Chyi-Yeu Lin^1,2,3, Bahrudin¹, Salman Masroor^1,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.3, pp. 4881-4900, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.032837

Abstract Functionally impaired people always have difficulty accomplishing activities of daily living. In this regard, tasks including toileting and bathing have a higher prevalence rate of injuries and greater risk of falling. In this study, a body-transfer wheelchair was developed to assist people in transferring from bed to wheelchair for bathing, and toileting. The body-transfer wheelchair is a semi-automatic wheelchair that has features such as a controlled leg and backrest, linkage commode slot, and height adjustment. The wheelchair consists of a seat and a main frame that can be detached to enable bathtub transfer. This mechanism lets the user stay on… More >

Jianbo Xu, Wenxi Chen^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.1, pp. 1807-1819, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.021154

Abstract This study proposes a convolutional neural network (CNN)-based identity recognition scheme using electrocardiogram (ECG) at different water temperatures (WTs) during bathing, aiming to explore the impact of ECG length on the recognition rate. ECG data was collected using non-contact electrodes at five different WTs during bathing. Ten young student subjects (seven men and three women) participated in data collection. Three ECG recordings were collected at each preset bathtub WT for each subject. Each recording is 18 min long, with a sampling rate of 200 Hz. In total, 150 ECG recordings and 150 WT recordings were collected. The R peaks were… More >