{"title":"Design of a Telemetric Gait Analysis Insole and 1-D Convolutional Neural Network to Track Postoperative Fracture Rehabilitation","authors":"Saathvik A. Boompelli, S. Bhattacharya","doi":"10.1109/LifeTech52111.2021.9391975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LifeTech52111.2021.9391975","url":null,"abstract":"Accurate and objective monitoring of a fracture's healing process is both essential to patient quality of care, as well as determination of the chances of nonunion and postoperative intervention. In recent years, due to industrialization, injury rates in developing countries, notably road traffic injuries (RTIs), have drastically increased. This has led to many fracture patients in ill- equipped countries, such as Kenya with only 60 orthopedic surgeons for a population of 36.9 million, not having any rigorous rehabilitation protocol or quality postoperative care. This work focuses on the development of a telemetric gait analysis insole that works in conjunction with a mobile application and convolutional neural network. This technique automates the tedious process of tracking postoperative fracture rehabilitation by analyzing ground reaction forces (GRFs) of patients which correlate well with weight-bearing ability, fracture healing, and delayed union. 4 force-sensitive resistors (FSRs) are placed in the insole under the primary areas for force measurement. An Arduino microcontroller compiles the data and sends it to a Python program via a Bluetooth module. The Python program performs peak analysis on the data to determine the average peak Vertical Ground Reaction Force (VGRF) of the strides to measure if a patient is properly healing. As a further step, we employ a 1D-CNN to differentiate between healed and healing patients to automatically find which patients have nonunions. With these methodologies we are able to automatically diagnose rural patients with nonunions based on only ground reaction force measurements at minimal costs and without an on-site physician.","PeriodicalId":274908,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 3rd Global Conference on Life Sciences and Technologies (LifeTech)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134468686","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":"Modified Dynamic Time Warping with Local and Global Weighting for Online Signature Verification","authors":"Manabu Okawa","doi":"10.1109/LifeTech52111.2021.9391879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LifeTech52111.2021.9391879","url":null,"abstract":"This study proposes a novel online signature verification using locally and globally weighted dynamic time warping (LG-DTW) to improve the verification performance. In the enrollment phase, we obtain a mean template set among references using Euclidean barycenter-based DTW barycenter averaging. We acquire a local weighting estimate obtained by analyzing direct matching points between the mean template and reference sets for intra-user variability. We compute a global weighting estimate using gradient boosting for inter-user variability. Finally, in the verification phase, we apply the local and global weighting estimates to acquire a discriminative LG-DTW between a query sample and the mean template set. Experimental results obtained on the public SVC2004 Task2 dataset confirmed the effectiveness of the proposed method.","PeriodicalId":274908,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 3rd Global Conference on Life Sciences and Technologies (LifeTech)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131865574","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}
Hiroki Honma, Yoshiaki Iida, Y. Okumura, K. Fujii, Yuki Kuno
{"title":"Implementation of VR-based personal basketball team-practice equipment","authors":"Hiroki Honma, Yoshiaki Iida, Y. Okumura, K. Fujii, Yuki Kuno","doi":"10.1109/LifeTech52111.2021.9391886","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LifeTech52111.2021.9391886","url":null,"abstract":"In basketball, the next motion can be instantaneously determined with an accurate understanding of the surrounding conditions. Therefore, it is necessary to develop the ability to judge a situation accurately and perform appropriate actions. Development of such decision-making ability in individual practice can lead to higher efficiency. The purpose of this study is to construct an environment closely resembling interpersonal practice by arranging players in a virtual space using VR technology. As this device is used for practice, the sense of distance from the VR player is important. Hence, this study measures the error between VR players and users.","PeriodicalId":274908,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 3rd Global Conference on Life Sciences and Technologies (LifeTech)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127464820","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":"Three-dimensional culture technology: Self-organized spheroid culture drives osteocytogenesis","authors":"Jeonghyun Kim, T. Adachi","doi":"10.1109/LifeTech52111.2021.9391919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LifeTech52111.2021.9391919","url":null,"abstract":"Three-dimensional (3D) culture technology developing organoids exerts a powerful impact to recapitulate the structure and function of certain organs in vitro for the fundamental biology and regenerative medicine. While studies on organoids for osteocyte-related