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Public Health Data
The trigger The COVID-19 pandemic triggered the demand for data driven decision making amongst policy makers in the public health sector. Registration data on test results and vaccination status were extensively used to create meaningful data analytics. The paradox This health crisis also revealed a remarkable paradox. Whereas governmental researchers…
Risk signaling
The aim of this research program is to contribute to prevention by better identifying suspicious abnormalities by paramedics. Subsequently, upon identification, to advise more effectively to ask for medical care. Embedding enhanced risk signaling and secondary prevention in skin therapeutic care Cancer is one of the diseases that cause…
Infant Blink Detection
Distributed machine learning is becoming a popular model-training method due to privacy, computational scalability, and bandwidth capacities. In this work, we explore scalable distributed-training versions of two algorithms commonly used in object detection. A novel distributed training algorithm using Mean Weight Matrix Aggregation (MWMA) is proposed for Linear Support Vector…
Digital Health Challenges
Background: Digital health is well-positioned in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) to revolutionize health care due, in part, to increasing mobile phone access and internet connectivity. This paper evaluates the underlying factors that can potentially facilitate or hinder the progress of digital health in Pakistan. Objective: The objective of this…
Virtual Jelle
Project partners: Virtuele Jelle (start-up), Pieter van Foreest (PvF), Medical Delta, IMEC (Innovatrix), Innovation Quarter and THUAS. R&D by: Virtuele Jelle, Hani Al-Ers (THUAS) Challenge: to improve quality of life of people with dementia and to relieve family care givers by virtual (machine-controlled) telephone conversations with real voices of family…
Start(V)aardig
Applying data science for Health Innovation Recently, the Data Science team got involved in Pim Koolwijk’s Project ‘Start(V)aardig’. The aim of this project is to develop a toolbox for professionals supporting them to improve the motor competence of young children. The project provides a rich source of structured and repeatedly…
Diabetes diagnosis
A Diabetic Foot Ulcer (DFU) is a serious complication of diabetes and can lead to a lower limb amputation if not treated properly and in an early stage . A DFU is often caused by poor blood circulation and neuropathy and therefore also heals poorly. For these long-term non-healing wounds,…
Palsy diagnosis
Peripheral palsy and central palsy are two forms of facial paralysis. Both conditions have similar characteristics, but they can have very different acuteness. Bell’s Palsy is one form of peripheral nerve disease, from which patients often heal and which is not likely to be fatal . A central facial palsy,…
IT 4 Seniors
Digital skills are indispensable nowadays, even for seniors. Whether arranging online banking, passing on a move or refilling a prescription, the use of digital systems is indispensable in our society. During the lockdowns, online services became even more important. For senior citizens, the lack of computer skills led to problems…