7 research outputs found
Impact of Healthcare Digitization: Systems Approach for Integrating Biosensor Devices and Electronic Health with Artificial Intelligence
Electronic health has revolutionized medical practices by seamlessly integrating digital tools and automated healthcare practices over recent years with the technological advancements of artificial intelligence. This multifaceted domain encompasses telemedicine, wearable technologies, electronic health records, and more, each with distinct subfields and innovative approaches. In this study, we provide a comprehensive overview of electronic health, delving into its diverse fields. We explore how artificial intelligence transforms medical imaging, informs clinical decisions, enables precision medicine, and empowers robot healthcare assistants. By shedding light on these hidden synergies, we aim to inspire researchers and practitioners to elevate their studies. Electronic health silently impacts our lives daily, and our work serves as a catalyst for recognizing its pervasive influence
Multi-objective Reinforcement Learning based approach for User-Centric Power Optimization in Smart Home Environments
Smart homes require every device inside them to be connected with each other
at all times, which leads to a lot of power wastage on a daily basis. As the
devices inside a smart home increase, it becomes difficult for the user to
control or operate every individual device optimally. Therefore, users
generally rely on power management systems for such optimization but often are
not satisfied with the results. In this paper, we present a novel
multi-objective reinforcement learning framework with two-fold objectives of
minimizing power consumption and maximizing user satisfaction. The framework
explores the trade-off between the two objectives and converges to a better
power management policy when both objectives are considered while finding an
optimal policy. We experiment on real-world smart home data, and show that the
multi-objective approaches: i) establish trade-off between the two objectives,
ii) achieve better combined user satisfaction and power consumption than
single-objective approaches. We also show that the devices that are used
regularly and have several fluctuations in device modes at regular intervals
should be targeted for optimization, and the experiments on data from other
smart homes fetch similar results, hence ensuring transfer-ability of the
proposed framework.Comment: 8 pages, 7 figures, Accepted at IEEE SMDS'202
Hepatoprotective effect of trimethylgallic acid esters against carbon tetrachloride-induced liver injury in rats
803-809Gallic acid and its
derivatives are potential therapeutic agents for treating various oxidative stress mediated disorders. In the present study, we investigated the hepatoprotective effects of newly
synthesized conjugated trimethylgallic acid (TMGA) esters against carbon tetrachloride (CCl4)-induced
hepatotoxicity in rats. Animals were pre-treated with TMGA esters at their
respective doses for 7 days against CCl4-induced hepatotoxicity. The
histopathological changes were evaluated to find out degenerative fatty changes
including vacuole formation, inflammation and tissue necrosis. Various
biomarkers of oxidative stress (lipid peroxidation, glutathione levels, and
endogenous antioxidant enzyme activities), liver enzymes (AST and ALT),
triacylglycerol and cholesterol were evaluated. Pre-treatment with TMGA esters
(MRG, MGG, MSG, and MUG at the dose of 28.71, 30.03, 31.35, 33.62 mg/kg/day), respectively
reversed the CCl4-induced liver injury scores (reduced vacuole
formation, inflammation and necrosis), biochemical parameters of plasma
(increased AST, ALT, TG, and cholesterol), antioxidant enzymes (increased lipid
peroxidation and nitrite levels; decreased glutathione levels, superoxide
dismutase and catalase activities) in liver tissues and inflammatory surge
(serum TNF-α) significantly. The study revealed that TMGA esters exerted
hepatoprotective effects in CCl4-induced rats, specifically by modulating oxidative-nitrosative stress
and inflammation