model have not yet been reported, the osteocyte plays a role as a control tower to regulate the bone remodeling by controlling osteoclasts and osteoblasts. In this study, we fabricated 3D self-organized spheroids reconstructed by mouse osteoblast precursor cells (MC3T3-E1) as well as human bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSC), and further investigated their osteocyte differentiation capability. As a result of real-time PCR and immunostaining, the spheroid culture greatly up-regulated osteocyte markers in a short period of time, 2 days, compared to the conventional two-dimensional (2D) monolayer model. Consequently, the results altogether suggest that the 3D culture technology using the self-organized spheroids rendered the osteocyte-likeness and further is expected to become a new in vitro model to represent the osteocytes.","PeriodicalId":274908,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 3rd Global Conference on Life Sciences and Technologies (LifeTech)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115227518","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":"EEG Classification with Transformer-Based Models","authors":"Jiayao Sun, J. Xie, Huihui Zhou","doi":"10.1109/LifeTech52111.2021.9391844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LifeTech52111.2021.9391844","url":null,"abstract":"Transformer has been widely used in the field of natural language processing (NLP) with its superior ability to handle long-range dependencies in comparison with convolutional neural network (CNN) and recurrent neural network (RNN). This correlation is also important for the recognition of time series signals, such as electroencephalogram (EEG). Currently, commonly used EEG classification models are CNN, RNN, deep believe network (DBN), and hybrid CNN. Transformer has not been used in EEG recognition. In this study, we constructed multiple Transformer-based models for motor imaginary (MI) EEG classification, and obtained superior performances in comparison with the previous state-of-art. We found that the activities of the motor cortex had a great contribution to classification in our model through visualization, and positional embedding (PE) method could improve classification accuracy. These results suggest that the attention mechanism of Transformer combined with CNN might be a powerful model for the recognition of sequence data.","PeriodicalId":274908,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 3rd Global Conference on Life Sciences and Technologies (LifeTech)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115234074","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":"Complex Problem Solving Discussion and its Performance Indicators","authors":"Yingting Chen, T. Kanno, K. Furuta","doi":"10.1109/LifeTech52111.2021.9391892","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LifeTech52111.2021.9391892","url":null,"abstract":"A complex problem has no clear definition of goals or solutions. Many social challenges fall within the range of complex problems. This research aims to formulate cognition-oriented guidelines for conducting productive CPS discussions. In our previous work, we developed a method to extract the cognitive process of complex problem-solving discussions. In this study, we proposed two indicators, “source-outcome retrieval ratio” and “change in the count of overlapped solution utterances” for the performance evaluation of CPS discussions.","PeriodicalId":274908,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 3rd Global Conference on Life Sciences and Technologies (LifeTech)","volume":"152 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114333144","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 Critical look at the data to find a normal range of values for Heart Rate Variability","authors":"Md. Shoaib Bhuiyan","doi":"10.1109/LifeTech52111.2021.9391956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LifeTech52111.2021.9391956","url":null,"abstract":"there are several devices commercially available nowadays that can measure heart rate variability. Some of them are inexpensive enough to be affordable for health monitoring by a low budget health care team. From a user interface point of view, they should be examined critically if they need to be used long term. We also need to look critically on how the data were collected or where did the data come from. There are at least ten parameters related to the Heart Rate Variability. We describe how we randomly select the test subjects, how we randomly assign them to record their data in a resting posture and in a variety of non-resting postures and finally, how we analyze the data. We find that there is no normal range of values for Heart Rate Variability among a group of similar aged students of same gender not suffering from any known health ailment, whether they were at resting posture or not. This study attempts to critically analyze the data and makes a few recommendations.","PeriodicalId":274908,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 3rd Global Conference on Life Sciences and Technologies (LifeTech)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117291622","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":"Straw Fighter: A Gamification-based System for Supporting Vocal Exercise by Tube Phonation","authors":"Kenta Hamada, T. Kitamura, N. Kawamura","doi":"10.1109/LifeTech52111.2021.9391814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LifeTech52111.2021.9391814","url":null,"abstract":"Tube