Pub Date : 2014-06-01DOI: 10.1109/IHTC.2014.7147513
H. Marzi
This paper addresses manual treatment planning of radiation therapy. Computational intelligence in general and Evolutionary Algorithm in particular can be used to Automate and control radiation therapy. Some radiation treatments can be used as alternatives to surgery for tumors. In a manual treatment location of size of radiation shots are decided manually. This study develops a treatment plan using Evolutionary Algorithm and applying 3-Dimensional optimization model to create a radiation path for shot location. The algorithm will also decide for the number, size and the location of the radiation shots. The research compares the automation and optimization of the proposed techniques as well as the speed of treatment with that of conventional procedure.
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Pub Date : 2014-06-01DOI: 10.1109/IHTC.2014.7147536
Thelma Virgínia Rodrigues, C. A. D. Silva, Ronnielli Chagas de Oliveira, Telmo Oliveira Zenha, Atenister Tarcisio Rego, Flavio Mauricio de Souza, C. D. Campos
This paper aims to show the IPUC's Technological Fair, an event that is held twice a year by Polytechnic Institute of Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais - IPUC, is currently in its 6th edition. The creativity and innovation of most of these projects from engineering students frequently result in simple and low cost solutions. These projects involve around one thousand students from several areas of engineering of IPUC and they are exposed in the bustling fair. Both issues gained in joining the formation team to work with the challenges of the poverty and development sustainable. The creation of the group IEEE SIGTH PUC Minas was a natural way. The presentations of prototypes and research results are the main advantage of the fair. Various topics have being worked, such as, entrepreneurship including the entrepreneurship social, the accessible and assistive technology, medical technology and of the health, therefore Humanitarian Technology. Renewable resources with several kinds of applications Interdisciplinary Projects can providing to engaged students important skills of self reflection, communication with others forms of the knowledge and holistic view.
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Pub Date : 2014-06-01DOI: 10.1109/IHTC.2014.7147558
Eduardo Pinos, M. Illescas, Darwin Tapia
This paper presents an analysis of the advantages you have with the use of technologies such as support for people with disabilities, especially in education. The results are implemented on a software project repository available on the webpage Grupo de Tecnologías de Inclusión of the Universidad Politécncia Salesiana, This site meets the standards for web accessibility for people with disabilities and general users can download, make contributions and suggestions, creating a support network that seeks to create real solutions for real life situations. It also performs an implementation of an Android application technology that helps children with cerebral palsy contributing to the IPCA center as an alternative to the teaching and learning.
本文分析了使用技术的优势，例如对残疾人的支持，特别是在教育方面。研究结果在波兰理工学院的网页Grupo de Tecnologías de Inclusión上的一个软件项目存储库中得以实现。这个网站符合残障人士的无障碍标准，普通用户可以下载、投稿和提出建议，创建一个支持网络，寻求为现实生活中的情况创造真正的解决方案。它还执行了一个Android应用技术的实现，帮助脑瘫儿童为IPCA中心做出贡献，作为教学和学习的替代方案。
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Pub Date : 2014-06-01DOI: 10.1109/IHTC.2014.7147549
Mohamed Abdur Rahman, Saleh M. Basalamah
In this paper we present an e-Therapy framework that can dynamically provide therapy services to a patient and therapist. Using off the shelf 3D depth sensing video camera and motion control sensors, the framework can detect, recognize and track 18 different therapeutic movements originated from 7 different joints of a Hemiplegic patient and deduce live kinematic data from these movements. The framework can detect flexion-extension of forearm at fingers, elbow, shoulder, hip, knee and vertebral columns; adduction-abduction motion at hip and at shoulder joint; and rotational motions of forearm such as pronation and supination. The obtained therapeutic data consists of a wide span of body joint and motion parameters that is assumed to help medical professionals in their clinical decision making. The proposed method is non-invasive as the patient does not need to wear any external devices in the body. Finally, we share our initial test result that is encouraging.
