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Smart insole for 3 D force measurement

Chao-Ching Ho, PhD | National Taipei University of Technology; Jung-Tang Huang, PhD; Chuan-Yu Lo, MS; Che-Yu Chang; Yi-Ming Li; Wei-Ting Zheng
Competition Sponsor: Academia Sinica
Awardee Year: 2022 In this project, a magnetic sensing IC array will be integrated into a flexible circuit board to develop a smart insole…

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Oral Precision Medicine – Rapid and painless treatment of periodontal disease using a bacteriophage spray

Ping-Ching Wu, PhD; Chun-Chan Ting, PhD; Cheng-Hung Luo, PhD; Pei-Yu Tu, PhD Competition Sponsor: Academia Sinica In 2019, WHO has classified periodontal disease as a global chronic disease, and the increasing risk by oral pathogens strongly impacts aging health issue. This project plans to establish a non-invasive, precise, painless and…

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Noninvasive magnetic damping method to image the electrical conductivity of the internal organs

Tzu-Chieh Chou, PhD; Kevin Tze-Hsiang Chen, PhD Competition Sponsor: Academia Sinica The project aims to augment ultrasound scanners with a new imaging method to differentiate biological tissues based on their electromagnetic properties. For example, the augmented scanner can generate a heat map of electrical conductivity inside the abdominal cavity where…

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Population-wide preventative treatment of aging-associated cognitive impairment via adjustment of movie and TV shows frame and refresh rates

Ted Weita Lai, BSc, PhD; Hilary Chen, BPH; Ya Lan Yang, BSc; Meng-Chih Wu, MSc; Eric Yuhsiang Wang Competition Sponsor: Academia Sinica Chronic repeated visualization of a LED light that flickers at a frequency of ~40Hz (known as GENUS: gamma entrainment using sensory stimulus) is recently found to reduce beta-amyloid…

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Novel top-to-toe screening system for early detecting sarcopenia

Jin-Chern Chiou; Liang-Kung Chen, MD, PhD; Tzai-Wen Chiu, PhD Competition Sponsor: Academia Sinica Sarcopenia has identified as a skeletal muscle disease in the international classification diseases (ICD-10). But its etiology and underlying mechanisms and effective treatment remain unavailable. The Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry (DXA), currently used for diagnosis, can’t apply for…

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A multidomain biometric sensing platform that detects asymptomatic prodromal phase of Parkinson’s disease

Chin-Hsien Lin, MD, PhD; Li-Chen Fu, PhD; Jyh-Shing Roger Jang, PhD Competition Sponsor: Academia Sinica Parkinson’s disease (PD) is one of the most common neurodegenerative disorders with an estimated number will be nearly 9 million in the year 2030.The symptoms of PD include resting tremor, bradykinesia, rigidity and gait postural…

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Connected speech analysis in elderly population

Yi-Chien Liu, MD, PhD; Chia-Ying Lee, PhD; Chi-Ting Chang, PhD; Chia-Ju Chou, PhD Competition Sponsor: Academia Sinica One of the most effective strategy in preventing pathological aging is very early diagnosis. In this project, we are more interested in differences related to “speech production”. Speech samples of both “pathological aging”…

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Improving elderly masticatory function and nutrition by chewing gum, image recognition, and personal health informatics

Ta-Chien Chan, PhD; Ping-Chen Chung, DDS, MS; Chung-Liang Lai, MD, MPH. PHD, Competition Sponsor: Academia Sinica
Oral health care is an important part of total patient care. Image recognition of gum mixing while patients chew bicolor gum establishes a novel method to test chewing efficiency, and integrates personal health information…

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Artificial Intelligence Assisted Early Diagnosis Mechanism for Alzheimer’s Disease

Chia-Lung Liu, Ph.D., Feng-Jie Tsai, MS, Mu-Liang Wang, BS, and Ting-Wu Ho, PhD | Industrial Technology Research Institute – Information and Communications Research Laboratories, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Competition Sponsor: Academia Sinica
Awardee Year: 2020 As the global population continues to age, the number of people suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) currently…

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Dementia-MDIC Patch for Healthy People

Chen-Hsun Weng, Ph.D. | National Cheng Kung University, Medical Device Innovation Center (MDIC), Tainan, Taiwan; Yu-Sheng Lin, Ph.D. | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology; and Sing Yung Bu, MS (MDIC), Jamie Liao, BS (MDIC), and Hans Chiang, MS (MDIC)
Competition Sponsor: Academia…

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