Computational designing of a peptide that potentially blocks the entry of SARS-CoV, SARS-CoV-2 and MERS-CoV.

Last decade has witnessed three major pandemics caused by SARS-CoV, SARS-CoV-2 and MERS-CoV that belong to Coronavirus family. Currently, there are no effective therapies available for corona virus infections. Since the three viruses belong to the same family and share many common features, we can theoretically design a drug that can be effective on all the three of them.

Arrhythmia detection in single-lead ECG by combining beat and rhythm-level information.

In this paper, we propose a method for detecting arrhythmia in single-lead electro-cardiogram (ECG) signal. By applying a sequence of pre-processing steps (filtering, baseline correction), beat classification and rhythm identification, six different beat-types and four abnormal rhythms are detected. Beat classification uses fast Fourier transform (FFT) as the feature and a support vector machine (SVM) classifier.

Optical screening of oral cancer: technology for emerging markets.

Oral cancer is the sixth most common cancer in the world. It is one of the most prevalent cancers in the developing countries of South Asia accounting for one third of the world burden. Sixty percent of the cancers are advanced by the time they are detected.