar fracture had occurred. There different types of fractures: compression burst fracture, seat belt type injury and dislocation fracture. The treatment remains one challenging tasks for neurosurgeons. Accurate assessment severity preoperative planning to reduce injuries during surgery very important....

Proper anesthesia is very important for patients to get through surgery without pain and then avoid some other problems. By monitoring the depth of sedation a patient, it could help clinician provide suitable amount anesthetic clinical treatment. In hospital, patient usually monitored by different types biological systems. To predict from signals able ease services. this study, continuous restricted Boltzmann machines based neural network proposed sedation. The including heart rate, blood...

Achilles tendon (AT) is the most fragile and vulnerable part in human body. Stress-strain properties shape changing such as cross-sectional area variations of this are important biomechanical used clinically for assessing monitoring surgical repair or postoperative healing progress. However, so far, there few methods non-invasively, precisely quantitatively vivo AT mechanism. In study, we develop a quantitative ultrasound system (QUS) based on FPGA aiming at estimating stress-strain via...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to establish an automated microscopic imaging database system using a set Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) management functions provide secure storage for hispathology images. Design/methodology/approach microscopy composed mainly four parts, which include: first, tissue biopsy image acquisition system, second, processing third, RFID and fourth, SQL system. has two modes operation store manage First, the slide undergoes fluorescence staining before...