63 research outputs found
Ubiquitous Technologies for Emotion Recognition
Emotions play a very important role in how we think and behave. As such, the emotions we feel every day can compel us to act and influence the decisions and plans we make about our lives. Being able to measure, analyze, and better comprehend how or why our emotions may change is thus of much relevance to understand human behavior and its consequences. Despite the great efforts made in the past in the study of human emotions, it is only now, with the advent of wearable, mobile, and ubiquitous technologies, that we can aim to sense and recognize emotions, continuously and in real time. This book brings together the latest experiences, findings, and developments regarding ubiquitous sensing, modeling, and the recognition of human emotions
Forensic Analysis
It is my pleasure to place before you the book ''Forensic Analysis - From Death to Justice'' which presents one of the major portions of the broad specialty of Forensic Science comprising mainly of Thanatology and Criminalistics. This book has been designed to incorporate a wide range of new ideas and unique works from all authors from topics like Forensic Engineering, Forensic Entomology and Crime Scene Investigation. I hope that it will be useful to practitioners of forensic medicine, experts, pathologists, law makers, investigating authorities, undergraduate and postgraduate medical school graduates of medicine
Smart Sensors for Healthcare and Medical Applications
This book focuses on new sensing technologies, measurement techniques, and their applications in medicine and healthcare. Specifically, the book briefly describes the potential of smart sensors in the aforementioned applications, collecting 24 articles selected and published in the Special Issue “Smart Sensors for Healthcare and Medical Applications”. We proposed this topic, being aware of the pivotal role that smart sensors can play in the improvement of healthcare services in both acute and chronic conditions as well as in prevention for a healthy life and active aging. The articles selected in this book cover a variety of topics related to the design, validation, and application of smart sensors to healthcare
Measurement of brain temperature using magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging
The study of brain temperature is important for a number of clinical conditions
such as stroke, traumatic brain injury, schizophrenia and birth asphyxia (for
neonates). A direct method to estimate brain temperature non-invasively will
allow assessment of brain thermoregulation and its variation in clinical
conditions.
Magnetic resonance imaging is a powerful technique widely used for
diagnosis of a range of neurological conditions. All magnetic resonance
procedures involve manipulation of the hydrogen nuclei in the water
molecules of the human body. The resonance frequency of the water
molecules is temperature dependent, thus MR thermometry is a powerful tool
for non-invasive temperature measurement. Using internal reference MR
spectroscopic imaging (MRSI), absolute brain temperature maps can be
estimated. However a number of temperature independent factors influence
MRSI data acquisition, thus a thorough validation is necessary and is the
focus of this PhD study.
In this PhD study using phantom (test object) studies it was shown that
optimization of the MRSI pulse sequence is necessary to reduce systematic
error in temperature maps and extensive in-vitro validation of MRSI
temperature mapping was performed. A custom made temperature-controlled
phantom was designed for this purpose and is presented in this
thesis. MRSI data acquired from healthy (young and elderly) volunteers was
employed to assess regional brain temperature variations and repeatability.
Finally, the feasibility of employing fast echo planar spectroscopic imaging for
volumetric MRSI temperature mapping will be presented in this thesis
WOFEX 2021 : 19th annual workshop, Ostrava, 1th September 2021 : proceedings of papers
The workshop WOFEX 2021 (PhD workshop of Faculty of Electrical Engineer-ing and Computer Science) was held on September 1st September 2021 at the VSB – Technical University of Ostrava. The workshop offers an opportunity for students to meet and share their research experiences, to discover commonalities in research and studentship, and to foster a collaborative environment for joint problem solving. PhD students are encouraged to attend in order to ensure a broad, unconfined discussion. In that view, this workshop is intended for students and researchers of this faculty offering opportunities to meet new colleagues.Ostrav
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