phonation, or straw phonation, is a commonly used vocal exercise technique to improve the efficiency of the vocal mechanism by repeatedly producing a speech sound in a tube or a straw. Trainees need to maintain daily vocal exercise for a month to improve their voice; however, the exercise is monotonous and boring, and trainees find it hard to keep themselves motivated. This study therefore proposes the use of straw fighter, a biofeedback system for tube phonation based on a gamification framework. Straw fighter is a shooting game implemented using an IoT device with an LCD display, M5Stack Basic, taking into account cost-effectiveness and ease of development. A user can beat enemies by phonating into a straw and can improve phonation by simply enjoying the game. Possible system function enhancements include sharing an exercise log with a speech therapist using cloud storage.","PeriodicalId":274908,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 3rd Global Conference on Life Sciences and Technologies (LifeTech)","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123439964","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}
Akihiro Nakamura, Yasuyuki Suzuki, S. Yano, T. Nomura
{"title":"EEG Activity Related to Decrease in Persistency of Gait Cycle Variability during Distracted Walking","authors":"Akihiro Nakamura, Yasuyuki Suzuki, S. Yano, T. Nomura","doi":"10.1109/LifeTech52111.2021.9391888","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LifeTech52111.2021.9391888","url":null,"abstract":"Human gait cycle fluctuates during walking even with a constant walking speed. Such fluctuation, referred to as the gait cycle variability, is often quantified by measuring stride intervals, i.e., time intervals between one and the subsequent heel contacts of one of the feet. It has been known that gait cycle variability in healthy young people exhibits a positive persistency, which tends to be lost by aging and neurological diseases, including Parkinson's disease, suggesting that the positive persistency reflects endogenous stability of gait. We have reported previously that the degree of positive persistency decreased during distracted walking with smartphone-gaming induced cognitive load. Here, we hypothesized that the decrease in the positive persistency is caused by a change in the neural activity at supra-spinal level. To find evidence for this hypothesis, we measured electroencephalography (EEG) during walking with and without the cognitive load. As a result, though preliminary, amplitude of the EEG at gamma band increased at a timing prior to every heel contact in the cognitive load condition compared to the control condition. This preliminary result suggests that a supra-spinal gait control mechanism is involved in the gait cycle variability.","PeriodicalId":274908,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 3rd Global Conference on Life Sciences and Technologies (LifeTech)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126140291","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}
Tatiana Andrea Hincapié Riaño, Lizeth Vega-Medina, Catalina Rodríguez
{"title":"Foot Prosthesis Design to Recover the Natural Biomechanical Position in Ramphastos tucanus Specimen","authors":"Tatiana Andrea Hincapié Riaño, Lizeth Vega-Medina, Catalina Rodríguez","doi":"10.1109/LifeTech52111.2021.9391918","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LifeTech52111.2021.9391918","url":null,"abstract":"The proper performance of the biomechanics of the body has a key role in animal welfare. For this project, a foot prosthesis was designed for improving the quality of life of a Ramphastos tucanus specimen that presents an amputation at tarsometatarsus level. The main objective is recovering its statics biomechanics through the design and implementation of a prosthetic prototype based on a kinetic analysis. Using the incremental prototypes methodology, the biological system requirements were identified, the technical features were analysed, the prototype was designed by selecting one of three alternatives proposed and analysed by computational methods and then the device was constructed and implemented. Currently is being evaluated. Thanks to the application of an ethogram, it was identified rest as the static position to evaluate in the biomechanical analysis; the adjustment and implementation of a force sensor evidenced an overload on the pelvic limb with the amputation by supporting the 62,3% of the mass of the bird; the biometrics define the prototype size and showed an increase of musculoskeletal mass on the gripped limb; besides, the kinetics study exposed the difference of the force applied by the flexor tendon on surfaces. The design was created using CAD tools, and applying materials as PET-G, stainless steel, and aluminium. The finite element analysis was carried out before implementing the prototype. This process extends to an ongoing adaptation and evaluation protocol designed specifically for the bird, allowing to identify the impact of the prototype over the animal in the different aspects named previously.","PeriodicalId":274908,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 3rd Global Conference on Life Sciences and Technologies (LifeTech)","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126511174","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}