Integrated multi-modal computer assisted systems for medical rehabilitation and healthcare

Speaker:Dr. Shi-qing Ye (National Central University)

Time and Date: 13:30-14:30, Jun. 16, 2014

Place: Room 149, Physics Building, Handan Campus

 

 

Abstract

Along with the numerous fast growing emerging technologies, such as interactive technologies, robotics, physics-based simulation and animation, and biomedical sensing techniques, the speaker, leading an interdisciplinary team, has attempted to employ and integrate these technologies to develop various novel healthcare or medical rehabilitation systems in the past five years. In addition, combining the techniques of wireless communication, cloud computing, and computational intelligence, he proposes an innovative telerehabilitation architecture that addresses a pressing need for novel, pervasive and easily deployable technology applications in home-based motor rehabilitation.

In this talk, specifically aimed at stroke rehabilitation, the speaker will demonstrate a full-scale research pathway that addresses a list of urging aspects in medical rehabilitation as listed below: 1) the simulation and the development of task-oriented interactive motor training systems with hierarchical challenges; 2) the examination of therapeutic efficacy through clinical experiments; 3) the derivation of physical indices from biomedical sensing data for performance evaluation and behavioral analysis; 4) the establishment of data-driven assessment model and diagnosis method using techniques of machine learning; 5) the design and the construction of a cloud-based telerehabilitation system. Besides, a few more topics regarding surgical simulation, Alzheimer’s disease, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder will be presented.

 

 

Biography

Shih-Ching Yeh received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science at the University of Southern California (USC) in 2004 and 2008 respectively. He served as a Computer Scientist at the Institute for Creative Technologies at USC from 2008 to 2009. Since fall 2009, he has joined National Central University and served as an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering. His research interests emphasize employing interactive technologies, virtual reality and biomed-sensing technologies in interdisciplinary research areas such as neuromotor rehabilitation, cognitive training, surgical simulation, digital learning and psychiatric-mental treatments, and utilizing computational intelligence to construct data-driven diagnosis or assessment methods in clinics.