SS2020

Background Auscultation is a standard medical practice performed by clinicians when inspecting a patient during preliminary examinations. Auscultation is usually performed by using the stethoscope to listen to the body sounds. The goal of this work is to develop and 3D print a novel stethoscope to... Continue

Background Digital Health integrates various information sources to extract medical insight and provide personalised health services as well as support for medical professionals. In this seminar, students, PhD researchers, and senior researchers of the Chair of Digital Health present their scientif... Continue

Background The field of knowledge discovery has focused on the extraction of rules created from the frequent association symbols. With the recent introduction of the Bayesian rule mining algorithms, the focus is shifting from measuring relevance based on rule frequency and moving towards the increa... Continue

Background COVID-19 has forced the world into social distancing and self-isolation, and with the general goal of not saturating the healthcare system, establishing an adequate threshold for when to contact the doctor is difficult. Some people may be overreacting to any minor symptom, while other pe... Continue

Background Auscultation is a standard medical practice performed by clinicians when inspecting a patient complaining about abdominal pain. Listening to the sounds produced by the gut during digestion allows us to non-invasively observe and monitor the gastro-intestinal functionality. The goal of... Continue

Background The German digital health applications (“Digitale Gesundheitsanwendung”, DiGA) provides ground for the rapid time-to-market of health and medical apps. This seminar starts with an international overview on digital health app regulations and introduction to the German DiGA. Key topics inc... Continue

Background With the onset of COVID-19 as a world pandemic, social contact plays an important role in the spread of the virus. When a person is tested positive for the virus, the risk of infection of that person’s social network increases. As a mean to slow down the spread of the virus, experts prop... Continue

Background Eye blinking is associated with attention. Blinking frequency changes during different activities. Eye blinking has a wide range of applications in human computer interface (HCI). Monitoring eye blinking rate can indicate fatigue levels e.g. during driving, and even reminds people to bli... Continue

Background A healthy human breathes roughly 30,000 times a day while consuming about 11,000 litres of air. Air consists of not only gases (e.g. oxygen and nitrogen), but also a complex mixture of chemicals and orgasms, such as particle pollutants, pollen, bacteria and viruses that all threaten the ... Continue

Background Wearable technology often requires devices to be personalized in order to achieve comfort and usability requirements for a long-term, inconspicuous monitoring of the user health. We propose to implement an algorithm to speed up the customization and manufacturing of smart clothes. Ai... Continue