The creation of laser surgical systems with feedback, which allows performance of high-precision low-trauma operations, is the current trend of modern surgery. CO2 lasers with puls...

Physical analgesia has been used for the treatment of sports injuries. We previously developed a special patch (bumpy patch, BP) that adds pressure to the pain area, demonstrating ...

In traditional Chinese pulse diagnosis, the pulses of bilateral radial arteries are palpated by three fingers. In this study, a device that can objectively perform pulse diagnosis ...

Several kinds of biometric authentications have been used as countermeasures against identity spoofing. Recently, some approaches have utilized time-series biosignals for biometric...

Surgeons insert approximately 3000 hair implants in a single hair restoration surgery, and the needle shape critically affects surgical performance including surgical time, surviva...

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...