Deciphering the structural hierarchy of musical compositions is indispensable for a range of music analysis applications, encompassing feature extraction, data compression, interpretation, and visualization. In this paper, we introduce a quantitative...
Background: Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (PSVT) is a common arrhythmia associated with palpitation and a decline in quality of life. However, it is undetectable with sinus-rhythmic ECGs when patients are not in the symptomatic onset stage....
Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is one of the global health issues causing high mortality. Hence, timely and agile detection of such arrests and immediate defibrillation support to SCA victims is of the utmost importance. An automated external defibrilla...
Background: Automated rhythm detection on echocardiography through artificial intelligence (AI) has yet to be fully realized. We propose an AI model trained to identify atrial fibrillation (AF) using apical 4-chamber (AP4) cines without requiring ele...
In the new-generation wearable Electrocardiogram (ECG) system, signal processing with low power consumption is required to transmit data when detecting dangerous rhythms and to record signals when detecting abnormal rhythms. The QRS complex is a comb...
Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Therefore, timely and accurate detection of such arrests and immediate defibrillation support for the victim is critical. An automated external defibrillator (AED) is a medi...
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is an abnormal rhythm of the heart, which can increase heart-related complications. Paroxysmal AF episodes occur intermittently with varying duration. Human-based diagnosis of paroxysmal AF with a longer-term electrocardiogra...
We hypothesize that our fingertip image-based heart rate detection methods using smartphone reliably detect the heart rhythm and rate of subjects. We propose fingertip curve line movement-based and fingertip image intensity-based detection methods, w...
Neural entrainment to musical rhythm is thought to underlie the perception and production of music. In aging populations, the strength of neural entrainment to rhythm has been found to be attenuated, particularly during attentive listening to auditor...
ECG wave recognition is one of the new topics where only one of the ECG beat waves (P-QRS-T) was used to detect heart diseases. Normal, tachycardia, and bradycardia heart rhythm are hard to detect using either time-domain or frequency-domain features...
Circadian rhythm disorders pose major risks to human health and animal production activity, and the hypothalamus is the center of circadian rhythm regulation. However, the epigenetic regulation of circadian rhythm based on farm animal models has been...
Pansori, a traditional Korean form of musical storytelling, is characterized by performances involving a vocalist and a drummer. It is well-known for the singer’s expressive narrative (aniri) and delicate gesture with fan in hand. The classical...
This work introduces for the first time the application of wavelet entropy (WE) to detect episodes of the most common cardiac arrhythmia, atrial fibrillation (AF), automatically from the electrocardiogram (ECG). Given that AF is often asymptomatic an...
Considering the significant burden to patients and healthcare systems globally related to atrial fibrillation (AF) complications, the early AF diagnosis is of crucial importance. In the view of prominent perspectives for fast and accurate point-of-ca...
As important sensors in smart sensing systems, smartwatches are becoming more and more popular. Authentication can help protect the security and privacy of users. In addition to the classic authentication methods, behavioral factors can be used as ro...
Ventricular arrhythmias such as ventricular fibrillation (VF) and ventricular tachycardia (VT) are among the leading causes of sudden cardiac death worldwide, making their timely and accurate detection a critical task in modern cardiology. This study...
The circadian clock refers to the formation of a certain rule in the long-term evolution of an organism, which is an invisible ‘clock’ in the body of an organism. As one of the largest TF families in higher plants, the MYB transcription f...
Background and Objectives: Subclinical paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF) is often undetected by conventional screening strategies, until complications emerge. Artificial intelligence (AI) applied to sinus rhythm electrocardiograms has emerged as a...
13 November 2021
The fatigue of air traffic controllers (ATCOs) on duty seriously threatens air traffic safety and needs to be managed. ATCOs perform several different types of work, with each type of work having different characteristics. Nonetheless, the influence...
Background/Objectives: The standard recommendation for patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer is 5-aminolevulinic acid-mediated photodynamic diagnosis. The intensity of the fluorescence caused by the intracellular accumulation of protoporph...
Arrhythmias are among the most prevalent cardiac conditions and frequently serve as a direct cause of sudden cardiac death. Hence, the automated detection of arrhythmias holds significant importance for assisting in the diagnosis of heart conditions....
Background: Left atrial strain, particularly reservoir strain, has emerged as a sensitive marker of left atrial function and an early indicator of diastolic dysfunction and cardiovascular risk. However, automated left atrial strain analysis is not un...
Heart rate variability (HRV), which is the variation between consecutive heartbeats, reflects the electrical activity of the heart and provides insight into the autonomic nervous system (ANS) function. This study uses wavelet transform-based HRV feat...
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common irregular heart rhythm associated with a five-fold increase in stroke risk. It is often not recognised as it can occur intermittently and without symptoms. A promising approach to detect AF is to use a handheld el...
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common heart rhythm disturbance in clinical practice. It often starts with asymptomatic and very short episodes, which are extremely difficult to detect without long-term monitoring of the patient’s electroc...
