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In open and dynamic online services the exchange of information is demanded to be easy, simple and always available. However, potential users of online services are still reluctant to outsource sensitive data to these services, mainly due to lack of control over management and privacy issues of their data. This becomes more complex when dealing with Public Administrations (PAs) which handle data of...
Abstract-Low Birth weight (LBW) acts as an indicator of sickness in newborn babies. LBW is closely associated with infant mortality as well as various health outcomes later in life. Various studies show strong correlation between maternal health during pregnancy and the child's birth weight. This manuscript exploits machine learning techniques to gain useful information from health indicators of pregnant...
Enabling continuous and comfortable monitoring for newborn infants continues to remain a challenge. The circuitry and power required to monitor an infant's vital signs both with wired and wireless implementations are the main obstacles in realizing a seamless wearable infant monitor. In this paper, an unconventional battery-free and wireless infant heart and respiration rate monitor that uses passive...
According to a study done in 2014 by National Health Interview Survey around 6.3 million children in United States suffer from asthma [1]. Asthma remains one of the leading reasons for pediatric admissions to children's hospitals, and has a prevalence rate of approximately 10% in children and it leads to missed days from school and other societal costs. This occurs despite improved medications to...
The paper explains an approach that tries to predict the gestational diabetes of the patient using association rule mining. We address the basic risk factors in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus of pregnant ladies leading to abnormality in delivery and post and pre-delivery conditions. The existing approaches deal with social economy conditions of the GEM patients. Medical examinations records can be...
A novel wearable sensor system for seizure monitoring of neonates comprised of smart clothing, video recording and cloud platform is presented. Textile electrodes and Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) are embedded in the smart clothing to obtain ECG signal and motion signal whereby epileptic seizure detection algorithm is performed. Moreover, a video monitoring module provides real-time information...
With the rapid advancement in technology, we still observe a significant amount of deaths of children under the age of five years. Majority of these deaths worldwide can be attributed to various medical conditions out of which three are very significant: birth asphyxia, preterm and infections. Birth asphyxia (perinatal asphyxia) is a medical condition which is characterised by abnormal breathing patterns...
Autism is a learning disorder falling in the ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) spectrum, varying from being slightly autistic to severe. The level of autism is judged by a special educator after close examination of the child's activities. This paper presents an algorithm that can automate this assessing procedure. While a game is being played the activity pattern of the player is captured...
The use of touchscreen devices amongst children has dramatically increased in the last 10–15 years. Although there have been some research and studies conducted previously about the use of these technologies by older children and adolescents, there is not enough information about toddlers and preschoolers use of these devices. In this paper, we present a pilot study of 166 parents, who were surveyed...
This paper deals with the development of unique human health monitoring system which can collect various health parameters from the patient and transmits the data over the internet for health monitoring system. This system works in two modes namely adult patient monitoring mode and child monitoring mode.
The main purpose of this study is to overcome the difficulties experienced by the mothers during the sleeping period of the babies and to put the babies to sleep in a comfortable and peaceful way as if the babies were in the mother's lap. In this direction, the motion that the mother made while sleeping her baby on the lap was modeled, and a cradle designed to repeat mother movements based on this...
Segmentation of the developing cortical plate from MRI data of the post-mortem fetal brain is highly challenging due to partial volume effects, low contrast, and heterogeneous maturation caused by ongoing myelination processes. We present a new atlas-free method that segments the inner and outer boundaries of the cortical plate in fetal brains by exploiting diffusion-weighted imaging cues and using...
Speech impediment affecting children with hearing difficulties and speech disorders requires speech therapy and much practice to overcome. To motivate the children to practice more, serious games can be used because children are more inclined to play games. In this paper, we have designed and implemented a serious game in which children can learn to speak specific words that they are expected to know...
Down's syndrome (also known as trisomy 21) is a genetic disorder caused by the presence of a third copy of chromosome 21 in a baby's cell. With education and proper care the quality of life of these people can be improved, and with the right support people with Down's syndrome can have an active role in the community. In this paper we examine how a virtual reality serious game, the EnCity game, could...
This paper presents the design, implementation and evaluation of a home based intervention targeting economically disadvantaged children to improve asthma clinical outcomes. The monitoring and intervention activities were delivered within an embedded astronaut-themed game to promote user acceptance and compliance to the clinical protocol. An iterative, user-centered design process was used to prototype...
Attractiveness has long been deemed as elusive and somewhat mystical phenomena, but researchers in the fields such as experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience are beginning to unravel the biological basis of human attractiveness perception. The current lecture overviews the findings from multidisciplinary studies on the biological basis of attractiveness perception from human faces and draws...
Developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) is a congenital deformity occurring in ∼3% of infants. If diagnosed early most cases of DDH can be effectively treated using a Pavlik harness. However, current diagnosis of DDH using 2D ultrasound is and can have high inter-operator variability. In this paper we propose a method to automatically segment the acetabulum bone and derive geometric indices of hip...
According to the Centers for Disease Control, in the United States there are 6.8 million children living with asthma. Despite the importance of the disease, the available prognostic tools are not sufficient for biomedical researchers to thoroughly investigate the potential risks of the disease at scale. To overcome these challenges we present a big data integration and analysis infrastructure developed...
We present a method based on deformable meshes for the reconstruction of the cortical surfaces of the developing human brain at the neonatal period. It employs a brain segmentation for the reconstruction of an initial inner cortical surface mesh. Errors in the segmentation resulting from poor tissue contrast in neonatal MRI and partial volume effects are subsequently accounted for by a local edge-based...
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