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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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Lab-on-a-chip for cardiovascular disease

Jung-Tang Huang, PhD | National Taipei University of Technology; Jakkrapatr O.Baiyokvichit, MS
Competition Sponsor: Academia Sinica
Awardee Year: 2023 This project is a lab-on-a-chip (LOC) for detecting cardiovascular disease. It is going to change the CVD biomarkers measurement from a time-consuming technique into a practically simple screen test regarding point…

Catalyst Awardee

Developing Brainwave-Based Audiometric Systems to Evaluate Speech Quality and Listening Fatigue for Users of Speech Enhancement Technology

Yu Tsao, PhD | Research Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica; Cheng-Hung Hsin, PhD
Competition Sponsor: Academia Sinica
Awardee Year: 2023 This research project aims to advance the field of audiology by developing a novel approach for evaluating speech quality and assessing listening fatigue in users of speech enhancement…

Catalyst Awardee

A novel wireless deep brain stimulation approach for treating Parkinson’s disease

Po-Han Chiang, PhD | National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Competition Sponsor: Academia Sinica
Awardee Year: 2023 Parkinson’s disease (PD) is one of the most prevalent neurodegenerative disorders worldwide. Conventional deep brain stimulation (DBS) with electrode implantation is clinically used for severe PD patients. However, the electrode implants are…

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Additive Nano-Manufacturing of Multi-Functional Materials for Smart Stents Sensing

Yu-Sheng Lin, PhD | Southern Taiwan University of Science and technology; Chen-Hsun Weng, PhD; Ying-Lung Daniel Ho, PhD; Chung-Che Kevin Huang, PhD; Shuangyi Yan, PhD
Competition Sponsor: Academia Sinica
Awardee Year: 2022 Cardiovascular disease is one of the most threat to life, and the cause by stroke has been…

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Deep Kidney Aging Clock: From Platform Services to AI-Empowered Guarding and Intelligent System (AEGIS)-Kidney Aging Ecosystems

Yu-Ting Lin, PhD | Big Data Center, China Medical University Hospital; Chin-Chi Kuo, MD, PhD; Hsiu-Yin Chiang, PhD; Hung-Lin Chen, PhD
Competition Sponsor: Academia Sinica
Awardee Year: 2022 Population aging is a global phenomenon that leads to the increasing prevalence of chronic diseases globally. Except for natural aging (biological),…

Catalyst Awardee

Next Generation Hemodynamic Monitoring for Assessing Vascular Aging – Taking Energy into Consideration

Hao-Min Cheng, MD, PhD | School of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University; Shao-Yuan Chuan, PhD; Geng-Shi Jeng, PhD; Jiun-Jr Wang, PhD; Chen-Hua Lin, MS; Chi-Jung Huang, PhD
Competition Sponsor: Academia Sinica
Awardee Year: 2022 Population ageing has stepped much faster than before and become an unprecedented global…

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