The prevalence of smartphone devices lends itself to a development platform for an array of applications, including patient health tracking and physiological monitoring. This paper shows a preliminary investigation of...
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The prevalence of smartphone devices lends itself to a development platform for an array of applications, including patient health tracking and physiological monitoring. This paper shows a preliminary investigation of the acquiring and processing breathing signals using a smartphone running the Android Operating System. The hardware consists of a smartphone connected to an analog electronic stethoscope. The preliminary signal analysis tool includes the Fast Fourier Transform implemented with the Android Software Development Kit (SDK).
The musculature of the decapods allows for a wide variety of motion given the limited degrees of freedom of motion granted. This study focuses on a single degree of motion of a single leg segment of the crab (Menippe ...
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The musculature of the decapods allows for a wide variety of motion given the limited degrees of freedom of motion granted. This study focuses on a single degree of motion of a single leg segment of the crab (Menippe mercenaria) in response to electrical stimulation. A microprocessor was programmed to trigger an electrical stimulator and to provide force and length controls of the induced contraction. Digital feedback control algorithms were implemented on the microprocessor in conjunction with the Aurora Dual Mode Lever System to provide force clamp, length clamp, as well as other loading conditions. The resulting experiment setting provides a useful platform for studying the mechanics of muscle contractions.
Many kinds of hearing aids have been developed to overcome hearing loss. Each hearing aid has their own method to improve hearing threshold level of the patient. In case of vibration transducer to drive round window, ...
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The input part of fully implantable hearing devices (FIHDs) was using the implantable microphone that was implanted under the skin of the temporal bone. So, implantable microphonès characteristics can be affected...
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The input part of fully implantable hearing devices (FIHDs) was using the implantable microphone that was implanted under the skin of the temporal bone. So, implantable microphonès characteristics can be affected by the masticatory movement and moving artifacts. In this paper, the 2-channel implantable microphone was designed for masticatory movement noise reduction. For in vivo experiment, the fabricated microphone was implanted in the rabbit. And then, the 1 kHz pure-tone sound by a speaker was applied to the rabbit, and the feeds were given simultaneously to the rabbit. The measured signal was processed using the adaptive filter with least mean square (LMS) algorithm for noise reduction. To confirm performance of proposed method, the correlation coefficient and signal to noise ratio (SNR) before and after the signal processing were calculated.
In this paper we describe an extension to the MATLAB Phased Array Toolkit that adds a configurable clutter object to model clutter signals returned along a specified signal path. The clutter model is based on the Simk...
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In this paper we describe an extension to the MATLAB Phased Array Toolkit that adds a configurable clutter object to model clutter signals returned along a specified signal path. The clutter model is based on the Simkins Unified Clutter Model[1]. The current implementation supports sea clutter in any of five sea states with configurable polarization, grazing angle, and beam width. We describe the implementation and give examples of modeled clutter returns.
With an ever-increasing population of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients worldwide, a noninvasive treatment for AD is needed. In this paper, the application of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulus (rTMS) as a ...
With an ever-increasing population of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients worldwide, a noninvasive treatment for AD is needed. In this paper, the application of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulus (rTMS) as a treatment for patients with probable AD is compared to the application of rTMS as a treatment for depression. Comorbidity of depression and dementia is discussed, as well as possible links between the two diseases. The possible confounding antidepressant effects of rTMS on cognitive improvements in AD patients are discussed.
Reservoir Computing (RC) is a computational model in which a trained readout layer interprets the dynamics of a component called a reservoir that is excited by external input stimuli. The reservoir is often constructe...
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Flow quantification with high-frequency power Doppler ultrasound can be performed using the wall-filter selection curve (WFSC) method [M. Elfarnawany et al., Ultrasound Med. Biol. 38, 1429-1439 (2012)]. The WFSC metho...
Flow quantification with high-frequency power Doppler ultrasound can be performed using the wall-filter selection curve (WFSC) method [M. Elfarnawany et al., Ultrasound Med. Biol. 38, 1429-1439 (2012)]. The WFSC method plots color pixel density (CPD) as a function of wall filter cut-off velocity as a means of objectively selecting an operating point cut-off velocity. In this study, an in vivo video microscopy (IVVM) system was used to measure the size of small (140-400 μm diameter) mouse testicular vessels immediately after the vessels were imaged with 30 MHz power Doppler. The mouse remained on the same platform throughout ultrasound and IVVM imaging. Measurements in four image planes from three mice demonstrated that, similar to previously reported flow-phantom data, in vivo WFSCs exhibit distinct, sloped "characteristic intervals" at cut-off velocities where the CPD approaches the gold-standard IVVM estimate of vascular volume fraction. A wide range of operating point cut-off velocities (4.5 to 12 mm/s) was obtained, which indicates that use of a predetermined cut-off can produce substantial errors in cross-sectional studies that employ power Doppler to quantify vascularity. The WFSC method is a promising strategy for adapting the cut-off velocity to intersubject and longitudinal variations in blood flow during microvascular imaging experiments.
Common microarray and next-generation sequencing data analysis concentrate on tumor subtype classification, marker detection, and transcriptional regulation discovery during biological processes by exploring the corre...
A primary requirement of a broad class of evolving intelligent systems is to process a sequence of numeric data over time. This paper introduces a granular neural network framework for evolving fuzzy system modeling f...
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A primary requirement of a broad class of evolving intelligent systems is to process a sequence of numeric data over time. This paper introduces a granular neural network framework for evolving fuzzy system modeling from fuzzy data streams. The evolving granular neural network (eGNN) efficiently handles concept changes, distinctive events of nonstationary environments. eGNN constructs interpretable multi-sized local models using fuzzy neural information fusion. An incremental learning algorithm builds the neural network topology from the information contained in data streams. Here we emphasize fuzzy intervals and objects with trapezoidal membership functions. Triangular fuzzy numbers, intervals, and numeric data are particular instances of trapezoids. An example concerning weather time series forecasting illustrates the neural network performance. The goal is to extract, from monthly temperature data, information of interest to attain accurate one-step forecasts and better rapport with reality. Simulation results suggest that eGNN learns from fuzzy data successfully and is competitive with state-of-the-art approaches.
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