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Using medical images acquired during routine clinical care for research purposes: a comprehensive medical informatics approach applied to the study of brain development from birth through 2 years of age as indexed by diffusion MRI

Biologic variability and dramatic changes of brain development in children aged 0 to 2 years make it challenging to accurately detect subtle abnormalities in single Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans. Diffusion MRI (dMRI) indices such as Apparent Diffu ...

2011

Perceived efficiency impacts following electronic health record implementation: An exploratory study of an urban community health center network

Purpose: Faced with an increasingly complex patient population and growing demand for services, community health centers (CHCs) are recognizing that electronic health records (EHRs) may help their efforts to improve efficiency in care delivery. Yet little ...

2010

Management of nanomaterials safety in research environment

Thierry Meyer, Arnaud Magrez, Amela Groso, Alke Fink

Despite numerous discussions, workshops, reviews and reports about responsible development of nanotechnology, information describing health and environmental risk of engineered nanoparticles or nanomaterials is severely lacking and thus insufficient for co ...

BioMed Central2010

Roombots-Mechanical Design of Self-Reconfiguring Modular Robots for Adaptive Furniture

Auke Ijspeert, Pierre Dillenbourg, Aude Billard

We aim at merging technologies from information technology, roomware, and robotics in order to design adaptive and intelligent furniture. This paper presents design principles for our modular robots, called Roombots, as future building blocks for furniture ...

2009

Hyperbranched polymer for micro devices

Yves Leterrier, Lars Schmidt

The invention relates to novel polymer-based microstructures, with outstanding shape accuracy and cost-effective processing. The novel polymers are based on hyperbranched macromolecules and enable remarkable property combination such as reduced shrinkage a ...

2007

Bio-inspired cellular machines

Fabien Vannel

Information technology has only been around for about fifty years. Although the beginnings of automatic calculation date from as early as the 17th century (W. Schickard built the first mechanical calculator in 1623), it took the invention of the transistor ...

EPFL2007

Circuits and Systems for High-Throughput Biology

Giovanni De Micheli, Luca Benini

The beginning of this millennium has been marked by some remarkable scientific events, notably the completion of the first objective of the Human Genome Project [HGP], i.e., the decoding of the 3 billion bases that compose the human genome. This success ha ...

2006

Satisfaction des utilisateurs du dossier patient informatisé valaisan

Philippe Wieser, David Marey

A multidisciplinary and shared computerized patient record (CPR) has been progressively implemented since 2002 for all public hospitals in the State of Valais, Switzerland. This paper presents the results of a formal evaluation of user’s satisfaction ...

2006

Postal Sector Overview and Dynamics

Matthias Finger, Patrick Mollet

This paper analyzes the change in the postal sector over the past 20 years and in particular the strategic drivers that are transforming the postal services industries such as institutional, market and technological developments. Taking the argument from h ...

2005

The Security and Privacy of Smart Vehicles

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Jun Luo, Srdan Capkun

Road safety, traffic management, and driver convenience continue to improve, in large part thanks to appropriate usage of information technology. But this evolution has deep implications for security and privacy, which the research community has overlooked ...

2004

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