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Pub Date : 2014-06-01DOI: 10.1109/IHTC.2014.7147515
D. Razafipahatelo, S. Rakotoniaina, S. Rakotondraompiana
The important information for flooding crises management is to have a map showing a contour of damaged areas in a few times as possible. The remote sensing imagers, especially the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) in a high spatial resolution can offer a global view of the situation. Indeed, detection of flooded areas will become a challenge since the reaction time of the teams on the ground should be as short as possible. Such method should avoid a complex parameterization, large time of compilation and long intervention of the operator. An automatic method based on an unsupervised clustering done in three steps is proposed. First of all, a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) is used as a prior information to localize high probability of floods. Then, the separation of the wet and dry pixels is done by a method called non-linear clustering kernel k-means. Finally, to isolate the flooded pixels from the permanent water, a non linear clustering with a log ratio image is applied in the features space. Two images polarized Vertical-Vertical (VV) with a high spatial resolution from RADARSAT 2 were used in this work. The study area is localized in the South-west part of Madagascar (Toliary). The Haruna hurricane was passed in this region on February 22nd, 2013. The final result of this study is a map showing the flooded areas. Because of lack of ground truth data, we couldn't valid our result with a confusion matrix. But we have compared it with the results obtained by current methods as the manual and the color composite methods. The comparison has shown that our approach has had a good compromise on flood detection.
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Pub Date : 2014-06-01DOI: 10.1109/IHTC.2014.7147540
Thelma Virgínia Rodrigues, Elcie Helena Costa Rodrigues, Andre Luis Goncalves, Carolina Neves de Oliveira, Luciana Fagundes da Silveira, Rafaela Goltara Souza
This article aims to present the Vila Fátima Project developed by the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais - PUC Minas, within the activities of the Prorectory of Extension. The study describes the scenarios in which the extension and Project are inserted revealing the vulnerabilities and challenges faced. It is about a reference center for young people aged 15 to 17 years that promotes the strengthening of family and community ties in Justinópolis, Ribeirão das Neves, MG, welcoming community through events and thematic workshops that are planned and conducted by Power Engineering, Information Systems, Multimedia Production, Psychology and Social Services students, with reference to the university extension of PUC Minas. The research was empirical and pointed to changes so much the technical-professional formation as in the human formation of involved students. In the students perception of the integrated work with several areas generates transformation in their lives and develop skills that make them able to understand each other's needs more broadly and humanized. The students deal with different situations in one of the most vulnerable regions of the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte. The study sought to understand briefly the relationship of project activities and the possible convergences with the assumptions of humanitarian technology.
本文旨在介绍由米纳斯吉拉斯州教皇天主教大学(PUC Minas)开发的Vila Fátima项目，该项目是在推广部门的活动范围内进行的。该研究描述了插入扩展和项目的场景，揭示了所面临的漏洞和挑战。这是一个为15至17岁的年轻人提供参考的中心，旨在促进加强Justinópolis, ribebe o das Neves, MG，通过活动和主题研讨会欢迎社区，由电力工程，信息系统，多媒体制作，心理学和社会服务的学生计划和实施，参考PUC Minas大学的扩展。这项研究是经验主义的，并指出了技术-专业形成的变化，以及参与其中的学生的人类形成的变化。在学生的感知中，与多个领域的综合工作产生了他们生活中的转变，并发展了使他们能够更广泛和更人性化地理解彼此需求的技能。学生们在贝洛奥里藏特大都会区最脆弱的地区之一处理不同的情况。这项研究试图简要地了解项目活动之间的关系以及可能与人道主义技术假设相一致的情况。
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The popularity of smartphones around the world has the potential to dramatically improve healthcare, due to the high portability, computing capability, and ease of usage. Today's smartphones are easily programmable and come with a growing set of powerful embedded sensors such as accelerometers, gyroscopes, microphones, and cameras. Indeed, the smartphones equipped with such miniaturized sensors will potentially reshape the future of healthcare by facilitating proactive personal wellbeing management and ubiquitous health monitoring including physiological signs and human posture observation. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a smartphone-centric software for monitoring the human posture by using the acceleration sensors which are embedded in smartphones. Additionally, an emphasis is given to interpreting the obtained data from the acceleration sensors to achieve context-awareness suitable for healthcare applications. Such the smartphone-centric monitoring softwares are also more cost-effective and less complex compared to its conventional counterparts where multiple wearable sensors are incorporated.