Dry contact electrode-based EEG acquisition is one of the easiest ways to obtain neural information from the human brain, providing many advantages such as rapid installation, and enhanced wearability. However, high contact impedance due to insuffici...
The automatic detection of pulse during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is necessary for the early recognition of the arrest and the detection of return of spontaneous circulation (end of the arrest). The only signal available in every single d...
19 September 2020
The use of home-based image sensors for biological and environmental monitoring provides novel insight into health and development but it is difficult to evaluate people during their normal activities in their home. Therefore, we developed a low-cost...
This article contributes to the discourse on how contemporary computer and information technology may help in improving foreign language learning not only by supporting better and more flexible workflow and digitizing study materials but also through...
The circadian clock controls behavior and physiology. Presently, there is clear evidence of a connection between this timing system and cancer development/progression. Moreover, circadian rhythm consideration in the therapeutic action of anticancer d...
Sudden cardiac death (SCD) risk can be reduced by early detection of short-lived and transient cardiac arrhythmias using long-term electrocardiographic (ECG) monitoring. Early detection of ventricular arrhythmias can reduce the risk of SCD by allowin...
Sleep is a state in which important restorative and anabolic processes occur. Understanding changes of these metabolic processes during the circadian rhythm in the brain is crucial to elucidate neurophysiological mechanisms important for sleep functi...
21 October 2023
Implantable Cardiac Monitor (ICM) devices are demonstrating, as of today, the fastest-growing market for implantable cardiac devices. As such, they are becoming increasingly common in patients for measuring heart electrical activity. ICMs constantly...
Heart rate is quite regular during sinus (normal) rhythm (SR) originating from the sinus node. In contrast, heart rate is usually irregular during atrial fibrillation (AF). Complete atrioventricular block with an escape rhythm, ventricular pacing, or...
15 December 2021
The sleep/wake rhythm is one of the most important biological rhythms. Quality and duration of sleep change during lifetime. The aim of our study was to determine differences in sleep efficiency, movement, and fragmentation during sleep period betwee...
Telemedicine and all types of monitoring systems have proven to be a useful and low-cost tool with a high level of applicability in cardiology. The objective of this work is to present an IoT-based monitoring system for cardiovascular patients. The s...
GPU-based deep neural networks (DNNs) are powerful for electrocardiogram (ECG) processing and rhythm classification. Although questions often arise about their practical application in embedded systems with low computational resources, few studies ha...
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia and can seriously threaten patient health. Research on AF detection carries important clinical significance. This manuscript proposes an AF detection method based on ballistocardiogram (BCG) sign...
During the last decades there has been a rapidly growing elderly population and the number of patients with chronic heart-related diseases has exploded. Many of them (such as those with congestive heart failure or some types of arrhythmias) require c...
Automatic detection of abnormal heart rhythms, including atrial fibrillation (AF), using signals obtained from a single-lead wearable electrocardiogram (ECG) device, is useful for daily cardiac health monitoring. In this study, we propose a novel ima...
Flexible pulse-by-pulse regulation of sensorimotor synchronization is crucial for voluntarily showing rhythmic behaviors synchronously with external cueing; however, the underpinning neurophysiological mechanisms remain unclear. We hypothesized that...
Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disease associated with abnormal neuronal activity in the brain. Seizure detection algorithms are essential in reducing the workload of medical staff reviewing electroencephalogram (EEG) records. In this work, we pr...
Clock (circadian) genes are heterogeneously expressed in hair follicles (HFs). The genes can be modulated by both the central circadian system and some extrinsic factors, such as light and thyroid hormones. These circadian genes participate in the re...
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained arrhythmia and a growing global health burden, yet conventional monitoring with Holter devices, event recorders and implantable loop recorders often fails to adequately capture recurrence. Rapid a...
21 December 2022
Purpose: Since the prolonged sequestration management that was implemented in order to achieve lower infection and mortality rates, there has been a surge in depression worldwide. The correlation between the physical activity level and the detection...
Abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmias) are a major cause of cardiovascular disease and death in Europe. Sudden cardiac death accounts for 50% of cardiac mortality in developed countries; ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation is the most c...
The growth and development of plants are sensitive to their surroundings. Although numerous studies have analyzed plant transcriptomic variation, few have quantified the effect of combinations of factors or identified factor-specific effects. In thi...
28 August 2022
Cardiovascular diseases, like arrhythmia, as the leading causes of death in the world, can be automatically diagnosed using an electrocardiogram (ECG). The ECG-based diagnostic has notably resulted in reducing human errors. The main aim of this study...
The endocannabinoid system is involved in the regulation of a variety of physiological and cognitive processes. While the endocannabinoids 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG) and anandamide (N-arachidonoylethanolamine, AEA) have been found in breast milk,...
Water supply is essential for maintaining normal physiological function during the rapid growth of bamboo. Aquaporins (AQPs) play crucial roles in water transport for plant growth and development. Although 26 PeAQPs in bamboo have been reported, the...
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