Post-Stroke Dysarthria Voice Recognition based on Fusion Feature MSA and 1D.

Post-stroke Dysarthria (PSD) is one of the common sequelae of stroke. PSD can harm patients' quality of life and, in severe cases, be life-threatening. Most of the existing methods use frequency domain features to recognize the pathological voice, which makes it hard to completely represent the characteristics of pathological voice.

High-speed eye tracking based on a synchronized imaging mechanism by a dual-ring infrared lighting source.

It is a challenge for conventional monocular-camera single-light source eye-tracking methods to achieve high-speed eye tracking. In this work, a dual-ring infrared lighting source was designed to achieve bright and dark pupils in high speed. The eye-tracking method used a dual-ring infrared lighting source and synchronized triggers for the even and odd camera frames to capture bright and dark pupils.

Cinnamic Acid: A Low-Toxicity Natural Bidentate Ligand for Uranium Decorporation.

Uranium accumulation in the kidneys and bones following internal contamination results in severe damage, emphasizing the pressing need for the discovery of actinide decorporation agents with efficient removal of uranium and low toxicity. In this work, cinnamic acid (3-phenyl-2-propenoic acid, CD), a natural aromatic carboxylic acid, is investigated as a potential uranium decorporation ligand. CD demonstrates markedly lower cytotoxicity than that of diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA), an actinide decorporation agent approved by the FDA, and effectively removes approximately 44.

Risk factors for pulmonary embolism in patients with COVID-19: a systemic review and meta-analysis.

Purpose: To detect the risk factors for pulmonary embolism (PE) in patients with COVID-19.

Methods: Studies were searched for in PubMed, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, and EMBASE. Two authors independently screened articles and extracted data.

Dynamic biomechanical effect of lower body positive pressure treadmill training for hemiplegic gait rehabilitation after stroke: A case report.

Background: Lower body positive pressure (LBPP) treadmill has potential applications for improving the gait of patients after stroke, but the related mechanism remains unclear.

Case Summary: A 62-year-old male patient suffered from ischemic stroke with hemiplegic gait. He was referred to our hospital because of a complaint of left limb weakness for 2 years.

Current Application of Digital Diagnosing Systems for Retinopathy of Prematurity.

Background And Objective: Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), a proliferative vascular eye disease, is one of the leading causes of blindness in childhood and prevails in premature infants with low-birth-weight. The recent progress in digital image analysis offers novel strategies for ROP diagnosis. This paper provides a comprehensive review on the development of digital diagnosing systems for ROP to software researchers.

Quantitative analysis of vowel production in cerebral palsy children with dysarthria.

Objective: The present study aimed to identify certain acoustic parameters for speech evaluation in cerebral palsy children with dysarthria.

Methods: The subject included 30 native Mandarin-Speaking children with cerebral palsy, who were 5-15 years old, and 13 healthy children in a similar age range. Each subject was recorded while producing a list of 12 Mandarin words, which included three syllables ('ba', 'bi' and 'du'), in all four Mandarin tones.

Acoustic properties of vowel production in Mandarin-speaking patients with post-stroke dysarthria.

This study investigated the acoustic features of vowel production in Mandarin-speaking patients with post-stroke dysarthria (PSD). The subjects included 31 native Mandarin-speaking patients with PSD (age: 25-83 years old) and 38 neurologically normal adults in a similar age range (age: 21-76 years old). Each subject was recorded producing a list of Mandarin monosyllables that included six monophthong vowels (i.

A Survey of Speech-Language-Hearing Therapists' Career Situation and Challenges in Mainland China.

Aims: The aim of this survey was to investigate the background of speech-language pathologists and their training needs to provide a profile of the current state of the profession in Mainland China.

Methods: A survey was conducted of 293 speech-language therapists. The questionnaire used asked questions related to their career background and had a 24-item ranking scale covering almost all of the common speech-language-hearing disorders.