{"title":"Smartphone-centric human posture monitoring system","authors":"Reza Samiei-Zonouz, Hamidreza Memarzadeh-Tehran, Rouhollah Rahmani","doi":"10.1109/IHTC.2014.7147534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IHTC.2014.7147534","url":null,"abstract":"The popularity of smartphones around the world has the potential to dramatically improve healthcare, due to the high portability, computing capability, and ease of usage. Today's smartphones are easily programmable and come with a growing set of powerful embedded sensors such as accelerometers, gyroscopes, microphones, and cameras. Indeed, the smartphones equipped with such miniaturized sensors will potentially reshape the future of healthcare by facilitating proactive personal wellbeing management and ubiquitous health monitoring including physiological signs and human posture observation. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a smartphone-centric software for monitoring the human posture by using the acceleration sensors which are embedded in smartphones. Additionally, an emphasis is given to interpreting the obtained data from the acceleration sensors to achieve context-awareness suitable for healthcare applications. Such the smartphone-centric monitoring softwares are also more cost-effective and less complex compared to its conventional counterparts where multiple wearable sensors are incorporated.","PeriodicalId":341818,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Canada International Humanitarian Technology Conference - (IHTC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124211077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2014-06-01DOI: 10.1109/IHTC.2014.7147550
Tanaka Osamu, Toshin Ryu, Akira Hayashida, V. Moshnyaga, D. Sakamoto, Yukimuchi Imai, Takuma Shibata
Caregiving a person suffering from dementia or loss of brain cognitive ability due to aging is a big physical, mental and emotional burden to family members. In this paper we present a novel system for assisting caregivers at home. The system employs heterogeneous sensing and artificial intelligence technologies to automatically and unobtrusively monitor the patient; assess possible risks that the patient may face in current situation; and alert the caregiver on emergency by delivering video, audio and text to his mobile phone or PC. We discuss the system architecture and technologies applied for sensing, communication, assessment and user-interface, and present a prototype system implementation.
{"title":"A smart system for home monitoring of people with cognitive impairment","authors":"Tanaka Osamu, Toshin Ryu, Akira Hayashida, V. Moshnyaga, D. Sakamoto, Yukimuchi Imai, Takuma Shibata","doi":"10.1109/IHTC.2014.7147550","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IHTC.2014.7147550","url":null,"abstract":"Caregiving a person suffering from dementia or loss of brain cognitive ability due to aging is a big physical, mental and emotional burden to family members. In this paper we present a novel system for assisting caregivers at home. The system employs heterogeneous sensing and artificial intelligence technologies to automatically and unobtrusively monitor the patient; assess possible risks that the patient may face in current situation; and alert the caregiver on emergency by delivering video, audio and text to his mobile phone or PC. We discuss the system architecture and technologies applied for sensing, communication, assessment and user-interface, and present a prototype system implementation.","PeriodicalId":341818,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Canada International Humanitarian Technology Conference - (IHTC)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116383666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2014-06-01DOI: 10.1109/IHTC.2014.7147553
Shawn Plesnick, Domenico Repice, Patrick Loughnane
This document outlines a method for implementing an eye tracking device as a method of electrical wheelchair control. Through the use of measured gaze points, it is possible to translate a desired movement into a physical one. This form of interface does not only provide a form of transportation for those with severe disability but also allow the user to get a sense of control back into their lives.
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Pub Date : 2014-06-01DOI: 10.1109/IHTC.2014.7147526
E. Colmenar, Abu Muslim, R. Dara
Recently, governments have provided citizens data as a resource for public use (i.e. open data). Conventionally, citizens data were only available to some agencies and used for statistical analysis purposes. However, with the growth of such data and ease of access through online sources, many opportunities are anticipated to emerge. In this paper, we illustrate how the knowledge discovery process (KDP) can be used to collect, process, link, and utilize open data for different decision making tasks. We also illustrate a case study on the application of KDP and open data to aid management. The data were obtained from the City of Toronto open data repository. The results have proven the advantages of open data to offer enhanced humanitarian services and support.
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