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Evaluation of 1-Year in-Home Monitoring Technology by Home-Dwelling Older Adults, Family Caregivers, and Nurses

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EPFL2024

M2SKD: Multi-to-Single Knowledge Distillation of Real-Time Epileptic Seizure Detection for Low-Power Wearable Systems

David Atienza Alonso, Amir Aminifar, Saleh Baghersalimi, Farnaz Forooghifar, Tomas Teijeiro Campo, Alireza Amirshahi

Integrating low-power wearable systems into routine health monitoring is an ongoing challenge. Recent advances in the computation capabilities of wearables make it possible to target complex scenarios by exploiting multiple biosignals and using high-perfor ...

2024

Real-time Personalized Monitoring of Neurological Disorders on Wearable Systems

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The terminology of neurological disorders encompasses a range of serious illnesses (e.g., epilepsy, Alzheimer's disease) leading to morbidity, disability, and stigma. Epilepsy alone affects over 50 million people worldwide, and these figures are rising as ...

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Assessing real-world gait with digital technology? Validation, insights and recommendations from the Mobilise-D consortium

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Background: Although digital mobility outcomes (DMOs) can be readily calculated from real-world data collected with wearable devices and ad-hoc algorithms, technical validation is still required. The aim of this paper is to comparatively assess and validat ...

BioMed Central2023

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Nicolas Henchoz, Delphine Ribes Lemay, Emily Clare Groves, Andrea Regula Schneider, Margherita Motta

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Photonic radar for contactless vital sign detection

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Vital sign detection is used across ubiquitous scenarios in medical and health settings, and contact and wearable sensors have been widely deployed. However, they are unsuitable for patients with burn wounds or infants with insufficient areas for attachmen ...

Nature Publishing Group2023

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EPFL2023

Simulating intra-household interactions for in- and out-of-home activity scheduling

Michel Bierlaire, Timothy Michael Hillel, Negar Rezvany

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Psychosomatic response to acute emotional stress in healthy students

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EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY SOC JOURNALS LTD2023

Multisensing wearables for real-time monitoring of sweat electrolyte biomarkers during exercise and analysis on their correlation with core body temperature

Danick Briand, Silvia Demuru, Brince Paul Kunnel, Jaemin Kim, Vincent Gremeaux, Shu Wang

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MDPI2022

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Self-Aware Machine Learning for Chronic Pathology Monitoring on Wearable Devices

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In-Memory Hardware and Architectural Extensions for Workloads Acceleration

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Utilization of edge devices has exploded in the last decade, with such use cases as wearable devices, autonomous driving, and smart homes. As their ubiquity grows, so do expectations of their capabilities. Simultaneously, their formfactor and use cases lim ...

EPFL2022

Classification of fall directions via wearable motion sensors

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ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2022

Steps parameters of elderly patients hospitalised for an acute medical illness in a Swiss University Hospital: an observational pilot study

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SMW supporting association2022