Current challenges demand a profound restructuration of the global healthcare system. A
more efficient system is required to cope with the growing world population and increased …

Subthreshold digital circuits minimize energy per operation and are thus ideal for ultralow-
power (ULP) applications with low performance requirements. However, a large range of …

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a chronic neurodegenerative movement disorder. The motor
status of patients with PD can be characterized by the Unified Parkinson's disease rating …

Body sensor networks (BSNs) are emerging cyber–physical systems that promise to improve
quality of life through improved healthcare, augmented sensing and actuation for the …

We present an approach for quantitative assessment of the arm/hand movements in patients
with Parkinson's disease (PD), from sensor data acquired with a wearable, wireless …

Objective: Agitated behaviors are one of the most frequent reasons that patients with
dementia are placed in long-term care settings. This study aims to validate the ability of a …

Background: Traditional rehabilitation sessions are often a slow, tedious, disempowering
and non-motivational process, supported by clinical assessment tools, ie evaluation scales …

There has been a lot of interest in recent years in using inertial sensors (accelerometers and
gyroscopes) to monitor movement disorder motion and monitor the efficacy of treatment …

Patients with Alzheimer's Disease (AD) often experience urinary incontinence and agitation
during sleep. There is some evidence that these phenomena are related, but the …

Patients with end stage renal diseases (ESRD) on hemodialysis (HD) have high morbidity
and mortality due to multiple causes, one of which is dramatically higher fall rates than the …