M. Nii, Toshinobu Hayashi, Kazunobu Takahama, T. Nakashima, Y. Komai
{"title":"A macrophage simulator based on evolving cellular automata from video images","authors":"M. Nii, Toshinobu Hayashi, Kazunobu Takahama, T. Nakashima, Y. Komai","doi":"10.1109/WAC.2014.6935925","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WAC.2014.6935925","url":null,"abstract":"Macrophages are well known cells in biology. While macrophage plays an important role in the immune system, the behavior rules of macrophages are unknown. In our research, the final goal is to find action rules for behavior of macrophages. Our current aim is to develop a simulator which can reproduce the movement of macrophages. As the first step, we try to develop a simulator that can imitate macrophages' behavior in three-dimensional space. In order to develop a simulator, some movies of actual macrophages in live mice are used. After parsing the movies, we try to develop a simulator which can imitate behaviors as same results as the observed. Our proposed simulator is based on cellular automata which are evolved by genetic algorithms. From the results of our simulator, we can see that the artificial macrophages behave as the similar movement of actual macrophages.","PeriodicalId":196519,"journal":{"name":"2014 World Automation Congress (WAC)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126507649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development of an independent support system capable of walking from recumbent position","authors":"Hiroshi Kobayashi, Yusuke Harada, Koushi Tokoro","doi":"10.1109/WAC.2014.6936132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WAC.2014.6936132","url":null,"abstract":"In order to relive the burden of nursing care and help a handicapped person to be more independent, we have been developing “an Independence Support System”, which can assist uprising and walking motion from lying on a bed. In this paper, we report the concept and mechanism of the system, and evaluation of reduction of burden by physical work.","PeriodicalId":196519,"journal":{"name":"2014 World Automation Congress (WAC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130859807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Nishimura, Kenji Yamada, Y. Ohno, Y. Ogura, J. Tanida
{"title":"Fluorescence amplification based on DNA structural changes for enzyme-free detection of microRNA","authors":"T. Nishimura, Kenji Yamada, Y. Ohno, Y. Ogura, J. Tanida","doi":"10.1109/WAC.2014.6935883","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WAC.2014.6935883","url":null,"abstract":"For sensing biomarkers on site, this paper discusses detection of a microRNA (miRNA) by positional control of fluorescence molecules with DNA reactions. We designed a hybridization chain reaction-based system that can detect and amplify molecular signals as fluorescent signals without temperature control and enzymatic reactions. A target miRNA triggers to make a polymer structure by opening hairpin structure DNAs and this structural changes induce fluorescence enhancement. In experiments, we confirmed fluorescent amplification and linear relationship between the fluorescent intensity and the target concentration.","PeriodicalId":196519,"journal":{"name":"2014 World Automation Congress (WAC)","volume":"26 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130911341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Finger-mounted walk controller of powered exoskeleton for paraplegic patient's walk","authors":"Y. Hasegawa, Keisuke Nakayama","doi":"10.1109/WAC.2014.6935970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WAC.2014.6935970","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a finger-mounted user interface device and a cooperative control algorithm for complete paraplegic patient to walk with a powered exoskeleton. Current walk support systems actually help the patient walking. However, they have a limitation to adjust its walk as a patient intends, such as stride, foot height, and so on. In our research, an index finger is focused on as a residual function of a paraplegic patient for the gait control. A pair of finger interface devices is developed for a patient to convey his/her intention to the walk support system through it. As the first step, a walking robot was developed to simulate the patient body and the walk assistive system. A 10-meter walking experiment was conducted to evaluate feasibility of the interface device and a control algorithm to start leg swing. We confirmed that the timing of the leg swing was adjusted as the user intended through the interface and that the 10-meter walk was finished in three minutes.","PeriodicalId":196519,"journal":{"name":"2014 World Automation Congress (WAC)","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127240701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A graph based data mining method for collaborative learning space in learning commons","authors":"Kazushi Okamoto, H. Asanuma, K. Kawamoto","doi":"10.1109/WAC.2014.6935976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WAC.2014.6935976","url":null,"abstract":"A graph based data mining method, which discovers automatically usage patterns from user-to-user and user-to-object interactions in a collaborative learning space, is proposed. The proposal describes mathematically observed users, objects, and their interactions at a given time as a set of graphs (a usage pattern) whose node is a user or an object and edge is assigned depending on a physical distance between two nodes. It is validated that the proposal can provide useful data for interview planning and evidences for interview results. On the validation, detection of frequent local usage patterns, detection of rare spatial layouts among usage patterns, and grouping hours containing similar local usage patterns are demonstrated with the 324 pictures taken at the collaborative learning space in Chiba University Library.","PeriodicalId":196519,"journal":{"name":"2014 World Automation Congress (WAC)","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126090105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Asakawa, Ayumi Muramatsu, Takuto Hayashi, Tatsuya Urata, Masato Taya, Y. Mizuno-Matsumoto
