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In light of recent work studying massive functional/longitudinal data, such as the resulting data from the COVID-19 pandemic, we propose a novel functional/longitudinal data model which is a combination of the popular varying coefficient…
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Digital health technologies enable high-frequency collection of data in near-continuous time and capture rich information about the health of individuals. The raw data collected by these devices often have a hierarchical functional…
Dynamic functional connectivity (DFC) analysis involves measuring correlated neural activity over time across multiple brain regions. Significant regional correlations among neural signals, such as those obtained from resting-state…
Psychiatric patients' passive activity monitoring is crucial to detect behavioural shifts in real-time, comprising a tool that helps clinicians supervise patients' evolution over time and enhance the associated treatments' outcomes.…
Functional data analysis (FDA) deals with high-resolution data recorded over a continuum, such as time, space or frequency. Device-based assessments of physical activity or sleep are objective yet still prone to measurement error. We…
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Physical movement therapy is a crucial method of rehabilitation aimed at reinstating mobility among patients facing motor dysfunction due to neurological conditions or accidents. Such therapy is usually featured as patient-specific,…