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In this paper, a simulation model of glucose-insulin metabolism for Type 1 diabetes patients is presented. The proposed system is based on the combination of compartmental models (CMs) and artificial neural networks (NNs). This model aims at the development of an accurate system, in order to assist Type 1 diabetes patients to handle their blood glucose profile and recognize dangerous metabolic states...
Loss of mobility can occur for a variety of reasons,such as spinal cord injury or motor neurone disease. The onset of these conditions often brings with it an associated loss of personal independence, which is primarily due to the fact that the sufferer is no longer able to control their mobility. This project aims to address this problem through the creation of a head movement based wheelchair control...
GLUCOSIM is an educational software package that simulates blood glucose and insulin dynamics in healthy individuals and patients with type 1 diabetes. It is being used to assist biomedical and chemical engineering students in visualizing the dynamic variations in blood glucose concentration in response to external variations such as food consumption and insulin administration. A nutritional database...
The tightness of an orthosis for the treatment of scoliosis varies greatly during daily activities. To be effective the orthosis should be maintained at the prescribed tightness to optimize the active component of objective treatment. Subjective feeling is the most commonly used method to evaluate how patients tighten their orthoses. To provide an objective measure, a battery-powered microcomputer...
Analysis of high density oligonucleotide arrays for resequencing requires methods which are highly robust and accurate. We introduce an alternative base calling method built upon ABACUS with the particular advantage of achieving a very low rate for false positive detection of heterozygotes
This paper describes the REALITY telecare system, designed to enable a range of commonly occurring chronic diseases to be managed in the home setting. This uses hand-held computers linked to the internet for collecting and transmitting clinical and quality of life data and providing remote clinical advice. Key to the success of such telecare is a proper scheme of evaluation. An overall framework for...
At present the number of patients of ulcerative colitis (UC) has been increasing in Japan. A leukocytapheresis (LCAP) is one of the cure to the patients of UC. LCAP is a kind of blood purification treatments. It is said that the blood pressure is decreased during the blood purification. This takes place according to the change of the water balance in the body. The water balance is expressed as a hematcrit(Ht)...
It is difficult to understand verbal descriptions of visual phenomenon if one has no such experience. Virtual reality offers a unique opportunity to "experience" diminished vision and the problems it causes in daily life. We have developed an application to simulate age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma, protanopia, and diabetic retinopathy in a familiar setting. The application also...
In this paper we describe the application of a personal digital assistant (PDA) or pocket PC as an effective communication device to telemonitor levels of asthma triggering gases collected from a remote location under test to a workstation which has a personal computer (PC) running on Windows XPreg as the operating system. The Bluetoothreg features of the PDA are explored to transmit data collected...
Cognitive assessments and the early detection of dementia are an important component of clinical care. In this paper we describe an approach to continuous monitoring of sensory-motor function that corresponds to standard tests of cognitive function, but measured more frequently and in a natural home environment. The approach is based on monitoring human-computer interactions using standard devices...
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