In large studies involving multi protocol Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), it can occur to miss one or more sub-modalities for a given patient owing poor quality (e.g. imaging artifacts), failed acquisitions, hallway interrupted examinations. some cases, certain protocols are unavailable due limited scan time retrospectively harmonise the of two independent studies. Missing image modalities po...

BIM (building information modelling) has gained wider acceptance in the AEC (architecture, engineering, and construction) industry. Conversion from 3D point cloud data to vector remains a challenging labour-intensive process, but particularly relevant during various stages of project lifecycle. While challenges associated with processing very large datasets are widely known, there is pressing n...

Mobile robots are increasingly populating homes, hospitals, shopping malls, factory floors, and other human environments. Human society has social norms that people mutually accept; obeying these is an essential signal someone participating socially with respect to the rest of population. For be compatible humans, it crucial for obey norms. In prior work, we demonstrated a Socially-Aware Naviga...

The existing radio frequency-based positioning approaches widely used for indoor localization-based service (LBS) are fingerprinting and trilateration their integration with the inertial sensors-based dead reckoning system. However, these localization methods have practical limits challenges due to unstable signal strength, cost of offline workload, computational complexity, terminal device het...

My 71-year-old patient with a history of hypertension and Alzheimer's dementia (whom I shall call “Ana”), had nobody. No children, no partner, siblings. needed to find somebody make the decision about whether she would want be placed on ventilator since recurrent aspiration event that left her acutely dyspneic so was relieved when found John's name listed as healthcare proxy. It unclear who he ...

Background: In Neonatal intensive care units (NICU) different sound intensities and frequencies are produced from different sources, which may exert undesirable physiological effects on the infants. The aim of this study was to determine the noise level and its sources in the NICU and neonatal ward of Al-Zahra Hospital of Rasht, Iran. Methods: In this descriptive cross-sectional study, the inte...

Abstract. With every new generation of smart devices, sensors are introduced, such as depth camera or UWB sensors. Combined with the rapidly growing number mobile indoor positioning systems (IPS) have seen increasing interest due to numerous location-based services (ILBS) and applications at large. Wi-Fi Received Signal Strength (RSS) based fingerprinting (WF) techniques popularly used in many ...

Adults over the age of 65 years account for 60% of all hospital admissions and experience consequential negative outcomes directly related to hospitalization. Negative outcomes include falls, delirium, loss in ability to perform basic activities of daily living, and new walking dependence. New walking dependence, defined as the loss in ability to walk independently, occurs in 16%--59% of hospit...