The sounds of certain industrial products (machines) carry important information about these products. Product classification or malfunction detection can be performed utilizing a product’s sound. In this regard, sound can be used as it is or it can...
This study aimed to investigate the accuracy and reliability of hip and ankle worn Actigraph GT3X+ (AG) accelerometers to measure steps as a function of gait speed. Additionally, the effect of the low frequency extension filter (LFEF) on the step acc...
Various techniques have been proposed in the literature to account for the observed and unobserved heterogeneity in the crash dataset. Those include techniques such as the finite mixture model (FMM), or hierarchical techniques. The FMM could provide...
To tackle the challenge of the data accuracy issues of low-cost sensors (LCSs), the objective of this work was to obtain robust correction equations to convert LCS signals into data comparable to that of research-grade instruments using side-by-side...
Information entropy and interclass separability are adopted as the evaluation criteria of dimension reduction for hyperspectral remote sensor data. However, it is rather single-faceted to simply use either information entropy or interclass separabili...
Fine-grained recognition mainly classifies subclass images into hundreds of subcategorical labels by locating the discriminative regions (e.g., Cape May warbler or Magnolia warbler bird). Due to the high complexity and non-differentiation of region l...
Through this study, we developed and validated a system for energy expenditure calculation, which only requires low-cost inertial sensors and open source R software. Five healthy subjects ran at ten different speeds while their kinematic variables we...
4 January 2023
In recent years, the number of pregnant women with obesity has increased exponentially; thus, it is important to evaluate and characterize the physical activity levels of this specific group. The aim of this study is to evaluate the reliability and v...
(1) The purpose of this project was to create and collect validity evidence for a lifestyle medicine objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) station to assess medical students’ performance related to lifestyle medicine competencies. (2...
Background and Objectives: Dental caries is a preventable, reversible disease in its early stages. This study evaluated the intra-rater agreement of International Caries Assessment and Detection System (ICDAS) scores with Medit i500® and Omnicam&...
The aim of this study was to design, develop, and validate a questionnaire evaluating attitudes toward refugee children. Method: The questionnaire was analyzed using SPSS Software version 21.0 (IBM Corp., 2012, Armonk, NY, USA). Results: Cronbach&rsq...
Gastrointestinal tuberculosis (GITB) and Crohn’s disease (CD) are close mimics. This prospective study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic performance of perfusion computed tomography (CT) in differentiating GITB from CD. Consecutive patients with...
Atherosclerosis is known as the leading factor in heart disease with the highest mortality rate among the Malaysian population. Usually, the gold standard for diagnosing atherosclerosis is by using the coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA)...
In data-scarcity scenarios, few-shot object detection (FSOD) methods exhibit a notable advantage in alleviating the over-fitting problem. Currently, research on FSOD in the field of remote sensing is advancing rapidly and FSOD methods based on the fi...
Deep learning methods, especially convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have shown remarkable ability for remote sensing scene classification. However, the traditional training process of standard CNNs only takes the point-wise penalization of the tr...
The goal of the present study was to evaluate the test-retest reliability values of myogenic responses using the latest guidelines for vestibular assessment. Twenty-two otologically and neurologically normal adults were assessed twice, on two differe...
In clinical practice, patients’ balance can be assessed using standard scales. Two of the most validated clinical tests for measuring balance are the Timed Up and Go (TUG) test and the MultiDirectional Reach Test (MDRT). Nowadays, inertial sensors (I...
In multi-label data, a sample is associated with multiple labels at the same time, and the computational complexity is manifested in the high-dimensional feature space as well as the interdependence and unbalanced distribution of labels, which leads...
CONFISCA is the first generic SIMD-based software countermeasure that can concurrently resist against Side-Channel Attack (SCA) and Fault Injection (FI). Its promising strength is presented in a PRESENT cipher case study and compared to software-base...
28 April 2023
We aimed to examine the reliability and validity of the Parental Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-Japanese version (PAAQ-J). We considered a total of 2000 mothers with infants and toddlers aged 0–3 years and evaluated their scores on the PAA...
We evaluated the reliability of 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG), and determined its ability to predict functional outcomes in stroke survivors. The rehabilitation effect on 8-OHdG and functional outcomes were also assessed. Sixty-one stroke pati...
Background/Objectives: To better understand the impact of different oral conditions on children, several instruments are available to measure oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL). To adapt and validate cross-culturally the Child Oral Health I...
The aim of this cross-sectional study was to translate, culturally adapt, and evaluate the psychometric properties of the Italian version of the Mann Assessment of Swallowing Ability (MASA) in post-stroke individuals. The original MASA scale was tran...
Sensors with a higher sampling rate produce higher-quality data. However, for more extended periods of data acquisition, as in the continuous monitoring of patients, the handling of the generated big data becomes increasingly complicated. This study...
The objective of this study was to perform cross-cultural adaptation of the Mediterranean Islands Study Food Frequency Questionnaire (MEDIS-FFQ) and to evaluate its reproducibility and validity in a population over 60 years of age in the Spanish Medi...
