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Holistic Approach to Sufficient, Reliable and Efficient Electricity Supply in Hospitals of Developing Countries: Cameroon Case Study

While health technology has shown constant improvements in industrialized countries, developing countries have not been able to take full advantage of this evolution, partly because of unstable power supplies. According to a World Health Organization study ...

Spring2015

On the ground validation of online diagnosis with Twitter and medical records

Marcel Salathé

Social media has been considered as a data source for tracking disease. However, most analyses are based on models that prioritize strong correlation with population-level disease rates over determining whether or not specific individual users are actually ...

ACM2014

Safe Implementation of Embedded Software for a Portable Device Supporting Drug Administration

Giovanni De Micheli, Yann Thoma, Alena Simalatsar, Wenqi You Dubout

Poor adherence to medical regimen causes approximately 33% to 69% of medication-related hospitalizations and accounts for $100 billion in annual health care costs. In this paper we address the problem of unintentional non adherence, when patient fails to t ...

IEEE2014

Model-Based Data Interpretation and Diagnosis Robustness

Ian Smith, James-Alexandre Goulet, Romain Pasquier

Model-based data-interpretation techniques are widely used to identify the behavior of structures. These techniques exploit information provided by in-situ measurements to make diagnosis related to structural performance. In the context of model-based infr ...

Taylor & Francis Group2013

Tetrahydrobiopterin Biosynthesis as an Off-Target of Sulfa Drugs

Kai Johnsson, Florence Pojer, Hirohito Haruki, Miriam Grønlund Pedersen, Katarzyna Irena Gorska

The introduction of sulfa drugs for the chemotherapy of bacterial infections in 1935 revolutionized medicine. Although their mechanism of action is understood, the molecular bases for most of their side effects remain obscure. Here, we report that sulfamet ...

Amer Assoc Advancement Science2013

Cognitive disorganisation and Sex affect visual backward masking: data from patients with schizophrenia, non-affected relatives and healthy controls

Michael Herzog, Christine Mohr, Maya Roinishvili, Guillaume Sierro

Endophenotypes (i.e. stable and heritable markers of the illness) are one of the promising tools to understand the pathological mechanisms underlying schizophrenia. We recently showed that deficits in visual backward masking (VBM) meet the criteria for an ...

2013

Medical Guidelines Reconciling Medical Software and Electronic Devices: Imatinib Case-study

Giovanni De Micheli, Alena Simalatsar

Nowadays medical software is tightly coupled with medical devices that perform patient state monitoring and lately even some basic treatment procedures. Medical guidelines (GLs) can be seen as specification of a medical system that includes both software a ...

Ieee2012

Evaluation and extension of an automated system to diagnose the health of premature babies

Camille Joggi

Premature babies are not fully equipped to deal with the outside world. Their immature bodies make them highly at risk to a large number of physiological complications. Therefore, while they are still immature, premature babies are taken care of in neonato ...

2011

Ambulatory Assessment of 3D Ground Reaction Force using Plantar Pressure Distribution

Kamiar Aminian, Julien Favre, Xavier Crevoisier, Hossein Rouhani

This study aimed to use the plantar pressure insole for estimating the three-dimensional ground reaction force (GRF) as well as the frictional torque (T-F) during walking. Eleven subjects, six healthy and five patients with ankle disease participated in th ...

Elsevier2010

Advanced image-processing techniques in magnetic resonance imaging for the investigation of brain pathologies and tumour angiogenesis

Alessandro Daducci

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is increasingly being used in medical settings because of its ability to produce, non-invasively, high quality images of the inside of the human body. Since its introduction in early 70’s, more and more complex acquisition ...

University of Verona2010

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