Publications by authors named "R A Sluijs"
Introduction: The introduction of wireless sensors will enable military care providers to continuously and remotely assess/monitor vital signs. Prediction models are needed to use such data adequately and aid military care providers in their on-scene decision-making to optimise prehospital triage and improve patient outcomes.
Methods: A prospective cohort comprising data from eight Emergency Medical Services and seven inclusive trauma regions was used to develop and validate prediction models that could aid military care providers in their prehospital triage decisions.
Article Synopsis
- The lack of high-quality medical imaging datasets can be addressed using machine learning to create diverse images that accurately depict medical conditions and concepts.
- Current large vision-language models struggle because they're mainly trained on natural images, making their generated medical images less accurate.
- A new domain-adaptation method combines existing chest X-ray datasets and radiology reports to adapt a model, allowing it to produce synthetic medical images that are visually credible and can be tailored using specific medical text prompts.
Many physically straining occupations involve lifting movements over the full-vertical range of motion, which over time may lead to the development of musculoskeletal injuries. To address this, occupational exoskeletons can be designed to provide meaningful support to the back and shoulders during lifting movements. This paper introduces the main functional design features of the OmniSuit, a novel passive occupational exoskeleton.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMusculoskeletal disorders have the highest prevalence of work-related health problems. Due to the aging population, the prevalence of shoulder pain in workers in physically demanding occupations is increasing, thereby causing rising costs to society and underlining the need for preventive technologies. Wearable support structures are designed to reduce the physical work load during physically demanding tasks.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMasticatory muscle activation and temporomandibular joint (TMJ) load generated during asymmetrically loaded jaw closing are largely unknown. Two different strategies were developed to explain how the central nervous system (CNS) generates muscle activation patterns during motion: minimization of joint load (MJL) vs. minimization of muscle effort (MME).
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