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Radar-based non-contact respiration rate (RR) measurement has become increasingly popular due to its convenience, non-intrusiveness, and low cost. However, it is still quite challenging to accurately acquire vital signs estimation in…
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PURPOSE To develop free-running multi-echo GRE for cardiac- and respiratory-motion-resolved whole-heart fat fraction quantification. METHODS Multi-echo readouts optimized for water-fat separation and quantification were integrated within a…
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Remote patient monitoring based on wearable single-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) devices has significant potential for enabling the early detection of heart disease, especially in combination with artificial intelligence (AI) approaches for…
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Monitoring the electrical pulse of fetal heart through a non-invasive fetal electrocardiogram (fECG) can easily detect abnormalities in the developing heart to significantly reduce the infant mortality rate and post-natal complications. Due…
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EEG-based workload estimation technology provides a real time means of assessing mental workload. Such technology can effectively enhance the performance of the human-machine interaction and the learning process. When designing workload…
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The study reported herein attempts to understand the neural mechanisms engaged in the conscious control of breathing and breath-hold. The variations in the electroencephalogram (EEG) based functional connectivity (FC) of the human brain…
Biomedical signals often comprise multiple non-sinusoidal oscillatory components whose amplitude modulation (AM) and instantaneous frequency (IF) may themselves be governed by additional (second-order) oscillatory dynamics with time-varying…