Oral respiration causes constriction of the upper airway in the retropalatal and retroglossal regions, thereby increasing the risk of sleep disorder. One of the best methods to det...

Visually guided saccadic eye movement has been considered a promising screening tool for cognitive function because of its simple and objective nature. However, its application to ...

Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) recently have been focusing on combining various BCI modalities to form different combinations of hybrid BCIs. These paradigms are designed to elic...

Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a common joint disease of the lower limbs. Its progression reduces the patients' quality of life. Varus thrust (VT), one of the abnormal gait patterns ...

To facilitate capturing the characteristic variations of blood pressure (BP) such as BP surges during the nocturnal period, the in-bed continuous daily measurement of BP may be use...

Watching television (TV) is a popular leisure activity for older people and its usage is almost constant in the rhythm of their daily life. A telemonitoring system of television-op...

The rhythm of vocalizing a written language depends on a merge process that combines meaningless linguistic units into a meaningful lexical unit, word, or Bunsetsu in Japanese. How...

To prevent aspiration pneumonia, a system for non-invasive and quantitative evaluation of the swallowing function is required. Therefore, we have previously proposed a method of us...

Hiesho is the condition of having a cold sensation in one's hands or feet. This is a well-known health problem for young Asian females. However, the definition of Hiesho is still c...

An arteriovenous (AV) fistula is commonly constructed in patients who need dialysis treatment. Daily monitoring of the AV fistula is crucially important to maintain its correct fun...

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) causes visual acuity (VA) loss in people aged ≥ 50 years. Common treatments include intravitreal injection of anti-vascular endothelial growt...

Many sensors have been developed to measure physiological information in the toilet for healthcare management and disease prevention. These sensors require personal identification ...

Deep learning is widely used in the development of automatic diagnosis systems for melanoma. However, there are some parameters called hyperparameters which should be set arbitrari...

Magnetoencephalography (MEG) has advanced dramatically in the past 50 years, since the first neuromagnetic recording in 1968. Recent MEGs have both high spatial resolution of a few...

In a new Hill-type two-mode model of skeletal muscle, a stretch-evoked force enhancement mode is introduced in addition to a sliding filament mode on the descending limb of the iso...

The most common cancer among women is breast cancer. The survival prognosis and rate of breast cancer differ considerably according to the stage of cancer. Treatment is more effici...

Accurate and trouble-free blood collection reduces the physical and mental risk of patients. Visualization of expert venipuncture techniques is important when conducting blood coll...

Information technology has been applied to health management. In our laboratory, we have developed and produced prototypes of new sensors, and attempted to monitor various health p...

Lumbar loading causes increased intervertebral pressure and is an important factor in low back pain. However, it is difficult to quantitatively judge the actions that affect lumbar...

Segmentation of computed tomography (CT) images has provided promising methods of constructing precise 3-dimensional heart models. However, the process is labor intensive, because ...