Subjective, objective, assessment, and plan (SOAP) notes are widely used by physicians to document clinical reasoning in assessing, diagnosing, and treating patients. SOAP notes ar...

Medial gastrocnemius muscle stiffness was estimated using a system identification technique. The medial gastrocnemius muscle was electrically stimulated using surface Ag-AgCl elect...

Ventricular fibrillation (VF) is currently a major cause of sudden cardiac death (SCD). To cure VF, electrical defibrillation is the only therapy. However, strong energy is require...

Chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia increase the medical costs for middle-aged and elderly people, thus requiring preventive intervention. Monitorin...

To develop medical devices, collaborations are necessary between universities and hospitals that have technological problems and companies with the appropriate technological facili...

The number of people requiring care in Japan has increased with the increase in number of people aged 65 or more. Thus, the production of disposable diapers for the elderly is also...

Breast cancer is one of the most common types of cancer in Japanese women. To address the low spatial resolution challenges associated with mammography and ultrasonography, we focu...

Neuroscientists usually investigate stimulus selectivity by using a stimulus set and identifying the stimulus that evokes the largest electrophysiological responses averaged over a...

We previously reported the development of a new hybrid medical material comprising bio-based materials with high biocompatibility and artificial materials with characteristics of e...

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the main cause of retinal damage due to fluid leakage from blood vessels. Automated diagnostic systems assist the ophthalmologists practice manual lesi...

Color information is an important tool for diagnosing melanoma. In this study, we used a hyperspectral imager (HSI), which can measure color information in detail, to develop an au...

EEG source imaging aims to reconstruct the neural activities of the brain accountable for the recorded scalp potentials. This procedure requires solving two problems, namely, forwa...

Hyperglycemia is common in critically ill patients and leads to various severe complications and even death. Keeping blood glucose within the range of 80–110 mg/dL (4.4–6.1 mmol/L)...

The use of social network service (SNS) applications for health communication has revolutionized communication between physicians in recent years. We performed an unrestricted retr...

The micro-strains of a fingernail and toenail caused by pulse wave were measured by a conventional strain measuring method using a biaxial strain gauge. The strain fluctuations of ...

Assessing blood flow, as well as blood volume and oxygen saturation, is of utmost importance for health monitoring. Assessing microcirculation, as opposed to macrocirculation, is e...

The ability to fine-tune the movement of swallowing-related organs and change the swallowing pattern to fit the volume of a bolus, texture and the physical properties of the food t...

Ultrasound is a convenient non-invasive imaging modality used for the diagnosis or detection of various diseases and assessment of therapeutic effects. However, when imaging intern...

To evaluate muscle function accurately, it is necessary to simultaneously measure electromyogram (EMG) and mechanomyogram (MMG). We have developed an MMG/EMG hybrid transducer syst...

Percutaneous extracorporeal circulation therapies such as apheresis and hemodialysis are commonly used in intensive care units, hemodialysis centers, and clinically settings. In th...