The purpose of this study was to investigate how lateralization shoulder angle (LSA) and distalization shoulder angle (DSA) are related to clinical and kinematic outcomes after reverse total shoulder arthroplasty. Thirty-three patients were evaluated...
Few-shot object detection (FSOD) aims to address the challenge of requiring a substantial number of annotations for training in conventional object detection, which is very labor-intensive. However, the existing few-shot methods achieve high precisio...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) use distributed nodes for tasks such as environmental monitoring and surveillance. The existing anomaly detection methods fail to fully capture correlations in multi-node, multi-modal time series data, limiting their e...
We examine the relation between two devices used in measuring the timing in lower limb complex movement tests for DanceSport athletes, an inertial measurement unit (IMU) and a FitLight Trainer device, with the latter regarded as the gold standard met...
Objective: Handheld dynamometers are common tools for assessing/monitoring muscular strength and endurance. Health/fitness Bluetooth load sensors may provide a cost-effective alternative; however, research is needed to evaluate the validity and relia...
Background: Advanced glycation end products (AGEs) have been shown to accumulate in bone and are gaining interest in connective tissue research. Aims: To investigate the intrarater reliability, two-timepoint agreement and correlations within and betw...
6 December 2019
The aim of the study is to assess the reliability and validity of the Polish adaptation of the Physical Activity Questionnaire for the Elderly (PAQE-PL). One hundred and four older adults (75 women and 29 men) aged 65 to 89 (mean 72.2 ± 5.7 ye...
Background: The Ki-67 proliferative index (PI) is part of the diagnosis of nodal B-cell lymphoma (nBCL), but its determination in cytological samples is not standardized. We aimed to establish an approach for the accurate determination of the Ki-67 P...
Scene classification in remote sensing images is one of the urgent tasks that requires an improvement in recognition accuracy due to complex spatial structures and high inter-class similarity. Although feature extraction using convolutional neural ne...
A 14-Item Mediterranean Diet Adherence Screener (MEDAS) questionnaire was developed and validated in face-to-face interviews, but not via telephone. The aims of this study were to evaluate the validity and reliability of a telephone-administered vers...
Background: This study evaluates the repeatability and reproducibility of fat-fraction percentage (FF%) in whole-body magnetic resonance imaging (WB-MRI) of prostate cancer patients with bone metastatic hormone naive disease. Methods: Patients were s...
Background: The tibial tubercle to trochlear groove (TT-TG) distance is currently considered as an indication for tibial tubercle osteotomy. While the influence of femoral condylar morphology on such measurement remains unclear. Methods: A total of 8...
Metabolic tumor volume (MTV) is a robust prognostic biomarker in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). The available semiautomatic software for calculating MTV requires manual input limiting its routine application in clinical research. Our objectiv...
The absence of aggregated uncertainty measures restricts the assessment of uncertainty in hydrological simulation. In this work, a new composite uncertainty measure is developed to evaluate the complex behaviors of uncertainty existing in hydrologica...
Purpose: The aim of this study was to assess the reliability and validity of the Arabic version of the patient-specific functional scale (PSFS-Ar) in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) disorder. Materials and Methods: Reliability and validity were...
The aims of this study were to propose an automatic color-based segmentation method to separate mixed and unmixed colors of images that were derived from the application of the two-color chewing-gum mixing test and to determine the validity of this m...
This study aimed to assess interrater agreement in lung ultrasound scores (LUS) among neonatologists with varying experience levels and an expert sonographer. A post hoc analysis was conducted on data from a prospective multicenter study involving 15...
Few-shot fault diagnosis (FSFD) seeks to build accurate models from scarce labeled data, a frequent challenge in industrial settings with noisy measurements and varying operating conditions. Conventional metric-based meta-learning (MBML) often assume...
With the emergence of machine learning for the classification of sleep and other human behaviors from accelerometer data, the need for correctly annotated data is higher than ever. We present and evaluate a novel method for the manual annotation of i...
This study characterized the absolute pressure measurement error and reliability of a new fully integrated (Kinetyx, SI) plantar-pressure measurement system (PPMS) versus an industry-standard PPMS (F-Scan, Tekscan) during an established benchtop test...
(1) Background: We tested Capstesia against a reference system, Vigileo FloTrac, in patients undergoing major vascular surgery procedures. (2) Methods: Twenty-two adult patients (236 data pairs) were enrolled. Cardiac output (CO), stroke volume (SV),...
(1) Background: The application of a mathematical formula to human gait at certain phases is a considerable method to avoid the issues associated with complicated procedures of gait assessment. The purpose of this study was to identify the validity a...
Background: In physical activity, testing procedures generally require maximal efforts. They are not always administrable or appropriate (e.g., with beginners, elderly, or in school); therefore, alternative submaximal procedures might be more fitting...
Hip range of movement (ROM) impairments could affect individuals’ quality of life. The aim of this study is to describe a new flexometric method (FM) as a means to estimate hip ROM and to determine its concurrent validity and inter-rater and in...
The interference of sidelobe often causes different targets to exhibit similar features, diminishing fine-grained classification accuracy. This effect is particularly pronounced when the available data are limited. To address the aforementioned issue...
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