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A major problem among the elderly involves falling. The recognition of falls from video first requires the segmentation of the individual from the background. To ensure privacy, segmentation should result in a silhouette that is a binary map indicating only the body position of the individual in an image. We have previously demonstrated a segmentation method based on color that can recognize the silhouette...
A major problem among the elderly involves falling. The recognition of falls from video first requires the segmentation of the individual from the background. To ensure privacy, segmentation should result in a silhouette that is a binary map indicating only the body position of the individual in an image. We have previously demonstrated a segmentation method based on color that can recognize the silhouette...
Cigarette smoking remains the principal source of preventable disease in the United States. Although most tobacco companies have developed filtered cigarettes to reduce the levels of some toxins, smokers have adapted their inhalation patterns to compensate for these newer "light" cigarettes. We describe a new system designed to unobtrusively monitor such elements of smoking behavior. The...
The following topics are dealt: time-frequency analysis; functional magnetic resonance imaging; cancer drug delivery; glucose sensor and diabetics control; neural computing; EEG; biomechanics; biomedical information network; health care environment; optical coherence tomography; medical diagnostics device; image-guided surgery; radiation therapy; laparoscopy; circadian rhythms; rehabilitation techniques;...
Cigarette smoking remains the principal source of preventable disease in the United States. Although most tobacco companies have developed filtered cigarettes to reduce the levels of some toxins, smokers have adapted their inhalation patterns to compensate for these newer "light" cigarettes. We describe a new system designed to unobtrusively monitor such elements of smoking behavior. The...
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