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A Proposal for Innovating Elderly Mobility: Smart Knee Brace Development

Yen-Jung Chiu, PhD |Department of Biomedical Engineering, Ming Chuan University
Competition Sponsor: Academia Sinica
Awardee Year: 2024 The motivation of this project is to enhance the quality of life for older people. Muscle loss, decreased mobility, and deterioration of physical function increase the risk of falls as people age.…

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Portable Brain Stroke Imaging System for Rapid Transcranial Classification of Ischemic and Hemorrhagic Lesions

Ting-Wei Wang, PhD | National Tsing Hua University
Competition Sponsor: Academia Sinica
Awardee Year: 2024 Brain stroke is an urgent age-related cerebrovascular disease. Both ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes are life-threatening, requiring timely and different treatment. MRI is a diagnosis benchmark, but only available in hospitals. In rural areas, limited access…

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Advancing Depression Treatment: A Cutting-Edge Closed-Loop EEG-Guided TMS System

Chun-Shu Wei, PhD |National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Competition Sponsor: Academia Sinica
Awardee Year: 2024 Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) significantly impacts individual well-being and societal productivity, posing a global health challenge with increasing economic costs. Treatment-resistant depression (TRD), affecting about 30% of MDD patients, fails to achieve remission…

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An Innovative Wearable Device of Swallowing Function Assessment for Home-based Elderly Monitoring

Yi-Chun Du, Professor | National Cheng Kung University; Hui-Chen Su, Dr.; Wei-Siang Ciou, PhD; Yi-Jing Huang, Master; Chien-Yu Lee, BA
Competition Sponsor: Academia Sinica
Awardee Year: 2024 As society ages, elderly individuals face the challenge of swallowing difficulties, which, in severe cases, can lead to malnutrition, dehydration, and an increased…

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RehabVerse: Multiuser NeuroRehabilitation in Mixed Reality

YuTe Wang, PhD |Research Center for Information Technology Innovation; Tony Chou, MD; Charles Chang, MD; Yu Tsao, PhD; Ivan Tashev, PhD
Competition Sponsor: Academia Sinica
Awardee Year: 2024 Home-based rehabilitation with AR/VR devices offers convenience by minimizing travel time and expenses. However, it presents challenges: (1) Absence of real-time…

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PlateSync Health Companion – The App & Plate Duo for Diabetes Management

Tsai-ju Lee, PhD | National Taiwan University of Science and Technology Graduate Institute of Digital Learning and Education; Ling-Hua Tien; Yun-Juan Chang
Competition Sponsor: Academia Sinica
Awardee Year: 2024 “PlateSync Health Companion” aims to address the dietary challenges faced by diabetes patients. Inspired by the struggles of managing my grandparents’…

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Early detection of Age-related Hearing Loss in Artificial Intelligence

Chung-Yen Lin, PhD| Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica; Taso Yu, PhD
Competition Sponsor: Academia Sinica
Awardee Year: 2023 The World Health Organization predicts that 1.2 billion adults over 60 will have age-related hearing loss by 2025, associated with frailty and dementia. To combat such a dilemma about age-related hearing…

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Using Sound Technology to Detect Abnormalities in the Daily Life of Elderly Living Alone

Huang, Kuang-Chiu, Ph.D. |Aurismart Technology Corporation; Huang, Ching-wei MS, RN
Competition Sponsor: Academia Sinica
Awardee Year: 2023 Health Longevity often entails the challenges of living alone. Immediate dangers of accidental falls and chronic conditions of Elderly Living Alone (ELA) are often worse than those who live in groups, so…

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Build elders on-line community for regular rehabilitation and daily muscle training

Kuan-Chun Sun, PhD | FREE Bionics; Cheng-Hua Wu, Founder/CEO; Ming-Chang Teng, CTO; Yi-Jeng Tsai, PhD; Chia-En Huang, PhD
Competition Sponsor: Academia Sinica
Awardee Year: 2023 This project is based on a portable and home-used robot, called NimBO, which could provide single joint muscle evaluation, training (ex: isokinetic, isotonic, isometric, passive/assist-active…

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Neck patch carotid artery stenosis and stiffness sensor for early warning of life-threatening stroke

Ting-Wei Wang, PhD | National Tsing Hua University / Department of Biomedical Engineering and Environmental Sciences;
Competition Sponsor: Academia Sinica
Awardee Year: 2023 Carotid artery stenosis and stiffness represent one of the most hazardous forms of vascular hemodynamic issues, capable of triggering life-threatening strokes. Due to the fact that carotid…

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