{"title":"Psychosomatic state in each region affects EEG propogating speeds for emotional stimuli on smartphones","authors":"T. Asakawa, Ayumi Muramatsu, Takuto Hayashi, Tatsuya Urata, Masato Taya, Y. Mizuno-Matsumoto","doi":"10.1109/WAC.2014.6935668","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WAC.2014.6935668","url":null,"abstract":"To investigate the performance of propagation speed analysis of EEG under the emotional stimuli using smartphone. Twenty-three healthy subjects were assessed for their anxiety states using CMI and divided to two groups: low CMI score (I) or high CMI score (II, III and IV) group. EEG was measured under emotionally stimuli (relaxed and pleasant, unpleasant and unpleasant sentence sessions) stimuli and analyzed using propagation speed analysis. The propagation speed for all session in the high CMI score group had a significantly region at left and right temporal and occipital regions. And the propagation speed for all session in the low CMI score group had a significantly region at frontal region. Especially, all stimuli of the low CMI score group were propagated in a longitudinal direction. The propagation speed for all session in the low CMI score group had a significantly higher than propagation speed in the high CMI score group. These processes in the brain would affect the event that stresses on human relationships that often cause people to suffer from mental disorders.","PeriodicalId":196519,"journal":{"name":"2014 World Automation Congress (WAC)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124371866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A dynamic risk level based bioinspired neural network approach for robot path planning","authors":"J. Ni, Xinyun Li, Xinnan Fan, Jinrong Shen","doi":"10.1109/WAC.2014.6936167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WAC.2014.6936167","url":null,"abstract":"Path planning problem is one of the most important and challenging issue in robot control field. In this paper, an improved bioinspired neural network approach is proposed for real-time path planning of robots. In the proposed approach, a new function is used to calculate the connection weight of the bioinspired neural network, to reduce the fluctuation of the path produced by the general bioinspired neural network. Furthermore, a dynamic risk level is introduced into the proposed approach, to improve the performance of the proposed approach in dynamic obstacle avoidance task. In comparison to the general bioinspired neural network based method, experimental results show that the trajectories of robot produced by the proposed approach is optimized, and the proposed approach can deal with the path planning task in dynamic environment efficiently.","PeriodicalId":196519,"journal":{"name":"2014 World Automation Congress (WAC)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127733120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Sakashita, M. Takami, H. Ono, Tomoko Nishihira, Hiroyuki Kusumoto, Misao Hamada
{"title":"Impact of the consistency of food substances on the health of residents in welfare facilities for seniors","authors":"R. Sakashita, M. Takami, H. Ono, Tomoko Nishihira, Hiroyuki Kusumoto, Misao Hamada","doi":"10.1109/WAC.2014.6935688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WAC.2014.6935688","url":null,"abstract":"The effect of the consistency of food substances on health has not been assessed. The ingestion of food substances which require mastication promotes salivary secretion and oral function, which may in turn lead to a lower incidence of aspiration pneumonia. Thus, this study aims to reveal the importance of ingesting regular solid food and inquires into the condition associated with ingesting regular food.","PeriodicalId":196519,"journal":{"name":"2014 World Automation Congress (WAC)","volume":"13 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127595341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Naomi Yagi, Ryosuke Takahashi, H. Ueno, Toru Yabe, J. Kayashita, Yoshihiko Oke, Y. Oku
{"title":"A knowledge-based approach to identify aspiration by fuzzy logic","authors":"Naomi Yagi, Ryosuke Takahashi, H. Ueno, Toru Yabe, J. Kayashita, Yoshihiko Oke, Y. Oku","doi":"10.1109/WAC.2014.6936196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WAC.2014.6936196","url":null,"abstract":"Aspiration is associated with the decreased Quality of Life Score (QOLS) in swallowing and chewing. It is caused by central nervous system disorders that include stroke, cerebral palsy, and intractable neurological diseases, disorders of oral cavity, pharynx or larynx and so on. Because the simple aging causes ingesting/swallowing disorders, it became one of serious health problems of the aging society. The evaluation of dysphagia is used by video fluoroscopy (VF), video endoscopy (VE), repetitive saliva swallow test, water swallow tests, and food tests. The advantage of VF and VE is the detailed evaluation and diagnosis for it, and the disadvantage of them is a higher risk of carcinogenesis by X-rays. Therefore, the authors propose a noninvasive swallow testing system by fuzzy logic. This study developed a fuzzy system that permits flexible modeling using breath information and sound intensity. The results confirmed that the fuzzy inference method yields a high accurate swallow estimates of 84.75%.","PeriodicalId":196519,"journal":{"name":"2014 World Automation Congress (WAC)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133145481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Visualization and quantification of pulmonary microcirculation with microspectroscopy","authors":"A. Seiyama, J. Seki","doi":"10.1109/WAC.2014.6935684","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WAC.2014.6935684","url":null,"abstract":"We developed a video-rate polarizing microscope system to visualize the pulmonary capillary bed continuously and clearly under physiological and pathological conditions during continuous mechanical ventilation. We evaluated the effect of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) on hemodynamic parameters such as erythrocyte number and velocity, tissue blood flow, hemoglobin oxygenation, and leukocyte adhesion to pulmonary vessels. The optimal PEEP required to maintain the pulmonary microcirculation was 3 cm H2O in our anesthetized and thoracotomized rat model. Acute dysfunction in the pulmonary microcirculation was examined in lipopolysaccharide-treated rats. Blood circulation in the capillaries, but not in the arterioles and venules, deteriorated in a time-dependent manner that resulted in a slight but significant decrease in blood oxygenation. These results suggest the presence of pathological shunts in the pulmonary circulation in response to lipopolysaccharide administration and also suggest that leukocyte adherence to the vascular endothelium plays an important role in the development of pathological shunts.","PeriodicalId":196519,"journal":{"name":"2014 World Automation Congress (WAC)","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123914260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}