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Health education is an important part of school education. In this paper, we investigate the health problems of university students, the status of health education, students' knowledge of health and their attitudes. The problems existing in health education and their causes are analyzed, and the corresponding countermeasures and suggestions have been proposed to improve the health status of students.
State-of-the-art supervised approaches for automatically detecting disease reporting events are typically constructed using manual training examples. Such systems suffer from high initial, and sustainability costs.
Gait analysis of human plays a significant role in maintaining the well-being of our mobility and healthcare, and it can be used for various e-healthcare systems for fast medical prognosis and diagnosis. In this paper we have developed a novel body sensor network based recognition system to identify the specific gait pattern of Parkinson's disease (PD). Firstly, a BSN with 16 nodes is used to acquire...
This paper looks into the effects of diseased subjects on the recognition rate of an ECG biometric system. A novel technique for feature extraction, linear predictive coding, is implemented along with neural networks for the classifier. Diseased ECG has been shown reduce the recognition rate of the system by only less than 1% and thus the system is robust towards diseased ECG. This allows for the...
In this paper, a novel method based on Hilbert-Huang Transform (HHT) and backpropagation (BP) neural network is proposed to perform automatic sleep stages classification. Features extracted from 30-second epoch of EEG using HHT are good representations of EEG signal. A three-layer BP neural network is employed to classify these features to one appropriate stage. For a four-stage classification, consisting...
Epilepsy is caused by sudden flurries of electrochemical activity in the brain, which interrupt the 'conversation' among neurons. Consciousness, memory, sense, speech, mood, movement, and motions can all be affected during the one or two minutes that the seizure lasts. Walking, jogging, running and stationary bicycling are particularly safe, but especially "Prayer type yoga exercise" clearly...
Participation in endurance athletic activities such as running, swimming, and cycling is increasing by people of all ages. It is not unusual for very young and elderly male and female enthusiasts to train for and participate in, short and long distance endurance athletics. The primary purpose of this study was to examine changes in maximal aerobic power (VO2max) in aerobically trained and sedentary...
Cancer is a group of complex diseases, in which a relatively large number of genes are involved. One of the main goals of cancer research is to identify genes that causally relevant to the development and progress of cancer. The increasingly identified cancer genes and availability of genomic and proteomics data provide us opportunities to identify cancer genes by computational methods. In this work,...
micoRNA (miRNA) is a vital class of non-coding RNA genes, which participates in post-transcriptional gene regulation in eukaryotic cell. Interestingly, some close relationships between miRNA expression levels and several human diseases like cancers have been recently uncovered. Difficulties of identifying miRNAs via direct experimental method due to their special and temporal expression patterns make...
Rehabilitation robots start to become an important tool in stroke rehabilitation. Compared to manual arm training, robot-supported training can be more intensive, of longer duration, repetitive and task-oriented. Therefore, these devices have the potential to improve the rehabilitation process in stroke patients. While in the past, most groups have been working with endeffector-based robots, exoskeleton...
The development of a biomedical engineering (BME) training program at over the last 18 years is discussed, focusing on aspects related to the health situation in Brazil. This analysis leads to the introduction of a conceptual framework for BME training that could be of relevance for developing countries. A major element is a shift from a technical approach to clinical engineering to an epidemiological...
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