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Respiratory airflow signals provide critical insight into breathing mechanics, yet conventional analysis methods remain limited in their ability to characterize the internal structure of individual breaths. Traditional approaches treat…
Bronchoscopic navigation relies on registering endoscopic video to a preoperative CT scan, but respiratory motion deforms the airway by 5-20 mm, creating CT-to-body divergence that limits localization accuracy. In practice, this is…
Modeling of respiratory motion is important for a more accurate understanding and accounting of its effect on dose to cancers in the thorax and abdomen by radiotherapy. We have developed a model of respiration-induced organ motion in the…
We apply the recently developed adaptive non-harmonic model based on the wave-shape function, as well as the time-frequency analysis tool called synchrosqueezing transform (SST) to model and analyze oscillatory physiological signals. To…
This work presents an algorithm for determining the parameters of a nonlinear dynamic model of the respiratory system in patients undergoing assisted ventilation. Using the pressure and flow signals measured at the mouth, the model's…
Synchrosqueezed transforms are non-linear processes for a sharpened time-frequency representation of wave-like components. They are efficient tools for identifying and analyzing wave-like components from their superposition. This paper is…
The acquisition of breathing dynamics without directly recording the respiratory signals is beneficial in many clinical settings. The electrocardiography (ECG)-derived respiration (EDR) algorithm enables data acquisition in this manner.…
Objective: We present a technique for identification and statistical analysis of quasiperiodic spatiotemporal pressure signals recorded from multiple closely spaced sensors in the human colon. Methods: Identification is achieved by…
Accurate simulations of the flow in the human airway are essential for advancing diagnostic methods. Many existing computational studies rely on simplified geometries or turbulence models, limiting their simulation's ability to resolve flow…
We present a novel method for the classification and reconstruction of time dependent, high-dimensional data using sparse measurements, and apply it to the flow around a cylinder. Assuming the data lies near a low dimensional manifold…
We present a Bayesian dynamical inference method for characterizing cardiorespiratory (CR) dynamics in humans by inverse modelling from blood pressure time-series data. This new method is applicable to a broad range of stochastic dynamical…
Atmospheric trace-gas inversion refers to any technique used to predict spatial and temporal fluxes using mole-fraction measurements and atmospheric simulations obtained from computer models. Studies to date are most often of a…
This paper presents an unobtrusive solution that can automatically identify deep breath when a person is walking past the global depth camera. Existing non-contact breath assessments achieve satisfactory results under restricted conditions…
Atmospheric trace-gas inversion is the procedure by which the sources and sinks of a trace gas are identified from observations of its mole fraction at isolated locations in space and time. This is inherently a spatio-temporal bivariate…
In this paper, two modern adaptive signal processing techniques, Empirical Intrinsic Geometry and Synchrosqueezing transform, are applied to quantify different dynamical features of the respiratory and electroencephalographic signals. We…
Seismocardiography (SCG) offers a potential non-invasive method for cardiac monitoring. Quantification of the effects of different physiological conditions on SCG can lead to enhanced understanding of SCG genesis, and may explain how some…
In Bayesian statistics, horseshoe prior has attracted increasing attention as an approach to the sparse estimation. The estimation accuracy of compressed sensing with the horseshoe prior is evaluated by statistical mechanical method. It is…
Spatiotemporal data is very common in many applications, such as manufacturing systems and transportation systems. It is typically difficult to be accurately predicted given intrinsic complex spatial and temporal correlations. Most of the…
Objective: Triaxial accelerometers (TAAs) are widely used in homecare medicine. This study investigates whether TAA signals recorded at the fingertip encode respiratory information, particularly instantaneous respiratory rate (IRR) and…
Reconstruction of unsteady vortical flow fields from limited sensor measurements is challenging. We develop machine learning methods to reconstruct flow features from sparse sensor measurements during transient vortex-airfoil wake…